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⁠Ether Mining Pool Decides to Pocket One of the $2.6M Fee Transactions The Ether mining pool that received the second $2.6 million fee abnormal transaction announced that it will distribute these funds to miners after fo…

⁠Knoxville Is the Latest American City to Suffer a Ransomware Attack The city of Knoxville had to shut down its IT infrastructure following a ransomware attack launched by an unknown gang.

⁠Aeternity Co-Founder Raising €100M VC Fund Focused on Emerging Markets Nikola Stojanow has launched a €100 million venture capital fund to support blockchain opportunities in underdeveloped regions of Europe, Asia, MENA…

⁠Hardware Wallet Maker Ledger Joins the Universal Protocol Alliance The high-profile wallet maker will be integrating its security and infrastructure solutions with Universal Protocol technology and assets.

⁠South Korea to Review Legal Issues Surrounding Potential CBDC Launch The Bank of Korea has tapped six experts to assess possible legal issues surrounding the launch of a central bank digital currency.

⁠Leading Middle East Telecoms Firm Zain Joins Hedera Governing Council Major telecoms provider Zain has joined the governing council for distributed ledger platform Hedera Hashgraph.

⁠Bitcoin Price Dips Below $9K Amid Heavy Stock Market Futures Losses Bearish moves for stocks appear in line with rumors of an incoming crash, with Bitcoin hitting its lowest levels in almost 3 weeks.

⁠Baseline Co-Founder Says Crypto Is 'Pre-CompuServe' an Still in Its Early Days The co-founder of the Baseline Protocol believes that crypto is still 15–20 years away from finding significant mainstream adoption.

⁠Ripple to Expand On-Demand Liquidity to Brazil ‘Very Soon’ According to Ripple Head of Global Banking Marjan Delatinne, the company’s On-Demand Liquidity may soon be available in Brazil.

⁠Bitcoin Transaction Fees Drop Under $1, Returning to April Levels After increasing more than 1600% between April 5 and May 20, Bitcoin transaction fees have now dropped to $0.56.

⁠Crypto Lending Platform Compound to Start Distributing Tokens The Compound community approved a proposal calling for the distribution of the COMP token to all users of the DeFi protocol.

⁠China Could Roll Out Its CBDC Without Anyone Realizing Ledger’s Glen Woo believes that China’s central bank digital currency could be deployed using existing payment rails without citizens noticing the change.

⁠Chinese Companies to Bet Big on Blockchain Despite COVID-19 Crisis 350 Chinese companies surveyed still believe in the higher potential that blockchain technology could offer to their businesses.

⁠BTC in Peril, Quadriga “Ponzi,” Coinbase Punished: Hodler’s Digest, June 8–14 The Bitcoin uptrend could be in peril, QuadrigaCX described as a “Ponzi scheme,” and Coinbase is punished for outages.

⁠Revamping E-Commerce During the Rise of Stablecoins The third decade of the 21st century will make cryptocurrency the main payment method worldwide because of its benefits over fiat.

⁠BTC Futures Volume Posts 2020 Low, ETH Open Interest Surges Daily trade volume for Bitcoin futures contracts has dropped to a new year-to-date low. However, open interest in both BTC and Ether futures are rallying into…

⁠Chinese Banks Says They Will Not Freeze Legal Crypto Accounts Chinese banks are clarifying that they are not shutting down any legal crypto accounts.

⁠Community Donates 0.7 BTC to Phishing Victim Who Lost Entire Bitcoin Holdings Crypto community members have donated 0.7 BTC to the victim of a phishing scam who lost his entire Bitcoin savings.

⁠BRD's CEO Dismissed Crypto Until Overhearing Andreessen Horowitz Execs BRD CEO Adam Traidman was won over by Bitcoin after overhearing a conversation at Andreessen Horowitz.

⁠Top 5 Cryptocurrencies to Watch This Week: BTC, XTZ, XLM, ADA, NEO Bitcoin is likely to make a decisive move in the next few days and start a trending move that could remain in force for a few weeks.

⁠Turkish Stablecoin Issuer Predicts New Blockchain Regulations The co-founder of Turkish stablecoin project BiLira predicts that Turkey’s government will soon introduce new regulations for blockchain within the next year…

⁠A Record Number of Investors Are Holding At Least 0.1 BTC Data posted by Glassnode has revealed that the number of wallets containing 0.1 coins is posting new all-time highs for both Bitcoin and Ether addresses.

⁠Filecoin Mainnet Launch ‘Is on Track’ Filecoin's mainnet is on pace, with its testnet competition possibly commencing in July.

⁠Trading Volumes Can Move Over — The Hottest Metric Is Now Liquidity By using more accurate market data to rank exchanges, crypto data aggregators will certainly be a step toward a more transparent and decentralized futu…

⁠Nevermind Coinbase — Big Brother Is Already Watching Your Coins Government surveillance may be more rampant in the crypto space than most users realize, says a source familiar with ongoing tactics.

⁠Bitcoin Price Near ‘Monster Move’ After Weeks of Range Trading — Analyst Traders say Bitcoin is due for highly volatile price action in the near-term as the price approaches a pivotal point.

⁠Someone Is Buying Shares in Grayscale's Ether Trust for More Than $2,000 Grayscale Investments’ Ethereum Investment Trust shares are currently trading at roughly 150% of ETH’s all-time price high, signaling strong insti…

⁠Ethereum 2.0: The Choice Between One’s Own Node and a Staking Service While a minimum stake of 32 ETH is needed to become a validator on Ethereum 2.0, staking pools and services make the participation possible for every…

⁠Driven by Financial Institutions, Stablecoin Acceptance Turns a Corner Crypto has turned from an inevitable future to our happening present, and stablecoins may become the industry’s cornerstone.

⁠Blockchain Can Disrupt Higher Education Today, Global Labor Market Tomorrow Blockchain can play its part in the education sector — record-keeping in 2–3 years and then adoption by the labor market?