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The Tezos blockchain has collaborated with several Swiss cryptocurrency companies to incorporate bitcoin onto its platform. The move brings Tezos, which has based its foundation in Switzerland, a step closer to rival blockchain Ethereum.

Launched in 2018 (https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/troubled-path_tezos-blockchain-platform-finally-goes-live/44402822), the Tezos blockchain was designed to play host to a new generation of decentralised finance, business and social projects. It competes with a number of other blockchains, including Ethereum, which introduced bitcoin applications more than a year ago.

Ethereum is also backed by a Swiss-based foundation but has drifted away from Switzerland operationally since its launch in 2015. Tezos is a decentralised blockchain that was designed in the United States and largely built in Paris (France). But while its foundation went through a painful chapter of events (https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/battle-ended-_tezos-foundation-completes-board-revamp/43931054) two years ago, it has gone to great lengths to highlight a degree of Swissness.

The Tezos Foundation has teamed up with the Bitcoin Association Switzerland and Swiss digital asset service providers Bitcoin Suisse, Bity, Sygnum, Inacta, Lexr and Swiss Crypto Token to create the TZBTC digital token https://tzbtc.io/.

This essentially marries Tezos “smart contracts” with the world’s original cryptocurrency, allowing holders to code commands that transfer bitcoin from one party to another.

“This collaboration demonstrates that Switzerland is still a leader in financial innovation – and not just a place to save taxes,” Tezos foundation operational head Roman Schnider told swissinfo.ch. “TZBTC is probably not for people who are just interested in holding bitcoin as an investment. But it demonstrates that we have the full toolkit available for people who want to create new and agile financial services.”

Blockchain allows people to exchange items of value without the need of third-party intermediaries, such as banks or lawyers. It promises to preserve privacy, add transparency and bring efficiencies to established digital systems.

Source: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/digital-asset_swiss-consortium-launches-bitcoin-on-tezos-blockchain/45677226

CZ explains Why Binance is Paying $400 Million for CoinMarketCap

This is an episode of The Pomp Podcast with host Anthony "Pomp" Pompliano and guest, CZ, the founder of Binance, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world by volume.

In this conversation, Anthony and CZ discuss how COVID-19 is impacting Binance, why CZ is paying $400 million for CoinMarketCap, what trends Binance is seeing in non-US countries, and why CZ wants to potentially turn Binance into a Decentralized Autonomous Organization.

Switzerland’s financial regulator brought charges against eight “initial coin offering” (ICO) blockchain projects for breaching anti-money laundering rules last year. ICOs raise money from the public by selling digital tokens that promise to hold future value for the consumer.

The fundraising activity is designed to make it easier for start-ups to raise capital, but it has also attracted a number of fraudulent operators. The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) investigated 60 ICOs in 2019, according to its annual report.

More than ten violated anti-money laundering rules, leading to charges being laid against the people behind eight of these ICOs. Eight companies were placed on FINMA’s warning list of firms to be avoided by the public. Enforcement proceedings were later started against three of the companies.

FINMA counted 94 ICO operations starting up in Switzerland last year compared to 184 in 2018.

In its annual report: https://www.finma.ch/en/documentation/finma-publications/annual-reports--and-financial-statements/, FINMA also warned about a growing threat from fraudulent companies that offer to store, trade or invest cryptocurrencies on behalf of people.

“There is an increasing number of fraudulent websites relating to these services, which offer their customers supposed investments in cryptocurrencies, but do not use any money they receive for the proper purposes,” it states.

Last year, a criminal complaint was brought against one unnamed provider of token custody and trading services. Enforcement proceedings were opened into a firm that acted as a go-between for clients and cryptcurrency exchanges and another company suspected of illegally selling securities in the shape of digital tokens.

In some cases, companies were forced to pay back money that they had unlawfully obtained from the public.

Source: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/finma-annual-report_swiss-regulator-cracks-down-on-fraudulent-crypto-activities/45663186

-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/

Binance Futures has launched daily ROI and overall USDT team profit trading tournaments starting from 2020/04/10 0:00:00 AM (UTC) until 2020/04/25 0:00:00(UTC). Binance will be giving away a total prize pool of up to 1,080,000 USD in BNB tokens across all competitions.
Now you can sign up for a team leader or joining a team to participate in this activity from 2020/03/25 0:00:00 AM (UTC) - 2020/04/10 0:00:00 (UTC). Learn more: https://www.binance.com/en/futures/activity/tournament



Risk Warning: Futures trading is a highly risky endeavor, with the potential for both great profits and significant losses. Please be aware that in the event of extreme price movement, there is a chance that all margin balance in your futures wallet may be liquidated.

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In an exclusive interview with Cointelegraph, Crypto Valley Association President Daniel Haudenschild said that central bank digital currencies are “the next logical stage.”

Haudenschild explained to Cointelegraph that he believes CBDCs are the next stage “in evolution for decentralized finance.” He also claimed that there are currently 34 CBDC projects. According to him, such digital currencies represent a new era of governments and traditional finance that recognize the potential of digital assets.

Full Story: https://cointelegraph.com/news/switzerlands-crypto-valley-association-head-says-cbdc-is-a-good-idea

Global economy has been shaken by what seems to be a pandemic of Coronavirus.
Is Coronavirus really the cause of this? It's hard to know, but at this moment we know for sure, people are in panic.

As of today, March 9th, 2020:
Stocks Index Dow Jones is down by $2000 (-8%)
Cryptocurrency Market cap is down by $18B (-7,8%)

The percentages are pretty similar which indicates that there might be a correlation between the two.

It's obvious there is panic, not just on streets but on the market as well.

Is this a sign to be worried or a sign to buy?

There is a famous quote from Baron Rothschild
"Buy when there's blood in the streets, even if the blood is yours"

The Attorney General’s office has received a criminal complaint from the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) against Crypto AG, the firm at the centre of a spying scandal that broke last month, the SonntagsZeitung newspaper reports.

SECO, the authority responsible among other things for the licensing of war materiel exports, believes it was misled by the Zug-based company when it filed export applications for its manipulated encryption devices.

For decades Crypto allegedly sold these secretly manipulated devices to more than 100 countries for spying purposes. Until 2018 the company was owned by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Germany Federal Intelligence Service (BND), both of whom had the ability to decrypt the devices.

SECO says it would not have approved the exports if it had been aware of the large-scale fraud. The department filed the complaint against unknown persons on Tuesday, since it is as yet unclear who at Crypto AG knew about the manipulations, the SonntagsZeitung reveals. At its peak the company had around 400 employees, only a few of whom would have been aware of the covert spying.

The newspaper says it is likely the complaint was filed under Article 14 of the Goods Control Act, which states that anyone who provides incorrect or incomplete information in a license application is liable to up to ten years in prison and a maximum fine of CHF5 million ($5.18 million), depending on the severity of the crime.

The Swiss Attorney General’s Office will now decide whether the alleged offences are subject to federal jurisdiction and there are sufficient grounds to pursue criminal charges.

The Federal Council, the executive body, launched an investigation into the Crypto affair on February 11, appointing former federal judge Niklaus Oberholzer to lead the probe. This investigation is now being overseen by the parliamentary control delegation, which is pursuing its own inquiry.

Source: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/crypto-leaks_swiss-authorities-file-criminal-complaint-against-encryption-firm/45588760

COVID-19 - more commonly known as the coronavirus - has unleashed massive shock waves among the worldwide health, science, government and business communities as societies are trying to contain the virus. At the moment, the scale and velocity at which the coronavirus is spreading are proving difficult to manage because the regional clustering of the outbreak has moved beyond the initial Hubei province of China to South Korea, Iran, Europe and parts of North America.


Economic impact
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The coronavirus is not the first serious epidemic that has claimed hundreds of lives and caused enormous economic losses to the global economy. In 2002, when the SARS epidemic began in China, officials and the general population did not immediately sound the alarm and were reluctant to share information with the international health community. Consequently, there were around 8,000 cases of the virus reported worldwide, and more than 750 people died as a result.

The Chinese government claimed that it had taken all the necessary measures to neutralize and contain the virus but did not immediately announce official statistics on those infected and deceased. The impact was widespread as the country's economy lost 2–3% of its annual real GDP growth, total sales of goods and services fell by 5%, and industrial production fell by 6% - these are just some of the negative effects of the epidemic.

This new coronavirus is no different - only its scale and economic consequences are more severe than the 2002 SARS outbreak. Cases of infections have been detected in more than 20 countries, and many of them, such as the United States, Singapore, Japan, and Thailand have cut off air travel with China in an attempt to contain the spread.

The economic consequences are still difficult to calculate, but some facts can already be noted: Air France–KLM has disclosed that it had already suffered $200 million in losses due to the virus and that the airline industry had lost about $1 billion in total. Kia Motors has closed all its manufacturing plants in South Korea, Apple has also joined in by suspending stores and factories in China, and New York has announced that it's spending about $1 million a day fighting the disease. Global commodity markets also shuddered, with the price of oil falling to a record low of $54 per barrel over fears of declining resource consumption in Asian markets.

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Setting up Crypto-Potential's Infrastructure to scale.

Over the last few months, our dev. team has been building something to better the way people can connect and network in the blockchain world.

Below you can find the complete list of changes, upgrades, and features made for greater scalability and improved user experience.

- "Stick it !" feature added. Stick a post that you like to your profile
- redesigned profile page, now more user-friendly
- create post page has been redesigned
- picture upload for projects and providers
- keywords removed from user profile and registration (predefined keywords can now be selected)
- avatars removed, added default images for new users and users without a profile image
- added country flags on profile pictures
- profile description characters increased to 1000
- followers on follower list page now show flag, description, and keywords
- rewards for following a user remains 1 QCP, the provider remains 2 QCP and project changed to 2 QCP (down from 3)
- added "relevant 3 posts" to the "latest updates panel" to every page besides home and login page
- show "recent 3 posts" only on the wall page
- "become provider" and "become miner" removed. "Create a new company" introduced
- users can add which year they joined the blockchain space, the profile now shows "in blockchain since..."
- "miners" changed to "projects"


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