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Changchuan Mu within the educational lectures touches a range of cryptocurrency questions starting from the recently announced People’s Bank of China (PBoC) digital currency to the vast expansion of Facebook‘s Libra. Also, he compared Libra to the PBoC digital currency, stating that the Chinese new currency is even better than Libra in several aspects. Mu believes that at this point, Libra already might be unstoppable and that it is “highly unlikely” that someone can stop people from buying...

Generally, the fact that the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is not very supportive of the cryptocurrency industry is no longer news. The SEC has many times before, spoken out against cryptocurrencies because of their volatility and unregulated nature.Even efforts to launch Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Funds (ETF), have been largely unsuccessful as a few days ago, the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) withdrew its application to float the VanEck/SolidX Bitcoin ETF, just...

In the latest blog post announcement, Coinbase highlighted a possible addition of 17 new cryptos to its platform including Telegram. As part of the exploratory process, users may see public-facing APIs and other signs that the exchange is conducting engineering work to potentially support these assets.According to that post from the exchange, Coinbase plans to add Dfinity, Filecoin, Handshake, Avalanche, Celo, Chia, Coda, Nervos, Oasis, Orchid, Kadena, Mobilecoin, Near, Solana, Spacemesh,...

Wall Street veteran and founder of the Galaxy Digital crypto merchants bank, Mike Novogratz, recently accepted that he missed out on the token sale of Telegram‘s TON cryptocurrency.During a recent interview with The Block, Novogratz spoke how he missed the opportunity of investing in the Telegram Open Network (TON). Messaging giant Telegram has been work for over a year on its ambitious blockchain project which can see the light of the day anytime soon.In his interview, Novogratz said that...

Bitcoin cash price started a solid upward move above the $300 resistance against the US Dollar.The price is currently trading below the $325 and $330 resistance levels.There is a major bullish trend line forming with support near $308 on the 4-hours chart of the BCH/USD pair (data feed from Kraken).The pair could continue to rise as long as it is above the $300 support area.Bitcoin cash price is gaining momentum above $310 against the US Dollar. If BCH/USD clears the $330 resistance it could...

Former Ethereum advisor Steven Nerayoff and his assistant Michael Hlady have been arrested and charged with extorting millions of dollars in crypto funds.Nerayoff Facing Jail Time?The Justice Department has released a statement about the incident, claiming that both men were threatening to “destroy a startup cryptocurrency company if they were not paid millions of dollars” in ether tokens. U.S. Attorney Richard Donoghue explains: As alleged, Nerayoff and Hlady carried out an old-fashioned...

Crypto podcaster Peter McCormack has been offering the show “What Bitcoin Did” to listeners for the past two years. The program is doing quite well, having garnered more than $29,000 in income and more than 200,000 downloads last August alone, but McCormack says that his journey towards success has been a rough one.McCormack: Here’s What Makes a Good PodcastIn a recent interview, McCormack says what his job schedule typically requires: I work like 80 hours a week. I’ve flown all around the...

The second major smartphone maker Huawei seems to be in troubles. Even though they tried to convince Google to let them continue operating on their new Androids, Mate 30 Pro and Mate 30, they haven’t succeeded. At the beginning of the month, as we have already reported, the company announced the launch date for its new smartphones. And last week we witnessed a lot of video teasers regarding new models, Google seemed to stay implacable regarding to its politics. This definitely seems to be a...

The Game of Stakes will not be for the faint-hearted, as it will test the limits of participants’ social, economic and technical tactics as they battle it out with others to present the most robust, flexible, and attack-proof strategies to improve the DAObet blockchain. Players must be shrewd, cunning, and able to outwit the outwitters of the network, defending the blockchain as validators, while interacting within the ecosystem, to ensure the best lessons are learnt to build an even better...

Jay Clayton, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman, doesn’t think bitcoin will ever be traded on a major exchange… That is, until serious regulation comes along. Without regulation, BTC, in his mind, will never achieve the mainstream status it so desperately longs for. Clayton: We Need More Rules for BTCAt press time, bitcoin’s primary attempt to become “legit” has suddenly dissipated, with CBOE, VanEck and Solid X withdrawing their bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) from the...