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Justin Sun who is the founder and CEO of Tron (TRX) has dismissed rumors and allegations that he is behind the investment group that acquired the premier cryptocurrency exchange group Poloniex. He indicated this in a tweet on October 19th and categorically stated that he is “not buying anything”.I'm not buying anything. Just invest some and help out my friends. Actually I have a huge bag of $BNB, $HT, $OKB etc and bet on all exchanges that support $TRX & $BTT. ?— Justin Sun...

Organisé par le CEIFAC, Collège Européen des Investigations financières et de l’Analyse Financière criminelle, le colloque « Cryptomonnaies et blockchains : quelles perspectives ? » réunira le 24 octobre prochain professionnels et universitaires afin d’évoquer l’impact de Bitcoin sur la criminalité transfrontière et de déterminer les moyens de lutte et les défis présents et futurs. Où ? – Auditorium de la Bibliothèque Nationale et...

Social media giant Facebook has been facing severe regulatory troubles for launching its Libra cryptocurrency. Last week, even big giants like Mastercard, Visa, PayPal, Stripe, who were earlier part of the Libra Association, announced their withdrawal from the project.Facebook is now working out other ways to keep its Libra project alive. As reported by Reuters, Facebook proposed using fiat-pegged digital stablecoins for its project. It means that instead of directly pegging the Libra token...

In what seems to be a continuing series of woes for Telegram and its TON blockchain, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York has decided to postpone the hearing that will determine if the Grams token is a security or not to the 18th and 19th of February 2020.Though the company was doing its best to make its token publicly available, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) made a couple of moves by dragging the messaging app to court on...

Layer1, San Francisco-based startup involved in Bitcoin mining, has raised $50 million in an effort to live up its plan to establish farms for mining. The money has been received from such a row of prominent investors including Peter Thiel, an American billionaire and co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies and Founders Fund, and Shasta Ventures, an early-stage venture capital investment firm that invests in enterprise and technology consumer startups.According to Alexander Liegl, CEO of...

The world’s first and only cryptocurrency exchange with the Any2Any technology has successfully completed beta testing of the third version of the quantum trading core with a built-in liquidity flow that will completely change the notion of exchange trading. Surprisingly, all modern exchanges, like hundreds of years ago, still use fixed trading pairs, which are in no way connected at the level of the trading core and the order matching system. Each orderbook only contains orders placed in...

Hey Krypto Fans, willkommen zur Bitcoin-Informant Show Nr. 732. Heute geht’s um folgende Themen: Poloniex wird zu Polo Digital Assets – US-Kunden müssen draußen bleiben, Kryptowährungen im Fokus der Zentralbanken & Fiat 27 Jahre Lebensdauer. 1.) Poloniex wird zu Polo Digital Assets – US-Kunden müssen draußen bleibenhttps://bitcoin-kurier.de/poloniex-wird-zu-polo-digital-assets-us-kunden-muessen-draussen-bleiben/ 2.) Why Cryptocurrency is in The Spotlight For More...

It seems like Facebook’s new currency, Libra, has regulators scared out of their wits… So much, in fact, that the United States government is now looking into potentially developing its own digital currency – issued by its central bank – as a means of competing.Libra Has Everyone TerrifiedLibra, as we all know, has gotten very mixed reactions from both regulators and the general public in the past, with very few Facebook users saying they would consider using Libra if it was available today....

If there’s one thing bitcoin enthusiasts are having a hard time avoiding, its crypto scams and thefts. From Mt. Gox to Coincheck, thefts can ring through the industry like the bells of Notre Dame, and sometimes, they can lead to harsh consequences for the crypto and blockchain space. The latest scam is coming by way of the Tor Browser, which is being monitored by criminals as a means of stealing unsuspecting persons’ bitcoins.Tor Browser Is Home to Some Malicious ActorsThus far, the amounts...

For many people, i.e. Warren Buffett, bitcoin and cryptocurrency are two things that should be avoided at all costs. For others however, like billionaire Peter Thiel, bitcoin’s success is just getting started, and the coin represents a whole new wave of financial innovation that the world hasn’t seen yet.Peter Thiel: The BTC Champion?Thiel is the co-founder of PayPal. His love of crypto is ironic considering he lost former executive David Marcus to Facebook’s blockchain division. Marcus later...