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⁠Bitcoin Will Create a New Economic Elite in 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed serious problems of the currently existing financial system as well as the Bitcoin’s benefits over it.

⁠Baseline Demo Showcases Secure Enterprise Collaboration on Ethereum The Baseline Protocol has completed a proof-of-concept showing how multiple stakeholders can securely execute purchase orders without exposing sensitiv…

⁠Play-to-Earn Crypto Gamers Flip Virtual Properties for Fiat Rewards A blockchain game adopts a play-to-earn model that lets users receive fiat for virtual property transactions.

⁠Binance and Eosfinex Join EOS DeFi Protocol to Handle Smart Contract Upgrades An EOS DeFi project wants to make use of the blockchain’s smart contract upgrade features, enlisting the help of Binance, Eosfinex and others…

⁠Bitcoin Survived Halving, but Death Spiralists Still Say BTC Is Doomed Bitcoin survived last week’s halving, but it’s only a matter of time before BTC miners flee, say “death spiralists.” Are they right?

⁠Immunity Passports May Be Blockchain's Killer-App, Says Overstock CEO Overstock CEO Jonathan Johnson said that immunity passports to prove lack of coronavirus infection may push blockchain technology out of Bitcoin’s sh…

⁠Token Impersonates Chinese Digital Yuan as Official Launch Date Remains Unknown The launch date of China's long-awaited digital yuan remains a secret, creating space for potential fraud.

⁠Bitcoin Price Bulls Have Only One Objective Before Next Week Starts Bitcoin is now facing three scenarios with the 20-week moving average likely playing a key role in determining which way the market goes in the next fe…

⁠3 Bitcoin Price Metrics Just Converged — A Bull Run Has Always Followed A basket of one quant analyst’s favorite metrics is still overly bullish, casting aside this week’s Bitcoin price drop.

⁠Iran’s President Asks Gov’t to Plan National Crypto Mining Strategy Iran’s president has tasked officials at the central bank and ministries of energy, communications and IT with drafting plans for a national cryptocurr…

⁠Inflation-Busting Cryptocurrency Zimbocash Receives Listing on Bithumb Zimbabwe’s Zimbocash project got closer to its goal of providing a sound-money alternative to the hyperinflation of the local currency.

⁠Global Central Banking Think Tank Launches Digital Monetary Institute A global think tank for central banking, OMFIF, has announced the launch of its Digital Money Institute, aimed at bridging the gap between digital cu…

⁠Digital Currencies Could Threaten US Geopolitical Power, Warns JPMorgan “There is no country with more to lose from the disruptive potential of digital currency than the United States,” say analysts at JPMorgan Chase &…

⁠Jack Dorsey Gives $5M to Support UBI ⁠— Could Crypto Deliver it? The Twitter CEO announced on May 21 that he would be giving $5 million to Humanity Forward, a UBI-proponent established by Andrew Yang.

⁠Huobi, OKEx and Upbit Join Top 10 in Messari’s ‘Real Volume’ Revamp Messari adds 10 new exchanges to its ‘real volume’ metric and overhauls methodology.

⁠Coinbase CEO Suggests Dodging ‘Mean/Snarky’ Media Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong is one of many crypto executives who prefers writing a blog to answering questions from mainstream journalists.

⁠Bitcoin.com’s New CEO is Third So Far in 2020 Amid ‘Lagging Morale’ Bitcoin.com is being led by its third CEO in three months, with the promotion of Chief Product Officer Dennis Jarvis.

⁠Craig Wright Already Has Key to Encrypted ‘Satoshi’ File — Kleiman Ira Kleiman’s legal team claims Craig Wright already has access to the encrypted file at the heart of the case, citing the movement of $1.6 million BTC…

⁠Times Square Billboard Calls for Release of Silk Road Founder A billboard demanding for the release of Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht will reside in Times Square for several months.

⁠Myanmar Central Bank Claims Crypto is Banned, Users Disagree Myanmar’s central bank claims crypto traders can be fined or imprisoned, but there are doubts about whether legislation backs this up.

⁠Cardano is Working on a Microchip That Would Give Crypto a Cash-like Experience Cardano is working on a crypto-native microchip that would enable crypto transitions without the internet access, potentially delivering fi…

⁠UAE Startup Relies on Blockchain Technology to Flatten COVID-19 Curve Blockchain-based solution may help to contain the growing cases of COVID-19 across the UAE.

⁠Blockchain.com to Support Russian Ruble Despite Local Crypto Uncertainty Blockchain.com follows Binance in listing the Russian ruble, while local government considers strict regulations for the industry.

⁠Blockchain Intelligence Firm Wants to Prove Tim Draper Wrong on DeFi Blockchain intelligence firm asserts that stablecoins are not a replacement of the dollar, instead they present a censorship resistance alternative to…

⁠Several Chinese Media Outlets Setup a "Blockchain-Powered News" Department A group of media outlets from China established an alliance to operate a news department based on blockchain technology.

⁠Recent Unemployment Numbers Might Not Mean Anything for Bitcoin Millions more Americans posted unemployment status last week, but does that mean anything for Bitcoin?

⁠Bittrex Is Puzzled Over 24M Stolen STEEM Tokens on Its Holding Account Bittrex to carefully review the facts of a 24M STEEM transaction from an unknown Steem account, co-founder Richie Lai says.

⁠Albania Approves Europe’s Most Comprehensive Crypto Law Yet Albania passes new comprehensive law written by the Minister of Finance and Economy to regulate crypto activities.

⁠Bitcoin Would Be More Resilient to Global Electric Failure Than Banks In a world without electricity and the Internet, Bitcoin would find alternatives to flourish, argues Andreas Antonopoulos.