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⁠David Marcus, head of Facebook’s crypto wallet Calibra, stressed that Facebook will launch the Libra cryptocurrency project only after they address all regulatory concerns

⁠Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian’s venture fund has led a $3.75 million seed round to support blockchain video game studio Horizon Blockchain Games

⁠Rep. Maxine Waters opened today’s hearing on Facebook’s Libra project by noting the firm’s past behavior regarding user data and privacy

⁠Tor Project expands its new Bitcoin-based crowdfunding campaign after it reached $10,000 in 2 days

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⁠In the premiere episode of the new Cointelegraph series “Coffee and Crypto,” Olivia Capozzalo and Molly Jane Zuckerman discuss the latest news in the crypto industry

⁠Lawmakers grilled Facebook in the U.S. Senate over the company’s plans to launch Libra given their privacy track record

⁠Venezuelan P2P trade continues to flourish despite government efforts to drive adoption of the country’s controversial oil-backed cryptocurrency

⁠Stablecoin operator Tether announced that its USDT token will be released on its fifth blockchain, Algorand

⁠Coinbase quiet on motivation for cancelling U.K. Faster Payments support

⁠The Swiss group that’s supposed to oversee privacy for Libra says it hasn’t heard from Facebook at all

Bitcoin’s average transaction volume is topping $3 billion per day, data from crypto analytics site Coinmetrics(.)io reveals

⁠India Bitcoin ban comments by Tim Draper backfire online

⁠France is poised to approve initial coin offerings operators and other crypto businesses with its new regulatory approach to the sector

⁠Algorithms that can decode social media market sentiment are making waves in the institutional crypto landscape

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⁠Crypto markets keep feeling the squeeze amid talk for 80% downturn

⁠U.S.-based regulated crypto derivatives and clearing platform LedgerX is giving retail investors the chance to bet on Bitcoin hitting $100,000 by 2020

⁠Grayscale has recorded a tripling of assets under management since past quarter, with a current figure of $2.7 billion

⁠Senator Brown discussed concerns about Facebook have too much control over consumer finances following the Senate Banking Hearing on Facebook’s Libra

⁠IBM has tripled their number of blockchain-related patents in US this year, taking the number one spot

⁠Internet crowdsourcing company Share Internet Data has launched a banking app in an effort to provide free service to the unbanked

⁠Bitcoin drops below $10,000 in an abrupt pullback, what are the factors behind the drop? Analysts discuss where the market isheadling and the factors of the drop

⁠Polkadot presents an early experimental version of the protocol called Kusama, designed for real economic conditions

⁠Praise towards Bitcoin and heavy criticism towards Facebook’s Libra stablecoin from United States House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy

⁠Bitpoint CEO told Cointelegraph that users will be compensated — learn more in our report on the recent hack

⁠Consulting services firm Acumen Research and Consulting has forecast that the global blockchain in healthcare market will reach over $1.7 billion by 2026

⁠Seven Venezuelans claim to have been lured into a $30 million Ponzi scheme with a cryptocurrency pegged to diamonds

⁠Senate Banking Committee members discussed regulation of big tech companies in a press conference following today’s Libra hearings

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