-Binance announced on April 2, 2020 that it has reached an agreement to acquire CoinMarketCap. Together, they will pursue their common vision of making cryptoassets more accessible and useful to users around the world.

-CoinMarketCap will continue to be run as an independent entity.

-Brandon Chez, the founder of CoinMarketCap, will be stepping down to focus on his family. He will be passing the baton to Carylyne Chan, former Chief Strategy Officer, who is now the interim CEO.

The global blockchain company behind the world’s largest digital asset exchange by trading volume and users, Binance, today announced that it has acquired CoinMarketCap, the world’s most-referenced cryptoasset data tracking site, for an undisclosed sum. Binance and CoinMarketCap will together pursue their common vision of making cryptoassets more widely accessible and useful to users globally.

CoinMarketCap will continue to be run as an independent business entity. While the Binance cryptocurrency exchange and its native token BNB are listed on CoinMarketCap, CoinMarketCap and Binance are separate entities that maintain a strict policy of independence from one another: Binance has no bearing on CoinMarketCap rankings, while CoinMarketCap has no influence over Binance’s operations. CoinMarketCap stays committed to providing the most accurate, timely and quality cryptocurrency data in the industry while benefiting from Binance’s expertise, resources and scale.

Binance is widely recognized as the largest cryptocurrency exchange worldwide, providing the best liquidity, transaction execution and price discovery for the largest selection of cryptocurrencies. Binance is trusted in the industry for abiding by the ethos of cryptocurrency, doing right by its users, setting industry standards for transparency and spreading the freedom of money.

CoinMarketCap is known as the most-trafficked website to obtain cryptoasset and exchange information and rankings. It is one of the most-cited sources for cryptoasset prices and exchange trading volume, and has maintained independence from external stakeholders since inception.

Blog: https://blog.coinmarketcap.com/2020/04/02/binance-and-coinmarketcap-announce-acquisition-to-collectively-make-cryptocurrency-more-accessible-for-everyone/

Adoption is on the way, finally good news: https://np.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/hbjx25/the_great_reddit_scaling_bakeoff/

"...I now believe this is a possibility not because the value of bitcoin will go up, though I believe it will, but because the value of money is about to fall heavily and quite possibly into the depths of monetary hell...."

What are your thoughts?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/investor/2020/06/16/bitcoin-to-1000000-might-sound-crazy-but-is-it/#622082db1c59

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Andreas Antonopoulos, a highly respected digital assets educator has identified a new way for those who are HODLing their BTC to make a passive income, Cointelegraph reports.

His solution lies in the use of decentralised finance (DeFi). “In a livestream Q&A on Antonopoulos’ YouTube channel on June 27, he said decentralized finance (DeFi) contracts were one way for Bitcoin (BTC) owners to generate passive income without relinquishing custody of their coins.”

In the video, Antonopoulos said that anyone holding BTC could convert them into ETH or a stablecoin, then lend those tokens to a platform where they can earn interest. However, he did add that there are some risks. He said: “Ethereum may have problems. It may have bugs. The consensus algorithm may have failures. You may have increases in the gas price, which leads to other cascade problems. And all of those things can cause you to lose some or all of your invested capital.”

He did mention other ways of making crypto holdings work for owners, but almost every method does involve relying on a custodial exchange, and these do carry the risk of theft or mismanagement.
However, HODLers do not earn dividends or interest on their investments until they finally decide to cash out, as he pointed out, and while BTC owners are always hoping the price will go up, it can also go down. Antonopoulos said the same was true for crypto day traders: “You can pull your Bitcoin out and convert it, buy 1,000 altcoins, and then watch them crash by 98%.”

Antonopoulos is not the only person in the crypto space to advocate the use of DeFi for a passive income. Cointelegraph reported in March that OKEx Director of Financial Markets Lennix Lai said: “The combination of cryptocurrency and DeFi creates an alternative way for users to earn passive interest that was not possible before.”

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https://medium.com/@lendoplatformltd/how-to-make-a-passive-income-from-your-bitcoin-3cde30b6f027

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The Bitplaza app has a wide selection of products & supports international shipping as well. Bitplaza is also making it easier for brands to accept Bitcoin by allowing new listings on the shopping platform

NetObjex is now a member of AIM North America, an alliance enabling the cooperation, development, and standardization of AIDC technologies.

https://www.linkedin.com/company/netobjex/

According to an article in Cointelegraph, there are five signs that Bitcoin is about to enter a bull market phase and crash through its multi-year resistance at $10,500.

The Bitcoin price since the halving in May has been seeing some sideways action, which Keith Wareing writes is reminiscent of early 2017, “when Bitcoin hit $1,180 for the second time, triggering a catastrophic sell-off.” It appeared that the leading cryptocurrency was dead, but instead “what happened after is the first sign that we were in for a bull market.”

The Trap

This is the first sign. Wareing explains “you can see that the pattern that played out after the 40% dump from $1,180 in January 2017 is almost identical to that of the 57% dump that occurred on March 12 2020.” What happened next in 2017 was a 2000% rise in the value of Bitcoin.

The Range

Sign two is “seeing a new descending channel opening up that has perfect Fibonacci levels lining up.”

The Orderbook

Wareing says, “there are significant sell-orders as denoted by the yellow line around the 50% fib at $9,450 and interestingly a lot of buy orders around $8,800.” He explains, “As the shorts pile in targeting $8,700, the spoofers can take a large long position, remove their $9,450 sell-wall and scoop up all those liquidations.”

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https://medium.com/@lendoplatformltd/the-signs-of-a-bitcoin-bull-market-5651067289a3

Monero is facing significant scrutiny after a few cryptocurrency exchanges announced the delisting of the cryptocurrency. Bithumb was the last one to announce the delisting of XMR after users took to Telegram their concern about Monero being used to purchase child pornography.

The delisting auditory board of Bithumb’s decided on the permanent delisting of Monero, which will be effective from June 1st. Monero is a cryptocurrency built around a security infrastructure that protects people’s identities. It appears to be the preferred method of payment for the Dark Web, which includes significant content on child pornography.

The South Korea police are currently investigating the matter and attempting to track down people who have used the crypto to pay for this type of material.

Bithumb also cited a decrease in XMR trading volumes as a reason to delist the cryptocurrency. Another exchange that also delisted Monero was Huobi due to the scandal. Although they did not quote this as a specific reason for the delisting, reports quickly surged confirming this was the reason behind it.

More crypto exchanges have also begun cooperating with police forces to quickly track down transactions related to the purchasing of child pornography cases. This is good news for the protection of children’s rights everywhere, showing that when it comes to children, their wellbeing will always come before privacy or anonymity.

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https://cryptocoin.news/news/altcoin/monero-gets-delisted-from-major-exchanges-45938/

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While most of us have been focused on Covid-19, whichever country we are in, a quiet revolution has been happening in Africa, according to a report by Arcane Research and Luno, Cointelegraph reports.

The study analysed Google searched ‘Bitcoin’ and found that Uganda, South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya were amongst the Top 10 countries for crypto-related searches.
It goes on to say that Africa is “one of, if not the most promising region for the adoption of cryptocurrencies,” in part because adoption so far has been low, but interest is high and growing.

The continent is promising, because it has a distinct combination of “a young population, frequent monetary crises and currency failures, large unbanked or underbanked populations, and expensive means of payment.”
In terms of numbers, Nigeria has for some time dominated cryptocurrency trade volume, but it emerges that South Africa has the highest percent of cryptocurrency ownership or use among internet users in Africa with 13%, followed by Nigeria with 11%. Indeed, worldwide, South Africa ranks fifth in the world for cryptocurrency adoption.

The current health crisis, and the many restrictions imposed, appears to have encouraged South Africans to head towards Bitcoin. In the last week, the country has posted “its second-strongest weekly volume on peer-to-peer Bitcoin marketplace Localbitcoins, with nearly $1.65 million worth of BTC changing hands.” It surged to the extent that its P2P knocked Kenya out of its crypto trade position.

P2P in Nigeria is also showing record highs, achieving $9.2 million in combined weekly trade, while Kenya has also seen a spike in Localbitcoins trade between BTC and the Kenyan shilling producing its second-strongest week on record for the third consecutive time. Morocco and Egypt have also reported record trade activity.

For the first time ever, P2P volume in sub-Saharan Africa has out-performed Latin America, so it’s definitely a continent with plenty of crypto confidence.

https://medium.com/@lendoplatformltd/africa-shows-big-surge-in-crypto-confidence-f55fdad6b8cf

Recently, Cointelegraph reported that Coinbase, the major crypto exchange, has come under fire “for its alleged efforts to sell crypto surveillance services to both the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the Internal Revenue Service.”

Coinbase has responded by saying, “the company’s analytics services do not share any personally identifiable data with law enforcement,” and that it sources all data from publicly available information.

Some dispute Coinbase’s claims, and a source who worked in compliance with crypto exchanges revealed “that multiple government entities have been actively monitoring users across nearly every centralized exchange and custodial crypto service provider for years.” The anonymous source also claimed that this activity goes back to the early days of Bitcoin, and that after the Mt Gox incident, it increased and intensified.

The source told Cointelegraph: “I’ve worked for crypto exchanges, bitcoin ATM companies, general crypto services providers, and more. They all engage in surveillance practices. They have no choice.”
They also explained, “that the U.S. government’s favored methodology is called a Suspicious Activity Report, or SAR. While SARs are common in most money transmission businesses, crypto SARs appear to operate under different standards.” They said: “In traditional institutions, a transaction needs to meet certain criteria in most cases to be deemed suspicious. That’s not really true for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies though. As far as the government is concerned, the threshold of ‘suspicious’ is met as soon as cryptocurrency is involved.”

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https://medium.com/@lendoplatformltd/is-big-brother-watching-your-crypto-98dbbd602ca5

LOS ANGELES (March 5, 2020) – Draper Goren Holm, the Los Angeles based venture firm led by Tim Draper, Alon Goren and Josef Holm today announced that Los Angeles Blockchain Summit will be returning to Los Angeles this October with a massive incentive, free Bitcoin.



On October 6-7 at the Los Angeles Convention Center, Draper Goren Holm will be giving away $100 worth of Bitcoin to each of the thousands of general admission ticket holders at this year’s 7th Annual Los Angeles Blockchain Summit to incentivize the general public to get educated about the transformative digital currency.



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