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This week in the news:
- VISA, MasterCard, eBay and others pull out of the Libra Association as US senators put huge amounts of pressure on them to do so.
- The head of the CFTC, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, says that he believes that Ether is a commodity.
- A G7 report suggests that stable coins could be a threat to global financial stability.
- Coinbase get prepared for a post Brexit world.
Plus more!
This week in the news:
- PayPal quit the Libra association citing their need to "focus on their core business".
- The potentially dead Quadriga CEO's widow pledges to use some of her estate to pay back those who had funds stolen by her late husband.
- BitFinex and Tether under threat from a lawsuit filed in New York.
- The Sacramento Kings, apparently a basketball team in America, release a new app with a cryptocurrency alongside it to be used in the stadium. We give our run down.
Plus more!
This week in the news:
- EOS main block producer and creators of the blockchain, block one, have been fined $24 million for the $4 billion ICO of the token; deemed an unregistered security.
- Google announce that they have successfully completed tests on a quantum computer, cracking an encryption in 3 minutes that would usually take a super computer 10,000 years.
- FairWin, a ponzi scheme smart contract on the Ethereum network, have closed up shop and run off with all the Ether in the smart contract.
- Overstock executives are in hot water over alleged securities fraud. The Prince takes us through his favourite furniture retail CEOs actions.
This week's news powered by Brew Dog: - Libra announce the basket of currencies they will use to back the cryptocurrency with. - Bakkt's physically settles Bitcoin futures finally launch to an underwhelming response. - £500k of seized Bitcoin is being auctioned off by Wilson Auctions: maybe grab yourself a bargain. - Kik close down their messaging app to focus entirely on the KIN currency and double down in their defence against the SEC. Plus more!
This week in the news:
- An attacker uses features of EOS to do away with over $100k in EOS from gambling dapp, EOS Play.
- OkEx, the South Korean exchange, remove five privacy coins: ZCash, Monero, Dash, Horizen and Super Bitcoin.
- The co creator or Libra, David Marcus, insists that governments have nothing to fear from Facebook getting involved in the money printing game. Angela Merkel suggests otherwise.
- Premier League football team, Watford FC, will have the Bitcoin logo emblazoned on their shirt sleeves this season thanks to SportsBet - Crypto Weekly's gambling choice.
This week in the news:
- It transpires that Epstein was a Bitcoin maximalist. I wonder why...
- Ahead of the US Binance release, CZ informs us that there will be Binance stablecoin - the BUSD.
- NASDAQ now have a decentralised finance index and the beak gives them a call to see whats up.
- Akon informs us that Bitcoin is better than the military backed US dollar.
- LG take on Samsung in the blockchain friendly smartphone market.
This week in the news:
- Binance acquires JEX to break into the futures and derivatives market
- Security vulnerabilities are found in the Lightning Network
- Telegram's blockchain to start public testing
- Manny Pacquiao launches his own crypto
- Brazilian payment processor to accept Bitcoin
All this and more!
This week in the news:
- Craig Wright has effectively lost his case in the United States against the Kleinman estate. This particular set of proceedings included some rather choice comments from the judge...
- Tether to release a stablecoin pegged to the Chinese Yuan.
- You can now lend out your BNB and earn up to 15% interest!
- Some life heroes of ours have siphoned off electricity from a nuclear power plant in the Ukraine in order to mine cryptocurrency.
This week in the news:
- Bakkt confirm Bitcoin futures will launch in September, for real this time.
- Barclays have withdrawn their banking services to Coinbase, affecting UK customers
- Another claimant to the title of Satoshi has been unveiled, and it working in IT for NHS
All this and more! (Of the usual stuff)
This week in the news: - Coinbase ban UK citizens from purchasing, holding or selling ZCash. Has the UK government has taken a dim view to privacy coins? - You can now get paid your salary in Bitcoin in New Zealand. - Binance may or may not have suffered a hack on their KYC information. - Central Bank of China come up with their own digital currency, which presumably they already had. All this and more!
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