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Facebook Relaxes Ban, Accepts Some Crypto Ads

Facebook is easing its ban – sort of – on ads related to cryptocurrency.
The social media giant has launched a "cryptocurrency products and services onboarding request" form that will allow some companies to get their ads on the platform, according to a blog post published Tuesday.
Facebook, however, won't allow advertisements for initial coin offerings or binary options. The prohibition on these remains in effect months after Facebook first took action against crypto-ads in a move that was followed by similar actions by Twitter, Google and other major sites...Read More

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Florida Is Creating Its Own Crypto Czar

Florida is set to have its own cryptocurrency czar.

The Sunshine State's chief financial officer, Jimmy Patronis, said in a statement Tuesday that he has created a new position to supervise the state's cryptocurrency industry. He explained that the new overseer will be tasked with enforcing applicable regulations to protect investors from potentially malicious actors.

https://www.coindesk.com/florida-becomes-first-us-state-to-appoint-a-crypto-czar/

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Congress Advances Bill to Study Crypto Use in Drug, Sex Trafficking

Lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives have passed a bill that, if signed into law, would approve a study of the use of cryptocurrencies in the sex and drug trades.

As CoinDesk reported earlier this month, the bill instructs the director of the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to research "how virtual currencies and online marketplaces are used to buy, sell, or facilitate the financing of goods or services associated with sex trafficking or drug trafficking, and for other purposes," according to the text of the bill

https://www.coindesk.com/congress-advances-bill-study-crypto-use-sex-drug-trafficking/

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CryptoKitties Fight Falling Sales With KittyVerse and Partner Program Shocked

The most popular game on the blockcha
in, CryptoKitties, has announced a collection of games as well as a new partner program in response to falling sales.

https://cryptonews.com/news/cryptokitties-fight-falling-sales-with-kittyverse-and-partne-2098.htm

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- Breaking New Ground: South Africa Gets Its First Bitcoin Atm
- Crypto Market Remains Relatively Stable: Theta Surges 30% as Tokens Record Big Gains

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Privacy Is Vital to Crypto – And the Global Economy

Imagine if flour millers insisted on knowing the precise identity and originating farm of each grain of wheat delivered to them.
It would render the global wholesale crop market dysfunctional. That market depends on buyers accepting products from warehouses and shippers even though they don't know their origins.
At the heart of this system is the ancient principle of fungibility: the idea that one unit of a particular product is perfectly interchangeable with another.
This principle depends upon an unspoken agreement between market participants that information about a product's history is not only hidden but is actually lost. A product having this quality is, more or less, the very definition of a commodity...Read More

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Robinhood May Be Coming for Coinbase Grin

The California broker known for pioneering free stock-trading Robinhood is stepping even further into the cryptoverse. Coinbase, one of the largest crypto exchanges, should be worried the most, according to the industry experts.

https://cryptonews.com/news/robinhood-may-be-coming-for-coinbase-2100.htm

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Banks Are Trying to Launch Crypto Assets with R3 Tech

It may have seemed unthinkable four years ago, but crypto tokens might be coming to R3's Corda.
Revealed exclusively to CoinDesk, Cordite, an open-source community that's independent from R3, but building solely on the code it pioneered, is about to come out of stealth mode. Cordite promises to do for enterprise blockchains what the ERC-20 standard did for ethereum: allow the creation of different tokens representing various kinds of assets on the same network...Read More

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US Official Says 'Congressional Attention' Needed on Privacy Cryptos

An official for the U.S. Secret Service called on Congress to weigh potential legislative actions on cryptocurrencies that boast privacy-enhancing features last week.

Speaking before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services, Robert Novy, deputy assistant director for the Service's Office of Investigations, stated that "congressional attention" on the issue is needed.

https://www.coindesk.com/us-official-says-congressional-attention-needed-privacy-cryptos/

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- Second Bitcoin Mining Manufacturer Plots Hong Kong IPO
- Opinion: Bottoms up, Lads!
- AI Reads 100 ICO Papers, Publishes a Crypto Whitepaper: Here’s How it Sounds

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One Bad And Two Great News For Crypto Lips sealed

Cryptocurrencies have always been the target of speculation and skepticism: from great economists expressing their disbelief in them, to Warren Buffett calling it rat poison squared, the space has not had much rest since its inception. Today, it would seem that the short-term prospects look much worse than the long-term.

https://cryptonews.com/news/one-bad-and-two-great-news-for-crypto-2097.htm

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- Bitfinex Chief Strategy Officer Phil Potter Tenders Resignation
- Bitcoin Price Leads Monday Recovery as Market Fights Off Weekend Firesale
- ‘Independence Day’: Tron Activates Mainnet After Month-Long Migration

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The northeastern European country of Lithuania has experienced a boom in cryptocurrency that has been supported by a liberal approach towards regulations in the space. Now, this intense interest in the country’s virtual currencies space is stoking fears of money laundering from the Russian criminal underground.
https://bitcoinist.com/lithuanias-strong-cryptocurrency-market-raises-money-laundering-concerns/

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250 Million Tethers Injected into Market, How Will Bitcoin React? Roll Eyes

Tether, the company behind the controversial, yet all-important cryptocurrency pegged to the US dollar, on Monday issued USD 250 million in new USDT tokens.
New Tether tokens being issued means more money is making its way into the cryptocurrency market, which could help set the stage for a price comeback in a market that has seen heavy selling over the past two months.

https://cryptonews.com/news/250-million-tethers-injected-into-market-how-will-bitcoin-re-2095.htm

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A long-held bitcoin secret is about to be revealed.

No, it's not the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, it's a private key the cryptocurrency's creator entrusted to several bitcoin developers that activates the protocol's so-called "alert system," once used to flash a text warning to those running the software in case something happened that could impact the security of their funds.

If you didn't know bitcoin had a warning system like this, that's because it was retired in 2016 due to security concerns and frequent confusion about its use.

"The alert system was a frequent source of misunderstanding about the security model and 'effective governance,'" well-known Bitcoin Core contributor Greg Maxwell wrote in a public email from September 2016.

In short, some in the bitcoin community thought it could be used to change that network rules that unite users, which isn't really the case. For example, a BitcoinJ developer once wanted to use the key to control fees, while a Bloq staffer pressed for Bitcoin Core developers to use the key to change the network's mining difficulty.

https://www.coindesk.com/long-secret-bitcoin-key-finally-revealed/

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Andreessen Horowitz Has Launched a $300 Million Crypto Fund

Silicon Valley investment powerhouse Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has launched a new $300 million fund focused on cryptocurrencies.

The fund, as explained in a blog post published Monday, will be named "a16z" and will notably feature former federal prosecutor and Assistant U.S. Attorney Kathryn Haun as one of its co-leads. Haun has also been named as the firm's latest general partner.

https://www.coindesk.com/andreessen-horowitz-launched-300-million-crypto-fund/

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Crypto-Related Crime Might Be Top Cyberattack of 2018 Angry

According to a cybersecurity expert, crypto is where the real danger lies this year, as cyberattacks related to the nascent industry will surpass all other types.
Lotem Finkelsteen is a threat intelligence analyst with the Israeli cybersecurity company Check Point Software Technologies who warns that cryptocurrency is a hotbed for cybercrime right now. “Not a day goes by without our hearing about a new ICO (initial coin offering) scam or mining attack,” he said, according to Times of Israel.

https://cryptonews.com/news/crypto-related-crime-might-be-top-cyberattack-of-2018-2086.htm

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The mainstream media narrative that Bitcoin is a “ponzi scheme” and bagholders are selling is false, new data showing Bitcoin user ‘hodl’ behavior claims.
https://bitcoinist.com/new-data-bitcoin-whales-hodl/

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Quebec Weighs Plan to Sell 500 Megawatts to Crypto Miners

Quebec's public power utility has submitted plans to the provincial government that could clear the way for Hydro-Quebec to set up a new framework through which to work with cryptocurrency miners.

https://www.coindesk.com/quebec-weighing-plan-sell-500-megawatts-crypto-miners/

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