Author: The Global Blockchain

Overstock’s blockchain arm, Medici Ventures, has big plans for 2019, as the e-commerce giant moves towards a February sale.
Source: Coin Desk

Germany’s second-largest stock exchange, Boerse Stuttgart, is set to launch crypto trading in H1 2019, with ICO token trading coming later.
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Opera has announced the public release of its “Web 3-ready” Android web browser featuring an ethereum wallet.
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Culturally broken? A frustrated crypto entrepreneur argues 2018 was a money grab filled with broken promises.
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Venezuela has reportedly begun automatically converting residents’ pensions into its controversial cryptocurrency.
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The SEC has settled charges with AriseBank’s former CEO and COO, requiring the two to pay $2.7 million in disgorgement and $187,000 in penalties.
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Hyperledger has added 16 new members, including Deutsche Telekom, Europe’s biggest telecommunications provider and Alibaba’s cloud computing subsidiary.
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Geth has locked ethereum’s upcoming Constantinople hard fork into its latest code release.
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BlockFi, a startup that offers U.S. dollar loans against crypto collateral, has raised $4 million from Mike Novogratz’s Galaxy Digital and others.
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The CEO and global CIO of Allianz’s investment arm has said cryptocurrencies should be banned by regulators.
Source: Coin Desk