Author: CoinDesk

• Coinbase will add the 0x protocol token to its professional trading platform, Coinbase Pro. It's the first ERC-20 token to get a place on the platform.
• A region in Northern Syria is looking to cryptocurrency as a way to overcome economic sanctions.
• Crypto giveaway scams featuring Elon Musk impostors are common on Twitter, but on Thursday they went to new heights, with a promoted tweet from a verified account.
• The Securities and Exchange Commission moves against an initial coin offering and its organizer who allegedly claimed to have received approval from the agency.
• Know any Mandarin-speaking blockchain experts? The People's Bank of China is hiring as it continues development of its central bank digital currency.

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• Three years in the making, bitcoin's first sidechain, called "Liquid", is now live.
• The Financial Stability Board says that cryptocurrencies and digital assets are not currently a threat to global financial stability.
• The Securities and Exchange Commission goes after an alleged pump-and-dump scheme involving a $100 million ICO.
• Cryptocurrency exchange Gemini hires another Wall street executive
• Blockchain finance firm Clearmatics Technologies raises over $12 million in a Series A funding round.

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• The Persian Gulf may get its first cryptocurrency exchange licensed by a central bank.
• A cryptocurrency investment fund in Switzerland receives a license from the nation's financial markets regulator.
• Blockchain startup Bitwala is aiming to launch Germany's first "blockchain bank account."
• SpankChain, a cryptocurrency project focused on the adult industry, has suffered a breach that saw almost $40,000 in ethereum (ETH) stolen.
• Japanese IT giant GMO Internet is jumping into the race to launch a successful stablecoin, planning the launch of a yen-pegged cryptocurrency in 2019.

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• French supermarket giant Carrefour joins an IBM Blockchain program.
• An ICO on bitcoin? If start-up RSK has its way, it could happen.
• Controversial exchange Bitfinex attempts to disprove rumors of insolvency.
• Stealth startup Good Money plans to launch of crypto wallet with the help of "mega-bloggers." Hope Floyd's available!
• Venezuelan citizens must now purchase passports using the Petro, the nation's oil-backed cryptocurrency.

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• Yale University reportedly invested $400 million in crypto fund.
• SEC is looking for more comments on rejected bitcoin ETFs.
• Miner making multi-million bet on Ethereum staying Proof-of-Work.
• Celsius has over 10,000 users earning interest on crypto.
• Fortnite Cheat has bitcoin-targeting malware.

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• The EOS community is having its first voting fraud scandal.
• The U.S. Department of Justice charged seven alleged Russian intelligence agents with using cryptocurrencies to fund undercover operations across the world.
• An ICE official says that his agency tracks cryptocurrency conversions in its investigations.
• The co-organizer of the first-ever Crypto Springs conference says, “nothing is decentralized”.
• A French start-up receives $1.7 million to develop the Lightning Network.

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• A critical exploit originally found in bitcoin’s code was patched last month before criminals could act on it. But it now appears there were some victims.
• IBM claims to have found a way to reduce the energy consumption needed on proof-of-work blockchains.
• This week RIpple was out in full force at its Swell conference.
• Crypto exchange Gemini announced that from now on the digital assets it holds in custody will be covered by the insurance company Aon.
• A new Congressional bill dubbed Blockchain Promotion Act of 2018 was recently introduced to the U.S. House of Representatives.

Host Pete Rizzo has the latest.

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• CoinDesk has released a list of the top universities that offer courses on blockchain and cryptocurrencies.
• Former president Bill Clinton spoke at Ripple’s Swell conference in San Francisco on Monday. Clinton expressed concern about "disparity of access" to new technologies like blockchain.
• A new marketplace for crypto collectibles offers to sell them in bundles.
• Venture capitalist invested almost four times more in blockchain projects this year.
• CoinDesk researcher Peter Ryan discusses a new report on the top universities in blockchain education.

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Hyperledger and Enterprise Ethereum Alliance join forces.

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Three companies are now using Ripple’s xRapid in real life.

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Researchers say that Ether’s price plunge didn’t hit ICOs.

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Blockchain is praised at the U.N. General Assembly.

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Montana nearly banned crypto mining in a single county. 

Host Marc Hochstein has the latest.

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BitGo CEO Mike Belshe looks ahead to the the problem of securing a trillion dollar cryptocurrency wallet.

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Decentralized exchange Everbloom is looking to become a certified broker-dealer in the U.S.

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U.S. regulators brought charges against securities swap platform 1broker and its CEO Patrick Brunner for violating federal law.

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Shares in the publicly listed blockchain tech and consultancy firm DigitalX have slumped after it revealed it is facing a legal claim in an Australian court.

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Messaging giant LINE has announced the first five decentralized apps, or dapps, on its custom blockchain platform.

Host Bailey Reutzel has the latest from CoinDesk.

Recorded September 28, 2018 in New York, NY.

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