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This week in Crypto- week 11

China injects $4.7M into Central Bank’s blockchain trade finance platform.
Kraken announces recommitment to Indian market following Supreme Court ruling.
Coronavirus threatens to close Wall Street, Bitcoin remains resilient.
Indonesia’s commodities regulator approves Asia-Pacific crypto exchange.
UK Gov’t includes Blockchain in negotiation for US free trade agreement.
Bitcoin price dropped to a near 2-year low below $4,000 but quickly recovered to $5,200.
OKCoin launches support for Singapore dollar and opens local office.
Ethereum experiences worst trading day on record.
Italian Red Cross launches Bitcoin fundraiser to combat Coronavirus.

Cool tech fact:
The first product scanned was a packet of chewing gum in 1974. Norman Joseph Woodland invented the barcode, and received a patent in October 1952. It wasn’t until 22 years later, when he was employed by IBM that the barcode was developed to be used for product labeling.

Quote of the day:
"It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live." — Mae Jemison

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Crypto News Summary- March 16

General News:
Largest Blockchain Conference in Japan postponed due to Coronavirus.
Russia’s central bank seeks to ban crypto issuance and circulation.
Zimbabwe decides to regulate cryptocurrency.
Vertalo to tokenize 22 securities worth $200M on Tezos Blockchain.
Argentinean gov’t Blockchain hacked to spread fake news on Coronavirus.

Coin Specific News:
Bitcoin pumps 8% just after 40M Tether move to Bitfinex
Cardano Foundation faces lawsuit from former partner.
MakerDAO will host MKR token auction on March 19 to cover $4M debt.

Exchanges:
Bitfinex lists $280 million crypto hedge fund.
Bakkt completes $300 million series B financing
Coinbase launches BTC transaction batching, saving users 50% on fees
Binance.US will list Tezos token for trading on March 16th.

Cool tech fact:
Nintendo didn’t start as a video games company. Founded in 1889, Nintendo was around long before computers! From 1889-1956, Nintendo was a playing card company. They still manufacture playing cards in Japan, and even have a bridge tournament called the “Nintendo Cup”.

Quote of the day:
"All the power is within you. You can do anything." —Swami Vivekananda

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Crypto News Summary- March 17

General News:
South Korean government to grant $3.2 million to Blockchain companies.
Major European Financial institutions team up to develop a blockchain-based platform for the investment fund industry.
Tencent set to post fastest growth since 2018 after virus outbreak.

Coin Specific News:
$40 Million Tether moves to Bitfinex, resulting in a drop in price from  $1.07 to $0.97, away from the usually stable $1.00 and causing a massive 8% jump in Bitcoin price. This puts Bitcoin price  perfectly in line with stock markets.
Sapien Network to use Matic scaling solution in its social media platform.
Bithumb Futures will start operations on March 18 with BTC/USDT perpetual contract.

Exchanges:
Binance and WazirX announce USD 50M ‘Blockchain for India’ Fund.
BitMEX blames “two DDoS attacks” for crashing its platform, refunds 40 Bitcoins.
Bakkt announces new direct payment integration with Starbucks.
Coinbase card now compatible with Google Pay.
KuCoin establishes KuGroup to drive public chain development.

Misc:
Opera browser adds new cryptocurrency purchase options.
Winklevoss twins launch a marketplace for blockchain digital art.
🦠Coronavirus infects 2 more Ethereum event attendees.

Cool tech fact:
The first cell phone call was in New York City. In 1973, the first ever mobile phone call was made by Martin Cooper, an employee of Motorola, made from the streets of New York City.

Quote of the day:
"Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself." —Andrew Carnegie

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Crypto News Summary- March 18

General News:
Toyota reveals blockchain lab exploring auto-industry applications.
Indian government reveals inspection of bitcoin businesses.
Italian bank Banca Sella allows its customers to buy/sell Bitcoin.
Coinhouse & Coinhouse Custody Services to become the first companies to obtain mandatory AMF registration for digital assets related activities.

Coin Specific News:
USDC surpasses $600 million in market capitalization and MakerDAO adopts USDC as collateral.
Steem will have a hard fork on Friday March 20.
Lending for TRX is now available on Poloniex.
Bitfinex LEO token enters top 10 crypto list.
Litecoin's halving blues continue as hashrate drops to 2-year low.

Exchanges:
KuCoin’s PoS mining platform Pool-X will offer EOS and XTZ staking on March 20.
US-based cryptocurrency exchange CoinZoom has officially launched its crypto exchange platform and Visa card.
StormGain launches biggest ever crypto trading event.

Misc:
Wave Financial to tokenize $20M worth of Bourbon for new Whiskey Fund.
LATOKEN is organizing an online BEF roadshow event "Fundraising in the Era of Pandemic" this  Friday at 1 PM GMT.

Cool tech fact:
Apple has a “smoking” ban on their computers, meaning if you smoke while using any Apple computer, the warranty becomes void.

Quote of the day:
"Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly." — Franz Kafka

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Crypto News Summary- March 19

General News
Banking shut down drives crypto adoption among Venezuelans.
Hawaii launches first sandbox for digital currency.
Canada tightens crypto regulations alongside AML/CTF overhaul.

Coin Specific News:
MakerDAO will shutdown Single Collateral Dai (SAI)
Matic announces partnership with decentralized gaming platform Sandbox
Tether mints $180M new USDT for ‘inventory replenishment.
Ripple onboards 1 million new users with latest partnership.
Bitcoin and Ethereum soar 21%, XRP rises 16% as Altcoin market explodes
STEEM price surges 180% as Binance and Huobi support hive hard fork.

🔹 Exchanges:
Huobi derivatives platform launches circuit breaker function. Huobi's Mining Arm has also recorded 547% surge in operating revenue in 2019
OKEx launches peer-to-peer loan feature.

Misc:
Jack Dorsey’s Square Bankwill open 2021.
LATOKEN is organizing an online BEF roadshow event "Fundraising in the Era of Pandemic" this  Friday at 1 PM GMT

🔹 Cool tech fact:
Over 6,000 new computer viruses are created and released every month. This number has drastically risen since 1990, at which point there were only 50 known computer viruses. Today, 90% of emails contain some form of malware and most people don’t know about it.

Quote of the day:
"Expect problems and eat them for breakfast."— Alfred A. Montapert

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Crypto News Summary- March 20

Coin Specific News:
Bitcoin price pumps 20%, are bulls running into a trap?
Tether Stablecoin launches on its seventh Blockchain.
Ethereum rallies 15% to test key downtrend resistance.
Following Bitcoin’s surge, XTZ soars 23% in a day.

Exchanges:
Kraken has seen an 83% increase in the amount of account signups over the week of the collapse.
Cryptocurrency exchange, Bitfinex, to remove 87 trading pairs.
Binance just moved $470.8M of Bitcoin for a fee of $1.50.
ChainX partners with Japanese-based IFA to develop blockchain.
Coinbase broke traffic records and saw massive volume during market collapse.

Misc:
Interpol targets dark web and crypto with S.Korean help.
$2 Million of MakerDAO debt to be wiped as auction reaches final stages.

Cool tech fact:
The most expensive phone number cost millions. Back in 2006, Qatar Telecom hosted a charity auction where they sold the phone number 666-6666. It sold for $2.75 million, bought by an anonymous bidder.

Quote of the day:
"If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan and guess what they have planned for you? Not much." — Jim Rohn

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Crypto News Summary- March 21

General News
Chrono Tech launches Australian dollar Stablecoin in spite of ‘big four’ banks.
Stablecoins’ market caps skyrocket following Bitcoin & cryptocurrencies sell-off during March.
A private Italian bank, Banca Stella, is planning to launch Bitcoin trading for more than one million customers amid lockdown.
EY Japan to fight counterfeit sake with Blockchain.

Coin Specific News:
Tezos grants $37 million to ecosystem developers.
Bitcoin price did not crash 60% due to Coronavirus, says Binance CEO.
ETH recovery postponed as it falls below $130.
SEC seeks early judgement in lawsuit over Kik’s $100m ICO
Hive (HIVE) will have premiere listing on Bittrex as of today.

Exchanges:
$2,000,000,000 in Bitcoin (BTC) and crypto trading volume hits Coinbase during market mayhem.

Cool tech fact:
Every advertisement for iPhone’s have 9:41 set as the time. This is because in 2007, Steve Jobs first announced the iPhone at that time. The 41 minute presentation leading up to the reveal of the first iPhone was planned perfectly. And the first photo of the iPhone showed the time 9:41, at exactly 9:41am.

Quote of the day:
"Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!" — Andrew Carnegie

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This week in Crypto- week 12

South Korean government to grant $3.2 million to Blockchain companies.
Major European Financial institutions team up to develop a blockchain-based platform for the investment fund industry.
Binance and WazirX announce USD 50M ‘Blockchain for India’ Fund.
Toyota reveals blockchain lab exploring auto-industry applications.
Coinhouse & Coinhouse Custody Services to become the first companies to obtain mandatory AMF registration for digital assets related activities.
Hawaii launches first sandbox for digital currency.
Bitcoin and Ethereum soar 21%, XRP rises 16% as Altcoin market explodes.
ChainX partners with Japanese-based IFA to develop blockchain.
Coinbase broke traffic records and saw massive volume during market collapse.
EY Japan to fight counterfeit Sake with Blockchain.

Cool tech fact:
Most internet traffic isn’t from real humans. About 51% of internet traffic is non-human. Over 30% is from hacking programs, spammers, and phishing.

Quote of the day:
"Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough." — Elon Musk(Tesla)

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Crypto News Summary- March 23

General News:
MoneyGram has made‘millions’ selling Ripple’s XRP.
SEC charges former state Senator over digital asset ‘scam’.

Coin Specific News:
Bitcoin is 7% up after the Federal Reserve pledged asset purchase with no limit to support the markets.
Bitcoin SV gets taken over by mystery troll miner.
Tether is now fully integrated as the first stablecoin on Algorand!
Zel (ZEL) gets listed on KuCoin.
ETH falls back towards $120 As buyers battle to keep it from crashing against Bitcoin.
Kik backs away from jury trial request in SEC fight over $100M token sale.

Exchanges:
BitMEX opens up about its crypto insurance fund. BitMax will also officially launch its first perpetual futures contract on March 23.
Huobi, OKEx offer angry crypto traders compensation
Chainalysis and Paxful create new compliance standard for peer-to-peer cryptocurrency exchanges.
Bitcoin traders can now stack sats by shorting Gold price.

Cool tech fact:
CAPTCHA is a long acronym. It stands for “Completely Automatic Public Turning Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart”.

Quote of the day:
"Be so ridiculously great at what you do that the world cannot help but give you an audience." —Joubert Botha

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Crypto News Summary- March 24

General News:
Russia proposes legalizing crypto for regulatory Sandboxes.
China's central bank is one step closer to issuing its digital currency.

Coin Specific News:
Bitcoin price eyeing $7,000 after Fed said it has ‘infinite cash’.
Tezos lawsuit nears conclusion, XTZ bulls eye $2.
NEO developers unlock 1.6 million tokens.
STP Network got listed on Upbit KRW market as of today, 24th March, 2020.
Somnium Space to use Matic as its scaling solution.
Ethereum rallies 10% and primed to continue higher towards $150.

Exchanges:
Binance distributes ‘HIVE’ tokens, ignores cease and desist order. The exchange has also launched the 18th Phase of Binance Lending Products.
Mt. Gox to hold new creditors meeting this week.
Uniswap has launched version 2 of its exchange as of 24th  March.
Indian crypto exchange CoinDCX raises $3 million in series A round. Crypto exchange Bitfinex unveils anti-manipulation tool ‘Shimmer’.

Cool tech fact:
The average Facebook user has less than 200 friends. Slightly over 40% of people on Facebook have between 0-200 friends. The close second clocks in at 38% of Facebook users having 200-500 friends. Even less, 20% of users have over 500 friends on Facebook.

Quote of the day:
"Sometimes, you have to get knocked down lower than you have ever been to stand back up taller than you ever were." — Jim Kwik

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Crypto News Summary- March 25

General News:
Coronavirus stimulus offered by house financial services committee creates new digital dollar. Bahama is also looking at digital fiat for payments in light of COVID-19
Australian securities exchange delays switch to Blockchain due to COVID-19.
 
Coin Specific News:
STP Network (STPT) has won Binance community coin vote and will get listed on Binance.
A U.S. judge ordered Telegram to refrain from issuing its gram cryptocurrency.
Verasity has launched its GameStore as of 25th March.
CasperLabs pivots away from Ethereum to fundraise with its own Blockchain.
1,400,000 XRP stolen via fake Chrome extension.
Tron partners with Metal Pay to bring TRX to US citizens.

Exchanges:
Brave and Binance partner to bring cryptocurrency trading directly into the browser.
Mt. Gox trustee may sell off some crypto assets, says draft repayment plan
BitMax will host public sale of CasperLabs(CLX) on March 30.
Binance Charity launches global ‘crypto against COVID’ initiative with $1 million donation.

Cool tech fact:
Google uses the same amount of energy as 200,000 homes. It’s no surprise this tech powerhouse needs a lot of power! That accounts for about 0.013% of the entire world’s energy use.

Quote of the day:
"I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature." —John D. Rockefeller

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Crypto News Summary- March 26

General News:
European Commission defense program offers grants for Blockchain solutions.
Cryptocurrency data Startup, Coin Metrics, raises $6 million in Series A funding.
Malta financial regulator warns against unauthorized crypto firms.
 
Coin Specific News:
COTI has closed $3.5M USD private fundraising round.
Cardano releases  solution that scales more than Visa’s Payment Network.
Bitcoin hash rate drops almost 45% since 2020 peak.
Ethereum Creator Vitalik Buterin to build crypto bridge between ETH and Bitcoin (BTC).
Bitcoin network expects stability as mining difficulty gets readjusted by 16%.

Exchanges:
Coinbase wallet integrates DeFi directly into app.
Binance exchange launches a crypto card.
Coinbase Custody now supports deposits and withdrawals for Aragon ($ANT).
Kraken predicts wealthtransfer will cause BTC rise to $350K by 2045.

Msic:
Netflix to fillpublic places with spoilers of Netflix Originals. The motive is to get people to stay home and stop the spread of COVID19.

Cool tech fact:
Most of the purchases in China are done with mobile phones. Chinese people love online shopping, apparently! Around 70% of online purchases are made with mobile phones. Meanwhile, only 46% of online purchases in the U.S. are done with a cell phone.

Quote of the day:
"Most great people have achieved their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure." — Napoleon Hill

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Crypto News Summary- March 27

General News:
Microsoft files patent for new cryptocurrency and mining system.
Indian Tech Giant Mahindra speeds up cross border transactions with Blockchain.
HSBC puts $10b of private placements on R3’s Corda Blockchain.
South Korea's KB Kookmin moves ahead with crypto-custody service plans.
Singapore grants crypto license exemptions to Ripple, Coinbase and Binance.

Coin Specific News:
Fortune favors Tezos, Monero, VeChain as altcoins register over 30% gains.
Bitcoin exchange outflows hit 8-month high.
Orchid (OXT) will get listed on OKEx as of March 30.
Kava integrates Chainlink as its official Oracle Network to bring DeFi to Cosmos.
Ripple Labs donates $200k to combat COVID-19 pandemic.

Exchanges:
Coinbase’s retail payments wing crosses $200m in transactions.
Binance exchange to open office in Shanghai.
KuMEX will open the USDT margined Bitcoin Perpetual Contract on March 30, 2020.

Misc:
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Cool tech fact:
NASA’s internet speed is 91 GB per second. The average household internet speeds are roughly 25 MB per second. That’s usually fast enough to watch Netflix with no buffer time
And let’s face the fact, if there’s any tech company that would actually make good use of them internet speeds, it’s NASA.

Quote of the day:
"Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye." —Helen Keller

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Crypto News Summary- March 28

General News:
⁠Despite the global recession blockchain jobs continue to rise at a rate of 3%
WHO teams up with IBM and Microsoft on Blockchain-based Coronavirus data hub.
China to launch Blockchain-based service network in April.

Coin Specific News:
Gate will host KardiaChain public sale on April 8th.
Bitcoin's active supply figures touch new highs
Bitcoin price drops to $6.1K shortly after equities markets close red.
Tether becomes second crypto to launch on Blockchain futures platform.
Algorand launches a Blockchain App to help battle Coronavirus.

Exchanges:
Binance to delist all FTX leveraged tokens. Also, Binance Futures has announced a trading tournament with up to $1 million prize pool.
Malta Financial Services Authority says crypto exchanges , COINMALEX and Crypto Foxtrades, do not have licenses to operate.

Cool tech fact:
Nokia is the largest company from Finland. And while we often think Nokia is just a cell phone company, this famous brand was originally a paper manufacturer in 1865.

Quote of the day:
"I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed" —Michael Jordan

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This week in Crypto- week 13

China's central bank is one step closer to issuing its digital currency.
Russia proposes legalizing crypto for regulatory Sandboxes.
Indian crypto exchange CoinDCX raises $3 million in series A round.
Tron partners with Metal Pay to bring TRX to US citizens.
Binance Charity launches global ‘crypto against COVID’ initiative with $1 million donation.
Coinbase wallet integrates DeFi directly into app.
Binance exchange to open office in Shanghai.  The exchange also launched a crypto card. 
Microsoft files patent for new cryptocurrency and mining system
Singapore grants crypto license exemptions to Ripple, Coinbase and Binance.
WHO teams up with IBM and Microsoft on Blockchain-based Coronavirus data hub.

COVID-19 preventive tips:
Wash your hands regularly for 20 seconds, with soap and water or alcohol-based hand rub.

Cool tech fact:
People are still using dial up. As of 2017, 2.1 million people still use AOL’s dial up service. Mainly, these customers live in rural America where it can be expensive and unreliable to get high-speed internet. Meanwhile, dial up is only $20 per month.

Quote of the day:
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us." —Helen Keller

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