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Sep 4 AMA SUMMARY - GILBERT VERDIAN, QUANT FOUNDER & CEO
GIL: Hi All, got about 15mins and thought to drop by.
GIL: Thank you all for the complements regarding the Forbes article. Got even more recognition from Linkedin, with clients, colleagues and supporters from large companies and governments all of the world. We're very lucky to be surrounded by such wonderful people.
Q: How are things progressing with SIA?
GIL: SIA's going very well and new announcements are coming shortly. All the stakeholders involved are very pleased with the progress and what has been accomplished.
Q: Hi Gilbert, congratulations on the Forbes piece! That was a nice update given all the fud the days before, I'm sure you read about 😉
GIL: Yes we get a lot of fud unfortunately and are dealing with it. Our clients and partners don't follow what is said on platforms such as 4chan and youtube, they only look at coprorate channels like Gartner, Forbes, FT etc.
Q: How is the team expansion going? And US plans?
GIL: We have Luke Riley who's heading up Quant Labs that has joined us this week and a new Lead Solutions Engineer starting in September. We're making public announcements on these
Q: Hi Gil, can you give us an update on any progression within health in the UK?
GIL: We're working with 2 Health departments which are not in the UK and now in the early discussions with a very large Health provider in the US
Q: Will there be an official announcement regarding HCL as it was with SIA?
GIL: Yes when we sign and announce partnerships it will be publicised. We are currently working with 2 of the Big 4 global consultancy firms who are taking our technology to their clients.
Q: re: health you've mentioned a consortium.... is that related to the 2 health departments you just mentioned or a seperate thing?
GIL: Yes
Q: Gilbert anything you can share us UUT related?
GIL: We're working on this. There will be expanded use of the QNT token related to gateways and providing enterprise and the community to the opportunity to be part of the network.
Q: You had mentioned previously the team had been working with Binance for months - is there something further to come beyond the connector integration?
GIL: We've delivered the binance connector as we promised and on time. This allows our institutional and enteprise clients to create multichain applications and use cases from their private permissioned networks to public blockchains like binance chain for the first time. We're bridging the traditional financial world with the new decentralised financial infrastructure for the first time. We are working with banks in the US that are doing this with us.
Q: Will we be seeing more public testnets added to the community SDK anytime soon?
GIL: Yes new ones coming this month plus mainnets. Enabling hyper-decentralisation across private permissioned and public permissionless blockchains.
Q: Will the capital raise be private or public?
GIL: Can't comment on this as yet we're exploring our options
Q: A word on the $10million revenue from the forbes article? I assume it is comprised from multiple sources besides licenses.
GIL: Yes.
Q: Hi Gil any comments on simbachain?
GIL: We have a call with them today to collaborate on the US Air Force engagement and deliver our technology to the military
Q: Any new updates on the hyperledger quilt reboot? And is colin still apart of that?
GIL: Haven't got an update, we're working with Quilt and are a Hyperledger member.
Q: Hiya Gilbert, any updates on the teams involvement with MOBI?
GIL: Yes, we've been asked to respond to an interoperability use case and RFP which we're happy to do
Q: Any comment on recent departures?
GIL: Yes, people come and go and we have new people who've joined, like any other company.
Q: Its been a pretty busy 2019 for you and the team so far.. how do you reflect on the past 9 months and what you've achieved?
GIL: We've delivered one of the biggest, or the
biggest blockchain implementation in financial services in the world solving interoperability at scale covering financial infrastructure. Now we're focusing on capital markets and tokenisation of securitites and digital assets in a trillion dollar market. We're very exciting with the clients and partners we have and the new work we're doing. We're now responding to new client requests, one of them being the European Space Agency and also Government, we met the FCA and also HMRC.
Q: Hi Gilbert , any plans to bring your technology to your NSW Health friends ?
GIL: Watch this space, something brewing in the Australian Government
Q: CVS Health is #1 pharmacy brand in USA with a humongous customer base? Any chances they can use Overledger
GIL: We are speaking to other large health providers in the US at a similar scale, using what we've already done in Healthcare and applying it to the US market
Q: Hi Gil 🙂 there has been some confusion about this: will Quant be listed on traditional exchanges this year or is it an idea to be evaluated in the future?
GIL: I said that digital assets will be listed on traditional exchanges by the end of the year. We're already seeing the adoption of this with SIX SDX in Europe and others in the US. We're working with AX to bring more digital assets to 800 institutional traders in an already live and connected and FINRA & SEC regulated exchange. If this isn't adoption by Wall St, I dont' know what else is!
Q: How big is the Total Addressable Market (TAM) that Quant/Overledger can serve..
GIL: Well, when you have finanical infrastructure and capital markets infrastructure globally that is powered by QNT, it's the entire financial system globally. Plus central banks now getting into this space with CBDC.
Q: Hopefully teir 1 soon for the volume thats going to be required
GIL: Let's all please stop the constant when exchange requests. We've heard you, we understand your concerns and are dealing with it. Our focus is to deliver our technology, onboard clients and drive value and mass adoption which is all reliant on QNT, in line with our utility token model and approach.
Q: Do you think Carney's recent idea about the sintethic hegemony currency is feasible?
GIL: Yes, I worked at the Bank of England. They have been working on this for quite a while, so are other central banks. I even had a call with another central bank this morning
Q: Great progress👍🏻 Are the clients already "locking in" quant token for license?
GIL: Yes, there are now around 300 registered organisations in our developer portal that are using Overledger and QNT and these *do* include multiple global banks.
Q: Hi Gilbert, are you still in touch with Cisco about potential Overledger integration?
GIL: We're taking another approach which has wider use and access than Cisco
Q: Is the growth curve getting more vertical or is it a stable increase
GIL: We've seen an increase from steady organic growth to more clients engaging us directly now. Thanks to the recognitions in Gartner, Oracle and our partners.
We're expecting more new leads as Oracle's financial services team is taking Overledger to Oracle's clients directly. They have 480,000 clients globally and now are co-marketing with Oracle at Sibos in a couple of weeks. Where we are meeting existing financial services and banking clients and will be introduced to new ones.
Q: Wasn't there talk about a 4 bn company located in asia?
GIL: $8B - that was HCL
Q: Does quant have any involvement with Australian open banking through data61 etc
GIL: Yes, we're help shape the policy to Consumer Data Rights (open banking) which Data61 are also involved.
Q: Mr V, would love to see you have another chat with Brad Laurie.
GIL: It's on the cards
Q: When will client token lockup start to make demand impact price any way for us to see how many are locked?
GIL: The more clients that use Overledger through licensing and transaction fees paid by QNT the more QNT is used.
Q: Are you working on Qnt staking?
GIL: We're working on the Overledger gateways. More coming on this.
Q: There will be a dashboard later, No ETA
GIL: I've said, we already have the first versions of the dashboard in the developer portal. We'll evolve this as we progress
Q: I'm overloaded gil cheers what a suprise. That current market cap tho 🤭
GIL: Our focus is our clients and using our technology by real world usage and adoption. This will naturally be reflected in the market cap. We're not a cryptocurrency or a company that wants to be bitcoin. We're here to rearchitect and implement the new financial infrastructure to bring about mass adoption of blockchain and hyper-decentralisation to benefit people. The last time this opportunity came about was in the 1960's when we moved to electronic financial systems.
Q: Hey Gil, any chance we could have a more organised reddit AMA?
GIL: You know, our clients don't value any of the Reddit chatter in /cc or others. Our clients simply don't read it and don't know about it. If we are on reddit or a similar platform or not, it doesn't matter to them. Actually it doesn't matter to us either
GIL: Sorry have to drop off, have a call with the CTO of one of the Big 4 consultancies now.
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Attorney General Barr Signs Letter To Facebook From US, UK, And Australian Leaders Regarding Use Of End-To-End Encryption The Department of Justice published an open letter on October 3 to Facebook from international law enforcement partners from the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia in response to the company's publicly announced plans to implement end-to-end-encryption across its messaging services. The letter is signed by Attorney General William P. Barr, United Kingdom Home Secretary Priti Patel, Australia's Minister for Home Affairs Peter Dutton, and Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan. Addressed to Facebook's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, the letter requests that Facebook not proceed with its end-to-end encryption plan without ensuring there will be no reduction in the safety of Facebook users and others, and without providing law enforcement court-authorized access to the content of communications to protect the public, particularly child users.
Coincheck Launches New Service That Rewards Gas Users With Bitcoin In an attempt to bring crypto to the mass audience, Japanese crypto exchange Coincheck inked a partnership deal with E-net Systems to reward gas users in the Tokyo Gas area, the company announced Oct 4. Under the partnership agreement, the two companies will start offering Coincheck Gas with two crypto-related plans for its customers. The gas service by the crypto company will offer a Bitcoin Rewards Plan under which customers will receive Bitcoin as rewards for the usage of gas. In addition, customers can also pay their gas bills using Bitcoin under the Bitcoin Payment Plan.
Libra Association: 1500 Entities Have Indicated Enthusiastic Interest To Join Libra After PayPal announced to withdraw their support for Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency, Libra posted a series of tweets in response to the striking news. Libra Association tweeted: "Building a modern, low-friction, high-security payment network that can empower billions of financially underserved people is a journey, not a destination. This journey to build a generational payment network like the Libra project is not an easy path." "We recognize that change is hard, and that each organization that started this journey will have to make its own assessment of risks and rewards of being committed to seeing through the change that Libra promises," they continued. The final tweet read: "We look forward to the first Libra Council meeting in 10 days and will be sharing updates following that, including details of the 1,500 entities that have indicated enthusiastic interest to participate."
Prysmatic Labs Team Unveils Updates On The Ethereum Serenity Roadmap Prysmatic Labs team has unveiled biweekly updates on the Ethereum Serenity roadmap via Medium. According to the article, the testnet has been restarted for everyone to experience staking and becoming a validator. This testnet includes beacon chain spec v0.8.4, various performance improvements, faster BLS paring library, new syncing strategies and more RPC end point support.
Japan: Using Virtual Currency To Make Donations To Politicians Is Legal Citing Yomiuri Shimbun, the Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, a cabinet-level ministry in the Government of Japan, indicated that the use of virtual currency to donate to politicians is not illegal. According to Japan's Political Fund Control Law, it is prohibited to conduct donations to politicians in principle, but virtual currency is not in the category of "money and securities" which are covered by law.
Ontology (ONT): Ony Ji will attend the blockchain event in Japan on October 5th and explain the practical application based on the ontology network. BNB/Binance Coin: The Binance Coin (BNB) Oasis Game Hackathon will be held on October 5th in Bangalore, India, and will be hosted by Binance Labs, Matic Network, Cocos-BCX, Celer Network, Marlin Protocol.
INB/Insight Chain: The Insight Chain (INB) INB public blockchain main network will be launched on October 10. VET/Vechain: VeChain (VET) will attend the BLOCKWALKS Blockchain Europe Conference on October 10. CAPP/Cappasity: Cappasity (CAPP) Cappasity will be present at the Osaka Global Innovation Forum in Osaka (October 10–11).
OKB/OKB: OKB (OKB) OKEx series of talks will be held in Istanbul on October 11th to discuss "the rise of the Turkish blockchain."
BTC/Bitcoin: The 2019 Global Mining Leaders Summit will be held in Chengdu, China from October 12th to 14th.
BCH/Bitcoin Cash: The ChainPoint 19 conference will be held in Armenia from October 14th to 15th.
RUFF/RUFF Token: Ruff will end the three-month early bird program on October 15th KAT/Kambria: Kambria (KAT) exchanges ERC20 KAT for a 10% bonus on BEP2 KAT-7BB, and the token exchange reward will end on October 15. BTC/Bitcoin: The Blockchain Technology Investment Summit (CIS) will be held in Los Angeles from October 15th to 16th.
BTC/Bitcoin: The 2019 Blockchain Life Summit will be held in Moscow, Russia from October 16th to 17th. MIOTA/IOTA: IOTA (MIOTA) IOTA will host a community event on the theme of "Technology Problem Solving and Testing IoT Devices" at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles on October 16. ETH/Ethereum: Ethereum launches Istanbul (Istanbul) main network upgrade, this main network upgrade involves 6 code upgrades. QTUM/Qtum: Qtum (QTUM) Qtum main network hard fork is scheduled for October 16.
BTC/Bitcoin: The SEC will give a pass on the VanEck/SolidX ETF on October 18th and make a final decision HB/HeartBout: HeartBout (HB) will officially release the Android version of the HeartBout app on October 18.
PI/PCHAIN Network: The PCHAIN (PI) backbone (Phase 5, 82 nodes, 164, 023, 802 $ PI, 7 candidates) will begin on October 19. LINK/ChainLink: Diffusion 2019 will be held in Berlin, Germany from October 19th to 20th
KNC/Kyber Network: The official online hackathon of the Kyber Network (KNC) project will end on October 21st, with more than $42,000 in prize money.
ZRX/0x: The 0x protocol (ZRX) Pantera blockchain summit will be held on October 22.
MIOTA/IOTA: IOTA (MIOTA) IOTA will host a community event on October 23rd at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles with the theme "Connecting the I3 Market and Experiencing Purchase and Sales Data." BTC/Bitcoin: The WBS World Blockchain Summit (Middle East) will be held in Dubai from October 23rd to 24th.
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On the chart, we can see that the price made a break of the lower resistance boundary of the "triangle with a flat bottom" formation in the zone of $9560–9580. At the same time, 157 SMA was broken, which confirmed the dominance of sellers. Now the price is trading around $8100–8250, at the border of the resistance of descending channel. Consolidation of the price indicates the current period of accumulation, interest of buyers and a potential return to the upper boundary of the descending channel to $9100–9200 zone. After the middle of the month, the price may rebound from the support level of the descending channel and return to the area of $​​8900–9300, where there is a strong resistance. Also, the other day, the level of 8200 was traded and once again protected. The common mood is to fall, and we know that often the market goes against the majority. A lot of people are in shorts and this is an excellent point for growth (their stops and liquidation of positions, as was the case recently with longsters)
Daily analysis of cryptocurrencies 20190831(Market index 20 - Extreme Fear state)
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Bitcoin's Google search fever is declining, but Reddit Bitcoin subscribers continue to soar Although Bitcoin's search interest on Google is only a fraction of the end of 2017 (10%), it has been stagnating in the same area for most of the summer, but the subscribers to Bitcoin on Reddit are still Continuous growth. This sub-block now has about 1.125 million users. The bear market does not seem to be a serious blow to Bitcoin interest on Reddit. The popularity of the Bitcoin sub-section continues to skyrocket. It has increased by about 500,000 users since January 2018. The surge in new members in July and August is a positive sign for this already large Reddit community. Currently, this subsection has approximately 1,115 comments and 158 posts per day. The growth of Bitcoin subscribers indicates that the core group of long-term holders is growing. Those who subscribe to sub-sections tend to be more serious about the long-term prospects of Bitcoin, so they are more "informed" about the development of Bitcoin.
Indian Economic Times: Indian government considers using blockchain and other technologies to improve e-government The Economic Times issued a statement saying that representatives from state governments discussed how an e-government theme meeting was held earlier this month at Shillong, Shijiazhuang, Meghalaya. Better e-government. The article said that as the Modi government strives to achieve the goal of improving e-government for citizens, blockchain technology, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, drones, cloud computing and other emerging technologies are on the agenda of the Modi government.
Japan Financial Services Agency: will strengthen the grasp and analysis of the crypto-asset market trends and strengthen cooperation with international regulatory authorities On August 28th, the Japan Financial Services Agency announced the theme document of the "Practice and Future Policy of Financial Administration to the Present Year". On the issue of exchange registration and supervision, the Japan Financial Services Agency said it will strengthen the grasp and analysis of the market trend of encrypted assets, and cooperate with relevant departments, independent regulatory agencies, overseas authorities, etc. to implement safety supervision. With regard to the issue of exchange registration review, it is important to ensure predictability and conduct appropriate and effective reviews. For unregistered traders, they will respond promptly and effectively, such as grasping the actual sales situation and issuing a warning letter, and will cooperate with relevant agencies to remind users. In terms of international cooperation, in view of the fact that cryptographic assets are easy to implement cross-border transactions through the Internet, cooperation with overseas authorities will be strengthened through sharing of experiences and play a leading role in international collaboration. Specifically, a second round table on encrypted assets will be held to cooperate with overseas authorities.
Encrypted project calendar(August 31, 2019)
ADX/AdEx: ADEX (ADX) will release the Validator Stack version 2.0 in August DADI/DADI: DADI will release the network CLI on August 31, with Stargates to support network services; and release Self Onboarding on the same day to allow the network to be more open. MITH/Mithril: The Mithril (MITH) team decided to implement the first MITH token destruction program on August 31. COS/Contentos: Contentos test network v0.5 "Jupiter" will be launched on August 31, this is the last version of the test before the main online line, alternate release. NOAH/Noah Coin: Noah Coin (NOAH) exchanges the held tokens at BTCNext, ending on August 31st.
XLM/Stellar: Stellar (XLM) will conduct equity awards in binance on September 1st MHC/MetaHash: MetaHash (MHC) will close all ICO accounts as of September 1 and will permanently close all ICO accounts. All MHCs will need to be transferred to MetaGate Wallet by this date. DGD/DigixDAO: The DigixDAO (DGD) DGXHUB community representative program will be open for application on September 1.
Bitcoin is trading at lows, so here is an educational chart with an explanation! Well, there's no assurance in the Crypto market, but the main reason we are tracking a bullish triangle om Bitcoin is that it's already retraced for 38,2%, which is the most commont retracement for wave 4 and also because of three waves of decline in the first leg. Some ALT coins hit new lows, some of them retraced for 61,8–78,6%, so it can be a perfect time for a reversal. But, we are not sure if there can be something even worse and there's a chance that BTC loses its dominance for a while in case if we see a deeper flat correction.
However, at this stage it's important to be patient. So, technically speaking, in case if we see a bounce in the Crypto market now at the beginning of September, then we may start considering a bullish triangle. But, if BTC/USD remains bearish and breaks below 9000 key support level, then be aware of a deeper flat correction that can send the price into 8000–7000 support area.
Daily analysis of cryptocurrencies 20190830(Market index 24 — Extreme Fear state)
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[UN official: Cryptocurrency makes policing child slavery more difficult] A top United Nations official says cryptocurrencies have made it significantly more difficult to fight child slavery, cyber crime, terror financing and money laundering, according to a report by news website ABC on August 29. Neil Walsh, chief of the Cybercrime and AML section of UN's Office on Drugs and Crime, noted that the anonymous attribute of cryptocurrencies provide a new layer of secrecy to favor these criminals.
[Indian black money special investigation team: the government does not need to supervise the cryptocurrency, the single choice is the only choice] The Indian Black Money Special Investigation Group (SIT) informed the government that criminal gang networks are increasingly relying on cryptocurrencies for money laundering and drug smuggling. It also believes that it is not necessary to supervise cryptocurrencies, because it takes years and inefficiencies to deal with such cases, and a one-size-fits-all approach seems to be the only option. Although the country does not fully ban cryptocurrency transactions, the government has instructed all relevant agencies and law enforcement agencies such as the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the Law Enforcement Agency (ED) and the income tax department to take action in accordance with existing laws. In the absence of a globally acceptable solution, the government is handling this matter with caution. SIT does not support regulation because it takes a long time to prosecute violations in the country: "We have many laws or regulations that need to be strictly enforced. But experience shows that many law or regulatory enforcement agencies cannot enforce them. Even if they try to enforce them, As a result, many litigations remain pending for many years. In order to avoid this, there is no choice but to declare it an illegal transaction. Those dealing with cryptocurrencies should be punished without any further evidence."
[Terrorist organizations are using social media platforms such as Telegram to raise money through cryptocurrencies] According to a report by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), a non-profit research institute, terrorist organizations in areas such as Islam and Hamas are using social media platforms, including Telegram, to raise funds through cryptocurrencies. MEMRI warned that this problem will only be more serious when Telegram launches its own blockchain TON and local cryptocurrency Gram.
XDCE/XinFin Network: 2019 TraceFinancial webinar will be held on August 30th WAX/WAX Token: WAX TokenSwap (WAX) to August 30, ERC-20 WAX Token token converted to WAX Token Cutoff UGAS/Ultrain: Ultrain community news, after the main network mapping starts on August 7, all UGAS holders must complete the registration of the Ultrain main wallet account by August 30th.
BTC continued its downward trend from yesterday to today, slightly rebounded after falling below $9,400, and is currently hovering around $9,500. In the past 24 hours, the net inflows of BTC funds exceeded US$150 million, which increased significantly compared with the previous cycle. After falling below the $9,800 support area yesterday, BTC continued to fall below $9,500. Yesterday, the rally stopped near $9350, but the rally was obviously insufficient in scope and quantity. The bulls'strength was weak. The opening of the Daily Brin Channel was downward, and there was still the possibility of further declines in the follow-up. Operational aspects, temporary patience, there are short positions above can continue to hold or partial stop earnings, near $9100 can consider gradual admission.
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Weekly Crypto Recap for the week ending July 27
Global investment firm Vaultbank has announced that free stock trading will be added to its platform launch in October. The platform will now include the free stock trading, crypto trading, and even trading security tokens. Vaultbank's platform is currently undergoing beta testing, but users can sign up for the platform's waitlist on vaultbank.io.
Popular cryptocurrency debit card provider, Wirex, has added a Ripple (XRP) wallet to its platform. 1.7 million clietns across 130 countries will now be able to use their Wirex Visa Cards to transact with XRP. XRP is currently the third-most popular cryptocurrency by market cap, and was specifically chosen by Wirex due to its unique utility for facilitating global payments.
Decoin is disrupting the crypto credit card market with its DTEP Exchange & Trading Platform. The Decoin credit card will operate directly the company's coin wallet and will permit users to spend their digital currencies wherever and whenever they choose. Users registered to this exchange will also supposedly have the ability to earn redistributed revenues, up to 20% of the exchange's trading revenue.
Fintech company Digital Asset announced a partnership with Google Cloud to aid in the construction of blockchain applications. Digital Asset and Google Cloud will provide support and software tools to blockchain application developers so that they don't have to code the applications from scratch. The pair will also be working on Digital Asset's developer program private beta, giving Google Cloud developers access to its Digital Asset Modeling Language (DAML) software development kit (SDK).
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has come to the conclusion that they need more time for the consideration of five Bitcoin ETF proposals. Direxion Investments submitted the proposals back in January. The SEC stated that they will announce their decision to either approve or deny the proposal on September 21, 2018. CBOE Global Markets also sent the SEC an ETF proposal last month that is also expected to be postponed.
The Chinese mountain region of Xinjiang Uyghur is known for its vast areas of land and abundant electricity: key elements for Bitcoin (BTC) mining. However, the local authorities of Xinjiang have announced their plan to shut down all illegal mining operations by August 30,2018. Illegal mining operations are those that fail to comply to registration, tax, social security, and other laws.
Japan Virtual Currency Exchange Association is suggesting domestic trading platforms limit investors to 4x leverage on their deposits. According to the Financial Services Agency, there are 142,000 crypto traders focused on derivatives a/o CY2017 in Japan, still a small portion of the estimated 3mm crypto traders in Japan. Just as a point of reference, 80%of crypto trading volume in Japan for CY2017 came from derivatives trading, recording USD$543bn - - 90%+ of this amount was from margin traders.
Iran is currently looking to develop a domestic cryptocurrency in order to bypass its economic sanctions. Alireza Daliri, Iran's Science and Technology Department head in charge of investment affairs, reported that the project is being worked on with the Central Bank of Iran. The cryptocurrency would back Iran's national currency, the rial, and would allow cross-border transactions ahead of the US sanctions going into effect next month.
The SEC rejected application for a Bitcoin ETF by Winkelvoss twins again. In its rejection, the SEC cited as a major concern the fact that "a significant portion of Bitcoin trading occurs on unregulated exchanges outside of the United States."
Hester Peirce, Commissioner of the SEC, has published a letter of dissent regarding the SEC's recent decision upholding the agency's past ruling to deny the Winklevoss twins' Bitcoin (BTC) ETF. The SEC denied the Bats BZX Exchange's proposed rule change hoping to allow trading of the Winklevoss' Bitcoin Trust shares, leading Peirce to say "I believe that the proposed rule change satisfies the statutory standard and that we should permit BZX to list and trade this Bitcoin-based exchange-traded product," and that the decision "sends a strong signal that innovation is unwelcome in our markets."
The Law Commission of India published a report regarding the legal status of sports betting and gambling in the country, referencing cryptocurrencies. The report recognizes cryptocurrencies as a method of payment for betting and wagering. The report also stated that "gambling transactions should be made cashless, making use of electronic means of payment such as credit cards, debit cards, net-banking, virtual currencies (VC – also known as cryptocurrency), etc."
US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CTFC) Chairman Christopher Giancarlo says the CTFC is falling behind and needs to begin testing the blockchain technology during testimony to House Committee on Agriculture. Chairman Giancarlo suggests the CTFC is four years behind other global institutions like the Bank of England (BOE) as it relates to testing blockchain.
Lufthansa, one of the world's largest airlines, has announced a partnership with software firm SAP to create a competition focused on increasing the airline industry's adoption of blockchain technology. There are currently not a lot of efforts being made to incorporate blockchain in the airline industry, and initial submissions into the competition are due at the end of August. Lufthansa is looking for applications regarding data processing, flight booking, loyalty programs, and supply chain enhancements.
Cryptocurrency trading millionaires, especially in China, are looking into investments in foreign real estate markets as a form of diversification. Through the use of real estate startup apps, Chinese investors can buy real estate in California using Bitcoin (BTC), for example, through Hong Kong brokers that don't require the same taxes and documentation as other financial assets held abroad.
Binance, the world's most popular cryptocurrency exchange, will soon enter the South Korean market. During the Blockchain Partners Summit in Seoul, Binance CEO Chanpgeng Zhao held a speech noting that Binance will enrich South Korea's community. While Binance has not made any official announcements regarding the expansion, South Korean media outlets reported it following the summit.
A New Jersey-based cryptocurrency mining startup, called Honeyminer, has released its free beta platform in June, and has amassed 10,000 downloads around the world already. The platform allows users to mine cryptocurrencies on their Windows laptops by running the app while the processor isn't in use. Users will be able to mine Ethereum (ETH), Ethereum Classic (ETC), Monero (XMR), and Zcash (ZEC), but all earnings are transferred into Bitcoin (BTC) and sent to the user's wallet.
Since cryptocurrencies became popular several years ago, not many cryptocurrency platforms (i.e. exchanges and wallets) have conducted third-party security audits. However, three-month-old XMR Wallet, a web wallet for Monero (XMR) has announced its conclusion of an audit by the firm New Alchemy. Additionally, XMR Wallet has published the results of its audit, and stated that all issues found have already been resolved.
ConsenSys, a blockchain technology company, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with China's Xiongan New Area government. ConsenSys focuses on the development of Ethereum (ETH), and will be advising the government on blockchain solutions to make Xiongan a smart city. China's president Xi Jinping has designated Xiongan a special economic zone and believes that by creating a smart economy using Ethereum, it could bring in USD$348 billion within the next 10 years.
Bitmart, a global cryptocurrency exchange, has announced that it will be listing its own utility token, called BMX, on its exchange. The BMX token is an ERC-20 protocol token, and there will be 1 billion issued. All transaction fees paid on the BMX market will be redistributed to those who backed the project, and using BMX on the exchange lets users pay a discounted fee.
US-based Coinbase is launching a crypto-backed gift card in Europe. Users of WeGift will be able to convert digital assets held in their Coinbase wallet to gift cards. Gift cards from WeGift can be used at over 120 retailers across the UK, France, Spain, the Netherlands and Italy.
The Bank of Canada (BoC) released its Staff Working Paper this week, where it said that the proof-of-work (PoW) consensus system, the same one used by Bitcoin (BTC), held the most promise out of alternative consensus systems like proof-of-stake (PoS). PoW includes a built-in security measure, people with malicious intentions would need to spend a large amount of resources in order to successfully cheat the system. The paper continued that PoS unfairly gives users with the most coins (stake) in the system a higher probability of validating blocks.
BitGo, a popular cryptocurrency custodial service, has announced its recent support of Zcash (ZEC). BitGo is the largest processor of on-chain Bitcoin (BTC) transactions in the world, and processes $15 billion every month in all cryptocurrencies. The Zcash team said that it is very excited for the recent support of their coin, and that along with their upcoming Zcash Sapling upgrade, this should prove to be a great catalyst for adoption of Zcash's privacy features.
California-based Propy, a global real estate company known for its decentralized title registry, has announced that it has successfully executed a real estate deal on the blockchain. The transaction was tracked every step of the process on Ethereum smart contracts, making this deal the first blockchain-recorded property deal in California, and only the second to be done in the world. The transaction used Bitcoin (BTC) as payment, effectively cutting out the role of banks for this deal.
Waves decentralized exchange (DEX) was hacked on Tuesday, the first day it exited its beta test. Hackers were able to break into the exchange's website and the company's main site to phish for information in the personal wallets of users.
Ethereum Chrome browser extension MetaMask was pulled from the Chrome Web store yesterday. It was listed again, 5 hours later. MetaMask has said it is unsure why its extension was pulled from the Chrome Web store. MetaMask is one of the oldest and widely used decentralized apps (DApps) on the Ethereum network.
Augur has launched a platform that permits users to bet when certain public figures will die. If a user believes the public figure will die, they buy shares with ETH. If a user believes the public figure won't die, they can short the bet by selling shares. If a user's prediction is correct, they profit from the outcome. Augur uses a network of "reporters" who make sure that the bet is settled properly.
Decenturion, constituted this past January, claims to be the world's first decentralized blockchain-based digital state. Decenturion has appointed blockchain expert and founder of ICOBox, Nick Evdokimov, as its Minister of Information. The blockchain-based state has no central person of power, but is rather governed by passport holders' voting using smart contracts.
Popular cryptocurrency exchange Poloniex announced plans to delist nine tokens from its trading platform. The nine coins in question are FlorinCoin (FLO), FoldingCoin (FLDC), Vcash (XVC), Bitcrystals (BCY), Nexium (NXC), Radium (RADS), Blackcoin (BLK), Pinkcoin (PINK), and Riecoin (RIC). These cryptocurrencies reportedly do not meet Poloniex's new asset framework. Owners of these coins have until September 2nd to withdraw them from the exchange.
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One of the largest crypto exchanges, Binance has now officially acquired CoinMarketCap in a cash-and-stock deal worth up to $400 million later this week making it one of the largest acquisitions in the crypto industry, according to a recent press release from CoinMarketCap's blog.. Founder of @onchainfx and @messaricrypto (acquired) Ryan Selkis from @twobitidiot on Twitter feels it's a ... We've reviewed the top bitcoin betting sites and sportsbooks for 2020 according to sports covered, bet options, trustworthiness, bonuses, and customer service. UK Government Is Going to Trial Blockchain's Distributed Ledger Technology Jan 20 2016 · 21:50 UTC Updated Jan 21 2016 · 21:02 by Zhanna Lyasota · 3 min read Photo: Alexander Burkhardt/Flickr Victoria will have a gain of £258,000 and she will need to pay Capital Gains Tax on this. After the sale, Victoria will be treated as having a single pool of 100 token A and total allowable costs ... Outside of the UK, blockchain continues to experience government-level adoption, with Kenya announcing last week that it is looking into implementing a blockchain-based voting process which might potentially stop the cycle of violence and tensions during the country's typically fraught elections by improving voter confidence and reducing the opportunity to rig or tamper with votes. The post Brexit, Binance and Bitcoin: ... Blockchain has indeed been given a spotlight by the UK government for its potential in providing a solution to the customs crisis, being hailed as an opportunity to continue providing "frictionless trade" with the EU. Particularly valuable on the contentious issue of the Ireland border, blockchain has been hailed as a way for the government to ... To comply with global industry regulatory standards, local industry regulatory standards, and government orders in different aspects such as Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Know-Your-Client (KYC), and Counter-Terrorist Financing (CTF), Binance is required to collect personal information such as identity documents (including passport, driver's license, national identity card, state ID card, tax ID ... Binance remains fully operational in China, a new report by state media outlet CCTV has revealed. The government of China has banned virtual currency transactions and ICO activities in 2017, forcing digital currency exchanges in the country to cease operations. However, a recent CCTV investigation revealed that its Beijing-based reporter was able to sign up […] Blockchain News, Opinion, TV and Jobs – Binance. The world's largest digital asset exchange Binance is rolling out its long-awaited Binance Card in Europe and the United Kingdom (UK) which will allow clients to convert and... The UK is calling upon its spy agency, the GCHQ, to review the potential risks that Bitcoin can bring and share that information with other government departments. When one thinks of British spies, James Bond comes to mind.
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