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ICO Guidance in "Plain English" Nov 05, 2018

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) plans to clarify when and how cryptocurrencies may be classified as securities, and will do so in "plain English."
The chairman of Deltec Bank & Trust says a widely scrutinized letter about stablecoin issuer Tether's account at the Bahamas-based institution is "authentic."
Switzerland's Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) is giving tough guidance to banks wanting to trade in crypto assets.
A little-known ethereum project called Lition is quietly helping real German citizens find cheaper energy.

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Kik Growth Nov 02, 2018

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Tether's Scribble Nov 01, 2018

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Tether, the company behind the controversial stablecoin of the same name, published a letter purporting to be from Deltec Bank and Trust Limited today, confirming that it has about $1.8 billion in its account as of October 31. However, the letter - dated November 1 - does not have a name attached to it, and the signature is essentially a curve.

Coinbase’s head of trading, Hunter Merghart, has resigned after just six months on the job, according to individuals familiar with the situation.

Dapper Labs, the company behind the development of the ethereum-based Crypto Kitties, just raised another $15 million from Google Ventures, SamsungNEXT and Andreessen Horowitz, as well as some groups not usually associated with venture investing such as William Morris Endeavour and aXiomatic.

The New York Department of Financial Services has just issued its 12th BitLicense, this time to a bitcoin ATM operator called CoinSource.

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Lost Crypto? Oct 31, 2018

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The world's largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance has frozen accounts that received more than 93,000 ether from two wallets indirectly linked to the troubled Russian exchange WEX.
Former Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen has been gifted a small amount of bitcoin.
The Indian government is considering imposing a ban on what it calls "private cryptocurrencies" in the country.
The Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX) has teamed up with distributed ledger startup Digital Asset to develop a blockchain platform for post-trade processing.
A cryptocurrency ticker application called CoinTicker appears to be installing two backdoors on computers made by Apple, cybersecurity firm Malwarebytes warned Monday.

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Jail Time Oct 30, 2018

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U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has just announced $300 million in new funding

The developer that formalized the code underlying most initial coin offerings (ICOs) – ethereum's ERC-20 token standard – has proposed a new approach in a bid to make the funding schemes more safe for would-be investors

A 21-year-old bitcoin trader from California has pleaded guilty to operating an unlicensed money transmission business and now faces a maximum of five years in prison.

Bitcoin's (BTC) downside break of the recent narrow trading range may have opened the doors for a drop to key support at $6,100, technical charts indicate.

Revealed exclusively to CoinDesk, Pantheon is a suite of ethereum-based services built by PegaSys, a 50-strong engineering team at the ethereum design studio ConsenSy

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Bitstamp Acquired Oct 29, 2018

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Cryptocurrency exchange Bitstamp has been acquired by NXMH, an investment firm based in Belgium and owned by South Korean conglomerate NXC

The Korean government made waves last year when it moved to ban initial coin offerings from taking place in the country.

Blockchain payments startup Ripple Labs has hired former Google executive Amir Sarhangi as its vice president of products.

After nearly two weeks stagnating at around $6,400, bitcoin has finally made a move – to the downside.

Cryptography startup StarkWare just closed a $30 million equity funding round led by Paradigm and featuring a number of other major investors, according to an announcement made Monday.

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Bitcoin Backed Oct 26, 2018

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In January, a new token is being launched on the ethereum blockchain that will be backed one-for-one by bitcoin.
An advisory committee to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) believes the agency should provide clearer guidelines on how cryptocurrency transactions may be taxed.
An arbitration body in China has ruled that despite the country's central bank ban on cryptocurrency trading, bitcoin should still be legally protected as a property with economic values.
Shipping giant Maersk and tech provider IBM are wrestling with this problem with TradeLens, their distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform for supply chains.
The four biggest agricultural corporations in the world plan to utilize tech such as blockchain and AI to bring the global grain trade into the digital age.

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Bitmain's IPO Woes Oct 25, 2018

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Parties solicited to invest in the pre-initial public offering (IPO) funding round for Bitmain Technologies, Ltd., the leading maker of cryptocurrency mining software and hardware, received pitch decks falsely suggesting the company had secured financial backing from Digital Sky Technologies Global and GIC Private Limited.
One of the oldest software wallet providers in the cryptocurrency industry is launching its first hardware product. Announced Thursday, Blockchain has partnered with hardware wallet maker Ledger and started taking orders for a new handheld device called Lockbox. The first batch of shipments will go out in November.
Distributed ledger tech startup Ripple saw revenue from the sale of the digital asset XRP more than double this past quarter compared to the second quarter of 2018.
The U.K. Royal Mint has suspended a long-running plan to create a crypto asset representing physical gold holdings.
Deutsche Bundesbank, Germany's central bank, and Deutsche Börse, owner of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, have completed a blockchain trial investigating the technology's potential in securities settlement.

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A Freshman 51% Attack Oct 24, 2018

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Police in the Indian city of Bangalore have seized an ATM just weeks after it was set up by local cryptocurrency exchange Unocoin.
A college freshman is coming after your cryptocurrency – but not to steal your coins, just to prove that someone could do so pretty easily.
The Financial Services Agency, also known as the FSA, Japan's finance regulator, has formally approved a cryptocurrency exchange association as a self-regulating industry body.
Over a million dollars' worth of bitcoin has been hidden in a digital picture – and there's still some left to be found, despite attention from cyber-sleuths.
The U.K.-based settlement infrastructure provider Setl has been granted a license from France's securities regulator to operate a central securities depository system using blockchain tech.

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Coinbase supports Circle Oct 23, 2018

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Crypto exchange Coinbase announced support for the Circle-issued stablecoin Tuesday.
The newest commissioner with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission met with representatives from money manager VanEck and blockchain startup SolidX earlier this month to discuss a bitcoin-based exchange-traded fund (ETF).
A decade after launching its first Android device, global consumer tech giant HTC is officially releasing its first blockchain-enabled phone.
Months after its debut, the cryptocurrency being launched by the estate of the late Wu-Tang Clan member Ol' Dirty Bastard (ODB) is moving ahead – starting with a public pre-sale that begins this week.
Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX and Tesla, published a mysterious tweet on Monday about bitcoin that's whipping up speculation across social media and the cryptocurrency community that it may be more than just a joke.

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