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Paul Veradittakit, a Pantera Capital partner, has influenced the digital currency market and blockchain technologies through hedge fund investments and venture capital contributions. Following his recent insights based on significant concepts primarily related to cryptocurrency, he shows his great interest in the crypto market. He is also seen to propose his comments and thoughts on this year's projections.  Veradittakit Comments on Cryptocurrency Predictions From his point of view, he had an in-depth understanding of the major events that happened concerning the digital currency…

The National Intellectual Property Administration (NIPA) of China continues to clarify the specified guidelines following those that apply for the blockchain patent concerning the implementation of the plans made by the 1st of February.  The NIPA announcement days ago based the review of guidelines and its patent applications that were to be reflected in the latest technologies such as dealing with big data, artificial intelligence, business methods and rules, and even blockchain.  Based on the revisions made, the guidelines' inclusion followed on a device…

Several Central Banks are showing interest in exploring the likelihood of issuing their Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). China’s Central Bank seems close to launching its own known Digital Currency Electronic System. Central banks are seriously looking into digital currencies; however, some of these banks’ officials resist digital assets. Regardless, there is increasing cryptocurrency adoption, which is fueling the possible issue of CBDCs by Central Banks. The US Fed Exploring the Likelihood of Launching a CBDC Recently, James Powell of…

Following the comments by the European Central Bank policymaker, Jens Weidmann, the ECB has no urgent needs in the creation of a digital currency at the current moment. Based on the reports of the ECB in December 2017, "Exploring anonymity in central bank digital currencies," a new report explained the primary functions of the Central Bank Digital Currency.  Its research focuses on contribution motive towards the border discussions of the ECB chains. The Accenture and R3 features presented in the…

Founded in 2013, the San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange Circle is one of the earliest digital assets players. The OTC office once got recognized as one of the most profitable companies on the market. On 17 December, Kraken confirmed its purchase of Circle's over-the-counter office. In a blog post announcing the move, Circle co-founders Jeremy Allaire and Sean Neville confirmed the firm's OTC business's sale to Kraken. They stated that they have known and admired Jesse and his team at Kraken…

On 16 December, CipherTrace noted that major banks could be processing a maximum of 2 billion dollars in crypto-related transfers in its press release. However, these yearly earnings are never detected. CipherTrace is a blockchain intelligence company, and according to it, about ten major commercial banks in the US have unregistered crypto businesses; that use their payment networks in processing funds. The press release also pointed out that these unregistered crypto money service businesses (MSBs) are entities like cryptocurrency exchanges.…

Blockchain technology is famed for the security it provides in facilitating secure transactions. The praised security level has increased the number of threats facing the crypto industry as people try to breach the technology. These threats are now becoming a reality to crypto derivatives due to the numerous attacks they are facing. Recently, one of them, the  VeChain Foundation, was attacked. Just yesterday, VeChain’s buyback address was compromised, which led to the loss of 1.1 billion VET tokens worth $6.5…