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⁠Telegram Won’t Let American TON Investors Get 110% Refund in 2021 American TON investors will be reportedly only eligible for an immediate 72% repayment instead of a 110% refund option in April 2021.

⁠CZ Insists That DDoS Attacks Were Foul Play From Binance Competitors Binance’s CEO suspects that recent DDoS attacks came from competing exchanges looking to damage Binance’s reputation rather than steal crypto.

⁠New Season of 'Billions' Opens With Bitcoin Mining Bust Crypto fans have been discussing actively on social media about the new Bitcoin-related episode of “Billions” series.

⁠US Senator Loeffler Reports 2019 Income of $3.5M From Role as CEO of Bakkt US Senator and former Bakkt CEO finally filed her financial disclosures after a four-month extension and an insider trading scandal, revealing t…

⁠Craig Wright’s Satoshi Case Goes To Trial July 6 Craig Wright’s Satoshi case will finally go to trial, both sides confirmed to Cointelegraph.

⁠MakerDAO Takes New Measures to Prevent Another ‘Black Swan’ Collapse The DeFi lending market MakerDAO has updated its governance protocols to prevent another occurrence of forced liquidations that lead to huge losses.

⁠Price Analysis 5/4: BTC, ETH, XRP, BCH, BSV, LTC, BNB, EOS, XTZ, XLM Several major cryptocurrencies are facing selling at higher levels but the fact that traders are buying on the dips suggests further range-bound actio…

⁠Original Blockchain & Bitcoin: Different Paths To Decentralization Blockchain co-inventor on why block creation decentralization is not essential to blockchain decentralization.

⁠Spanish Multinational Bank BBVA to Explore Zero-Knowledge Proofs BBVA and a state-backed research center in Spain have launched a partnership to explore advanced cryptography for financial services.

⁠Buffett ‘Killed His Reputation’ by Being Stupid About BTC, Says Max Keiser One of the most successful investors of all time, Warren Buffett might be killing his reputation by being so harsh on Bitcoin, Max Keiser believ…

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⁠Bitcoin Price Defies Stock Market Link — Post-Halving World Uncertain Has the upcoming halving already been factored into Bitcoin’s price, and can another pump be in the cards in the short term?

⁠Iran Ditches the Rial Amid Hyperinflation as LocalBitcoins Seem to Trade Near $35K Iran’s parliament votes to institute a new currency as coronavirus and sanctions hyperinflate the rial and local Bitcoin prices skyrocke…

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⁠German Security Token Platform to Develop a Custody Solution German STO platform Black Manta joins digital asset custody firm Finoa to develop institutional security token custody.

⁠Major Polish Insurance Company Taps Blockchain for Its Paperwork Polish insurance company Link4 teams up with blockchain startup Coinfirm to use a DLT-powered tool for document management.

⁠Bitcoin Price Retraces to $8.5K Going Into Last Week Before Halving Bitcoin price is consolidating below the recent $9.5K high, but which way will it go with less than eight days before the BTC halving?

⁠Zcash Fully Shielded Transactions Jump 70% to New Record in April The Zcash network has recorded a 70% jump in fully shielded transactions, marking a new record for April of over 8,700. This compounds gains of 100% made…

⁠Litecoin Mimblewimble Integration Sees Test Build and Codebase Progress Litecoin and Grin++ developer, David Burkett, has posted an April progress update on Litecoin’s Mimblewimble integration, claiming that a testing f…

⁠We Can Do Better: Building Resilience Into the Crypto Markets It’s time for the crypto industry to mature as the world desperately needs a brand new “global digital asset economy.”

⁠Paxful Launches Bitcoin Fundraising Campaign to Combat COVID-19 in Africa Peer-to-peer crypto marketplace Paxul is expanding its charitable program to Africa amid the COVID-19 crisis.

⁠VeChain, Mastercard and Alipay Join Australia-China Supply Chain Consortium VeChain, Mastercard and Alipay are among the heavy hitters backing the new APAC Provenance Council, focused on Australia’s $76 billion of expor…

⁠Devs at Blogging Platform Ghost Take Down Crypto-Mining Malware Attack Developers at blogging platform Ghost have spent the past 24 hours fighting a crypto mining malware attack.

⁠Indian Crypto Exchanges Seek Tax Clarity From Central Bank India’s crypto exchanges are demanding that the country’s central bank provide clear guidelines regarding taxation.

⁠Survey Shows Many BTC Holders Use Hardware Wallet, Have Backup Keys A doctoral candidate posted the results of a survey on Bitcoin security from his thesis to Reddit on April 30.

⁠Overstock’s tZERO to Launch Broker Dealer in US by Q2 Overstock’s blockchain arm tZERO aims to launch a broker dealer service in the United States by the second quarter of 2020.

⁠Ripple Co-founder Jed McCaleb Sold 54 Million XRP in April Ripple co-founder Jed McCaleb sold more than 54 million XRP in April and still has billions left to sell, according to his wallet activity.

⁠Iranian Authorizes Issue License for 6000-Rig Crypto Farm Iran’s Ministry of Industry, Mining and Trade issued a license to Turkey-based company iMiner for operating in the province of Semnan.