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Ripple Labs Inc, and its CEO Brad Garlinghouse are enmeshed in a lawsuit with Bradley Sostack who is the court-appointed plaintiff in a lawsuit that argues that Ripples monthly Escrow sales of its token constitute illegal sales of securities.The filing which was made public on Monday indicates that the new claim was made as a result of Ripples’ motion to dismiss the suit in September. Ripple is basing its argument on the statute of repose where the plaintiff didn’t file any charges within the...

Josh Riddett, CEO of Easy Crypto Hunter, thinks that Brexit could bear a lot of positive results for bitcoin and eventually push the cryptocurrency past the $1 million point.Riddett: BTC Will Spike Heavily in 20 YearsIn a recent interview, Riddett commented that bitcoin and other forms of crypto will likely serve as the predominant methods of payment within the next five to ten years and says that Brexit could ultimately cause bitcoin to hit one million pounds (about $1.2 million in USD).It...

Bitcoin ATMs stored in a warehouse in the Malaysian town of Seremban were stolen. The heist mimics bank robbers digging tunnels to get to vaults. The perpetrators are thought to have intended to put the crypto devices to their own use. The ‘greatest bank robbery in history’ according to the Guinness World Records involved the use of brains, brawn and no violence. This was the Central Bank of Brazil heist in Fortaleza. The gang rented out premises in a nearby building and dug a tunnel to get...

$16,000 seems to be a popular number amongst bitcoin price predictors. Recently, Live Bitcoin News reported on a source that claimed bitcoin could potentially reach that number by the time November began. Sadly, this prediction didn’t come true, but that’s not stopping Changpeng Zhao – CEO of Binance, arguably the world’s largest and most popular cryptocurrency exchange – from touting $16,000 as a figure that will arrive “soon.”Changpeng Zhao – $16,000 Is On Its WayThe prediction that stated...

Xiaomi, which runs the race with Apple for the first position in the wearable sector, decided to add some spark into this race and make it more interesting.The Chinese electronics giant announced it is launching its first smartwatch. Dubbed the Mi Watch, the Chinese smartwatch looks pretty much the same as the Apple Watch.With its square body that has a crown and a button, it works with a 1.78-inch AMOLED display (326 ppi) that provides the always-on capacity and runs the company’s homegrown...

The Wall Street Bets, a Reddit branch dedicated to stock trading, is full of hot discussions around Robinhood. Traders were using the broken leverage system in the app to gain unbelievable profits. During his trade session, one of the traders had managed to turn $4,000 to one million thanks to the app’s code flaw that is still not fixed.The glitch allowed several other traders to access large amounts of illusive margin. A trader wrote that he had gained access to $50,000 of the funds while...

Controversial internet entrepreneur and founder of former content distribution site Megaupload Kim Schmitz, who is also known as Kim Dotcom has decided to postpone his token sale which was to occur on the cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex. The token sale was for a new incentivized content sharing network which has been referred to as K.im.The K.im project was supposed to raise funding for the project on Bitfenex’s cryptocurrency exchange platform using an Initial Exchange Offering (IEO) and...

Photo: ShutterstockDmitriy Gurkovskiy, a senior analyst at foreign exchange broker RoboForex, shares his insights into the future scenarios for Bitcoin price movement as well as possible price swings of major altcoins.The Bitcoin keeps correcting inside a flat. There are expressed resistance and support areas on the chart but the quotations have not yet managed to escape the channel. There are chances that, however, the leading cryptocurrency might break through the upper border of the range...

Bitfinex postponed the sale of Kimcoin indefinitely. The regulatory framework in the industry is affecting initial exchange offerings. Kim Dotcom tried to avoid countries within the U.S. jurisdiction. Bitfinex, a Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency exchange, announced its decision to postpone the initial exchange offering (IEO) of Kimcoin, the native cryptocurrency of the content monetization platform K.im. Halting Kimcoin Token Sale On Nov 5, Bitfinex revealed in a blog post that the first IEO...

So-called “bitcoin whales” appear to have a considerable influence on the cryptocurrency market, according to a new report. At the same time, whales are a dying breed. The founder of crypto watchdog Whale Alert explains why. It’s fair to say that bitcoin whales have a reputation for running the show when it comes to the crypto markets. Whether this is an accurate account of the role whales actually play within the ecosystem remains an open question. With his eyes trained on every major...