Someone Redeemed a 100 BTC Casascius Bar Worth Over $700K In 2011, Mike Caldwell created the notorious Casascius physical bitcoin collection, and since then the series of coins has become extremely valuable. Over the last two months, a bunch of… Read More

 Close to 14,000 Google Scholar Articles Mentioned Bitcoin in 2019 On January 3, 2020, the Bitcoin network officially turns 11 and the technology has transformed the lives of many. Since blockchain’s inception, scholars and economists have rigorously studied and written… Read More

 Russia’s Supreme Court Recognizes Tokens as Assets Like Money and Property A phenomenon like bitcoin can gain recognition, including regulatory, in many different and often unexpected ways. Governments that hesitate to accept cryptocurrencies as legal tender, sometimes validate their existence indirectly… Read More

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 Cloud Token and the Rise of MLM Crypto Projects Chinese law enforcement recently busted 72 individuals connected to the Cloud Token CTO scam. The Ponzi was similar to the Plustoken fraud and CTO scammers made off with $500 million.… Read More

 4 Beijing Regulators Issue New Crypto Activity Warning Four financial regulators in China have jointly issued a fresh warning regarding crypto trading activities in Beijing. The notice explains the reason for the warning and lists prohibited crypto activities,… Read More

 Asia’s Love Affair With Blockchain Is Blossoming Far away from western eyes, Asian blockchain projects are thriving. A vibrant ecosystem of public and permissioned chains has sprung to life in Asia, aided by government and big business… Read More

 Bitcoin Gained 8.9 Million Percent Over the Last Decade 2020 is fast approaching and the last decade will be behind us. Throughout the last ten years, the biggest unicorn firms were born like Uber and Airbnb. However, even though… Read More

 Shenzhen Stock Exchange Launches Index of Top 50 Blockchain Public Companies The Shenzhen Stock Exchange has launched a blockchain index comprising 50 of the largest publicly listed companies with blockchain ventures by market capitalization. Blockchain-related stocks in China have been gaining… Read More

 User Reports Reveal Visa and Mastercard Outages During the Holidays Having problems with payments around Christmas can be frustrating, especially for those who leave gift buying till the last minute. With calmer markets this holiday season, the crypto ecosystem has… Read More

 Germans Rush to Buy Gold as Draft Bill Threatens to Restrict Purchases Reports have emerged depicting long lines in front of a physical gold sales location in Germany, in view of pending legislation which would once again lower the anonymous purchase limit,… Read More

 Bitmain and Canaan to Reveal 5nm Bitcoin Mining Chips in 2020 Two of the largest bitcoin mining chip manufacturers have plans to equip their products with 5nm chips in the near future. Just recently, China-based manufacturer Bitmain purportedly produced the world’s… Read More

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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👇🏻