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October 9, 2020

Shenzhen to hand out 10 million digital yuan in currency giveaway

China is promoting its central bank digital currency with a public $1.5 million giveaway. The major Chinese city of Shenzhen is launching a pilot program to promote the digital yuan with a public giveaway.In collaboration with the country’s central bank, Shenzhen is planning to distribute a total of 10 million digital yuan ($1.5 million) — […]

Community reacts to new DoJ crypto enforcement guidelines

The DoJ’s guidance around cryptocurrency enforcement, that cites “crime” and “criminals” 168 times, has been poorly received. The new cryptocurrency enforcement guidelines by the Department of Justice (DoJ) have received a negative response from segments of the crypto community. Published earlier today by the attorney general for the U.S. William Barr, the DOJ report aims to […]

Legal firms sling mud in $8.3M Tezos settlement fees battle

Six law firms are fighting over how to distribute $8.3M in attorney’s fees from the Tezos’ $25M class action settlement. Negotiations between six legal firms over $8.3 million in attorney’s fees awarded from Tezos’ $25 million class-action settlement has descended into “unseemly mudslinging,” according to lawyers representing Block & Leviton LLP (B&L) and Hagens Berman […]

Multi-millionaire Dick Smith threatens to sue The Guardian over Bitcoin scam ads

The legal team behind the case called it a “prolific cryptocurrency scam.” Electronics entrepreneur Dick Smith — who is a household name in Australia — has threatened a lawsuit against a major media outlet after it hosted ads that linked to fake articles suggesting Smith is promoting a fake Bitcoin and crypto investment scheme.According to […]

YFI’s Andre Cronje disappeared after ‘death threats’. Will ‘love’ bring him back?

Top Yearn Finance developer Andre Cronje has disappeared from social media due to ‘death threats’ — and now the community is posting ‘Love Letters’ to entice him back. Yearn Finance (YFI) developer Andre Cronje has dropped out of public view after reportedly receiving ‘death threats’ from the decentralized finance (DeFi) community and becoming ‘demoralized’.Cronje said […]

Lightning network vulnerability discovered, upgrade immediately

The lightning vulnerability was made public on Oct 9. Lightning network node operators running LND versions prior to the Oct. 1 version 0.11 upgrade have been urged to upgrade immediately after a vulnerability was discovered affecting LND versions 0.10 and below.The vulnerability was made public in an Oct. 9 announcement from Lightning engineer Conner Fromknecht, […]

Binance overtakes Huobi, OKEx as biggest derivatives exchange

Overall trading volume was down on derivatives exchanges, but one day set a new yearly high. Binance has overtaken Huobi and OKEx to become the largest crypto derivatives exchange by volume in the September figures with $164.8 billion across the month, according to the latest report published by U.K.-based data firm CryptoCompare, CryptoCompare looked at the […]

Dutch central bank approves first crypto service under AMLD5 regulations

The Netherlands has imposed tight regulations related to EU anti-money laundering laws. The central bank of the Netherlands, De Nederlandsche Bank NV (DNB), has granted AMDAX BV the ability to operate under its jurisdiction.  This marks the first time a digital asset company has been approved in the country following the introduction of strict new regulations […]

October 8, 2020

A researcher debunks Stock-to-Flow model, likens Bitcoin to a ‘tech stock’

“There are many reasons why the price of Bitcoin can rise or fall, but S2F is not one of them”, contends report author. A report authored by the research team of ByteTree purports to debunk one of the most popular Bitcoin (BTC) valuation models — Stock-to-Flow. The model provides a very optimistic forecast for Bitcoin, […]

Bitcoin price fundamentals in ‘moon mode’ as BTC held on exchanges drops

Analysts believe Bitcoin’s on-chain fundamentals point to a 2017-style bull run Despite an uneventful month for Bitcoin (BTC) price, on-chain metrics suggest that Bitcoin may be gearing for an imminent bull run. Noticeably, the number of Bitcoin held on spot exchanges has been decreasing since the start of the year, according to data from on-chain […]