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⁠Major Turkish Terminals Join IBM and Maersk's Blockchain Shipping Platform IBM and Maersk’s global blockchain shipping platform continues to onboard major new global partners.

⁠Book Review: The Little Book of Crypto An introduction to crypto with none of the BS, but plenty of the S.

⁠Bank of England Joins Key Roundtable on Central Bank Digital Currency Design The Bank of England is keeping central bank digital currency research high on its 2020 agenda.

⁠Bitcoin Price Will ‘Explode’ Says Trader if BTC Breaches $13,000 The changing distribution of open interest is “wildly bullish,” one crypto fund manager says as John Bollinger says the price rally is “picture perfect.”

⁠21Shares Has Added Over 160% to Its Managed Crypto Funds in 2020 The crypto rally of 2020 is not the biggest reason for 21Shares’ growth.

⁠Robinhood Raises $200M in Funding Round, Now Valued at $11.2B Robinhood has secured an additional $200M in funding in a Series G funding round, bringing its total valuation to $11.2B.

⁠Two States Sanction South African Firms for Crypto Debit Card Fraud The Texas State Securities Board and Alabama Securities Commission issued cease and desist orders in response to a crypto debit card scam.

⁠Bitcoin Is Now Bigger than Bank of America and NZ Dollar by Market Cap As Bitcoin reaches a new yearly high of $12,470, its market cap is now greater than Bank of America's and New Zealand’s fiat currency.

⁠Two Bitcoin Farmers Stole $1.5M in Electricity in Bulgaria Two Bulgarian nationals have been charged with the theft of nearly $1.5M in electricity used to illegally operate crypto mining farms.

⁠Price Analysis 8/17: BTC, ETH, XRP, LINK, BCH, LTC, BSV, ADA, EOS, BNB Bitcoin’s strong move above the $12,200 resistance could boost sentiment and lead to a stronger rally in select altcoins.

⁠Investor Jim Rogers Warned of the ‘Worst Economic Downturn’ of His Lifetime The trillion dollar bailout will not end well.

⁠Pantera Capital Has Raised 3x More This Year Than It Did in 2019 But that’s still less than it raised in 2018.

⁠Bitcoin Price Breaks $12K, But Is it the Final Hurdle Before $15K? Bitcoin price rallied to $12,470 and if $12,000 holds as support bulls will target prices north of $15,000.

⁠Dave Portnoy Has Taken a 180 On Crypto & Begun Shilling Altcoins Have the Winklevoss twins created a monster?

⁠Starting Second Term Today, SEC Commissioner Peirce Tells Cointelegraph Her Crypto Priorities Sworn in for her second term today, SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce tells Cointelegraph about the commission’s work on crypto…

⁠Kim Dotcom Predicted Bitcoin’s Rise Two Years Ago He also warned that the U.S. dollar would become worthless.

⁠VeChain’s New Partnership Could Bring Blockchain Tech to Dozens of Untapped Industries Cyprus is becoming a hotspot for Blockchain technology.

⁠Pomp Thinks BTC’s Market Cap Will Exceed Gold’s in Less Than a Decade That would give Bitcoin a market cap of at least $9 trillion dollars.

⁠Paris Hilton Drew a Cat and it Somehow Sold for $17,000 in ETH Paris’ pet is forever immortalized as an NFT.

"You don't have to be Dr Evil to scam someone via cryptocurrency. You can be a Mini Me.” Andrew Fenton rates the various crypto scams out there, from the dumbest to the smartest.

⁠Huobi Launches Global DeFi Alliance To Merge East and West Can teamwork bring together the fragmented crypto space?

⁠China’s Digital Yuan CBDC Is Close, but Many Details Remain Unknown Despite the interest currently surrounding the digital yuan, some are not yet sure of the project’s overall scope and mainstream viability.

⁠Grayscale Brings Altcoins to Over-the-Counter Trading The company also happened to clear a Nasdaq and NYSE listing requirement in the process.

⁠Blockchain Interoperability: The Big Picture To mature and develop, the blockchain space should focus on schemas — vocabulary, lexicon and languages — as well as on metadata — shared ontologies and taxonomies

⁠Buffett Bought Gold, Will Buy Bitcoin: Morgan Creek Digital Co-Founder Morgan Creek Digital’s co-founder believes that while Buffett himself is unlikely to buy Bitcoin, younger people working at his investment firm will…

⁠Bitcoin Bull Market Things? Top Exchange Volume Soars to $334B in July The volume of top-tier cryptocurrency exchanges has increased to $334 billion in July as Bitcoin’s price climbed by 30%.

⁠ING, Rolls Royce and Multi.io Join Blockchain Education Alliance ING Bank, AB-InBev, Rolls Royce, and Multi.io joined the Blockchain Education Alliance launched by blockchain accelerator MouseBelt.

⁠Winklevoss' Gemini Adds Support for Hong Kong, Australian and Canadan Dollars Gemini now supports the fiat currencies of Hong Kong, Australia and Canada.

⁠Fan Token Providers Chiliz and Socios Launch Visa Debit Card Blockchain tech now powers global fans to “be more than a fan” with a Visa debit card.

⁠Spot Markets Target Top-Tier Exchanges While Derivatives Gain Market Share July saw a major shift towards top-tier exchanges on spot markets, while derivatives volumes continue to eat into spot volumes market share.