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⁠Mining Sector Sees Extreme Volatility Amid Coronavirus and Crash During Q1 TokenInsight reports that Q1 2020 saw significant hash rate volatility and some mining farms fell into negative performance.

⁠Charlie Shrem: BitInstant Was the Netscape of Crypto Speaking to Cointelegraph, Charlie Shrem discussed why Coinbase’s launch was Bitinstant’s deathknell.

⁠Bitcoin Rally Above $9K Stalls as Sellers Push BTC Back to Key Support Bitcoin price rallied to $9,000 but the TD9 on the daily timeframe and lack of volume show traders are reluctant to buy at these levels.

⁠OmiseGO's Parent Company Changes Name to SYNQA Omise Holdings, parent company of OmiseGo, now goes by the name SYNQA.

⁠Africa: COVID-19, Gold Demand and the Gold-Backed Stablecoin Opportunity The third decade of the third millennium is returning humanity to the gold standard, but this time it will be backed with decentralized ledger tec…

⁠Coinbase: Bitcoin Is Superior to Gold Coinbase published a report arguing that disruptions during the pandemic highlight Bitcoin’s advantages over gold.

The crypto industry got (yet) another reminder of the need for decentralization this week, in the form of an Epic Fail from YouTube's renegade algorithm. Who will it boot off the platform next? But Portugal scored some n…

⁠Binance Pooling Up Mining Game Amid Centralization Concerns Does Binance’s venture into mining threaten the integrity of blockchain systems?

⁠Latin American Markets Post Record P2P Volume in April While Localbitcoins trade volumes have receded globally since the platform’s KYC overhaul last year, Latin American trade has continued to surge.

⁠Tracing Global Meat Related Risks With Blockchain Amid COVID-19 To gain transparency and consumer safety, the food-processing and meatpacking plants are implementing blockchain technology to their operation services.

⁠Judge Rules Lawsuit Targeting Multi-Billion OneCoin Ponzi Can Proceed The judge presiding over a class-action lawsuit targeting the executives behind the OneCoin Ponzi scheme has allowed the case to proceed.

⁠The DeFi Hack: What Decentralized Finance Should and Shouldn’t Be The DeFi sector will continue to grow in the future despite the difficulties that the industry has faced since the beginning of 2020, but be careful by c…

⁠On the Darknet Side: The Role of Crypto as a Means of Exchange Why is Bitcoin popular among cybercriminals, and what is the future of cryptocurrencies in the darknet?

⁠Crypto Scammers Impersonate Members of Olympic Committee A series of scam emails sent from Japan have been asking people to donate to the Olympic Games’ organization in Tokyo.

⁠The Number of Women in Crypto Has Exploded In Q1 2020 A new study released by CoinMarketCap revealed an increasing growth among female crypto users in Europe and the Americas.

⁠Stellar Foundation and Elliptic Ink Exclusive Deal The Stellar Development Foundation unveiled a partnership with Elliptic, adding transparency capabilities for Stellar-based businesses.

⁠Facebook's Calibra Team Introduces A Novel Distributed Audit Protocol Facebook’s Calibra team introduces a new protocol for distributed auditing of assets that could have saved Mt. Gox.