HMQ price doubled just after his announcement.
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Monaco, the pioneering payments and cryptocurrency platform, today announced an expansion of its strategic cooperation with Binance, where Monaco’s MCO token was listed on August 23 this year. Under this partnership expansion, Monaco will include support for Binance’s BNB token to its platform which includes the Monaco Visa Card and Monaco mobile app. Binance will also add the MCO/BNB trading pair to its exchange on December 26. In addition, to celebrate the expansion of this partnership, Binance will host an MCO trading promotion that also begins on December 26. Read more: https://hype.codes/monaco-expands-cooperation-binanceMonaco announcements still keep me surprising!
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On Saturday Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library, announced that it received $1 mln in bitcoins from Pineapple Fund. Pineapple Fund is a Bitcoin-only charity established in early December 2017, whose ultimate goal is to give $86 mln worth of bitcoin to various nonprofit organizations. The charity has already given 657 BTC, about $8.5 mln, to 13 organizations, which focus on different areas, including providing clean water to sub-Saharan Africa, building technology for universal healthcare and improving the treatment of age-related diseases and others. Read more: https://hype.codes/pineapple-fund-donated-1-mln-btc-internet-archive#
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The Bank of Israel is considering issuing digital currency in order to create a faster payments system as well as reducing the amount of cash in the economy, a central bank source said on Sunday. The source added that no decision had yet been made and the Bank of Israel declined to comment on the issue. The Israeli government has been seeking to limit the amount of cash in the economy for a few years since the black economy is estimated at some 22% of national output. Read more: https://hype.codes/israel-issue-digital-currency
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This week Seven Stars Cloud Group, Inc. (SSC), Chinese cloud-based solutions service, published a press release, announcing its 27% purchase of The Delaware Board of Trade Holdings Inc. (“DBOT”), blockchain based Alternative Trading System fully licensed by the SEC, for 1,627,869 shares of SSC common stock. Read more: https://hype.codes/chinese-firm-buys-controlling-stake-us-crypto-exchange
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Trend Micro Inc. , a Japanese multinational cyber security company founded in Los Angeles, published a report yesterday, stating that the company found a new cryptocurrency-mining bot spreading through Facebook Messenger. Digmine, as it was called, appears in the chat as not a built-in video file. When the user activates the file, the so-called video downloads components from a remote server to install the Chrome extension. Then the extension uses personal Facebook data to send it to friends of the user. Read more: https://hype.codes/cryptocurrency-miner-spreading-facebook
Check you Google browser extension to be sure you are not infected
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On Wednesday European Commission Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis warned in a letter to the heads of three financial EU regulators to urgently update financial rules in order to face high volatility of bitcoin. Valdis Dombrovskis, a former Latvian prime minister, also urged to improve the applicability of regulatory framework to bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. He added that the agencies must draw up new plans in light of the recent market developments. Read more: https://hype.codes/eu-seeks-counter-threat-bitcoin-bubble-bursting
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Yesterday the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), a self-regulatory organization in the U.S., published a new warning about cryptocurrency-related stock frau The stock price of Long Tea Corp. soared by more than 200% in the wake of its announcement that the company changes its name to “Long Blockchain Corp.” Source: https://hype.codes/finra-warns-about-cryptocurrency-related-stock-scams
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UK company’s stock jumps 20% after its blockchain mention Veltyco, a marketing company, which is generating marketing solutions for the gaming industry, saw its stock price leap higher today after telling investors it has started discussions with blockchain and cryptocurrency providers about potential partnerships. Source: https://hype.codes/uk-companys-stock-jumps-20-after-its-blockchain-mentionToday many companies mention "blockchain" or "cryptocurrency" just to draw attention of investors without real implementation of the technology. As for me it brings wrong idea of blockchain purpose.
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Today Samsung SDS announced that a consortium led by the company had successfully concluded a monthslong test on blockchain-powered storage in marine transport, with the expectation that the technology will take the shipping industry to a new level. It is stated that blockchain technology will allow importers and exporters to make transactions of documents, such as a bill of landing and letter of credit, without forgery and tampering threats. Source: https://hype.codes/samsung-sds-improves-shipping-blockchain
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Today Monaco announced on its twitter account that HitBTC, a Europe-based cryptocurrency exchange, will list Monaco token (MCO) on December 26. A week ago, Monaco was listed on 4 exchanges: Coinnest, Coinrail, QRYPTOS, BitZ. Biggest amount of Monaco is being sold at the Bittrex exchange with the average 24h volume of $22 196 200. Read more: https://hype.codes/monaco-will-be-listed-hitbtc
Any growth predictions?
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Yesterday Blockchain Collaborative Consortium (BCCC) of Japan announced that it has been in collaborative talks with the Korean Blockchain Open Forum (KBOF) since November and the two groups signed a formal agreement during the Blockchain TechBiz Conference on December 19 in Seoul. The BCCC noted that in the future, the consortium will deepen cooperation with the KBOF and both groups will share accumulated knowledge with each other. Read more: https://hype.codes/blockchain-groups-japan-and-south-korea-joining-forces
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Yesterday the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) published a press release in which it advises the public to act with extreme caution and understand the significant risks they take on if they choose to invest in cryptocurrencies. Source: https://hype.codes/singapore-calls-cryptocurrencies-illegal-tenderAnother warning appeared
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Today Jordan Spencer, a client of Lakestone Bank & Trust, said on his Facebook account that the bank sent him a letter, informing that purchases and receiving funds from Coinbase.com is against Lakestone’s policy and the bank will close Jordan’s account if transactions continue. Read more: https://hype.codes/bank-threatens-close-accounts-bitcoin-buyers
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Yesterday the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) published a notice, stating that it was freezing stock trading for The Crypto Company, which is based in Malibu, California, and offers consulting and investment services around cryptocurrencies. According to the notice, the SEC said that it was moving to pause trading because of concerns over some of the information published by the company, as well as plans (outlined in public filings) regarding the sale of shares by “insiders.” The trading freeze will last until January 3. Read more: https://hype.codes/sec-halts-crypto-stock-over-manipulation-concerns
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Yesterday Coinbase, San Francisco-based bitcoin exchange, announced it would allow customers to buy, sell, send and receive Bitcoin Cash. However, BCH-USD trading was disabled after four minutes it had begun due to the significant volatility. According to Coinbase, it cancelled resting orders and cleared all BCH order books in order to ensure a fair and orderly market. It is stated that BCH order books will be able on December 20th at 9:00am PST. All BCH order books will be available in post-only mode for a minimum of one hour to establish liquidity. Source: https://hype.codes/coinbase-pauses-bitcoin-cash-trading-right-after-launch
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Today Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH (RBVC), the corporate venture capital company of the Bosch Group, announced that it has purchased a significant amount of IOTA tokens. According to announcement, RBVC hopes to intensify the collaboration with the IOTA Foundation and intends to elevate the technology to maturity by bringing it closer to Bosch’s global ecosystem and key partners. Read more: https://hype.codes/robert-bosch-venture-capital-invests-iota
What is your opinion about RBVC and IOTA partnership?
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On December 18 Kuwait’s Ministry of Finance said that it does not recognize bitcoin and forbids its trading in the Kuwaiti financial institutions. According to the Arab Times, sources from the ministry explained that the Central Bank of Kuwait does not allow financial institutions, banks and affiliated companies to trade bitcoin in the wake of the recent surge in prices. Read more: https://hype.codes/kuwait-prohibits-bitcoin
What is your opinion about future of bitcoin in arabic countries?
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Yesterday Ripio Credit Network (RCN), a global peer-to-peer credit network based, which are backed by Ripio, announced that it has partnered with a virtual reality platform powered by the Ethereum blockchain called Decentraland. Recently RCN announced partnership with Aelf and FBG Capital to build a virtual Silicon Valley, where projects can form collaborative workspaces, hold Meetups, announce breakthroughs directly to their communities, connect with a global investor base, and interact with potential partners. It is stated that it will also serve as a hub for blockchain enthusiasts around the world.
Read more: https://hype.codes/rcn-give-virtual-land-owners-access-credit
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