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Exiled Bitmain co-founder has moved to reinstate his position after recently gaining partial legal victory  This resulted in a physical brawl with current CFO Luyao Liu, leading to the intervention of local police The senior management tensions at Bitmain are hurting the mining giant ahead of 3rd Bitcoin halving On May 8, 2020, the ousted co-founder of Bitmain, Micree Ketuan Zhan, was reportedly surrounded by a group of 50-odd guys led by the company's former legal representative and CFO Luyao…

The famous cryptocurrency company, Ripple, has achieved yet another thing. The exchange now belongs to the ISO 20022 standards body, which is working towards a new data standard for payments and data messaging between global financial institutions. According to the firm’s claims, it is the first cryptocurrency firm focused on distributed ledger technology (DLT) to become a member of the group. Among other members of the group are several global commercial and central banks, as well as payment processing entities such as…

When it comes to cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin is known for being the leading coin in terms of market capitalization and dominance. It is such that it is referred to as the benchmark cryptocurrency and market analysts use its performance to forecast the entire market direction. People in the cryptocurrency space hold different opinion regarding the performance of Bitcoin and altcoins. According to a trader and technical analyst known as TraderSZ, the performance of altcoins will be better than that of Bitcoin…

Bitcoin rewards halving is scheduled to happen in the next eight days and there has been debate in the cryptocurrency space regarding its short-term influence. It is undisputable that it will bring about a bullish price action in the long-term because it will cause a 50 percent annual inflation reduction for Bitcoin. However, in the short-term basis, its effects are quite speculative, and it is not easy to consider it historically due to limited data sets. However, according to an…

Get the weekly summary of cryptocurrency market trends, news, and forecasts! This Week’s Summary The Crypto Market ends the week at a total market capitalization of $254.6 billion. Bitcoin ends the week trading past $9,000 Ethereum increases by 13% to trade well over $200 XRP price breaks beyond the 0.20 barrier after a 12.5% boost COVID-19 is still out there, but governments are looking into easing restrictions in May Crypto Trends 27th of April - 03rd of May 2020: PERFORMANCE…

On January 10th, 2020, the European Union’s 5th Anti-Money laundering Directory (5AMLD) came into force. The new law gives sweeping powers to compliance organizations and law authorities to introduce a series of restrictive demands on crypto companies in a way never seen before. Organizations that deal with crypto-related activity have been under mounting pressure to implement compliance measures to register new clients. With the advent of the law, the compliance measures will only increase on an industry-wide scale, with regulations…

The emergence of COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the activities planned for this year, such that there have been postponements worldwide including the Olympic Games which was suppose to hold in Tokyo. The postponement of the Olympic Games has prompted various online scams related to cryptocurrency. This includes emails from alleged members of the International Olympic Committee in which scammers solicit donations from unwary victims. According to a report by Trend Micro on April 30, scammers are soliciting for cryptocurrency donations towards Japanese organizers’…

People have been considering Asia as the world’s cryptocurrency hub for a long time now. There has been remarkable growth in the cryptocurrency domain in nations such as Japan, Singapore, South Korea, and China. China is in the last stages of creating a central bank digital currency (CBDC), thereby proving that the continent has placed itself ahead of others regarding digital assets. Recently in a podcast, Adam Traidman, the joint founder of one of the pioneering Bitcoin wallets on the app store (BRD) spoke about China’s digital Yuan and…

Recently, South Korean wallet provider known as Childly carried out a survey. Over 5,750 cryptocurrency users across the world were involved in the poll. The results revealed that 66 percent of respondents support cryptocurrency asset taxation. Likewise, it showed that one out of five cryptocurrency users do not support digital asset taxation. Generally, the survey showed that the cryptocurrency community is warm towards taxation. Forty-eight (48) percent of the respondents said it is mandatory to tax cryptocurrency assets; hence, they…