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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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Crypto 2020: One Step Up; Two Steps Back

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Here are some of cryptos’ key developments for 2020: Bitcoin Goes Higher And Higher. Bitcoin, of course, exists as one of the most widely recognized cryptocurrencies. And one of the most notable events of 2020 was the big appreciation in bitcoin’s price, tied as it is (and was) to optimism about cryptos’ future.

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EU To Crack Down On Stablecoin Projects

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Valdis Dombrovskis , the EU’s executive vice president of the European Commission for an Economy that Works for People, told attendees of the Digital Finance Outreach 2020 , a series of events for the 27-nation bloc on financial technology companies, that Europe must become the leader in crafting rules for digital finance.

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New Zealand Fintech – Companies to Watch

Jessica Ellerm

Kiwi ingenuity, or our ‘Number 8 wire’ mentality as it is known in New Zealand, has allowed our small nation to punch above its weight on the world stage. And while financial technology is still a nascent industry, no doubt this sector will be subject to a little more of our Kiwi ingenuity over the coming few years.

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From ACH To IoT: Looking Back On A Year Of Trackers

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With Phase 2 of the faster payments transition looming, what other technologies could hold promise in the space? In the January issue of the tracker, PYMNTS spoke with Dr. David Evans about the “Kim Kardashian of financial technology” — blockchain — and what to expect from other faster payments technologies.

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Finovate Fall 2016 Live Blog – Day 2

William Mills

Loans on BitBond run through the bitcoin backchain for efficiency reasons. We try to leave a positive mark on the world through business and technology. Companies such as Adidas, Carrefour, Cisco Systems, Danone, Fujitsu, Lufthansa Flight Training, Siemens, Société Générale and the United Nations use Liferay. finovate Tweets.