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​​Wall Street Crypto News 📯 📌 The US SEC is confident that Telegram violated the terms of the ICO and sold the Gram after the completion of the token sale. 📌 Chicago CME started trading bitcoin options, one contract is 5 BTC. 📌 Faktoshi Craig Wright began to be taken, the Florida court overturned the decision to recover from him 500 thousand. BTC and decided to pay only $ 658,000 of legal costs. The search for 1 million BTC continues. 📌 Research: 40 million LTCs have not moved over the past 12 months, and 12 million LTCs are in Coinbase wallets. 📌 Media: WisdomTree financial holding asset manager for $ 60 billion will release its own stablecoin. 📌 According to a study LinkedIn, in 2020, blockchain specialists will become the most popular and highest-paid. 📌 Even more crypto derivatives: the trading of bitcoin options was launched by the FTX platform, in which the Binance exchange invests. 24h Global Market Data👇🏻

​​Wall Street Crypto News 📯 📌 Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin complained about blocking his video on YouTube. This could be a mistake of the service, because now on YouTube crypto fraudsters who use video materials of famous personalities have activated. 📌 The option to purchase cryptocurrency via a Visa card tied to an account has appeared on the Binance exchange. 📌 China: Guangzhou city authorities announce the closure of all trading crypto sites, and in Sichuan, they are thinking of limiting miners by reducing the limits of cheap electricity. 📌 Yesterday, more than 204 thousand ETH were transferred to the crypto exchanges Kraken, Binance and Huobi. Perhaps these are coins of the whale programmer, who is one of the first developers of Ethereum. 📌 OKEx cryptocurrency exchange has opened the trading of bitcoin options. To access the new product, customers of the site must pass KYC and a special test. 📌 Media: American cancer researchers will accept donations in bitcoins, BitPay service will process payments. 24h Global Market Data👇🏻

​​Wall Street Weekly Digest 📯 📌 On January 3, Bitcoin celebrated its 11th birthday and its price grows to $ 7,500. Miners prepared their own gift and set a new record for a BTC hash rate of 119 EH / s. 📌 Litecoin Foundation chose BitGo company as a custodian provider. 📌 Media: In the near future, the court will resume proceedings between the relatives of Dave Kleiman and faktoshi Craig Wright. One of the witnesses will be bitcoin guru Andreas Antonopoulos. 📌 Burger King restaurants in Venezuela started to accept payment in BTC, ETH, LTC, BNB, DASH, and USDT. 📌 Bitmain co-founder Mikri Zhang filed a lawsuit to bring him back to court company control. 📌 Google changed its mind and the MetaMask crypto wallet reappeared in the Google Play app store. 📌 On the Ethereum network, a hard fork was carried out, which deferred the complexity bomb for about 611 days. 📌 Media: Telegram refused to disclose information about how they collected and where they spent $ 1.7 billion during the TON ICO. 24h Global Market Data👇🏻

​​Wall Street Crypto News 📯 📌 Craig Wright net proved that he gained access to 1.1 million BTC and nothing is known about the mysterious courier with private keys. The court pauses for another 90 days. 📌 Uzbek authorities decide to launch a national mining pool and cryptocurrency exchange. 📌 No panic: the transaction at 123,447 BTC was the planned transfer of funds on the Bitfinex exchange and cost only $ 80. 📌 BTCPay Server Bitcoin payment processing now supports tokens on the Liquid sidechain. 📌 Research: Chainalysis calculated that in 2019, with the help of cryptocurrencies, they laundered funds for $ 2.8 billion and most often used the Binance and Huobi exchanges for this purpose. 24h Global Market Data👇🏻

​​Wall Street Crypto News 📯 📌 Vitalik Buterin suggests using the current ether network as Ethereum 2.0 shard, which will significantly accelerate the transition to POS mining. 📌 Binance added three trading pairs with the Turkish lira ETH / TRY, XRP / TRY, USDT / TRY and one with the Russian ruble USDT / RUB 📌 The Central Bank’s regulatory “sandbox” is testing stablecoins that private companies want to issue. 📌 In the first quarter of 2020, Canaan Creative ASIC miners can get 5-nm chips. 📌 The Rakuten retail giant cryptocurrency exchange has offered its customers an exchange of loyalty program bonus points for BTC, ETH or BCH. 📌 Craig Wright submitted an email according to which on January 1, 2020 he will have access to 1 million bitcoins. But inconsistencies have already been found in this document that may indicate a fake. 📌 Japanese IT giant GMO Internet is testing its own blockchain, on the basis of which it plans to release a stablecoin linked to the Japanese yen. 24h Global Market Data👇🏻

​​Wall Street Weekly Digest 📯 📌 All week, bitcoin went up and on Sunday price above $ 9,150 but then dump to $ 8,600. 📌 Chicago CME started trading bitcoin options, one contract is 5 BTC. Trading volumes are already 2 times more than Bakkt. 📌 Craig Wright Lawyer said that his client has so far received only a list of wallets with a total balance of 1.1 million BTC, and private keys to them will be given to him later. 📌 Bitwise withdrew the application for Bitcoin ETF, but did so allegedly in the interest of protecting investors. 📌 BTCPay Server Bitcoin payment processing now supports tokens on the Liquid sidechain. 📌 The National Bank and the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine included blockchain in the strategy of development of the financial sector until 2025 📌 Research: According to a survey by Hartford Steam Boiler, 36% of American SMEs accept payment with cryptocurrencies. 📌 Upbit Crypto exchange resumed ether input and output, for security reasons, you need to use the new ETH wallet addresses. 📌 Grayscale Investments reported about the record year 2019, during which they raised over $ 600 million for investments to cryptocurrencies. 📌 Cosmos cryptocurrency has been added to the Coinbase. Com as well as in Android and iOS applications 📌 Binance carried out the tenth burning of BNB tokens, this time in the amount of $ 38.8 million. 24h Global Market Data👇🏻