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⁠Report: $300B Worth of Food Will Be Traced Using Blockchain and IoT by 2027 A report claims that the global food industry could save over $100 billion annually by implementing blockchain and IoT technology.

⁠Vulnerability in Ravencoin Creates Extra 1.5% of Maximum Supply for Hackers An issuance vulnerability resulted in the creation of an extra 5% of Ravencoin’s current supply.

⁠OneCoin Marketing Scam Operator Fined $72,000 in Singapore A Singapore man was fined $72,000 for operating a multi-level marketing scheme linked to the Ponzi scheme OneCoin.

⁠Set Your Alarms: Most Bitcoin Is Now Traded During These Hours The start of trading in New York appears to impact Bitcoin volatility much more than other stock markets.

⁠Chinese Supply Chain Innovator to Develop Blockchain System for SMEs The Binance China Blockchain Institute has partnered with a state-level enterprise to jointly develop new digital infrastructure for small and medium…

⁠Stock in Crypto Mining Firms Riot and Hive Massively Outperforms Bitcoin While shares in Riot Blockchain and Hive Blockchain eclipse Bitcoin’s YTD gains, other mining firms have not fared so well — with Canaan crashing…

⁠Blockchain Australia Seeks to Build Industry Confidence With New CEO Blockchain Australia has appointed a new CEO in an effort to improve blockchain awareness and application across Australia.

⁠Bank of Japan Will Begin Experimenting With a Digital Yen The Bank of Japan announced on Thursday that it would experiment with a CBDC to check its feasibility from a technical perspective.

⁠Tech Entrepreneur Offers Bitcoin Bounty in Campaign Against Vox Balaji Srinivasan has promised a $1000 BTC bounty to anyone who can get Recode’s Kara Swisher to retract a story on COVID-19.

⁠BCH Backer Claims Bitcoin Wallet Double-Spend Issue Hasn’t Been Fixed BRD, Ledger Live, and Edge are among the wallets vulnerable to a new double-spend exploit, but some believe the vulnerability is inherent to Bitcoin…

⁠Huobi Becomes First Major Exchange to Run a Chainlink Node Huobi has become the first major exchange to run a Chainlink node in an effort to improve data authenticity and integrity.

⁠$5.3b Asset Manager Invests in US-Hosted Antminer S19s Two weeks after announcing it had purchased a record 17,595 Antminer S19 ASICs, Core Scientific has announced an expanded partnership with a multi-billion hedge fun…

⁠Bittrex CEO Joins StormX Board After Undisclosed Investment Bittrex CEO Bill Shihara will expand his role at cashback rewards platform StormX from investor to board member.

⁠IRS Wants to Track ‘Nefarious’ Privacy Coin and Lightning Transactions The IRS is looking to expand its investigative capabilities around privacy coins, layer-two solutions, and sidechains.

⁠Authorities Take Down Biggest Criminal Chat Network Yet Authorities across Europe take down an organized crime syndicate that used an encrypted chat network to coordinate their illicit activities.

⁠Bitcoin's Current Price Impacted By Miners? It's Possible, Analytics Company Says Bitcoin’s recent price action could relate to miner selling.

⁠Institutional Market Sentiment Data is Now Available to Anyone CoinMetro makes institutional grade sentiment data available to regular traders for the first time.

⁠Traders Brace for Big Drop as Bitcoin Dips Below $9K for Seventh Time The price of Bitcoin briefly dropped below $9,000. The weakening of a key support level may lead to a bigger drop.

⁠Chinese Economist Says 2020 is the Tipping Point for Blockchain Chinese economist says signs have shown 2020 is an important year for integrating blockchain within all industries.

⁠South Korean NGO Announces Blockchain-Based Healthcare Platform The Commons Foundation unveiled plans to build a blockchain platform to track COVID-19 cases in South Korea.

⁠Elon Musk Says He Isn’t Building Anything on Ethereum Tesla’s CEO does not own any Ethereum, but he isn’t against the platform.

⁠Venezuela's Madura Shafted From Gold Storage, Self-Sovereign BTC Shines Venezuela’s Maduro just lost a ruling regarding his supposed gold ownership.

⁠Amazon CEO Bezos Now Has More Money Than Bitcoin’s Market Cap Jeff Bezos is worth more than all Bitcoin in circulation, but he likely couldn’t buy it all himself.

⁠Coinbase's "Data Plumber" Denies All Allegations Coinbase’s “data plumber” denies storing users’ login credentials in plain text, and all the other allegations in a new class action complaint.

⁠US Banking Regulator Invites Innovators to Talk Tech Virtually The office of the U.S. Treasury responsible for regulating banks wants to open up dialogue on fintech.

⁠The Word Stimulus Means "Buy Bitcoin" For This Exec The head of business development for blockchain financial services outfit, Unchained Capital, flees to Bitcoin when the government starts talking about stimulus spendi…

⁠Austrian Crypto Users Will Soon Be Able to Spend Crypto at 2,500 Locations Over 2,500 Austrian merchants can now accept cryptocurrencies as a payment method.

⁠Learn How To Build a Long-Term Trading Strategy in This Week’s Crypto Markets Show Live! Popular traders and youtubers Benjamin Cowen and Tyler D. Coates discuss long-term trading strategies and how to take profit from…

⁠Metamask Enhances User Privacy With New Wallet Update Major Ether wallet service and browser extension, Metamask, introduces newly released version featuring enhanced privacy control.

⁠Why Isn’t BCH Way More Popular on the Dark Web? Despite a growing number of advanced privacy features, Bitcoin Cash seems to have fallen out of favor with Dark Web operators.