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⁠Blockchain Will Lead Digital Globalization Says Wanxiang Rep China Wanxiang Holdings Vice Chairman believes blockchain along with other high tech will lead a more globalized world.

⁠Beware Fake Ransomware Decryption Tools Creators behind Zorab ransomware launched a fake tool that double-encrypts files affected by the attack.

⁠Opportunities for Blockchain-Based Technologies in African Healthcare Emerging technologies such as blockchain can dramatically improve the situation with the healthcare industry in Africa by its implementation.

⁠First Turkish-German Trade Finance Transaction on Distributed Ledger Technology Turkish İşbank and German Commerzbank completed the first blockchain-based trade finance transaction between the two countries.

⁠40% of New Fintech Firms in Hong Kong Operate With Blockchain Nearly 40% of new fintech firms to launch in Hong Kong over the past year are operating in the blockchain sector.

⁠Safety Check: If Crypto Custodian Fails, Clients May Not Get a Full Payout Crypto exchanges — not segregating blockchain addresses — could lead to ownership disputes in the event of insolvency, research says.

⁠Decentralization: Preserving Personal Privacy While Fighting COVID-19 Decentralized technologies can help to avoid jeopardizing citizens’ private data in the name of public health during the global pandemics.

⁠Crypto Crime on the Rise — Good Odds of 2020 Becoming a Record-Breaker Experts believe that a more holistic crypto ecosystem, especially one that is more AML-centric, is needed to help prevent the spread of crypto scams…

⁠How Bitcoin Can Help the African American Community According to author Isaiah Jackson, establishing economic strength could help the black community in ways protesting on the street can’t.

⁠6M Bitcoin Are Secured By Shared Custody Almost one-third of the entire Bitcoin supply is secured with a feature that gained adoption after the Mt. Gox heist.

⁠Crypto Ransom Amounts Skyrocketed 200% in 2019 A report from Crypsis Group revealed that threat actors have significantly escalated their tactical approaches in ransomware attacks.

⁠This Chinese City is Launching a Blockchain Notary Program Suzhou wants to implement a blockchain-based pilot program to use real-time notarial tracing functions across the country.

​​Singapore Sees 300% Yearly Spike in Q1 Cryptojacking Attacks Amid COVID-19 The first quarter of 2020 saw ransomware attacks targeting devices in Singapore spike by four-fold compared with last year.

​​Brave Comes Under Fire For Binance Affiliate Link Autofill Brave appears to have removed a controversial feature that was auto-filling the company’s affiliate link when a user attempted to access Binance.

⁠The Global COVID-19 Pandemic Gave People the Mandate of Independent Money With the failure of traditional, centralized finance to beat the new economic crisis, people will turn to Bitcoin as the best solution.

⁠Gibraltar Financial Watchdog Issues Warnings for Four Crypto Sites The Gibraltar Financial Services Commission has warned the public about four crypto sites that are not regulated by the country.

⁠Someone Just Anonymously Dropped an ETH 2.0 Scaling Solution On Medium Someone just anonymously gave the world a simplistic Ethereum 2.0 concept, via a Medium post.

⁠VeChain Bolsters Traceability of Chinese Pork Products Blockchain-based supply chain solutions proliferate, as VeChain establishes partnerships with fresh meat suppliers.

⁠The Code Is Key: Solutions for Overcoming DeFi Security Breaches The DeFi sector can embrace a positive future by following comprehensive security audits and by ensuring best practice in due diligence and quality assura…

⁠The Escobars Believe They’ve Found the Real Satoshi Meet Yasutaka Nakamoto: drug runner for Pablo Escobar, brother of Dorian Nakamoto, and possibly the real creator of Bitcoin.

⁠$90M Daily? What Would It Mean to Sustain Bitcoin Price at $100,000 The price of Bitcoin can reach $100,000 and remain stable there if $90 million worth of BTC is absorbed every day.

⁠$1M Bitcoin Will Force JPMorgan to Wyoming for Safety — Caitlin Long Major legal threats in the case of a big leap in Bitcoin price will see banks scrambling for support, the advocate forecasts.

⁠Ball’s in Their Court: Crypto Custodians Waiting on Regulators to Act Crypto custody firms are mostly treated like traditional assets, ignoring the uniqueness of digital assets and its various complexities.

⁠Revolut Confirms Firing 62 Employees in the Wake of Coronavirus London-based tech startup Revolut confirmed its employee downsizing numbers.

⁠Blockchain to Disrupt Music Industry and Make It Change Tune Blockchain technology is tipping the scales of the music industry, shifting the power from intermediaries back to artists.

⁠OKEx Continues Their Ongoing OKB Token Buyback Cryptocurrency exchange OKEx announced the eighth round of buyback for its platform’s proprietary OKB token.

⁠Another Free Ransomware Decryptor Released Emsisoft launched a free tool that decrypts files affected by a variant of the Tycoon ransomware attack.

⁠Former Chinese Central Bank Exec Praises "Commercial Success" of Bitcoin Wu Xiaoling highlighted the benefits of the Bitcoin network and highlighted some of the weaknesses it faces nowadays.

⁠Marshall Islands Seeks to Establish a "Self-Sovereign Identity" With New Blockchain-Based Currency Joel Telpner reveals some of the steps the Marshall Islands is taking to launch its national digital currency.

⁠South Korean Crypto Exchange Is First to List Kakao’s Token Kakao’s KLAY token is now trading with a South Korea won pairing despite the country’s restrictions on ICOs.