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⁠Bitcoin Still Faces On-Chain Scaling Trouble Ahead, Decred Co-Founder Says Can Bitcoin's network handle mainstream adoption?

⁠MoneyGram Sees 100% Growth Against 2019 Usage MoneyGram saw a significant rise in user transaction numbers for May 2020 compared to the same period last year, coinciding with a partnership with Ripple that began last Ju…

⁠Illegal Crypto Miner Caught After Stealing More Than $400K of Electricity Russian police arrested a 30-year-old crypto miner who they accuse of stealing over $494,000 in electricity from the state power network.

⁠Ethereum Layer-Two Solutions Lack Real World Usability, Says Skale CTO Cointelegraph interviewed Konstantin Kladko, CTO at Skale, to learn about his controversial opinion on why Ethereum layer-two solutions are unlikely…

Australians and New Zealanders Can Now Use Crypto in Vending Machines Major soft drink distributor Coca-Cola Amatil will now accept payments in crypto at its vending machines across Australia and New Zealand.

⁠Users Punish Coinbase for Outage by Withdrawing Record Amount of BTC Coinbase experienced its highest single-day net BTC withdrawal in the wake of the outage incident, with even the author of “Black Swan” quitting the e…

⁠MIT Research Says Online Voting Needs More Decentralization to Protect Ballots New research from MIT says a decentralized protocol is a must for secure online voting, however the current online voting platform is too ce…

⁠Ransomware Gangs Are Teaming Up to Form Cartel-Style Structures The latest moves from ransomware groups suggest that gangs are forging alliances to create a mafia-style structure.

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⁠No, Blockchain Technology Cannot Solve Everything Distributed ledger technology has the potential to solve a lot of economic and social problems, but there are some that we have to solve ourselves.

⁠Last Time This Happened BTC Gained $4k The last time this much Bitcoin was withdrawn from exchanges, the price rose 88%. If this pattern repeats, we would see Bitcoin go to $18,000 by the end of August.

The blockchain industry’s belief in its own inevitability could become a fatal blindspot. In 1981 Buckminster Fuller presented the notion of a "planetary accounting system that would be integrated with the energy network…

⁠South African Solar Energy Blockchain Startup Raises $3 Million, Plans to Expand Across Continent The blockchain peer-to-peer renewable energy platform has now closed its $4 million Series-A funding round.

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⁠It Looks Like Some Stolen Bitfinex Coins Are Already Back at Bitfinex $1 Billion worth of BTC stolen from Bitfinex in 2016 could be dumped onto the market by the thieves, while apparently a few BTC found their way back…

​​How Blockchain Is Changing the Advertising Industry Can blockchain reshape the advertising industry to make it profitable and honest for all? #Sponsored

⁠Cointelegraph Talks to Dive Deep Into Inclusion and Diversity in Crypto Cointelegraph Talks’ third event will stream later today, featuring discussions on the topics of inclusion and diversity in crypto from some of the…

⁠Zilliqa (ZIL) Beats Bitcoin With 950% Gains Since March, What’s Next? Zilliqa may be due for a correction after monstrous gains as (ZIL) price is running into some considerable resistance levels on the charts.

⁠Baseline Integrates Microsoft and Google Spreadsheets Using Ethereum Mainnet The Baseline protocol has released integrations for Google Sheets and Microsoft 365, allowing multiple entities to privately verify that their…

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⁠Bison Trails Adds Support for NEAR Blockchain Protocol Libra association member Bison Trails aims to offer users the opportunity to participate in the NEAR network.

⁠South Korean City Opens Public Services to Blockchain-Based ID App South Korea’s second-largest city, Busan, will let its citizens access government services using a blockchain-based identification app developed by Coin…

⁠Australians, New Zealanders Can Now Use Bitcoin in Vending Machines Vending machines operated by major Asia Pacific soft drink bottler and distributor Coca-Cola Amatil will now be accepting payments in crypto.

⁠A Luxury Yacht or a Snickers? Bitcoin Beats Gold in New $1 Comparison The latest analysis from Willy Woo shines an amusing light on gold’s performance as an investment over the past eleven years.

⁠Dash Sees 100% Rise in Commercial Payments Through Latin American Partnerships Dash has announced a 104% rise in commercial payments through Q1 2020, along with increased adoption, trading volume and price performance.

⁠‘Bitcoin Billionaires’ Movie to Tell Winklevoss Bros’ Crypto Story The Winklevoss twins are bringing Bitcoin Billionaires to the silver screen along with former Warner Bros. president Greg Silverman.

⁠Jonathan Herzog May Be The Most Crypto-Friendly Congressional Candidate Yet Congressional candidate Jonathan Herzog believes that the U.S. government needs to embrace crypto and blockchain not to fall behind other natio…

⁠Crypto Garage Launches Commercial Service for Settlenet System Commercial service on Crypto Garage’s Settlenet system, trialled for a year within Japan’s regulatory sandbox, is now available.

⁠ConsenSys Starts Compliance Service Focusing on DeFi Joseph Lubin’s firm ConsenSys is entering the compliance market with the launch of a service for DeFi projects on the Ethereum network.

⁠Prices Rise, Protests Rage and Musicians Take Control: Bad Crypto News of the Week Check out this week’s Bad Crypto podcast.