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Ava Labs Sets Avalanche Mainnet Launch for Sept. 21
Another contender is joining the ring of decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms sparring to win market share from the Ethereum ecosystem.
Ava Labs is launching its Avalanche blockchain next Monday, Sept. 21. The upcoming launch comes on the…
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Polkadot Projects Will Be Able to Mint Their Own Tokens in 2021
A token minting system is coming to the Polkadot blockchain ecosystem, promising to be a leaner, meaner version of Ethereum’s ERC-20 standard, the mechanism that launched a thousand token sales.
Announced Wednesday, Polimec, the token…
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Bakkt Bitcoin Futures Daily Trading Volume Hits Record High
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India’s Crypto Bill Omitted From Parliament Agenda While New Ban Report Appears
Despite much anticipation, the Indian cryptocurrency bill is not included in the list of bills to be introduced in the current session of parliament. Meanwhile, a new report of India’s government planning to ban cryptocurrency trading has!--/noptimize-->!--noptimize-->…
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P2P Bitcoin Exchange Paxful Shuts Down Venezuela Operations to Comply With US Sanctions
Peer-to-peer (P2P) crypto exchange Paxful is shutting down its operations in Venezuela, apparently, to comply with U.S. economic sanctions against the leftist government of disputed president Nicolas Maduro.On Tuesday, a Paxful!--/noptimize-->!--noptimize-->…
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Miny.CC – Innovation in the Cryptocurrency Mining Sphere
Aberdeen, Hong Kong, September 16, 2020. – More than 10 years after the first cryptocurrency was successfully mined, the mining space is more controversial than ever. The process was created to be democratic; to allow any PC with spare!--/noptimize-->!--noptimize-->…
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US Company Accepts Bitcoin Payments for Luxury Planes, as $40M Gulfstream Jet Goes on Sale
Aviatrade Inc., a New Jersey-based aircraft sales company, is now accepting bitcoin as a means of payment for its range of multi-million dollar luxury jets.Philip Rushton, president of Aviatrade, told news.Bitcoin.com that the first plane!--/noptimize-->!--noptimize-->…
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Report: Market Valuation of 14 Banking Giants Shed $635 Billion This Year
The world’s largest banks lost a considerable amount of market valuation amid the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a new report that estimates financial incumbents lost $635 billion. Between December 2019 and August 2020, the market caps of!--/noptimize-->!--noptimize-->…
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Presidential Candidate Brock Pierce Served With Lawsuit for Alleged ICO Fraud
Former Disney child actor and U.S. Presidential candidate, Brock Pierce, was served with a lawsuit during a political campaign event held on Monday. The class-action lawsuit was filed in May and it claims the defendants, including Pierce,!--/noptimize-->!--noptimize-->…
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Forex Strapped Nigeria Designates Crypto Assets as Securities
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of Nigeria has designated crypto assets as securities as the authorities step up efforts to regulate Africa’s largest cryptocurrency market. The SEC says the classification of crypto assets for!--/noptimize-->!--noptimize-->…
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