Cointelegraph

⁠Friday shows a bloodbath for the entire crypto markets, with BTC hovering above $7,300

⁠Finland is coordinating a simulated Bitcoin ransomware attack on more than 200 Finnish cities and organizations

⁠Bitcoin to replace fiat currency? “The Apples, Googles — the world’s largest companies — are using U.S. dollars still. When they switch over to Bitcoin, we can have that conversation.” — Vinny Lingham

⁠A bottom may be close for Bitcoin following a steep drop to $7,000

⁠Swing traders are watching closely as Bitcoin and many altcoins are deeply oversold and a sharp relief rally could occur over the next few days

⁠Grayscale says that its diversified crypto fund will launch for public trading soon — a supposed first in the U.S. — following regulatory approval

⁠Digital currencies can shift some functions usually performed by the government to the private sector, the U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary argued

⁠Morocco aims to expand access to financial services through the integration of blockchain in the country’s finance sector

⁠Starting in spring 2020, the Bavarian state government will use blockchain technology to test forgery-proof training certificates

⁠Harvard University’s Digital Currency Wars simulation considers a hypothetical future crisis scenario involving a DPRK nuke purchase facilitated by a digital yuan

⁠The Tunisian CBDC situation has been a mess. It started with fake reports run by Russian media, possibly caused by a Russian startup exaggerating its partnership with the Tunisian government

⁠Tezos has partnered with Singapore-based Tribe platform to jointly launch a training program to attract more developers to create Tezos blockchain-based solutions

⁠CFTC chairman Heath Tarbert says that the authority does not want to snuff out innovation by overregulating crypto

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⁠The CertiK Foundation is about to launch the Testnet 3.0 open beta for CertiK Chain

⁠Experts believe new legal statement on crypto will help London keep its crown as the epicentre of the financial world, “The UK was, is, and will be the leading financial center of the world.”

⁠Alibaba’s filmmaking arm Alibaba Pictures signed an agreement with SingularDTV to tokenize the distribution rights of its new movie

⁠The Human Rights Foundation has published its analysis of major stablecoins’ privacy tooling and censorship resilience, stating that stablecoin privacy is “extremely lackluster”

⁠EIF launches blockchain and AI-specific investment scheme

⁠China seeks to reinforce the crypto trading ban

⁠Two men have stolen $4,000 from a Bitcoin ATM in a small-town grocery store, but left $50,000 behind in an overlooked canister

⁠Bitcoin should logically return to $1K, says gold bug Peter Schiff

⁠International institutional clients are eligible for Coinbase Custody’s staking services as of this week

⁠Shenzhen lists 39 crypto exchange in line for shutdown

⁠A new cash-settled version of Bakkt’s monthly Bitcoin futures contract will launch on Dec. 9, ICE has publicly confirmed

⁠R3 CEO David Rutter has ridiculed the way Facebook introduced its yet-to-be-released Libra stablecoin

⁠Cypherpunk Holdings has completed an equity investment worth $337,500 in zkSnacks, the firm behind the privacy-focused crypto wallet Wasabi

⁠Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis sacks 39 of its employees with an eye to profit margins