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The bulls' repeated failure to take out resistance around $9,000 has boosted the odds of a pullback in bitcoin prices, according to the technical charts.
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Bitcoin fell after one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges was said to face a government rebuke for operating without a license in Japan, heightening concern that increased regulatory scrutiny will curb demand for digital assets.
Read more: www.bloomberg.com
The U.S. Treasury Department may start publishing cryptocurrency wallet addresses along with the names of people and organizations with whom it forbids citizens from doing business.
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Two South Korea financial regulators are reportedly launching a probe into domestic banks over their implementation of anti-money laundering procedures for cryptocurrency exchanges.
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Privacy-focused cryptocurrency zcash is gearing up for its first hard fork. And while that may call to mind bitter debates over development or excitement about free coins, actually zcash's first hard fork - dubbed "Overwinter" - isn't about either. Instead, the cryptocurrency's developer team is hoping to lay the groundwork for more dramatic upgrades in the future.
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Can spam transactions be used to artificially drive up fees in Bitcoin? What is Child Pays for Parent (CPFP)? By Andreas Antonopoulos.
The German fintech incubator FinLab AG and Block.one, developer of the Blockchain software platform EOS.IO, announced a $100 mln joint venture to develop projects that use EOS’ software
Read more: cointelegraph.com
Japanese multinational Fujitsu has launched a Brussels-based Blockchain Innovation Center to facilitate research and projects around the tech.
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Blockchain company EverMarkets is developing a peer-to-peer futures trading platform based on blockchain technology.
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At a recent event in Berlin, Edward Snowden for the first time talked at length about the problems and benefits of blockchain technology.
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For the first time in history, the Chinese government and its central bank, the People’s Bank of China (PBoC), has opened its $27 trillion payment market to the world. Foreign firms are now allowed to apply for licenses to operate within China, competing against local service providers.
Read more: www.ccn.com
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