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Leaked Transcript Uncovers Fallout Between IOTA Leaders

Leaked Transcript Uncovers Fallout Between IOTA Leaders

A leaked conversation has revealed a serious fallout among the founding members of IOTA, pushing the project’s most intimate workings into the public eye. Centered around the appointment of two IOTA founders to the board of directors, the controversial transcript opens with co-founder Sergey Ivancheglo, a.k.a. “Come-From-Beyond,” providing a “vote of no confidence” in co-founder Dominik …

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More than 5 Million Customers can now Pay utilities using XRP (Ripple)

More than 5 Million Customers can now Pay utilities using XRP (Ripple)

Ripple’s figure heads can’t be the only ones pitching and insisting that XRP is a utility. Aside the many payment providers spread across the world who see value in XRP, coins.ph, a popular crypto payment platform in the Philippines is yet another provider who finds XRP irresistible. With more than five million customers in the Philippines …

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Dash CEO Ryan Taylor on Why Cryptocurrency Doesn’t Need Wall Street to Grow

Dash CEO Ryan Taylor on Why Cryptocurrency Doesn’t Need Wall Street to Grow

Dash CEO and former Wall Street executive Ryan Taylor spoke out about the recent Wall Street activity seen in the cryptocurrency space recently, with ICE establishing a bitcoin market and financialization coming in from other avenues of the traditional finance world. Dash CEO Explains Why He Left Wall Street to Go All in on Crypto In an …

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Bills Could Be Paid In XRP By 5 Million New Users

Bills Could Be Paid In XRP By 5 Million New Users

Another big development for cryptocurrency adoption today, as a new XRP roll out promises to allow bill payments to be made by around 5 million new customers of a cryptocurrency conversion website in the Philippines. https://coins.ph/ is a Philippines based cryptocurrency payment website that allows Filipinos to pay their domestic and household bills by using cryptocurrencies. Until now, payments could …

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XRP ‘Is the Fastest Digital Asset to Transfer Funds Between Exchanges according to Weiss Ratings

XRP ‘Is the Fastest Digital Asset to Transfer Funds Between Exchanges according to Weiss Ratings

On Friday (10 August 2018), rating agency Weiss Ratings declared XRP to be “the fastest digital asset to transfer funds between exchanges”. It ll started on 9 August 2018 with a plea from an XRP fan on Twitter (user “@C3_Nik”) to Binance CEO, Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, to make XRP a base currency on Binance: C3|[email protected]_Nik …

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Cryptocurrencies and their place in mainstream finance

Has the world of money changed and will continue to do so? Cryptocurrencies are now irrefutably part of mainstream finance. They are capturing our focus more than ever before during a time when financial technology is taking centre stage. Major digital currencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Lite and Dash are being thrust into the …

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Crypto meltdown: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, Bitcoin Cash, EOS, Stellar, and Litecoin are being crushed

Crypto meltdown: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, Bitcoin Cash, EOS, Stellar, and Litecoin are being crushed

Last week certainly was one to forget for crypto traders with heavy declines being experienced by almost all major coins. Unfortunately, the selloff has continued this weekend and the crypto market has fallen deep into the red. At the time of writing the entire value of the crypto market is down to US$209.4 billion according …

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Cryptocurrency Fraud Costs Britons 2 Million Pounds in Two Months

Cryptocurrency Fraud Costs Britons 2 Million Pounds in Two Months

Britons have lost more than 2 million British pounds ($2.55 million) in only two months due to cryptocurrency related criminal activities, the UK national police project Action Fraud said on Friday. Fraudsters used mainly social media channels to advertise their ‘quick investment’ Ponzi schemes the June and July data showed. UK police revealed that the average loss …

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India: Government to Consider Allowing Crypto Tokens, But Not Cryptocurrencies

India: Government to Consider Allowing Crypto Tokens, But Not Cryptocurrencies

The Indian government is considering whether to allow crypto tokens to be used in the country, despite its hardline stance on cryptocurrencies, local news outlet DNA India reports August 10. A committee set up by the finance ministry, under the chairmanship of the Department of Economic Affairs (DEA) secretary, is reportedly working on a set of regulations and roadmap …

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