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⁠Congressman Calls Digital Dollar Hearing 'Encouraging,' but Look Out for Privacy Congressman Warren Davidson recaps yesterday’s hearing on the digital dollar, which seemed to reach new consensus across party lines — but…

⁠Lebanon's Central Bank Burns As Protesters Rail Against Fiscal Failures A spiralling currency crisis in Lebanon sparked widespread protests targeting central banks an increasing embrace of digital assets.

⁠3 Reasons Why Bitcoin Price Could Crash if US Stock Market Collapses Experts are anticipating a stock market crash in the near term. Bitcoin may follow suit due to three main factors.

⁠Belarus Banks Announce Upcoming Token Pilot Program Belarus Central Bank authorizes several banks in the country to begin issuing tokenized offerings.

⁠Vitalik Buterin Comments on Strange Transaction Fees Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin says recent high fees could be blackmail.

⁠Number of Active Bitcoin Addresses Could Indicate $14.7K Price Rise A key on-chain metric that Bloomberg bets on, points to a Bitcoin bull run with possible 50% price appreciation.

⁠Robotics Company Falls Prey to Ransomware Attack Ransomware gang REvil strikes a US-based robotics firm, leaking their sensitive data on the dark web.

⁠New York Times Trials Blockchain System to Combat Misleading Pictures The New York Times has worked on a blockchain solution to combat misinformation, providing metadata on pictures found in social media.

⁠Community Is Puzzled as Crypto.com's Token Receives Branded Twitter Hashtag The Crypto.com token becomes the second cryptocurrency to receive an emoji hashtag on Twitter.

⁠Brave’s International Referral Program Hits Major Roadblocks Brave has paused its BAT referral program in five countries after detecting “a high number of fraudulent referrers.”

⁠South Korean Police on the Hunt for Ethereum Crime Ring Masterminds The Seoul Metropolitan Police seize two unnamed local crypto exchanges in an effort to dismantle an ETH-related crime ring.

⁠Skale CTO: Ethereum’s Strength Is the Ecosystem, not Its Roadmap The CTO of Skale believes that the ecosystem behind Ethereum is impossible to compete with, despite delays.

⁠Crypto Analyst Claims Bitcoin's $20K All Time High Was Fake A cryptocurrency analyst has suggested that price manipulation was behind Bitcoin’s current (and previous) all-time highs, and that the $20,000 December 2017 p…

⁠Building Empires: Biggest Crypto Exchanges Push for Global Presence Crypto exchanges such as OKEx, Binance, Huobi, Kraken and Bitmex outline the key challenges they face in pushing to establish global operations.

⁠Examining the Status of Stablecoin Minting and Burning Activities We selectively analyzed six stablecoins — USDT, GUSD, HUSD, PAX, TUSD and USDC — to uncover their minting and burning activities so far in 2020.

⁠IT Contractor Stole $38,000 of Crypto While Fixing Company's Computers A man hired to fix a business’s IT systems for $1,700 was jailed for 20 months after stealing $38,000 of cryptocurrency he found while in the compan…

⁠Gaming Giant Atari to Use its ‘Atari’ Token for Betting, Gaming and Shopping Gaming behemoth Atari announced that holders of its blockchain token will be able to spend it on betting, gaming and shopping.

⁠Crypto Hedge Fund Managers: Ether More Like ‘Digital Tungsten’ According to Exponential Investments crypto fund managers, Ether is digital tungsten to Bitcoin's gold.

⁠Liquidations May Loom as Altcoin Bulls Hold Despite Shorts Spiking Many altcoin bulls are holding longs in spite of yesterday’s sudden down-turn in the Bitcoin markets. However, altcoin shorts are quickly rising too.

⁠Smart Contracts Is Too Limiting a Name, Says Blockstack CEO The potential benefits of smart contracts go well beyond what their name suggests, the co-founder and CEO of Blockstack argues.

⁠Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Clusters Cryptojacked to Mine Monero Hackers have attacked badly configured machine learning clusters on Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing network, and hijacked them to mine Monero.

⁠Third Ether Transaction With Huge Fee Suggests a New Player Has Joined The Party A third transaction with a transaction fee worth thousands of Ether has confirmed as experts suggest foul play again.

⁠Karpeles Says Mt Gox Verdict May Set ‘Dangerous’ Precedent A day after a Tokyo court upheld charges against him, Mark Karpeles, the former owner and CEO of Mt. Gox, spoke to Cointelegraph.

⁠Indian Government Again Proposes Blanket Ban on Cryptocurrencies Three months after the Supreme Court ruling to lift the banking ban, India’s Ministry of Finance has proposed to ban cryptocurrencies by law.

⁠Cardano’s IOHK and Global Blockchain Business Council Join Hyperledger Hyperledger has attracted eight new members, spanning firms working on blockchain based supply chain solutions, payments, and token standardization.

⁠80% of Ether Supply in Profit Leads of Fears of a Price Drop Crypto analytics firm Glassnode reported 80% of the supply of the second largest cryptocurrency by market cap was in profit on June 10.

⁠DeFi Records ‘Exponential’ Growth in Assets DeFi hits new heights with more than 1,000 new assets added in May and total user numbers reaching 550,000.

⁠Global Index Fund Manager Successfully Trials Blockchain Securities The $5.7 trillion asset manager Vanguard has completed the first phase of its pilot testing of settlements for blockchain-based asset-backed securities…

⁠15 People Plead Guilty in Bitcoin-Powered Fake Auctions Case The U.S. Department of Justice received two more guilty pleas from Romanian nationals involved in a crypto-fuelled transnational cyber fraud ring on June 11.

⁠Seed CX Shuts its Exchange to Focus on Settlements U.S.-based crypto exchange Seed CX has announced it is shutting down to focus on its settlement infrastructure.