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​​Despite the coronavirus pandemic creating uncertainty for businesses and consumers, one crypto platform says it is continuing to see high levels of user growth #Sponsored

⁠SAFT architect and crypto lawyer Marco Santori is now in charge Kraken’s legal team

⁠Bitcoin.​com’s staff are safe for now, according to CEO Roger Ver, who dismissed recent layoff claims as “more Bcash FUD”

⁠An Ethereum co-founder suggests applying stylometric techniques to find Satoshi, but there is a caveat

⁠Celsius Network platform lists Saga’s SGA stable asset, allowing up to 9.9% annual interest

⁠New Zealand’s financial watchdog warns against “Profit Bitcoin” — an apparent crypto investment scam promising a daily profit of “minimum of $13,000”

⁠Deutsche Bank macro strategist Marion Laboure believes that the risk of cash spreading the coronavirus will probably result in a push for digital currencies

⁠Wells Fargo Advisors is facing counts of fraud, negligence, unjust enrichment and vicarious liability in a lawsuit filed by the victims of a $35 million crypto Ponzi

⁠A fake Coinbase live-stream is attempting to scam viewers out of Bitcoin on YouTube

⁠Blockin is releasing a new user-centric Bitcoin block explorer

⁠Bitcoin miner Argo Blockchain has reported bullish results for March 2020, seemingly unperturbed by the COVID-19 pandemic

⁠Citing a perceived threat to its blockchain, Steem has frozen 17.6 million tokens held by its former witnesses

⁠The funds involved in crypto fundraises and acquisitions in 2019 decreased sharply bringing the EMEA and APAC regions to the forefront of the industry

⁠A major malware campaign is targeting misconfigured Docker servers with an illicit Bitcoin miner, cybersecurity researchers say

⁠Bitcoin solves its own problems once again as hash rate rebounds following March’s price crash to $3,700

⁠Blockchain technology would make global value chains more resilient against disruptions such as COVID-19, argue WEF authors

⁠South Korea's central bank is undertaking a CBDC pilot program, although it currently believes the need to issue a digital currency is slim

⁠Genobank has created an app that allows coronavirus test results to be anonymously uploaded to a blockchain and shared with healthcare organizations

⁠Bitcoin may have broken out at $7,000 but it must make that level into support to avoid a fresh crash, one analyst fears

⁠In an April 2 letter to investors, FastForward Director Ed McDermott stated blockchain company Factom would go into receivership

⁠Project seeking to launch using Poloniex’s IEO platform must raise funds in the form of TRX

⁠In May, the Payment Services Act and the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act — legislation governing crypto in Japan — will be enforced

⁠To prevent the spread of the coronavirus in Latin America, blockchain startup Emerge is working with authorities to release a tracking app

⁠Waves’ predictive tokens let users bet on whether the number of confirmed coronavirus has increased or fallen on a week-to-week basis

⁠The Tor Project is among six non-profits who will receive matched XLM from the Stellar Development Foundation during April

⁠Crypto payment processor Coingate spoke to Cointelegraph to report an increase in purchases from adult stores during the COVID-19 pandemic

⁠Monopoly Market will ban vendor caught selling fake cures or using the coronavirus pandemic as a marketing tool

⁠Telegram sees new support from the Blockchain Association in legal fight with SEC over $1.7 billion ICO for GRAM tokens

⁠In this week’s Hodler’s Digest, a massive crypto merger, bullish Bitcoin isn’t out of the woods yet, and how the coronavirus has hit darknet markets where it hurts

⁠Cointelegraph takes deep dive into the tokenization industry to find out more about its inner workings, key players and future challenges