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Over the past 24 hours, the bitcoin price has declined from $7,300 to $6,594, recording yet another 10 percent correction. While several big buy volumes were recorded on major exchanges like Bitfinex and Bithumb, the market struggled to sustain the momentum it has created over the past 5 days from March 31 to April 4.
Read more: www.ccn.com
Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck, which was the victim of a major heist in early 2018, is to accept a takeover offer from online brokerage Monex Group, a news report indicates.
Read more: www.coindesk.com
A form of central bank digital currency (CBDC) may go live in 2018. At least that's according to Antony Lewis, research director at global banking consortium and distributed ledger software startup R3, who issued the prediction during a panel discussion at the Deconomy event in Seoul, South Korea, on Wednesday.
Read more: www.coindesk.com
Japan is moving toward legalizing initial coin offerings, even as countries such as China and the U.S. restrict the fundraising technique because of their risks for investors.
Read more: www.bloomberg.com
Indian residents can no longer purchase cryptocurrency through their bank accounts, according to new measures adopted by the country’s central bank. The sweeping policy, announced on Thursday by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), prohibits RBI-regulated institutions from allowing their customers to purchases cryptocurrencies, and it also bars banks from providing services to businesses “dealing with or settling [virtual currencies].”
Read more: www.ccn.com
A survey of male employees in Japan from ages 25-30 shows that 14 percent of the participants own cryptocurrency, according to data published April 3 by Shin R25, an online magazine for young businessmen.
Read more: cointelegraph.com
Verge, a ”privacy coin” famed for the zealotry of its community, has fallen prey to a 51% attack. A malevolent miner gained majority control of the network hashrate, a feat that makes it possible for the controlling entity to modify transactions, calling the integrity of the entire blockchain into question. Around 250,000 verge were stolen by the attacker, forcing the project team to prepare a hard fork.
Read more: news.bitcoin.com
Taiwan-based electronics giant Foxconn is to help develop and build a blockchain phone from Sirin Labs, a news report indicates.
Read more: www.coindesk.com
The first user mobile wallet built for the Bitcoin’s Lightning Network (LN) launched April 4 marking a further milestone for the technology.
Read more: cointelegraph.com
The most used Bitcoin Cash client has announced 15th of May as the hard-fork upgrade date using the “Median Time Past” (MTP) method. That is when the middle time-stamp of the past 11 blocks reaches midday London time on May 15th, the new consensus rules come into effect. One such new consensus rule is the raising of the blocksize limit to 32MB, some 4 times higher than its current limit of 8MB.
Read more: www.trustnodes.com
Last year, the Ripple team offered incentives and possibly a $1 million cash fee for getting listed on the Gemini exchange and an addition to the Coinbase app, reported Bloomberg. The information about the attempt to buy access to exchanges comes from four persons close to the Ripple project, who wished to remain anonymous.
Read more: cryptovest.com
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