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Bitcoin Daily: Bitcoin Rises After Recent Crash; IRS Delivers New Rules For Crypto Investors

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Ransom is demanded in bitcoin, upon threat of releasing damaging information to family, friends, and co-workers. But now the hackers are asking for alternative crypto currencies to bitcoin in their ransom demands. This latest sextortion version is using a Litecoin wallet address instead of bitcoin to evade detection,” Johnson wrote.

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Bitcoin Daily: Binance Denies Reports Of Police Raid; Blockchain Expands To Gaming Payments

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In other Binance news, the crypto exchange announced that it has acquired India-based bitcoin exchange WazirX , which will allow customers to buy and sell crypto with Indian rupees on the Binance Fiat Gateway. The population of the country sees these capital controls are put in place, and then they’re going to look for a way around it.

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Bitcoin Daily: UK Researching CBDC Use Cases; Lebanon To Introduce CBDC In 2021; SEC Member Pushes For Cryptocurrency Regulation; ShapeShift Delists Three Privacy Coins

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In other news, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) member Hester Peirce expressed hope that securities regulations concerning cryptocurrencies will speed up to match the speed of financial technology innovation.

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Financial technology needs rules of engagement

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Policymakers and industry officials should join forces in creating regulations and standards for cryptocurrencies, artificial intelligence and other innovations before they become more widespread.

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Bitcoin Daily: People’s Bank Of China To Certify Digital Payment Products; Korean Security Agency Supports Blockchain Projects With $9M Fund

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The People’s Bank of China announced that it will certify 11 types of financial technology hardware and software used for digital payment and blockchain services. His comments even caused a price boost of bitcoin and blockchain stocks to the point that the Chinese state media advised people to stay levelheaded.

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Digital Currency Eyes Wholesale — Not Retail — Payments Down Under

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Thus, the RBA is positing the creation and administration of a digital offering that would track the Australian dollar, as well as ostensibly sidestep the volatility that has marked the likes of bitcoin and its brethren. As a] unit of account, people don’t post their prices in bitcoin, even [at] bitcoin conferences.

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Kenya CMA drafts Sandbox Rules to test Bitcoin and other Fintech

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Kenya’s Capital Markets Authority (CMA) has proposed rules to create a regulatory fintech sandbox for innovations which do not fit within the country’s current financial regulatory framework. The post Kenya CMA drafts Sandbox Rules to test Bitcoin and other Fintech appeared first on Bankelele.

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