Franklin Templeton launches Ethereum ETF, listed on DTCC

United States-based software corporation Microsoft has removed eight Windows 10 applications from its official app store after cybersecurity firm Symantec identified the presence of surreptitious Monero (XMR) coin mining code. The news was reported by Symantec on Feb. 15.Stealth crypto mining — also know as cryptojacking – works by installing malware that uses a computer’s…

Cryptocurrency mining service Coinhive is shutting down, as the project has reportedly become economically inviable. The team behind Coinhive announced the news in a blog post on Feb. 26.Per the announcement, the mining service will stop its operations on March 8, 2019, while users’ dashboards will be accessible until April 30, 2019. Among the reasons…

Seychelles-based securities exchange MERJ will purportedly list the first regulated security token on a national stock market, according to a report by Bloomberg on June 25.As per the report, these security tokens are digital asset shares that will trade alongside stock for MERJ Exchange Ltd, the company behind the MERJ exchange. The report notes that…

Bitcoin (BTC) spiked through $31,000 on June 30 as a near $6 billion open interest expiry loomed.BTC/USD 1-hour chart. Source: TradingViewOptions expiry precedes day of BTC price triggersData from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD hitting local highs of $31,268 on Bitstamp before returning lower.BTC price performance improved into a key quarterly options expiry…

Binance users can now sign up to mine Ether, as well as Bitcoin, via the exchange's mining pool. 1198 Total views 13 Total shares After launching its Bitcoin (BTC) mining pool in April, crypto exchange Binance has now launched an in-house mining pool for the market's largest altcoin by market cap, Ether (ETH).For the first month, between…

COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc, with United States meat producers being the latest victims of the pandemic in a “cascading series of events,” including shutting down of the food service sector, universities and school lunch programs, all likely to impact millions of Americans.Meat processing plants around the U.S., which emerged as the world’s epicenter of…

The CEO of Chinese tech-giant Baidu said that since China’s new AI regulations have been in place over 70 AI models have been released in China with over 1 billion parameters. 170 Total views 2 Total shares The CEO of Chinese tech company Baidu, Robin Li, said on Sep. 5 that more than 70 artificial

Brazilian coffee farming cooperative Minasul plans to issue a coffee-backed token, Bloomberg reported on July 11.According to Bloomberg, Minasul’s president Jose Marcos Magalhaes declared at the Global Coffee Forum in Campinas that Minasul intends to launch the token this month. Farmers will reportedly be able to use the coin to buy fertilizer, machinery and other…

House of Representatives members brought up FTX, Donald Trump’s token launch, and SEC Chair Gary Gensler at the “Dazed and Confused” digital assets hearing.