PlusToken Effect: Alleged Asian Exit Scam to Blame for Market Decline?
3.12.2019
This exit scam purportedly cost investors $3 billion, and now could be dropping the crypto price market
China’s Internet Firewall Has Blocked Access to Ethereum Block Explorer Etherscan.io
3.12.2019
China's Great Firewall, used by the government to regulate access to foreign internet sites, has blocked one of the most popular sources of ethereum blockchain data
IT Analyst Admits He Blackmailed Apple for Bitcoin
3.12.2019
22-year old Kerem Albayrak, a London-based IT analyst, has admitted to blackmailing tech giant Apple in March 2017 after releasing a YouTube video of himself hacking into iCloud accounts, the Daily Mail reported.
By paying the ransom, Apple was to prevent Albayrak from selling the personal data...
Bakkt Bitcoin Futures Open Interest Hits New All-Time High of $6.54M
3.12.2019
Open interest on Bakkt’s Bitcoin futures platform has hit a new record high of $6.5 million
The Darknet Just Had One of Its Wildest Months Yet
3.12.2019
Darknet marketplaces exist on a constant knife edge, never more than an exit scam, LE bust, or DDoS away from going down. Even by their usual frenetic standards, though, November was quite a month for DNMs, with high drama and intrigue aplenty. Despite a number of marketplaces disappearing off...
Deutsche Boerse’s DLT Security Lending Platform Sees First Transactions
3.12.2019
Three major banks carried out the first transactions on Deutsche Boerse and HQLAX’s DLT-enabled security lending platform
Court Backs Nordea Bank Bid to Block Staff From Trading Crypto
3.12.2019
Nordea Bank has won a court battle in Denmark over its bid to bar employees from buying and selling cryptocurrencies outside of work
Nordea Employees Banned From Buying Bitcoin + More News
3.12.2019
Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
Regulation news
Nordea Bank is free to prevent its employees from investing in Bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptocurrencies in their...
It’s been a boring week so far
3.12.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 3 December, 2019 “It is nice to have valid competition; it pushes you to do better.” - Gianni Versace In today's newsletter, we will be covering: Singaporean government blockchain platform facilitating $15.7 million in […]
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It’s been a boring week so far
3.12.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 3 December, 2019 “It is nice to have valid competition; it pushes you to do better.” - Gianni Versace In today's newsletter, we will be covering: Singaporean government blockchain platform facilitating $15.7 million in […]
The post...
Zcash Foundation Funds App Mixing Private Messaging and Payments
3.12.2019
Meet Cwtch, a zcash-fueled messaging app with more decentralization than Telegram or Signal
'The Best and Cleanest Bitcoin is From the Silk Road'
3.12.2019
'The best' bitcoins are the ones from the Silk Road, the first modern darknet market, because they’ve got through the U.S. Marshalls and have been 'blessed' by the U.S. government – 'those are very clean,' Matt Walsh, Partner at Castle Island Ventures, a U.S.-based venture capital firm, joked while...