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⁠Another Class Action Against Block.​One Alleges Dirty Dealings During EOS ICO Filed this morning, the second class action against block.one estimates that U.S. investors made up $200 million of the EOS ICO, in violation…

⁠Time Is up for Crypto Firms to Register in the Netherlands Under New AML Rules Today is the deadline for Dutch crypto companies to register with the Dutch Bank per new AML rules.

⁠CZ May Have Pulled An Elon Musk-Style Gaffe On Twitter Did CZ inadvertently admit to being involved in the management of CoinMarketCap?

⁠Celsius CEO: Catering to ‘The 1%’ Was Not the Plan After surpassing 50,000 BTC in user deposits, Celsius’ CEO told Cointelegraph that the DeFi app has fallen short on its goals for adoption among smaller users.

⁠Austrian Bank Raiffeisen Works on National Digital Currency Pilot Raiffeisen Bank International is extending collaboration with Polish-British fintech Billon for a new form of DLT-based national currency tokenization.

⁠Price Analysis 5/18: BTC, ETH, XRP, BCH, BSV, LTC, BNB, EOS, XTZ, XLM Most major cryptocurrencies are struggling to break out of their immediate resistance levels, which could result in a minor pullback for the next few…

​​Blockchain banking — Is that really a thing? We are sure that you have repeatedly asked the same question, which is why the CfC St. Moritz, PwC Switzerland and Cointelegraph have decided to come together to talk about…

⁠SoftBank Loses Alibaba’s Jack Ma and Posts Worst Losses in History Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma resigns from SoftBank’s board of directors as the firm posts the worst operating losses in its history.

⁠McAfee's Privacy Coin Ghost Is Plagiarized, PIVX Developers Claim John McAfee’s anonymity-oriented Ghost project plagiarizes PIVX blockchain in “at least 20 of the 26 total pages” of its whitepaper, PIVX developers clai…

⁠Is 3 Confirmations Still Enough if F2Pool Can Mine 6 Consecutive BTC Blocks? A single mining pool managed to mine six consecutive blocks on the Bitcoin network, raising the question of whether that’s a challenge to secu…

⁠From Cash to Crypto: COVID-19 Is Changing the Way the World Sees Money The COVID-19 pandemic is making cash-based societies all over the world sink into oblivion with the help of decentralized technologies.

⁠Winklevoss Biographer Writes Newest, BTC-Heavy Episode of 'Billions' Crypto fans witnessed another episode of “Billions” featuring a plot focused on a Bitcoin mining operation.

⁠Free TON Launches First Contests to Distribute Tokens Among Contributors Free TON launches first community contests, planning to distribute thousands of TON Crystals among winners and participants.

⁠Huobi’s Derivatives Platform Rebranded as Huobi Futures to Attract More Investors Huobi Group rebranded its derivatives trading platform as Huobi Futures in a bid to attract more investors to cryptocurrency derivates tr…

⁠Bitcoin Block Generation Speed Falls to 2017 Lows Only 95 blocks were generated on the Bitcoin blockchain on Sunday due to the recent halving, an analyst argues.

⁠China’s Top Digital Bank to Foster DLT Innovation in Singapore’s Universities Top Chinese digital bank WeBank is partnering with OpenNodes to drive blockchain innovation among Singaporean universities.

⁠BitMEX Accepting Applications for Open-Source Developer Grants BitMEX’s parent company is accepting applications for grant funding from developers contributing to open source technologies.

⁠XRP TipBot Rescued From Dutch Regulations Through Partnership With Uphold XRP TipBot has avoided closure due to the Netherlands' strict implementation of AMLD5 via a partnership with Uphold.

⁠Non-Custodial Bitcoin to Ethereum Bridge Shut Down After Two Days The team behind tBTC, a decentralized Bitcoin-to-Ethereum bridge, pulled the plug on the system after a yet-undisclosed bug was discovered by software de…

⁠Central Banks Uninterested in Digital Currency for Consumers, Says Visa Exec Digital currency solutions that directly face consumers will not be taken seriously by central banks, according to a Visa executive.

⁠U.S. Consumer Protection Agency Recognizes XRP’s Potential in Remittance A U.S. consumer protection agency shout outs Ripple and XRP cross-border settlements in a recent regulatory update.

⁠BitMEX Faces Lawsuit for Alleged Racketeering and Extensive Illicit Activities BitMEX and its executives have been accused of engaging in or abetting crimes that include racketeering, money laundering, wire fraud and un…

⁠Fed Chair: ‘We Have the Ability to Create Money Digitally’ Fed Chair Jerome Powell said the bank has flooded the economy with money and would continue lending programs for as long as they’re needed.

⁠Andreessen Horowitz Report: Crypto Not as Chaotic as it Appears Top venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz looked at four key metrics for three cycles of cryptocurrency showing consistent growth.

⁠Japanese E-Book Publisher Moving to DLT as Demand Increases With many schools and bookstores still closed in Japan, Media Do Holdings is looking to satisfy the demand for e-books with DLT.

⁠Japan’s Top Credit Card Issuer Building Blockchain Payment System Japan-based JCB is partnering with local venture capital firm TECHFUND to create a sustainable blockchain-based transaction system.