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Just a Coincidence? YouTube Bans Ripple’s CTO Account For Impersonation A Week After Being Sued By Ripple

The most popular video-sharing platform, YouTube, has discontinued the channel of Ripple CTO – David Schwartz for impersonation. Interestingly, the suspension comes only a week after Ripple officially filed a lawsuit against the Google-owned platform. YouTube Strikes Against Ripple CTO YouTube is no stranger to suspending and deleting accounts related to the cryptocurrency industry. Aside…

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Silvergate Adds 46 More Crypto Clients in Q1 While Existing Customers Increase Deposit Levels

Apr 29, 2020 at 13:23 UTCUpdated Apr 29, 2020 at 13:33 UTCSilvergate HQ. (Credit: Will Foxley for CoinDesk)Silvergate Bank added 46 crypto customers in the first quarter and saw fee income and deposits increase from those customers because of “Black Thursday,” according to its earnings report released before market open on Wednesday.“The increase in total…

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Colorado Hospital Patient Information System Hit by Crypto Ransomware

Hackers have infected the infrastructure of Parkview Medical Center with ransomware that demands cryptocurrency in exchange for an encryption key. 1616 Total views 26 Total shares Hackers have infected the infrastructure of Parkview Medical Center — the largest health center in Pueblo County, Colorado — with cryptocurrency ransomware.Citing a hospital employee, Fox News reported on…

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Nasdaq Adopts R3’s Corda Blockchain For Digital Assets Management

The tech-heavy stock exchange, Nasdaq, has become the latest traditional stock market to adopt blockchain technology in managing digital assets. Nasdaq Partners R3 According to a Wednesday report, Nasdaq, through a partnership with R3, will use the Corda ecosystem to create marketplaces for the issuance, trading, settlement, and management of digital assets. R3 is an…

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Digital Asset Firm Taurus Group Raises €10M From Investors Including Banks, Tezos

Apr 29, 2020 at 12:17 UTCUpdated Apr 29, 2020 at 12:21 UTCGeneva, Switzerland. (Credit:Shutterstock/Mikadun)Taurus Group is looking to expand its digital asset solutions after securing over €10 million in a Series A funding round led by Arab Bank (Switzerland).The Geneva, Switzerland-based company, which offers market infrastructure solutions for digital assets to institutional clients, announced Wednesday…

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Bitcoin Rises Above $8.1K as Bulls Eye April Gain for Fifth Year Running

Apr 29, 2020 at 11:50 UTCBitcoin Rises Above $8.1K as Bulls Eye April Gain for Fifth Year RunningBitcoin's price jumped above $8,100 on Wednesday, making an April gain for the fifth consecutive year all but certain. The top cryptocurrency by market capitalization rose to $8,191 at 11:15 UTC, its highest level since March 10, according…

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DeFi Is Exposing Inadequacies of Cold Storage, Says Crypto Custodian

The president of crypto custodian Anchorage, Diogo Monica, believes that DeFi is exposing the shortcomings of cold storage and manual operations. 1487 Total views 25 Total shares Cointelegraph spoke to Anchorage co-founder and president, Diogo Monica, to get his take on how the rise of decentralized finance (DeFi) is impacting the crypto custodian sector.Monica stated…

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Arab Bank Switzerland Leads Major Series A for Swiss Digital Assets Firm Taurus

Arab Bank Switzerland has closed a $10 million+ Series A financing round for Swiss digital asset infrastructure firm Taurus Group. 1788 Total views 53 Total shares Arab Bank Switzerland has closed a Series A financing round for Swiss digital asset infrastructure firm Taurus Group. While undisclosed, the amount is reported to be an “8-digit” figure…

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New Analysis of Top 10K Ethereum Wallets Gives Highly Bullish Outlook

Adam Cochran, the analyst who predicts Ethereum 2.0 staking will cause a new bull run, released a 109-strong Tweetstorm on April 29, revealing his findings from a manual audit of Ethereum’s 10,000 fattest wallets.The conclusion of the research, also presented in a blog post, is that things are currently looking incredibly bullish for the number…

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First Mover: For Bitcoin Prices, Inflation Headlines May Matter More Than the Reality

Apr 29, 2020 at 11:31 UTCFirst Mover: For Bitcoin Prices, Inflation Headlines May Matter More Than the RealityBitcoin traders love to talk about inflation – especially the possibility that consumer prices might eventually shoot up due to the trillions of dollars of new money injected into global markets this year by the Federal Reserve and other…