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The application for the blockchain ETF was accepted by the CSRC on Tuesday, December 24. It was filed by Penghua Fund, an asset management company based in China’s Shenzhen city. While it is currently unclear how long is required before a response, the Chinese blockchain community seems to be carefully watching.First Blockchain ETF In ChinaThe product has been named the Penghua Shenzhen Stocks Blockchain ETF. Penghua intends for the ETF to track and mirror all blockchain firms with public...
Read More »Bithumb Exchange Will Pay $67 Million in Additional Crypto Taxes
South Korean National Tax Service sent Bithumb a letter claiming they will need to pay additional taxes for the 2019 fiscal year. The agency claims that the tax is legal because the exchange forgot to pay the taxes from withdrawals that the exchange is constantly processing for customers from abroad.Doo Wan Nam, MakerDAO Business Development Associate says that Bithumb had a net loss of $180 million in 2018, considering the data given by Korea Times. This means that regulators are taking the...
Read More »Swiss President Says ‘No’ to Libra Project
Swiss outgoing President and Finance Minister Ueli Maurer said on Friday that Facebook’s Libra project “failed in its current form and needs reworking to be approved.”He said:“I don’t think Libra has a chance in its current form, because central banks will not accept the basket of currencies underpinning it. The project, in this form, has thus failed.”Regulators all over the world have been worried that Libra would possibly increment the risk of money laundering and criminal actions through...
Read More »Uncertain Optimism about the Anticipated Ethereum Hard Fork
In general, the crypto sphere was not encouraging for most of this week, as Bitcoin merged in the low range of $7000, but Ethereum continues to weaken.After the particularly harsh end of 2019, it may seem that shortly the fate of Ethereum financial speculators will not change. The second-largest crypto asset in the world will have a bearish end in 2019. The price of Ethereum continues to crumble and now the network is getting progressively exasperated due to planning the next network...
Read More »Binance.US Beta Service Now Available for Android Users as Well
Just in time, before the new year has started, Binance said that its crypto exchange for United States-based users, Binance.US, is now available for beta testing on Android devices.In a tweet published on Christmas, the U.S. subsidiary encouraged its users to engage in the beta test of the crypto trading application on Android devices. Through this test phase, users will be able to ease some issues for Binance.US.For example, users will be able to help in identifying eventual bugs and...
Read More »Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin Lashes Out at YouTube for Deleting the Platform’s Roadmap Video
Two days back, several crypto enthusiasts reported that YouTube has removed several crypto-related channels. The attack on these channels came without any prior warning as the video platform removed crypto videos suddenly.The crypto channel owners said that YouTube removed the videos flagging them as “harmful and dangerous”. Moreover, one of the channel owners said YouTube flagged his video as “sale of regulated goods”. It has turned out that YouTube has also not spared several informational...
Read More »Vitalik Buterin and CZ Want to Have Censorship-Resistant Platform for Crypto Community
A few days ago we reported about the YouTube crypto ban. It has turned out that the biggest video sharing platform moved, deleted or banned some videos related to crypto. Hell, it deleted the whole groups connected to it, as well as the users’ profiles.However, the force is strong in the crypto community and it has been proven once again. Just a day after it was reported YouTube removed what it said was “harmful or dangerous content”, the crypto community went wild. And, as we already...
Read More »Ethereum 2.0 and Securities Taxation Theories by Attorney Gulovsen
CFTC Chairman Heath Tarbert has said that his entity is investigating Ethereum. Tarbert and other scientists carefully studied the inner processes of the Ethereum blockchain. Appears that the network will soon start changing itself to become a PoS-based system. Not only the miners but also the stakers will secure the transactions and blocks. On October 10, 2019, Tarbert concluded that Ethereum 2.0 tokens are likely to become virtual securities. Per Heath:“It is my view as chairman of the CFTC...
Read More »Binance Adds XRP, ETH, USDT Fiat Pairs with Turkish Lira
Global cryptocurrency exchange Binance added support for three fiat pairings with the Turkish Lira (TRY) that feature Ethereum (ETH), XRP, and leading stablecoin Tether (USDT). And that’s not all. Users will from now on be able to trade USDT against the Russian Ruble (RUB) as well.#Binance Adds ETH/TRY, XRP/TRY, USDT/TRY and USDT/RUB Trading Pairshttps://t.co/TlhaxBEOWs pic.twitter.com/al8syw2vc7— Binance (@binance) December 25, 2019This obviously became a ritual for this number one crypto...
Read More »Why YouTube Bans Crypto-Related Videos?
Even though Google tracks Santa and seems to be very Christmas-like, it doesn’t seem to care for the crypto community at all. YouTube, the Google-owned video-sharing platform apparently started restricting or even deleting crypto-related videos or those who were flagged to be that way. Some crypto influencers even said their videos or even the whole channels were completely removed. The founder of Skill Incubator, a company that teaches valuable skills to help people thrive in today’s...
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