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Bitcoin Hover Over $11,800 as Top Cryptos See Gains

Saturday, June 29 — most of the top 20 cryptocurrencies are reporting moderate to significant gains on the day by press time, as bitcoin (BTC) hovers over under the $11,800 mark again.Market visualization courtesy of Coin360Bitcoin is currently up about .14% on the day, trading around $11,830 at press time, according to Coin360. Looking at…

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U.S. Clean Energy Firm Clearway Energy Will Test Blockchain for Renewable Energy Trading

United States-based clean energy development firm Clearway Energy Group is launching a pilot program for trading renewable energy credits on a blockchain, Bloomberg reported on June 28.Per the report, Clearway Energy partnered with Ethereum (ETH)-based energy trading startup Power Ledger to jointly build a system for trading renewable energy certificates. Power Ledger reportedly told Bloomberg…

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Maple Leaf Capital: Recent Bitfinex IEO Ampleforth Token is Not Stable

Cryptocurrency investment firm Maple Leaf Capital called ampleforth (AMPL), the token recently released in the first Bitfinex’s Initial Exchange Offering, “anything but stable” in a series of tweets published on June 27.While Ampleforth reportedly raised $4.9 million in 11 seconds in a Tokenex earlier in June, Maple Leaf Capital has said that the AMPL token’s…

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Group of Digital Asset Trade Associations to Establish Global Cryptocurrency Association

A group of national trade associations representing the local Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASPs) announced their intention to establish an association to provide a global representative for firms in the industry in a press release shared with Cointelegraph on June 29.Per the release, the aforementioned Japanese trade association signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in…

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Crypto Market Watch: Bitcoin Awaits Next Move, Zclassic Plunges 66% Following Bittrex Delisting

The cryptocurrency market is in a mixed state today with most of the top ten cryptos in red, while a few are recording gains of no more than 2% on the day. Bitcoin had been trading around $12,400 but dropped as low as $11,500 during the early morning hours. Although the coin’s price moved back to…

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Kik Hands Off Defend Crypto Fund to The Blockchain Association

The Blockchain Association, a collective of advocates involved with the blockchain industry, has taken over the Defend Crypto fund set up by Kik.According to an official blog post on June 28, Kik — the company behind Kik Messenger and the kin (KIN) cryptocurrency — believes that the Blockchain Association “will be in the best position…

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Crypto Market Watch: Bitcoin Seeks For The Next Move, Zcash Classic Plunges 66% Following Bittrex Delisting

The cryptocurrency market is in a mixed state today with most of the top ten cryptos in red while a few are recording gains of no more than 2% on the day. Bitcoin price traded around $12,400 but dropped to as low as $11,500 during the early hours of today. Although the coin moved back…

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Facebook’s Libra Crypto Code Draws Critiques and Clones

feature The early-access code for Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency hit GitHub two weeks ago — and in that time, critics and would-be trollers have taken aim at the project. Spun-up by the social media giant and presently managed by the non-profit Libra Association, the project on GitHub has been saved or “starred” by close to 10,000…

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Billions to Trillions: Crypto Assets and the Inevitability of Digitization

news Ami Ben David is founder and CEO of institutional digital securities blockchain Ownera, co-founder of SPiCE VC, previously co-founder of Securitize and investor in security token companies. The following article originally appeared in Institutional Crypto by CoinDesk, a free newsletter for the institutional market, with news and views delivered every Tuesday. Sign up here. Ten years after the invention…

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IMF Predicts Central Banks to Issue Digital Currencies

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) believes that central banks may issue digital currencies in the future, according to a report by the IMF on June 27According to the full paper, the IMF and World Bank conducted a survey on fintech that solicited answers from financial institutions within all member countries, and has based its conclusions…