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- Coinbase Custody Officially Launches for Institutional Investors
- Bitcoin and Ether Surge 6% as Crypto Market Adds $15 Billion in 2 Hours

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This past Friday, someone claiming to be Satoshi Nakamoto — the person or collective people who created the cryptocurrency Bitcoin, posted a 21-page excerpt from a new ‘literary work.’ Is it all just clever distractions from hoaxers, or will we soon know more about Nakamoto’s true identity?
https://bitcoinist.com/satoshi-nakamoto-releases-excerpts-from-upcoming-book-is-it-a-hoax/

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40 Percent of Ontario Cryptocurrency Investors Have Sold All Their Coins

A survey conducted in Canada’s Ontario province has sought to shed light on cryptocurrency investing habits in the region as well as the views of financial consumers and their understanding of the nascent technology.

The study, which was compiled by the Ontario Securities Commission’s Investor Office, revealed that at the moment 5% of Ontarians, or around half a million residence of the province, hold crypto assets. Currently, the population of Ontario is estimated to be more than 14 million (over 38% of Canada’s population). At the same time, there is another 4% of the Ontario population that used to own crypto assets, though that was no longer the case at the time of the survey.

Per the survey, which was conducted  in Canada’s most populous province in March this year, millennial males aged between 18 and 34 were the demographic most likely to own cryptocurrencies, with 14% of them owning a crypto asset.
https://www.ccn.com/40-percent-of-ontario-cryptocurrency-investors-have-sold-all-their-coins/

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- 100 ICOs Launching Every Month in 2018, Generating $13.7 Billion: PwC
- Tax Cuts, More Tether Controversy, and a CCN Podcast: This Week in Crypto

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There are now more than 800 coins which are essentially dead. However, the market for Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) continues to boom in 2018, raising almost $12 billion in the first two quarters alone.
https://bitcoinist.com/ico-market-approaches-12b-raised-as-number-of-dead-coins-tops-800/

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- Cardano Creator IOHK Does Deep Dive on ADA at Google’s London HQ
- Payments Giant Qiwi’s Execs to Launch Russia’s First Crypto Investment Bank

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Japanese prosecutors from 10 prefectures have arrested 16 individuals suspected of involvement in an ongoing criminal case of cryptojacking, local news outlet The Asahi Shimbun

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More Than 3m Bitcoin Holders in China Despite Ban, Says Researcher


There are still more than 3 million people holding bitcoin in China, despite the government’s ban on trading, a researcher at theInternational Monetary Institute at Renmin University in China has estimated.

https://cryptonews.com/news/more-than-3m-bitcoin-holders-in-china-despite-ban-says-resea-2148.htm

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[ :'(u]Bad News For Crypto From India[/u] 


India’s top court refused to overturn a ban by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on lenders from dealing in cryptocurrencies. This move effectively outlaws cryptocurrencies in the country, which represents the third largest economy in Asia.

https://cryptonews.com/news/bad-news-for-crypto-from-india-2156.htm

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On Thursday, June 28, SlowMist — a private Chinese cybersecurity firm — divulged a potential double-spend in the use of Tether (USDT).
https://bitcoinist.com/tether-double-spend-scare-shows-that-exchanges-could-be-at-risk/

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Britain’s Youngest Self-Made Bitcoin Billionaire Is Just 34 

Ben Delo might just be proof that dreams do come true. The 34-year-old Oxford graduate who lives in Hong Kong is Britain’s youngest self-made Bitcoin billionaire having founded cryptocurrency exchange BitMex in 2014.

https://cryptonews.com/exclusives/britain-s-youngest-self-made-bitcoin-billionaire-is-just-34-2153.htm

[zhengqi]

Three New Blockchain Use Cases Go Live in Europe 

Blockchain adoption seems to be growing, and it is almost hard to track where the technology found its newest application now. Currently, European banks, Crypto Valley and the UK’s Food Standards Agency (FSA) all found a way to integrate distributed ledgers into their operations.


https://cryptonews.com/news/three-new-blockchain-use-cases-go-live-in-europe-2149.htm

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The Pirate Bay (TPB) has resumed its cryptojacking activities. The P2P file-sharing platform launched another browser script that hijacks unused CPU power of site users to mine cryptocurrency. TPB launched a similar browser script in September 2017 but discontinued it after vociferous protests from site users.
https://bitcoinist.com/the-pirate-bay-resumes-cryptojacking-but-should-it-even-be-an-issue/

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Tom Lee Blames Regulators for Bitcoin Decline, Cuts Forecast 

A lack of regulatory clarity has put enormous pressure on the market this year, as the G20 countries, the EU, and financial regulators in the US have all sent mixed messages about future regulations to the market, according to Tom Lee, veteran bitcoin investor and head of research at Fundstrat Global Advisors.

https://cryptonews.com/news/tom-lee-blames-regulators-for-bitcoin-decline-cuts-forecast-2159.htm

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Microsoft Launches Enterprise Blockchain Partnership in Taiwan
Microsoft Taiwan has entered a partnership with Digital China and Hot Cool in the hope that the three companies can use blockchain technology to improve the financial, e-commerce, entertainment, and other industries.

The three-party blockchain alliance unveiled the initiative at a conference on June 28 at the Le Méridien Hotel in Taipei City. Sun Jikang, the general manager of Microsoft Taiwan, explained that he believes Microsoft Azure can improve the computing speed and security of Digital China’s digital blockchain services. For those unaware, Azure is a cloud computing service offered by Microsoft, which allows users to build, test, deploy, and manage applications and services using the firm’s global network of data centers.

Jikang stated, according to a rough translation:

“Taiwan has first-class engineering and technical talents, and their innovative thinking cannot be underestimated. At the same time, it carries a solid manufacturing and R&D foundation, plus Excellent geographical location, with the superior conditions for the development of blockchain application, I believe that Microsoft’s tooling in the strategic layout of the blockchain, and citing the global partner resources, is bound to be the vision of the industrial application of the blockchain.”
https://www.ccn.com/microsoft-launches-an-enterprise-blockchain-partnership-in-taiwan/

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Rakuten Plans to Launch its Crypto in Russia through Viber 

Japanese ecommerce giant Rakuten will launch its new Rakuten Coin cryptocurrency in Russia within the next six to 12 months – via its messaging app subsidy, Viber.

https://cryptonews.com/news/rakuten-plans-to-launch-its-crypto-in-russia-through-viber-2157.htm

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- Microsoft Launches Enterprise Blockchain Partnership in Taiwan
- Bermuda Amends Banking Act to Favor Blockchain Startups

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- Brazilian Football Teams Ink Partnerships with Crypto Startup Inoovi
- Binance Leads $12 Million Funding Round in Tokenization Startup Republic

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EU Regulator: DLT In Trade Finance Still Faces Legal Uncertainties

An European Union financial regulator has published a report to raise public awareness of the benefits and risks associated with the use of distributed ledger technology (DLT) in finance.
In a report published on Tuesday that discusses the rising trend of financial technology, the European Banking Authority (EBA) highlighted two use cases of blockchain in the market's banking sector, including cross-border trade finance and ID authentication... Read More

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Y Combinator Alumni Raise USD 125m, Learn How to Anger Investors 

Poor communication, intentional or unintentional, between a startup and its investors may bring unpleasant surprises to both sides, a recent conflict showed.

https://cryptonews.com/news/y-combinator-alumni-raise-usd-125m-learn-how-to-anger-invest-2143.htm