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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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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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NEW REPORT: How Banks Are Driving API-First Strategies

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New payment and financial technologies are quickly emerging from the FinTech community, all with the promise of expediting payments and reducing the distance between cross-border trading partners. APIs invite innovative changes to banking. Recent research indicates merchant anxiety over non-payments is widespread.

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Why Australia’s Digital Coin Efforts Target Wholesale — Not Retail — Payments

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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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SPEZA To Accept China’s New Sovereign Digital Currency

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The digital asset solutions provider, exchange operator and regulator, based in Malaysia, will also accept all major digital assets listed on SPEZA Digital Asset Exchange. FinTech company SPEZA announced that it will be able to accept China’s Digital Currency Electronic Payment (DCEP), the world’s first sovereign digital currency.

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Taiwan’s Central Bank Might Implement Blockchain

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Taiwan’s central bank is looking into implementing blockchain technology in order to improve its operations. 2017, Taiwan’s Financial Supervisory Commission Chairman Wellington Koo spoke before parliament, asserting that Taiwan should take its cues from Japan, which provides licenses to cryptocurrency exchanges.