Cointelegraph

⁠New Bill in Germany Proposes to Digitize Securities With Blockchain The arrival of digitized securities is one of the core aspects of the federal government's blockchain strategy, German authorities say.

⁠New Blockchain Platform Aims to Help Countries Issue CBDCs More Easily Blockchain company Apollo Fintech touts its new system as tonic for national digital currency headaches.

⁠Rebase Bug Permanently Breaks Yam Governance Unaudited contracts resulted in its death after all.

⁠Crypto Exchange UpBit Scores Full Deck of Licenses From Thai SEC South Korean exchange UpBit received four licenses to operate a digital asset exchange in Thailand.

⁠One Million South Koreans Now Have Blockchain Drivers Licenses The program was only launched in May but already one million South Koreans have opted for a blockchain based license.

⁠Down to the Wire: Yam Finance Saved at the Last Minute Catastrophe has been narrowly averted by YAM Finance after the DeFi community rallied in support of a campaign to recapture governance over the protocol.

⁠Boom! Kraken Predicts Imminent Bitcoin Price Rally of Up to 200% After record strength in the Bitcoin markets at the end of July, Kraken is predicting that BTC could see price gains of up to 200% over the coming weeks a…

⁠Global P2P Bitcoin Trading Volume at Highest Point Since Jan. 2018 The global P2P markets are pumping, with numerous African and Latin American markets touching new all-time highs for volume.

⁠Tron’s BitTorrent Network Reaches 2 Billion Downloads Tron’s BitTorrent clients have been downloaded two billion times, but the BTT token remains down 74% from the ATH.

⁠CoinList Exchange Struggles, but NEAR Disaster Averted Despite selling out in less than three hours, CoinList’s second attempt at hosting NEAR’s final tokensale saw the platform struggle as investors rushed to participa…

⁠Five Hours to Failure: The ‘Save Yam’ Proposal Is Falling Short A Yam Finance code flaw saw the project ask investors to pledge to save the platform. Not enough have.

⁠Coming Soon: Craig Wright The Movie (and Book) Calvin Ayre, the most high profile supporter of Craig Wright, is funding a new documentary and book about the life of the Satoshi claimant.

⁠Trump’s Proposed Capital Gains Tax Cut Could Boost Crypto Profits A proposed capital gains tax cut could be good news for crypto traders in the U.S.

⁠What’s Behind the Meteoric Rise of Chainlink? We look at the data from Google and DeFi protocols to uncover what’s behind the inexorable rise of LINK?

⁠Yam Suffers Technical Outage Following Scam Accusations Yam Finance uncovered a bug the day after ShapeShift CEO Erik Voorhees called the project a scam.

⁠Crypto Exchange Bitfinex Is Down Right Now International crypto exchange Bitfinex unexpectedly went offline for all users this afternoon, citing a ‘platform performance issue.’

⁠Peter Brandt’s Tether Warning Is Ominous, But Unclear Peter Brandt didn't mince his words when describing the controversial stablecoin.

⁠Malaysian Crypto Miners Were Caught Stealing Electricity From the State They thought they had it made, but the Malaysian authorities were one step ahead.

⁠Google Ads is Failing to Protect People From Crypto Scams How does such a seemingly omnipotent company fail to do something so basic?

⁠People Are Already Building Businesses Around Cardano’s Staking Functionality Sounds like Cardano is already contributing to the gig economy.

⁠Price Analysis 8/12: BTC, ETH, XRP, LINK, BCH, BSV, LTC, ADA, XTZ, BNB As Bitcoin price slowly regains momentum, many altcoins have been rewarding traders by rallying to new all-time highs.

⁠‘It’s Too Hard to Participate’: CWV Partner on China’s Blockchain Blueprint Collaborating with the government is never easy.

⁠Book Review - Decoding Digital: What is Cryptocurrency Can learning an industry’s vocabulary help beginners gain a greater understanding of the industry itself?

⁠What Chainlink’s Plasm Integration Means for Its Future as a Parachain Chainlink’s integration domination continues.

⁠Hong Kong’s Greater Bay Area to Launch China’s Digital Yuan China’s CBDC is on its way to Hong Kong.

⁠Network Effect at Risk? Why 50% of DAI Locked in Compound Is a Concern New data shows more than 50% of DAI is locked in Compound and this raises concerns about DAI’s long term prospects.

⁠Is the Bitcoin Bull Market in Jeopardy After Failure to Break $12,000? Bitcoin price is slowly recovering from yesterday’s $700 drop but is another shot at $12K expected in the short term?

⁠Global Enterprises Embrace Public Blockchains as Technology Matures More enterprises are using public blockchains as the space matures, but what does this mean for private blockchain adoption?

⁠Worth The Talk? Weighing up DeFi Products with the Token Price Craze Has the meteoric rise of DeFi tech been brewing behind the scenes for quite some time now, or is it just a fluke?

⁠Invest 3% in Bitcoin to Avoid COVID-19 Lockdown Devaluation — BitGo CEO The U.S. has made a rod for its own back with lockdown, and institutional investors already know it, argues Mike Belshe.