[b]Cryptocurrency and Blockchain – Industry News – (08.16.19 – 08.23.19)

Total Market Cap, as of 08.23.19 at 12:00pm (PST): U.S. $271,408,862,054 (0.49%)

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STORY OF THE WEEK
Similar to Facebook’s Libra, Binance is launching an open blockchain project dubbed “Venus” to develop stablecoins in various communities on a global scale.

CRYPTOCURRENCY TRADING SERVICES
Gemini has opened its platform for prospective users residing in Australia. Australian users will be able to buy and sell five cryptocurrencies on Gemini (BTC, BCH, ETH, LTC, ZEC).

Binance’s iOS app has returned to the Apple App Store after a hiatus since May 2019.

South Korean based cryptocurrency exchange Prixbit has ceased operations citing external and internal influences as well as management difficulties.

Kraken will be listing Basic Attention Token (BAT) and Waves (WAVES). Trading and funding will commence concurrently on August 22nd at 1:30pm UTC.

Cryptocurrency derivatives exchange Deribit is partnering with Paradigm, a messaging service for institutional traders to introduce block trading for cryptocurrency derivatives.

An issue on Amazon Web Services on Friday has disrupted services across several major cryptocurrency exchanges.

REGULATION
HDR Global Trading Limited, the parent company of cryptocurrency derivatives exchange BitMEX has added Hong Kong, Bermuda and Seychelles to its restricted jurisdiction list.

U.S. charges two Canadian nationals over alleged U.S $ 230,000 bitcoin fraud. The defendants allegedly stole 23.2 Bitcoin from a woman in the U.S. state of Oregon by using a fraudulent Twitter handle named @HitBTCAssist to act as customer support for a cryptocurrency.

TECHNOLOGY
Coinbase discloses a security vulnerability involving 3,420 customers where registration details were found to be stored in plain text in Coinbase’s internal servers.

INSTITUTIONALIZATION
Rakuten Wallet, a subsidiary of Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten has launched spot trading of Bitcoin, Ether and Bitcoin Cash.

According to a shareholder of Tether’s sister company Bitfinex, the firm will be issuing a new stablecoin dubbed “CNHT”. CNHT will be pegged to offshore reserves of Chinese yuan (CNY).

PEOPLE
Gemini has hired cybersecurity expert David Damato as its Chief Security Officer (CSO). Damato was previously CSO at Tanium, where he created and led the cybersecurity team to offer security services to government agencies, Fortune 500 firms and various banks.

Former head of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) cyber unit Robert A. Cohen will join law firm Davis Polk and Wardwell LLP as a partner. Davis Polk and Wardwell LLP is a firm known for representing crypto firms such as Coinbase as well as large financial institutions.

TWITTER
@CharlieShrem: It’s insane how little #bitcoin is actually in circulation, a little under 18m coins. Think about how few that is. That’s not even enough for every citizen of Cairo to have just 1 bitcoin. All you need is 1 and that will be life changing.

@MiguelCuneta: Watched #Bitcoin fall from $1242 to $190 from 2013 to 2015. China banned it, the biggest exchange in the world collapsed after losing 850,000 BTC, & Mike Hearn, a Bitcoin core dev, declared it as a failure in 2015, at the bottom. And a dip to $9500 is shaking you out?

@bitcoin: Bitcoin Cash is pronounced “bcash”

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