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CFTC Charges Two Defendants for Defrauding Investors and Impersonation of CFTC Officials

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has filed a suit against two defendants for the allegedly fraudulent solicitation of Bitcoin (BTC), according to an official press release published on Friday, September 28.The CFTC’s complaint — filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas — charges the two defendants with running…

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New FUD By The Major Press Blaming Crypto Money Laundering

The use of cryptocurrencies for money laundering has frequently been labeled as the bad side of the invention, and recent FUD reported by the Wall Street Journal has cast a dark shadow over the future of cryptocurrencies. According to the so-called, investigation carried out by the WSJ over the course of two years, roughly $90…

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New Ripple-Led Advocacy Group to Pay DC Lobbyists in XRP

Ripple is leading a number of organizations launching a lobbying group in Washington D.C., Business Standard reported Friday. Dubbed Securing America's Internet of Value Coalition (SAIV), the group includes, apart from Ripple, the RippleWorks Foundation; Coil, a company developing a solution for digital payments; Hard Yaka, an investment firm focusing on digital assets; and PolySign, a…

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New Ripple-Led Advocacy Group to Pay Lobbyists in XRP

Ripple is leading a number of organizations launching a lobbying group in Washington D.C., Business Standard reported Friday. Dubbed Securing America's Internet of Value Coalition (SAIV), the group includes, apart from Ripple, the RippleWorks Foundation; Coil, a company developing a solution for digital payments; Hard Yaka, an investment firm focusing on digital assets; and PolySign, a…

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Michael Arrington’s VC Firm to Leave US Following Subpoena

NEWS Sep 29, 2018 at 10:29 UTC Digital asset management firm Arrington XRP Capital may be poised to cease funding any U.S.-based startups. Partner and founder Michael Arrington tweeted Friday morning that the company had "received a second subpoena" from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) due to the firm's role as an investor in a…

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Russia’s ‘Disappointing’ Cryptocurrency Legislation: Why Experts Consider the Bill a Failure

Russia has been trying to pass cryptocurrency legislation since the beginning of January 2018, with no success as of yet. The government’s main bill, “On Digital Technologies,” which was expected to be passed by July 1 — according to the wishes of President Vladimir Putin — will instead most likely be pushed back until an…

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One Musician’s Creative Solution to Drive ASICs Off Monero

Algorithms are creative. At least, that's according to Howard Chu, a monero core developer who has dedicated his time to protecting the crypto from specialized mining hardware, called ASICs, built by a multibillion-dollar mining industry. And recently, Chu found a solution to permanently keep ASICs off the network – a proof-of-work algorithm he calls RandomJS…

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JD.com Opens Institute for Building ‘Smart Cities’ With Blockchain and AI

A division of Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com, JD Finance, has established the Smart City Research Institute at its headquarters in Nanjing, reported People’s Daily September 28.Jingdong Group (JD.com) is a Chinese e-commerce company that focuses on new technological implementation in e-commerce, logistics, and finance. With the new Institute, JD.com aims to facilitate the development of…

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Report: Blockchain Technology Could Reduce Uncertainty in Foreign Trade

In its new policy brief, the Austrian Research Center International Economics (FIW) has examined the possible effects of digitization, including blockchain technology, on the export economy, Cointelegraph auf Deutsch reports today, September 28.The report was prepared by Bernhard Dachs from the Austrian Institute of Technology on behalf of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Digital and…

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Opera Partners With Ledger Capital to Explore Blockchain Applications

Opera has partnered with blockchain advisory and financial services firm Ledger Capital to explore possible blockchain applications, according to a press release published September 28.Per the announcement, the two companies are looking to investigate applications and use cases of blockchain and how the technology can be deployed within Opera products and its ecosystem.As previously reported,…