Winklevoss Twins Teams up with Nasdaq to Increase Crypto Trading Oversight Gemini, the New York registered digital asset exchange announced they will be using Nasdaq SMARTS Market Surveillance which will enable the bitcoin and ether exchange to monitor trading across BTC/USD, ETH/USD, and BTC/ETH. The cryptocurrency exchange announced the deal with Nasdaq on Wednesday. As

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#MeToo Activists Saved in Ethereum Blockchain to Eliminate Censorship in China An open letter from a Chinese student who was censored after going viral on social media in China has been published in a more difficult place to erase: the ethereum blockchain. In a rare act of disobedience, student activists in the emerging #MeToo Chinese

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Hacker Hijack Amazon’s internet for 2 hours, Steals Up To $152,000 Cryptocurrency From Users Amazon lost control of its cloud-based IP addresses for two hours on Tuesday morning, as hackers exploited Internet protocol weaknesses that allowed them to redirect traffic to rogue destinations. MyEtherWallet.com users lost about $ 150,000 to the attackers after failing to

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Nexon Korea CEO Denies Rumors Of Its Acquisition Of Crypto Exchange Bitstamp Following series of rumours regarding the sale of Luxembourg-based cryptocurrency exchange Bitstamp, it is said that the South Korean based gaming behemoth Nexon is acquiring Bitstamp, the world’s first cryptocurrency exchange for $350 million. Citing two sources close to the alleged offering, the

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Cryptocurrency Exchange Binance Has Led a $30 million Fundraising Round For MobileCoin
Cryptocurrency exchange giant Binance has led a $30 million fundraising round for MobileCoin, a new privacy-centered cryptocurrency adding that Binance had made its investment in the project through Binance Labs, its blockchain incubator. According to a medium post, MobileCoin announced the conclusion of the funding round on Tuesday. The blog post stated that the Blockchain

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16 Licensed Cryptocurrency Exchanges In Japan Has Launched Self-Regulatory Body
CRYPTOCURRENCY EXCHANGEA licensed cryptocurrency exchange group in Japan seeks to restore market confidence by adopting self-imposed rules. The representatives of the cryptocurrency exchanges hold a press conference in Tokyo on April 23 for their new industrial association. The launch of the association comes after months of rumors of nationally licensed exchange operators banding together to adhere

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Amazon Launches AWS Blockchain Templates For Ethereum and Hyperledger Fabric AWS Blockchain templates, which the company claims will make it easier for developers to create blockchain-based projects. Amazon Web Services (AWS) “blockchain-as-a-service” platform is intended to compete with similar projects from Oracle and IBM. Blockchain technology allows you to create applications where multiple parties can

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Iran’s central bank has banned the country’s banks from dealing in cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, for money laundering issues, the state news agency IRNA reported on Sunday as the country tries to stop a currency crisis. The supreme committee of the CBI, also in charge of money laundering control and fight against capital flight in Iran,

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Thomson Reuters: One Out Of Five Financial Firms Is Considering Crypto-Trading In 2018
One in five financial institutions plan to trade cryptocurrencies over the next 12 months, according to a poll released today by Thomson Reuters. Cryptocurrency trading by financial firms could increase in 2018 according to information giant Thomson Reuters (NYSE:TRI)’s survey, with approximately

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Martin Lewis Files Lawsuit Against Facebook For Defamation Martin Lewis, a well-known financial journalist and founder of MoneySavingExpert.com, has filed a lawsuit against Facebook through the UK High Court, accusing the technology giant of defamation. He claims that the platform published over 50 cryptocurrency ads that falsely used his face and name to promote cryptocurrency

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Bitcoin Cash traders should be happy as Bitpay, the digital asset service provider based in Atlanta, Georgia, has also added Bitcoin cash (BCH) support to its checkout point-of-sale (POS). This means that sellers can now accept payments at BCH through their POS application. In addition, the BCH payment code can be generated instantly through phones

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VRBex Inc., a new cryptocurrency exchange run by former BBVA bankers, has announced an initial coin offering that is kicking off today.

VRBex Inc., a company founded by financial-services professionals in the U.S. that intends to operate a cryptocurrency exchange and security-token trading platform, has announced the launch of the company

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Binance Partners With African Innovation Hub To Create Employment Opportunities In Uganda
largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance is planning to use its influence in the blockchain sector to help Uganda in economic development.

The agreement is aimed at supporting economic transformation and youth employment in Uganda, using mainly blockchain technology and encouraging the “embrace of the fourth industrial revolution”. In doing so,

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Decoin Initial Coin Offering Is Now Officially Live – Profit Sharing by Proof of Stake
Decoin a decentralized Exchange coin Launches Its Initial Coin Offering. The crypto exchange is proud to announce after several months of build-up their Initial Coin Offering (ICO) is now officially live!

Decoin, also known as “De Coin of De People” is a decentralized customer-care focused cryptocurrency. The new platform is based on the Blockchain technology and uses a consensus algorithm

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The developer of Skeincoin (SKC) cryptocurrency has announced the date for the release of the company’s Bluepaper.

Skeincoin SKC is a type of cryptocurrency founded in 2013 by Red Kendra. The release date for the bluepaper is on the 25th of April. Skeincoin is all blue

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It is often said that the learning process stops at death, Reasons being, the human mind is oriented to new ideas in every second. The same case applies to enthusiasts of Cryptocurrency and blockchain technology.

The 2nd Annual Blockchain conference to be held in Toronto, participants should expect to immerse a lot of new knowledge and interact with important people in the

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Fusion, a public blockchain, announces that it will be listed on QRYPTOS on Monday 23rd of April. This partnership marks another important step towards achieving Fusion’s vision of putting cryptocurrencies in each wallet on a global scale.

FUSION inclusive cryptofinance platform is a public blockchain dedicated to creating an inclusive cryptofinancial platform by providing cross-chain and

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Binance has successfully completed the burn of over $71.5 million dollar.
Binance has remain the top cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, a fit it achieved in less than 7 months of operation after it founding  around July 2017. The exchange is said to have the largest trading pairs and currently has offices in Hong Kong, Tokyo , London and Singapore.

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao recently published through his linkedin page that they have successfully completed the burn of over $30 million dollar worth of binance coin for the third quarter.

According to him,

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Litecoin Private Fork To Be Launched Following Litecoin Partnership With TPAY
Litecoin Private is a future litecoin fork that allows private transactions. The crypto exchange had earlier announced the fork date for Litecoin Private which is to be held on the 21st of April 2018. Following Litecoin partnership with TPAY.

Litecoin’s CEO Charlie Lee welcomed the idea of an agreement between LTC and TPAY with the LTC boss hinting on a possible integration of LTC to TPAY

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That is a fact..We can see what happened with Ripple.