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​​SBI Ripple Asia and the Japan Payment Card Consortium have announced a joint proof of concept to combat fraud with blockchain technology

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​​“Big Four” auditor EY will hire 2,000 employees in India to expand its digital solution services in areas including blockchain and AI

⁠BitMEX research indicates frosty reception for the ICOs still yet to launch their tokens after raising over $50 million each

⁠Chief Commercial Officer of global crypto payment processor BitPay, Sonny Singh, has ventured that Bitcoin could hit $15,000 to $20,000 by the end of next year

⁠The Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange has been awarded a licence to trade DLT-based digital assets

⁠Turbulent times at Coinbase as head of policy, formerly head of legal, Mike Lempres leaves for Andreessen Horowitz

⁠Switzerland’s national railway company has completed a pilot of a blockchain-based identity management system

⁠Following the recent market crash, Chinese crypto miners are reportedly offloading their mining equipment “by kilo,” as some models have reached “shutdown price”

⁠What is going on with the crypto markets? Various experts discuss driving factors behind the recent slump

⁠Norway has struck a blow to its domestic crypto mining industry by acting to end electricity subsidies for Bitcoin (BTC) mining facilities as of January 2019

⁠Ethereum sheds further value, but some top twenty assets signal recovery; Bitcoin is holding above $4,500

⁠Plans for Bitcoin to be sold at French tobacco shops are apparently going ahead, despite complaints from the central bank

⁠Hacked Japanese crypto exchange Zaif completes transfer to Fisco, which will begin compensating hack victims

⁠Singapore’s state investment firm Temasek has invested in enterprise blockchain software firm and global banking consortium R3, as part of a blockchain and AI focus strategy

⁠Coinbase plaintiffs launch fresh insider trading lawsuit less than one month after a judge throws out the original filing

⁠Police in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh have filed a chargesheet against four suspects accused of scamming a victim out of $0.8 - 1.4 million in a crypto investment fraud

⁠CryptoOracle partner Lou Kerner compared Bitcoin after the current slump in crypto markets to Amazon after the dot-com bubble burst in the early 2000s

⁠Banking groups Santander and BBVA, both headquartered in Spain, joined the E.U. International Association for Trusted Blockchain Applications set to launch early 2019

⁠Cryptocurrency markets experience slight gains on the day, with all top ten coins in the green

⁠The Colorado Division of Securities has issued cease and desist orders to four allegedly fraudulent Initial Coin Offerings

⁠Controversy over Bitcoin Cash’s (BCH) hard fork continued after one of the two new forks of the altcoin suffered what is known as a blockchain reorganization

​​New crypto game is powered by different blockchain platforms simultaneously. Players can use EOS or Ethereum for interactions with each other or equipping their characters #SPONSORED

​​Carrefour, a French-based retail giant, will use blockchain technology in its Spanish shops, allowing customers to track the origin of its free-range chickens

​​Binance, the world’s leading crypto exchange, is going to use Refinitiv’s KYC product to streamline the screening process for onboarding, KYC and third-party risk due diligence

​​Two energy divisions of German tech giant Siemens partner with an open-source blockchain platform Energy Web Foundation to promote the technology in the sector

​​The Tezos Korea Foundation has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Yonsei University to collaboratively work on the development of blockchain talents

​​An upcoming crypto exchange is going to be “the first of its kind” by being 100 percent owned by users – driving down fees and returning profits to the community #SPONSORED

​​A Washington-based crypto mining company has filed for bankruptcy and is facing eviction in the state’s Douglas County

​​​​The South Korean government will use blockchain technology for tracing beef throughout the supply chain