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LedgerX Clocks Record Trade For Bitcoin Options
LedgerX, the bitcoin derivatives trading provider, claims that it witnessed a record amount of trading over the course of past 2 Months. The company (in July alone) cleared $50 Million in derivatives volume, claimed Juthica Chou, chief risk officer and president, to the media in an interview. Previously this month, the company also executed its…
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Patent Filings By Sony Hint At Operation On Crypto Mining Hardware
Sony, the Japanese technology giant, wishes to patent 2 hardware approaches for maintaining and hosting blockchains, claims the newly published papers. The two filings from Sony are entitled “Device and System” and “Electronic Node and Method for Maintaining a Distributed Ledger,” unveiling for the first time that the firm is operating on blockchain-associated hardware concepts.…
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Starbucks Clarifies Cryptocurrency Payment Not Accepted For Its Coffee, In Response To Media Misrepresention
Starbucks said it would not consider and accept Bitcoin (BTC) or other cryptocurrencies as a type of payment, despite misleading media reports, spokeswoman of told Motherboard on Friday, August 3. Earlier on Friday, the Intercontinental Stock Exchange announced, that operates the New York Stock Exchange plans to create a new global platform and ecosystem for…
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VoxWeb To Roll Out Its Vollar Cryptocurrency
VoxWeb, the Singapore-located social media company, declared its plans to roll out Vollar, its cryptocurrency. The firm claims that Vollar will allow VoxWeb to monetize via fintech-based and social-commerce solutions without any requirement to serve targeted advertisements. It also plans to resolve the primary challenges in the mass acceptance of volatility, cryptocurrencies, and liquidity via…
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Overstock’s tZero Ends Its Security Token Offering
tZero, the token platform subsidiary of Overstock.com, is formally concluding its STO (security token offering). In addition to this, the platform claimed that there will not be additional expansion, as per its interview with the media. The interview claimed that investors with completely executed SAFEs (Simple Agreements of Future Equity) have a deadline till this…
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Exchange OKCoin Failing to launch Bitcoin Cash led to lawsuit filling by Trader
A Chinese bitcoin investor sued OKCoin, a local cryptocurrency exchange for not letting him get Bitcoin Cash post-Bitcoin Fork, according to the local news agency, Weekly Cool. This should be the first legal action in China in which bitcoin’s last year’s fork was involved. Investors, under the pseudonym Feng Bin sued OKCoin, accusing the exchange…
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Researchers Say That Telegram Tech Used In ICO Is Defenseless To Attack
With $1.7 Billion in the bank following its ICO (initial coin offering), Telegram has rolled out its first crypto-friendly functionality. But security scientists are doubtful. As stated in a blog post, a US-located startup, Virgil Security, has verified various weaknesses in Passport, the new identity verification app. While the firm praised Telegram for posting the…
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LevelTradingField To Roll Out Crypto Derivatives Exchange
LevelTradingField, the interactive financial markets technology service, is rolling out a cryptocurrency derivatives exchange employing the ethereum blockchain. Named as CADE, the service is set to go live from September 2018. It will list ERC-20 tokens that track ether, bitcoin, bitcoin cash, litecoin, monero, and ripple. The tracking will be done on a rolling basis,…
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San Francisco’s First Blockchain Music Festival’s Tickets Now On Sale
The first music festival’s tickets are now on sale. The festival is set to be fueled by blockchain technology. Planned for this winter, the Our Music Festival is rolling the OMF token (its personal virtual currency) at the University of California at its opening event at Berkeley’s William Randolph Hearst Greek Theatre. It will be…
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West Virginia To Provide Blockchain Voting All Over The State During Midterm Elections
West Virginia is launching out a blockchain-supported mobile voting application to all the 55 counties of the state. This is done so that in the midterm elections military personnel located abroad can more effortlessly cast their ballots. The media earlier claimed that the state piloted the blockchain application in May for stationed military staff and…
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