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In which asset class would you direct $10,000 in investment capital – bitcoin or gold? There’s one condition. You can’t touch the funds for 10 long years. According to a Twitter poll crafted by former U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, bitcoin and gold are the top choices, with the leading cryptocurrency having overtaken the precious metal as the investment of choice with more than 55% of the vote. Gold, which earlier in the day was leading, puts up a good showing at 37%. The rest of the votes...

Photo: ARPA OfficialARPA – the layer two privacy-preserving computation protocol – is set to square off against Carry Protocol, a data purchase platform on Ethereum, in Binance’s second round of the Community Coin Vote (CCV). Voting will begin at 4 AM 5 November (UTC) and will incorporate Binance’s new rules for the CCV that allocates a BNB rewards pool to the runner-up and reduces the BNB holding period of 9 to 7 days. ARPA winning voters will split a rewards pool of 15 million ARPA tokens,...

Cryptocurrency scams just seem to be an everyday thing as of late, and the latest scam news involving digital money is arriving out of India.Is India Home to a Large Crypto Scam?The country’s Special Task Force (STF) says it has made three arrests in what is turning out to be a very large case of cryptocurrency fraud. The people arrested include Rakesh Kumar Singh, Bittu Yadav and Pradeep Dev. All three have been charged with digital theft. The suspects hail from a region of Bihar in...

Exactly nine months after opening its doors for business, DX.Exchange, a trading platform powered by Nasdaq, has thrown in the towel due to financial difficulties. Currently, the platform is looking for a buyer or better still a merger.The news was released via an announcement on Nov. 3, telling the world that the cost of operating the platform in the aspects of security, support and technology is too much to bear.Good Intention, Bad ExecutionThe original idea for DX.Exchange was to become a...

Today the next chapter of a long-running and closely watched lawsuit against Ripple will happen. The plaintiff, Bradley Sostack, has time until the end of this Monday to file a response to the startup’s September 20 motion to dismiss. If the case won’t be entirely dismissed, it will probably go into discovery next year.As we already reported, the main point of this dispute is the question of whether Ripple’s cryptocurrency XRP is a security or not.If it is, that means that it should have been...

Augur (REP) has spiked over 35% in the last 30 hours. The Forecast Foundation is moving towards accelerating the development of the platform. REP could soon retrace before it continues its uptrend. Augur is on a roll as its price surged over 35% against the dollar in the last 30 hours. The recent announcements regarding new upgrades and products could be directly related to the sudden spike. On the Works During Devcon 5 in Osaka, Japan, Augur founder Joey Krug revealed that Augur v2...

Malta has become one of the world’s biggest crypto havens over the past few years, and now, things are about to take a whole new turn.Malta Is a Leading Crypto MaverickSeveral companies – 34, to be exact – that either operate in blockchain or cryptocurrency-based territory within Malta, have sent “letters of intent” to the country’s Financial Services Authority (the MFSA). These letters say they are requesting permission from the organization to continue their operations and further provide...

Apple has reportedly partnered with the U.S. game developer Valve in order to develop its long-awaited and thoroughly spoken off, AR headset, which is expected to be launched next year.DigiTimes reports:“Apple went into this partnership with Valve to develop AR head-mounted display devices, which may be released in the second half of 2020 at the earliest, with Taiwan’s ODMs Quanta Computer and Pegatron said to handle the assembly job, according to industry sources.”Valve is best known as the...

Craig Wright has declined to pay Dave Kleiman’s estate a $4.5 billion settlement. The plaintiff and defendant had agreed to enter into a non-binding agreement with the promise that Wright would pay. The U-turn has reset litigation proceedings. It looks like the Satoshi Nakamoto saga will continue into the next year. According to the latest news, Bitcoin SV founder Craig Wright has declined to pay the Kleiman Estate a 500,000 Bitcoin ($4.5 billion) settlement. The estate, which is...

Photo: BitBay / TwitterBitBay has become the latest major cryptocurrency exchange to create an Initial Exchange Offering (IEO) launchpad. IEOs have surged in popularity in recent years, largely replacing the ICO funding model. BitBay’s new platform will launch on November 18, with users given the chance to buy IEO tokens directly via EURO, USD, GBP and Polish Złoty. With 245 IEOs having taken place in the past few years, BitBay may be late to the party – but the exchange hopes to hit the...