September 2019 | Page 39 of 145 | Last Cryptocurrency News Feed

CoinShares Enlists Customers to Lobby Against UK Ban of Crypto ETN

news Investment platform CoinShares is urging its customers to lobby the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) over impending cryptoasset regulations. In a letter to investors sent today, CoinShares has asked its customers to write emails and text messages to the UK regulator in support of one of its premiere products, exchange-traded notes (ETNs), which would…

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Germany’s No. 2 Exchange Launches Bitcoin Spot Trading

news Exchange Boerse Stuttgart, Germany’s second-largest stock exchange, has opened a regulated trading venue for digital assets, the company said. Trading began today on Boerse Stuttgart Digital Exchange (BSDEX), a fully regulated digital asset exchange under the German Banking Act, according to a statement. As of now, BSDEX is trading only one pair, the bitcoin-euro.…

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Largest Tencent Shareholder Leads $15M Round in Blockchain Game Developer

Naspers, the largest shareholder of Chinese Internet giant Tencent, participated in a $15 million investment in blockchain game developer Immutable. Key investorsImmutable, a Sydney-based blockchain gaming startup, completed a new funding round led by Naspers and Mike Novogratz's crypto investment bank Galaxy Digital, the company announced in a blog post on Sept. 23.As reported by the…

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EOS’ First Hard Fork Successfully Completed Today

EOS, the seventh-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, performed its first hard fork earlier today.The EOS update tracking tool maintained by the chain’s block producer, EOSNation, reports that EOS block producers (BP) signaled their intent to implement the update on the EOS Mainnet on Sept. 23 at 13:00 UTC.According to the website, this is the largest…

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IBM Says It’s Ready to Work with Facebook on Blockchain

news IBM is willing to team up with Facebook to develop blockchain technology, an IBM executive said, explaining that developing the blockchain ecosystem is “a team sport.” “Our clients are ready to work with (Facebook) and we’re ready to work with all of them to bring it together,” Jason Kelley, IBM’s blockchain general manager, said…

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Overstock Appoints New CEO, Remains Committed to Blockchain

news Online retail giant Overstock has announced that Jonathan Johnson – who’s led the firm in a temporary role since the shock departure of its previous chief executive Patrick Byrne – is now its permanent CEO. In an announcement emailed to CoinDesk Monday, the company said Johnson had been appointed by its board, having served…

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Cisco, SingularityNET to Decentralize Artificial Intelligence via Blockchain

news Networking giant Cisco Systems selected the blockchain-based platform developed by SingularityNET to host its decentralized AGI project. Artificial General Intelligence is a branch of AI that focuses on a computer’s ability to learn intellectual tasks. Whereas existing AI might learn to read characters on a page, for example, a true AGI system might intuit…

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Overstock Appoints Jonathan Johnson as Company’s New CEO

American e-commerce giant Overstock.com has appointed Jonathan Johnson as the company’s new chief executive officer, according to an announcement on Sept. 23.Johnson has served as an interim CEO of Overstock since the end of August when Patrick Byrne stepped down. Presently, Johnson also acts as the company’s member of the board of directors, president at…

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Binance.US to Launch Trading Tomorrow With 13 Currency Pairs

Binance.US, the United States-based arm of major crypto exchange Binance, will start trading on Sept. 24, offering zero trading fees until Nov. 1, 2019.13 trading pairsBinance.US will launch 13 fiat-to-crypto and crypto-to-crypto trading pairs tomorrow, according to a blog post on Sept. 23.The trading pairs include major cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH), XRP,…

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Samsung’s Blockchain SSD Patent Could Disrupt Crypto Mining

Electronics giant Samsung filed for a patent in May 2019 titled, “Programmable Blockchain Solid State Drive and Switch.” Even though few details are known about the newly designed system, a surge in patent applications filed by large corporations on blockchain is clearly visible.Related: Bank of America’s Blockchain Foray: Patent Trolling or Hedging Risks?Patent wars —…