Cointelegraph

​​As analysts Todd Colvin and Bart Smith point out $5,000 as an important price point for “sophisticated” investors to get into Bitcoin, let’s take a look at the charts and see where the markets are going

​​After seeing low profits this year, HTC plans to release a smartphone featuring a crypto wallet and ETH-based DApp CryptoKitties

​​Leading crypto industry figures weigh in on the major implications of cryptocurrencies for - and beyond - the global economy, at the Rise conference today

​​Blockchain in telecoms will expand more than 2000 percent by 2023, says a major new report

​​TenX co-founder Julian Hosp sees Bitcoin hitting $60,000 in 2018, as the coin has already neared his previous forecast of $5,000

​​Sirin Labs, a Swiss-based smartphone developer, will release a blockchain-based phone in November this year

​​The Litecoin Foundation has now acquired a 9.9% stake in Germany’s WEG Bank AG, as a result of a new strategic partnership with crypto-fiat payments firm TokenPay

​​South Korean Lotte Global Logistics, a major logistics and shipping firm, has joined the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA)

⁠Opera has released a beta version of their web browser for Android that includes a native crypto wallet

⁠Coinbase’s app download rate has fallen to its lowest level since April 2017 following a significant decline in the crypto market

⁠The Cagayan Economic Zone Authority has awarded licenses to three crypto exchanges and expects to raise $3 million in investment

​​London School of Economics is set to offer online course on cryptocurrency investing, starting in August 2018

⁠Having sold more than one million hardware wallets in 2017, Ledger to boost its business by attracting the interest of tech giants like Samsung and Siemens

​​Google’s co-founder Sergey Brin has made the surprise revelation that he is an Ethereum miner, saying he believes that the crypto global network is “extraordinary”

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⁠U.S. venture capital firm Lightspeed Venture Partners plans to invest $1.8 billion in new funds, including cryptocurrencies

⁠The EU Fifth Anti-Money Laundering Directive has come into force, setting new rules for European financial watchdogs to monitor cryptocurrencies

⁠Here’s how decentralized crypto platform Bancor is dealing with the security breach

⁠South Korea has taken big steps in legitimising crypto exchanges and blockchain making a better environment for the users through more regulation

⁠Elon Musk has called out Twitter scam bots that impersonate famous people’s accounts to steal crypto from unsuspecting users

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​​Huobi, currently the world’s third largest crypto exchange, has opened trading on its newly created U.S.-based “strategic partner” trading platform, HBUS

​​People’s Bank of China vice governor says they will not tolerate ICOs illegally serving residents

​​Malta will host “world’s first ICCO” on a new crypto exchange jointly built by companies Palladium, Bittrex

​​Payment network CoinGate releases pilot for 100 merchants to trial Bitcoin Lightning Network transactions

​​Crypto markets have taken a deep plunge after ten days of somewhat stable growth, Bitcoin is back to around $6,400

​​NZ exchange Cryptopia brings maintenance forwards, then encounters “unexpected issues” requiring investigation

​​Ethereum’s Joseph Lubin says that with the fundamental “layer one” in the Ethereum ecosystem now established, 2018 will see “layer two” systems ramify and mature

​​Blockchain technology company R3 announced July 10 that it had released a “version” of its Corda blockchain platform aimed specifically at businesses

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