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Photo: Global Currency Organization (GCO) / MediumThe Global Currency Organization (GCO) announced the release of USD Digital (USDD), a new US dollar-backed stablecoin. The stablecoin is based on Ethereum and is targeted at institutions, exchanges, traders, and OTC desk who are in need of such a product but are not able to develop their own. The Global Currency Organization (GCO) is a new project created by former employees of TrustToken, JPMorgan and Intel. According to the GCO team, the...

Out of the multitude of ICO projects, raising money, only a small part actually delivered something that could be called a product. Almost 90% of all ICOs failed. There’s a term in venture capital, “a death valley”, meaning the period from the receiving initial investments to the moment of becoming profitable.Usually, a very small percentage of projects manage to cross the death valley, because every unexpected obstacle can ruin their plans. It happens due to a lack of experience, bad...

In what seems like a first for the global cryptocurrency world, six Japanese cryptocurrency heavyweights have come together to create what is now known as the “Japanese Security Token Association”. The founding members include Monex Inc, Rakuten Securities, Nomura Securities, SBI Securities, Daiwa Securities, and Kabu.com Securities.Headquartered in Tokyo, the new self-regulating organization will work towards seeing that corporate bodies raising finance using the STO model will adhere to...

Bitcoin price is currently consolidating losses above the $7,600 and $7,800 levels against the US Dollar.The price is facing a lot of hurdles near the $8,500 and $8,800 levels on the upside.There are two key bearish trend lines forming with resistance near $8,420 and $8,850 on the 4-hours chart of the BTC/USD pair (data feed from Coinbase).The pair is likely to struggle in clearing the $8,420 and $8,500 resistance levels in the near term.Bitcoin price is trading in a bearish zone below $9,000...

Facebook has been having a tough battle dealing with regulators and government agencies since the launch of its Libra cryptocurrency. In the recently leaked audio recordings obtained by The Verge, Mark Zuckerberg threatens to take the U.S. government to the courts if the Democratic Party presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren comes to power and tries to break big companies like Facebook into smaller entities.Note that breaking Big Tech is one of the major promises of Elizabeth Warren’s...

When will people learn that they shouldn’t be “mining on the job?” Unless you’re employed as a bitcoin miner, you should wait until you’re on your own time to engage in such activity.Mining Can Be a Tricky – and Sometimes Illegal – BusinessThat’s what one Russian engineer is learning this week. Denis Baykov, a worker at the Federal Nuclear Center in Sarov, has been fined roughly 450,000 rubles (about $7,000 USD) for utilizing a supercomputer inside the nuclear facility in which he works to...

The main net of Band Capital, a decentralized finance network, began on Monday, September 30, and customers will now have access to the startup’s new decentralized application Bit Swing, which offers bitcoin binary trading options.Band Capital Is Live for Crypto TradersThe company is backed by a venture capital firm known as Sequoia India, and this is interesting in that India has had a very mixed relationship with cryptocurrency. The nation has repeatedly banned activity surrounding crypto,...

Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro openly admitted that his policy is definitely pro-crypto – especially regarding Bitcoin and Ethereum. He said Venezuela’s government will use cryptocurrencies as a “method for free national and international payments.”Let’s not forget that the U.S. imposed sanctions that have largely isolated the country from the global financial system, causing one of the world’s most severe economic crises and forcing statesmen and executives to use a whole new network...

The People’s Bank of China (PoBC) announced they are nit against PayPal’s desire to acquire a 70% equity state in GoPay (Guofubao Information Technology Co. [GoPay], Ltd.). With this step, Paypal is becoming the first international entity that will be offering its online payment solutions in China.GoPay mostly works as a provider of a number of payment products for various industries including cross-border commerce, aviation, tourism, etc.According to the information revealed by the company,...

German bank WEG is paving the way for retailers to begin accepting crypto payments in the year 2020.WEG Helps Institutions Say “Yes” to CryptoWEG Bank is owned by both the blockchain firms Nimiq and Token Pay, as well as by the Litecoin Foundation. In an interview, CEO Matthias von Hauff says that the establishment is beginning to accept applications from companies and businesses that are interested in accepting crypto in the future. He says:You don’t have to be a customer of the bank. All we...