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Crypto Firm Fragments Launches Stablecoin Following ‘Ampleforth’ Rebrand

Fragments protocol, an effort at stabilizing the buying power of cryptocurrency, has rebranded itself to Ampleforth as of today, renaming the crypto project after the “1984” character whose job is to translate poetry into Newspeak. Ampleforth aims to preserve the unit of account and money properties of its tokens. Instead of pegging to a fixed […]

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Still the King: Bitcoin Dominance Hits 3-Month High as Crypto Market Limps Toward 2019

Bitcoin’s share of total cryptocurrency market capitalisation is at its highest point in three months, currently standing at about 55.14 percent according to data from CoinMarketCap. Bitcoin Dominance Surges amid Crypto Price Panic The next four high volume cryptocurrencies in order of market volume are XRP with 11.14 percent, ethereum with 8.55 percent, bitcoin cash […]

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ICO Death March? November Inflows Fall to $65M From Yearly High of $2.6 Billion

The latest statistics on initial coin offerings suggest that the best days of the fundraising mechanism may have long passed. According to digital assets newsletter Diar, the month of November recorded the lowest inflows into initial coin offerings (ICOs) in 2018. With US$65 million raised last month, this was in sharp contrast to this year’s […]

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NYDFS Hastens Response to BitLicense Applications

According to data obtained from the source – the New York Department of Financial Services itself – the financial regulator has only responded to 9 of 36 BitLicense applications submitted since 2015. Five have been denied, four have been approved, the rest are still going through the process. Fortune writer Robert Hackett became interested in […]

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Bitcoin-Friendly Cash App Tops PayPal in Google Play Store

Square’s Cash App has achieved a key milestone on the road to mainstreaming bitcoin usage by becoming the most popular app in the finance category on the U.S. Google Play Store ahead of PayPal. The app, which has spent much of the past year gaining tremendous amounts of ground within the millennial market segment is […]