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⁠Philippines: Senator Proposes Stricter Penalties For Crimes Involving Crypto Philippine Senator filed a bill to strengthen penalties for crypto crimes due to more complex investigations. #NEWS

⁠Square Cash Adds BTC Buy/Sell Option For Wyoming Customers, ‘Working On’ New York In response to a comment on Twitter, Square Cash app hints that it is applying for New York’s BitLicense. #NEWS

⁠Legitimising the ICO Token: Finding Utility Over Security With the boom of ICOs through 2017, a new method of crowdfunding was born, but this method has caught the attention of regulators causing a slowing of Blockchain…

⁠UK Coinbase Users Receive Faster Crypto-Fiat Transfers In First For Country Crypto exchange Coinbase, now the first crypto exchange to open a UK bank account, will add support for UK’s Faster Payments Scheme #NEWS

⁠Company Uses Blockchain and Social Media to Create ‘Word-of-Mouth’ Marketing Campaigns The company promises the platform could be used by every kind of business in need of creative content or even every online activity-…

⁠Circle Opens Crypto Investment App To 46 US States, Leverages BitLicense To Enter New York New investment app from Circle enters majority of US markets. #NEWS

⁠Coinbase Receives E-Money License For Fiat Activities From UK, Its ‘Biggest Market’ Crypto exchange and wallet Coinbase has been granted an e-money license from UK regulator that applies only to its fiat activities #NEW…

⁠Google To Ban All Crypto-Related Ads Starting June 2018 Crypto-related ads will have no place on Google starting in June 2018, according to a policy update to reduce “consumer harm” #NEWS

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Although China has banned ICOs and both domestic and foreign crypto exchanges, its legislation still supports Blockchain. Do you think it is possible that in the future China will reverse its bans? anonymous poll Yes – 2…

⁠What Should Be in an ICO White Paper? Expert Take Promoters of ICOs should avoid hyperbole when describing their solutions. #EXPERT_TAKE

⁠World's Largest Crypto Exchange Binance To Launch Decentralized Trading Platform Cryptocurrency exchange Binance is planning to launch a new decentralized exchange on its own Blockchain. #NEWS

⁠Blockchain Platform to Connect Self-employed Domestic Workers and Customers With No Fees App to clean up service sector and look after self-employed. #SPONSORED

⁠Coinbase Wallet Fixes SegWit Implementation Bug, Refunds Affected Users Coinbase has fixed the payment gateway bug that emerged after SegWit implementation, less than 30 users affected. #NEWS

⁠IMF Chief Lagarde On ‘Dark Side’ Of Crypto: Blockchain is ‘Exciting’ But Needs Regulations IMF Chief Lagarde sees crypto regulation as a must, customers need protection and money laundering must be prevented. #NEWS

⁠R3 v. Ripple Lawsuit To Be Decided In NY As XRP Loses Its Appeal To CA Court The San Francisco state appeals court denied Ripple’s petition to appeal the order that dismissed its lawsuit against R3. #NEWS

⁠US: Wyoming Set Precedent By Creating New Asset Class For Cryptos, Hopes to Inspire Feds Wyoming leads US states in introducing crypto-friendly legislation in an effort to attract tech business to the state. #NEWS

⁠Running Up That Hill: Here Are All Members of Congress Involved in Crypto Where do members of the US Congress stand on crypto? Here’s a peek, we’ve counted them all! #ANALYSIS

⁠Platform Plans to Unite World Karate Community Through Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Bringing together the ancient and the new: when karate meets crypto #SPONSORED

⁠Bitcoin ‘Not The Answer To Cashless Economy’ Says European Banks’ Top Brass Neither centralized nor decentralized cryptocurrencies are likely to facilitate a cashless economy, according to new ECB comments. #NEWS

⁠Bank For International Settlements Distances Itself From Centralized Digital Currencies Joint European banking report wary of digital currencies issued by banks. #NEWS

⁠G20 To Focus On Crypto AML, ‘Too Stringent Regulations’ Not Good, Says Japanese Gov’t Official Japan to encourage discussion of a common crypto AML strategy during the upcoming G20 summit. #NEWS

⁠Thailand’s SEC To Release Crypto Market Regulatory Framework In March Thailand will be drafting and releasing crypto market regulatory legislation later this month. #NEWS

⁠Coinbase Releases Tax Calculator But Many Users Will Likely Not Qualify Limited tax calculation tools released by Coinbase. #NEWS

⁠China’s IT Ministry Wants A Blockchain Standard System ‘As Soon As Possible’ China’s IT Ministry has formed a committee to develop national Blockchain standards. #NEWS

⁠Japanese Electric Company Tests Bitcoin Lightning Network Payments For Car Charging Japanese electric utilities company tests Blockchain recording of EV electricity use, electricity payments with Lightning Network #NEWS