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⁠Ngrave Onboards Crypto OGs As Advisors Crypto security firm Ngrave has hired pioneering cryptographer Jean-Jacques Quisquater and crypto investor Michael Terpin.

⁠PlusToken Scammer Implicated in China’s Second Ten-Figure Crypto Ponzi Local police have busted Wotoken, China’s second ten-figure crypto Ponzi.

⁠Fake Deaths, Real Deaths, & a Permanently Reduced Block Reward: Bad Crypto News of the Week Check out this week’s Bad Crypto News.

⁠Former Bakkt CEO Hands Documents to DoJ Amid Insider Trading Controversy Former Bakkt CEO Kelly Loeffler sent documentation concerning her stock trades to the Justice Department amid insider trading accusations.

⁠Review: Documentary Film - Monero Means Money The film, Monero Means Money, went from drawing board to premiere in just one week, and even briefly topped the U.S. box office, albeit largely due to the COVID-19 lockdown……

⁠Venezuela Appears to Have Hard Forked The Petro Signs indicate that Venezuela’s state-backed cryptocurrency quietly underwent a hard fork earlier this month.

⁠Majority of TON Investors Reportedly Choose to Quit for 72% Refund Only few TON investors reportedly want to support Telegram and wait for a 110% refund until April 2021 after TON’s official termination, a new report sa…

This is becoming a habit. Ripple gets another Epic Fail as CTO David Schwartz bizarrely celebrates spam XRP transactions... ... but Reddit Nailed It with new blockchain rewards on a platform bigger than Twitter.

⁠Someone Was Propping Up the Bitcoin Cash Hashrate at a Loss in April Data indicates that someone was propping up Bitcoin Cash at a loss prior to the halving.

⁠Celo Founder on Raising $10m and Redefining Money Celo founder Rene Reinsberg discusses entering the early phases of mainnet and The Celo Foundation’s recent $10 million auction.

⁠How You Could Save Money When Reporting Crypto Taxes There is no denying that you should be paying taxes on your income from crypto, but how can you ensure that you are not paying more taxes than you owe?

⁠Time For ETH to Rise and Shine as Futures Trading Now Available in US ErisX rolls out CFTC-regulated, physically-settled ETH futures contracts to U.S. traders, but positive spot price action is not a certainty.

⁠Bitcoin Price Consolidates Below $10,000 After Halving: What’s Next? Bitcoin price is holding below $10,000 after the halving as the bullish and bearish scenarios are starting to take shape.

⁠NBA Star Wants Fans to Buy His Contract for $24.6M… Because Bitcoin? Spencer Dinwiddie has launched a crowdfunding campaign in a bid to sell his NBA contract to his fans for the cash equivalent of 2,625.8 BTC.

⁠Elon Musk Reveals BTC Holdings in Bitcoin Discussion With J.K. Rowling In a Twitter discussion with J.K. Rowling, Elon Musk revealed holding 0.25 BTC after claiming to be selling nearly every physical possession earlier…

⁠Qiwi Co-Founder Reissues $17M TON Investment as Loan to Telegram Qiwi co-founder Sergey Solonin has confirmed that he is taking the option to reissue his $17 million investment in Telegram’s TON as a loan, repayable at…

⁠Accenture–Fujitsu Project Hopes to Solve Blockchain Interoperability A new project from Accenture and Fujitsu aims to solve DLT interoperability and joins the Hyperledger Greenhouse.

⁠How Digital Asset Funds Are Doing During the COVID-19 Crisis Despite a correlation between crypto hedge funds and traditional public markets, crypto assets have more benefits in a time of crisis.

⁠Pine64 Drops BitPay Before First Bitcoin Payment Over Twitter ‘Outcry’ The latest revolt against the controversial BitPay appears to result in open-source competitor BTCPay getting its business.

⁠Public or Private Blockchains: Salesforce Exec Sparks Community Debate Public blockchains came under the attack of Salesforce exec, and EY and VeChain stepped up to explain how businesses are using them.

⁠Post-Halving Reality: 17% Of Miner Revenue is Coming From Fees In the post-halving reality, Bitcoin miners revenue has dropped by over 60 percent.

⁠Vitalik Says He Has ‘Some Respect’ for How EOS Handles Governance Ethereum's co-founder recently tipped his hat to EOS for its niche-carving efforts.

⁠Dear JK Rowling: Bitcoin is Magic Don't worry, Mrs. Rowling. We'll have you understanding Bitcoin before you can say "Quidditch".

⁠Mexican Companies Launch Crypto Donation Platform For People Impacted by COVID-19 A crypto exchange from Mexico launched an initiative to gather COVID-19-related donations through cryptocurrencies.