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⁠Another Exchange Delists Monero Amidst Ongoing Sex Scandal Another cryptocurrency exchange delists XMR in South Korea in the midst of the Nth room sex scandal case.

⁠TON’s Journey Over Before It Began as Others Take Up Telegram’s Mantle Telegram’s TON network and coin were destined to fail with regulators, experts say. So, what’s left of the project?

⁠Motions Fly High as Craig Wright Set to Face Kleiman Estate in Court Jockeying for position continues, but it looks like Kleiman v. Wright is going to trial. Still, never say never as most lawsuits settle.

⁠Italian Govt Commits €15M to Protect 'Made in Italy' with Blockchain To combat counterfeit goods, the Italian government has allocated €15M to develop and implement blockchain and other tech-based solutions.

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⁠New Blockchain Marketplace Aims to Tackle Morality Issues of Deepfake Media Cointelegraph interviewed Arif Khan, CEO of blockchain marketplace Alethea AI, about how to address the legal and moral quagmire that “deepfake…

⁠Realistic Ethereum 2.0 Multi-Client Testnet 'Targeting for June An Ethereum 2.0 developer call reveals that the Schlesi testnet was successful enough to hope for a more official multi-client testnet in June based on 0.1…

⁠Open Interest on CME Bitcoin Options Is Up 1000% So Far This Month CME Bitcoin options open interest has soared to $142 million in the first half of May, marking an increase of over 10 times the value at the end of last…

⁠Hackers Sell Data of 129 Million Russian Car Owners for Bitcoin A database of 129 million Russian car drivers is being exposed on the darknet for just 0.3 Bitcoin or about $2,900.

⁠Bitcoin Bears Say These 5 Metrics Will Stop BTC From Reclaiming $10K The price of Bitcoin risks a continued downtrend as five metrics indicate higher chances of a short-term long squeeze.

⁠Reddit’s Blockchain Rewards Will Migrate to Ethereum by 2021 Reddit continues to provide more details about its blockchain community points system, which will run on the Rinkeby testnet before moving to the Ethereum net…

⁠Debate Over Digital Privacy Amid Coronavirus Pandemic Remains ‘Archaic’ Cointelegraph interviewed Alogrand founder and Turing Award recipient Professor Silvio Micali to discuss blockchain-based solutions to contact-trac…

⁠Why Privacy Is the Main Issue in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic Losing privacy may be a big concern in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, but a new class of technology is positioning us well for a more anonymous…

⁠CZ Calls Africa an ‘Untapped Market’ With Unique Challenges for Crypto Binance founder CZ sees the African continent as an untapped environment for exchanges to drive cryptocurrency adoption.

⁠Australian Woman Arrested in 'Cash for Bitcoin' Money Laundering Sting Sydney police have arrested an Australian woman for allegedly running a crime syndicate using Bitcoin to launder $3.23 million since 2017.

⁠HEX Still Can't Shake Scam Label as Token Approaches $1B Market Cap A market cap surge from April still leaves HEX critics labeling the cryptocurrency a borderline Ponzi scheme.

⁠South Korea's Fintech Sandbox Creates 380 New Blockchain Jobs South Korea's regulatory sandbox has graduated several projects, resulting in the creation of 380 blockchain-related jobs and over $110 million in new invest…

⁠Ransomware Gang Demands $42M or it Releases Trump’s ‘Dirty Laundry’ The ransomware gang responsible for stealing almost 1TB of legal secrets from celebrities and entertainers last week is now targeting the President.

⁠Pantera Capital Founder Says Regulators ‘Triggered’ by Grams and Libra ‘The U.S. government will not let random startups’ challenge the dollar, says Dr. Waterhouse.

⁠Surprise CryptoKitties Drop Overwhelms Winklevoss-Backed Exchange Two years after CryptoKitties ‘broke Ethereum’ and the launch of a new CryptoKitty token has overwhelmed the Winklevoss-backed NFT exchange Nifty

⁠Coinbase Report Suggests Bitcoin Acts as a Gateway to Altcoins Bitcoin acts as a gateway to altcoins, with only 24% of investors keeping the faith, according to research from Coinbase.

⁠Visa Files Patent Application For Digital Currency Visa has filed a patent application to create digital currency — potentially using Ethereum as the blockchain.

⁠CoinMarketCap Initially Rejected the Metric That Now Puts Binance at No.1 CoinMarketCap last year rejected the web traffic metric that has catapulted new owners Binance into the top spot.

⁠IOV Labs Explains New Off-Chain Bitcoin-Based Payment Channel IOV Labs recently launched a mobile payment avenue that does not require a full node to implement — but what does that all entail?

⁠The VC Who Argued ‘'Death Spiral' Scenario May Be Right After All Does the sluggishness of Bitcoin network support the ‘death spiral’ scenario described by a VC?

⁠Bitcoin May Thrive Despite Coronavirus One crypto industry CEO thinks COVID-19 has brought Bitcoin further into the public eye.

⁠Negative Interest Rates Give BTC an Opportunity to Shine, Report Claims Negative interest rates may turn Bitcoin into an attractive alternative for institutional investors, claims a recent report.

⁠Kim Jong Un May Be Using Stolen Crypto to Offset Economic Fallout The latest reports suggest that North Korea could be encouraging the Lazarus group to steal crypto globally.

⁠Atari Partnership Paves Way For Token Adoption Atari's new partnership sets the stage for builders to incorporate the gaming powerhouse's token.

⁠China Officially Recognizes Blockchain Jobs as New Occupation China to officially set blockchain engineers as a new occupation to promote employment amid global COVID-19 pandemic.