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Microsoft Collaboration News Fuels 50% Rally for Enjin’s Cryptocurrency Microsoft’s collaboration with blockchain gaming startup Enjin has prompted a roughly 50 percent surge in the project's native token over a two-day period.

Dow Futures Tread Cautiously Despite Strong Jobs Growth Expectations Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) futures were up by 0.23% in Friday’s premarket hours ahead of the release of the non-farm payrolls report.
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Venture Capitalists Have Invested Over $200M in Stablecoins Does the world need more stablecoins? Yes according to VCs, who have thrown hundreds of millions of dollars at projects developing stable or low volatility digital assets. The $45 million committed in 2019 takes the past two years of VC ...

Hideo Kojima is Patching Death Stranding’s 3 Most Frustrating Mechanics New Death Stranding patch arrives mid-December. It should fix three of the…
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Mnuchin ‘Fine’ With Libra Launch, But Crypto Project Must ‘Fully’ Comply With AML Rules Steven Mnuchin, secretary of the U.S. Treasury, has no issue with the launch of the Facebook-led Libra project – as long as financial rules are followed to the letter.

Microsoft Is Using Blockchain to Help Firms Trust AI Microsoft is pitching blockchain technology as a way to make artificial intelligence less scary for its corporate customers.

France Hates Facebook’s Libra So Much it’s Developing its Own Digital Currency France's answer to Facebook's Libra threat is to launch its own wholesale central bank digital currency (CBDC) per its central bank governor.
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The North American Bitcoin Conference Returns The global Bitcoin and blockchain community will meet in Miami for the seventh year running to create the future of the industry. The North American Bitcoin Conference (TNABC) has hosted 20,000 attendees since 2013 and the ongoing show of support ...

BitMart To Offer Exclusive ndau (XND) Promotion Purchase 1 ndau on BitMart and Win Up to 50 From December…
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Four Insights on Crypto Liquidity From Binance US and FTX Missed our webinar on crypto exchanges? Read the takeaways from CoinDesk Research's chat with Binance US CEO Catherine Coley and FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried.

Massive Institutional Bet Removes over 85% of LFE Cash Tokens from Marketplace for 3 Years Fortune Star Digital Asset Fund (a professional Cayman Islands investment fund) has…
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Consumer Credit Bubble Could Drag Economy into Recession Consumer credit card and other debts are showing distress after years of easy money chasing risky profits like the subprime housing bubble.
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Kadena Blockchain Taps Healthcare Data Firm to Track Medical Cannabis Product The first application on Kadena's public blockchain is a tracking platform for CBD oil.

Bitcoin Cash Analysis: BCH Reaching Crucial Juncture Bitcoin cash price is facing a strong resistance near the $212 area against the US Dollar. The price is showing a few positive signs above the $202 and $192 support levels. There is a crucial bearish trend line forming with ...

Mining Chip Maker Ebang Next in Line to File for US IPO Ebang, the ASIC chip and mining rig manufacturer based in Hangzhou, China is allegedly filing for an initial public offering (IPO) in the U.S. following Canaan’s recent Nasdaq listing and Bitmain’s secret IPO filing. The world’s third-largest bitcoin mining hardware ...

Jason Garrett May Not Survive The Weekend After Cowboys Lose again Jerry Jones has been critical of his coaching staff after the Cowboys…
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Almost 70 Crypto Funds Close This Year, Twice as Many Launch Dozens of crypto funds, almost 70, have closed this year, a mainstream media outlet reported. And while the startling number reveals the influx of institutional investors into the crypto space might not be happening at a fast pace, it’s also ...

5 Things Nintendo Desperately Needs to Fix in 2020 Nintendo has made a lot of mistakes in 2019, and the game company needs to fix them in preparation for the next console war.
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Tron and Poloniex Relationship Scrutinized After Digibyte Delisting The crypto firm Circle recently revealed that it was spinning off the trading platform Poloniex and has since warned customers to withdraw assets or they may be sent to state governments. Following the announcement, the founder of the crypto network ...

Alex Caruso Hype Is Out of Control, but He’s Still Been Indispensable Alex Caruso has received outsized attention from fans and media in the season's early going. What's the real justification behind his rise?
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Multicoin Capital Hires Principal in Asia as Crypto VCs Look East Mable Jiang, formerly of Nirvana Capital, will spearhead the venture firm's hunt for new deals in Asia.

YouTube Rewind 2019 Is the Blandest Thing on the Face of the Planet YouTube Rewind 2019 is here, and it is the blandest video that has ever existed.
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The Politics of Destruction For some time now, I have been aware of a widespread fascination among many libertarians with Jim Bell’s “Assassination Politics” (AP). At my request, Robert Vroman has defended the merits of AP. In this article, I will argue that AP ...

Primetime Superstar Dak Prescott Leads Cowboys Into Hostile Territory vs. Bears In a must-win road game against the Bears on Thursday night, the Cowboys have a trump card in primetime superstar Dak Prescott.
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Giannis Antetokounmpo’s 3-Point Range Looks Real, and The NBA Should Be Terrified Giannis Antetokounmpo's three-point range seems real, perhaps leaving the rest of the NBA powerless to stop him and the Bucks.
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Ripple Boosts MoneyGram Investments; Plans to Bring in More Banks Ripple appears to be undergoing a lot of changes, and by changes we mean extreme growth. Ripple: Growth Is on the Horizon First off, the boss of Ripple – Brad Garlinghouse – has expressed an interest in bringing more banks ...

Former eToro Analyst to Provide Crypto-Trading Course for Cointelligence "Crypto has to be seen from a macro perspective," Mati Greenspan says.

Ripple Files Last Bid to Dismiss XRP Securities Lawsuit Before Court Meeting Even if XRP were a security, the investors suing Ripple brought their case far too late for it to proceed, the company said in a new filing.

Treasury Yields Drift Higher as New York Fed’s Recession Indicator Flashes Warning Sign U.S. Treasury yields edged higher on Thursday, as investors monitored ongoing trade talks between the United States and China.
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NBA Would Open Pandora’s Box by Awarding Houston Rockets a Win via Protest The league would open the door to all sorts of contested results by either awarding the Rockets a victory over the Spurs or ordering the final 7:50 of regulation to be replayed.
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ECB Nominee Blames Resistance to Negative Rates on Financial Illiteracy European Central Bank (ECB) executive board nominee and member of the German Council of Economic Experts, Isabel Schnabel, recently remarked at a European Parliament hearing that “This scapegoating [of the ECB] is extremely dangerous: it may damage the trust in ...

Dow Stuck Ahead of Friday’s Jobs Report & Next Week’s Tariff Time-Bomb The Dow Jones stumbled sideways ahead of Friday's jobs report and a troublesome weekend, as Trump's December tariffs loom large.
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Virgil Griffith May Have Wanted to Help North Korea Mine Ether Virgil Griffith, the 36-year-old Singapore resident (and U.S. citizen) who was recently arrested for giving a seminar about blockchain and cryptocurrency in North Korea, allegedly said once that it would be really “cool” if the country learned how to mine ...

The Strange Tale of Soviet Jump Game, the Original Battle Royale A lost, unfinished Dendy game? The first-ever Battle Royale game 30-years before its time? Soviet Jump Game seems too good to be true.
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Lakers Silence Skeptics With Brutal 48-Hour Beatdown The Los Angeles Lakers quieted skeptics over the last 48 hours with impressive back-to-back wins, but more tests await.
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This Alinity Dog Clip Isn’t Just Gross – It’s Proof Twitch Should Ban Her Forever Alinity's infamous "dog clip" should trigger a permanent Twitch ban, and even that may not be enough punishment for the streamer.
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Throwback Thursday: Nancy Pelosi’s 2008 Quid Pro Quo with Visa Nancy Pelosi is calling for the House to impeach Trump for a quid pro quo with Ukraine. What about her own quid pro quo with Visa in 2008?
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Ethereum’s Top DEX Is Relaunching to Tap Istanbul’s Lower Gas Fees IDEX is launching a new DEX built on a layer 2 scalibility protocol made possible through Ethereum's Istanbul hard fork.

Bakkt CEO Kelly Loeffler to Briefly Serve in Congress Kelly Loeffler – the CEO of Bakkt, the institutional crypto trading platform owned and governed by the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) – has been hired to take over a temporarily vacant Senate seat. Can Kelly Loeffler Push Crypto in Government? Many ...

You Can Now Get a Head Start on Your 2020 PlayStation 5 Pre-Order The grand march to next year's PlayStation 5 release is ratcheting up a notch as online retailers publish pre-order notification pages.
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5 Reasons Why the Dow Unexpectedly Struggled Today The Dow Jones struggled to secure a second straight gain on Thursday. Here are five reasons stocks wavered today.
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Blockfi Launches Crypto Trading Platform Crypto financial services company Blockfi has launched a trading platform supporting three cryptocurrencies. The new offering adds to the company’s existing services: interest-bearing accounts and crypto-backed loans. Blockfi has completed registration with the U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network and expanded ...

Page 48 of the Tory Manifesto Will Lead the UK Into Tyranny Page 48 of the conservative manifesto reveals a scary insight into life under a Tory government. Here's how screwed Britain is under Boris.
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MARKETS DAILY: Casualties Ahead in the Cryptocurrency Mining Arms Race On another down day, we're talking U.S. warnings on digital assets, a brief history of troubled but systemically important stablecoin "Tether", and a look at the arms-race in blockchain mining technology.

Stack Overflow VP Joins Crypto Lending Firm as Chief Product Officer Crypto lending firm Unchained Capital has hired Will Cole of the Wyoming Blockchain Task Force as its new chief product officer.

Watch Out NFL, the Baltimore Ravens Have a New Secret Weapon After a close call against the 49ers Sunday, the Baltimore Ravens decided it might be good to have a certain someone on their side.
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Nintendo Needs to Step Up Its Super Nintendo Game for Switch More Super Nintendo games are coming to Switch online, but the company really needs to get on the ball and add more games more often.
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Dow Plods Higher After Jobless Claims Plunge to 7-Month Low The Dow Jones plowed higher, bolstered by the trade war's return to the status quo and unexpectedly-bright jobless claims data.
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Crypto Lender BlockFi Rolls Out Zero-Fee Trading for Bitcoin, Ether, GUSD BlockFi, the cryptocurrency lending service, is expanding into trading with an unusual, zero-fee model.

Matter Labs Unveils Layer-2 Scaling Solution for Ethereum Payments Matter Labs released Thursday the testnet of ZK-Sync, a privacy-minded scaling tool meant to help blockchains boost transaction speeds.

Pompliano Joins Board of Blockchain-Based Lending Firm After $103M Raise Blockchain-based consumer lender Figure added Morgan Creek Digital’s Anthony “Pomp” Pompliano to its board following a $103 million funding round.

RBI Governor Discusses Crypto and Central Bank Digital Currency The governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), Shaktikanta Das, spoke about cryptocurrency during a press conference on Thursday. He also talked about the prospect of an RBI-issued digital currency, when the time will be right for issuing one, ...

The Advantages of Using Bitcoin With fewer people making transactions using cash these days, there are now a number of ways to purchase goods or services online. Bitcoin is one of the most popular methods of digital payments and there are plenty of advantages when ...

Microsoft Teams up With Enjin to Offer Crypto Collectible Rewards Do good work, earn a "badger." That's the idea behind a new incentives scheme launched by Microsoft in partnership with blockchain gaming project Enjin.

Ex-Morgan Stanley Executives Launch Crypto Derivatives Platform in Singapore A team of Morgan Stanley veterans have launched a crypto derivatives trading platform, claiming it is faster and more secure than some of the market’s biggest players.

Bitcoin’s Rejection at Key Price Hurdle Puts Short-Term Bull Trend at Risk Bitcoin sharp rejection at resistance around $7,800 has weakened the short-term bullish outlook.

Canadian Government-Assisted Bitcoin Miner Files for Bankruptcy Owing Millions Great North Data, a firm that ran bitcoin mining and AI processing data centers in Canada, has filed for bankruptcy owing millions to creditors including government agencies.

Crypto Startups to Get up to $75,000 From the Government of Ukraine Ukrainian crypto companies can now receive up to $75,000 each in the form of government sponsored grants. A special fund set up by the authorities in Kiev is already accepting applications from startups in various high tech sectors including the ...

ChromaWay Doubles Down on Gaming With Antler Interactive Acquistion ChromaWay will add Antler's game catalog to its own Chromia blockchain with the acquisition.

EOS Price Analysis: Bulls Facing Uphill Task EOS price is struggling to continue above the $2.750 and $2.820 resistances against the US Dollar. There is a decent support forming near the $2.500 and $2.535 support levels. There are two major bearish trend lines in place with resistance ...

Top US Financial Regulators Urge Monitoring of Digital Assets, Stablecoins A panel of top U.S. financial regulators urged federal and state officials to monitor risks from digital assets like bitcoin.

Litecoin (LTC) Price Analysis: Risk of Additional Losses Litecoin price is declining and trading well below the $50.00 level against the US Dollar. LTC price is struggling to recover above the $46.50 and $47.20 resistance levels. There is a major declining channel forming with resistance near $46.00 on ...

Someone Performed a Very Unprofitable 51% Attack on Vertcoin After experiencing a nasty 51 percent attack roughly one year ago, Vertcoin has been subjected to another such attack on its blockchain. Vertcoin: The Victim Once Again 51 percent attacks occur when hackers secretly infiltrate a specific blockchain and then ...

South Africa Reserve Bank to Release New Crypto Regulations A bank in South Africa is introducing new regulations regarding how people can – and should – hold cryptocurrency. South Africa: The New Crypto Hotspot? The South Africa Reserve Bank (SARB) says that the new rules will become applicable during ...

Democratizing the Platform Economy: The Quiet Revolution Through Blockchain Blockchain – a bursting bubble or disruptive transformation? The Internet has created digital marketplaces that efficiently bring supply and demand together. The success of tech giants such as Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon, but also Tencent and Alibaba, can be ...

Dapper Labs Announces Cheeze Wizards Hackathon in Lead up to The First Official Tournament Dapper Labs, creators of the massively popular Ethereum game, Cryptokitties have announced a hackathon for their latest creation, inviting developers to build on top of the game for the chance to win cash prizes, limited edition crypto-collectibles and the chance ...

Bull Bitcoin CEO Pouliot: SegWit Activation Process Showed Value of Running a Node During the opening panel of this year’s Understanding Bitcoin conference in Malta, some prominent members of the Bitcoin community reflected on the block size limit controversy and the eventual activation of Segregated Witness (SegWit). One of the individuals involved in ...

Crypto Lending and Borrowing Platform Celsius Network Acquires BSave Celsius Network, a cryptocurrency lending and borrowing platform, has acquired BSave for an undisclosed amount, the company said earlier this week. BSave is a platform that provides earning interest income on cryptocurrency. With the acquisition, Celsius Network gains access to ...

Paxful, The White Company Partnership Enables Users To Convert Bitcoins Into Prepaid Debit Cards Peer-to-peer (P2P) bitcoin marketplace Paxful has partnered with crypto services provider The White Company to give Paxful customers the ability to cash out bitcoins into prepaid cards in multiple currencies, the companies said on Thursday. The new partnership allows Paxful ...