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A report published in SACrypto stated that South African tech news site, ITWeb, published a false article regarding Nedbank. According to ITWeb report, Nedbank was planning to follow the footstep of FNB (First National Bank) by closing the crypto-related accounts of its customers. The ITWeb published the information after taking Richard de Sousa’s, the CEO of AltCoinTrader, comment on Nedbank. de Sousa’s Clarification Later, de Sousa clarified that his statements in the ITWeb article was taken out of context and hyped unnecessarily as he was talking about Nedbank not accepting any more crypto accounts and not about closing existing ones. 

As per the GitGitRun.com data, the member count of Bitcoin Github community has gone past 3,000. However, only 2,800 members are tracked yet.  Github is an online developer hub for experts and amateurs who can join forces and manage projects, review codes and build software together. The place allows developers to take apart any code and then thoroughly investigate, study or improve it. With a platform like (Github), it is hard to imagine that the concept of digital currencies did not attract the developers’ attention. Bitcoin, in particular, stands high in regard among all other currencies because of its assuring

Litecoin’s Charlie Lee has joined the heated exchange prevailing in the community regarding the proposal of Jiang Zhuoer, the CEO of the BTC.TOP, who suggested to impose an obligatory tax on BCH miners via a new soft fork.  The former “Bitcoin Jesus’ Roger Ver approved the coming together of Bitcoin mining pools in order to conduct the soft fork. The Block rewards are 12.5 per cent on a normal basis in the ecosystem of BCH mining pools. Those blocks of those miners who are reluctant to follow the tax regulations will receive no rewards at all, and would be categorized

Mark Scott’s counsel has recently filed a letter, stating the OneCoin co-conspirator pleaded to get his sentencing delayed until April 21st. The crypto space has always been in reports for several scams, which mostly occurred in the days when Bitcoin was climbing towards $20,000, its all-time high. The OneCoin fraud case went to New York South District court. Scott Requests To Postpone Sentencing Date OneCoin scam began in 2016, somewhat before the famous soar and its conspirators were later arrested and went under trial. Mark Scott, the co-conspirator, was already sentenced back on November 21st, 2019.  The court charged him with the

Alex Mashinsky, the founder of borrowing and crypto lending platform, Celsius, on January 22, 2020, announced in a Twitter AMA (ask me anything), to implement compounding interest on crypto deposits. While making the announcement, Mashinsky said that from February 01, 2020, Celsius would implement the compound interest on the cryptocurrencies deposited in its wallet.  The Celsius Community has requested to introduce the compounding feature so that it could compete with BlockFi and other traditional financial services in the market. Celsius Network commented on the introduction of the compound Interest stating, “You asked for it, and we delivered! Starting February 1,

The Global Agribusiness giants blockchain initiative Covantis has selected ConsenSys, a major Ethereum focused firm as their technology partner. As said by Covantis in a press release, ConsenSys will build a blockchain platform based on Ethereum for the company. According to ConsenSys, this platform will bring cost savings and efficiencies to the supply chain of international agribusiness. Consensys Will Accelerate The Launch Of Covantis Platform As the company has already planned to launch its digital platform by 2020, the partnership with ConsenSys will speed up the expected launch. Although, according to the press release notes, the initial focus of the

Charleston, S.C. – PalmettoChain Inc., South Carolina’s blockchain initiative, will present the inaugural week-long South Carolina Blockchain Conference in Columbia and Charleston. The conference will be held on March 13-14 as part of a first-ever South Carolina Blockchain Week. The beginning of Blockchain Week will consist primarily of outreach to South Carolina lawmakers in Columbia, S.C., and will end with a two-day event in Charleston, featuring world-class speakers, authorities and entrepreneurs. For the up-to-date information visit, https://scblockchainweek.com The South Carolina Blockchain Conference will showcase enterprise and government applications of blockchain technologies, along with innovative supply chain, transportation, warehousing, government transparency, identity

Blockchain Life 2020 is the biggest event on a blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and mining in Russia and Europe and one of the largest events in the world. The forum welcomes more than 5000 participants this spring at an innovative venue — Music Media Dome. The global crypto community from 70 countries comes to Blockchain Life 2020 to expand their professional network and engage in the industry’s development. Among the attendees: top management of the leading international cryptocurrency projects, businessmen and entrepreneurs, blockchain developers, manufacturers and suppliers of mining equipment, founders of blockchain startups, government officials and celebrities of the crypto industry.

The report published by BitMEX, a cryptocurrency exchange suggested that the benefits of privacy and scalability of Bitcoin’s implementation of Lightning Network are lower than expected.  The lightning network creates a channel of payment between two parties for the instant transaction at extremely low fees. Scalability and Privacy The network was developed to provide a second layer payment solution. The basic aim was to improve the scalability i.e to reduce the transaction time among users while maintaining anonymity or privacy. But in the latest report of BitMEX, it suggested that the network is not living up to the expectations. Issues with

LOCglobal, the trading community with a notoriously tight entry policy, announced Thursday they would be taking on new members in January 2020, a first since August 2019. Following a 5-month closure, LOCglobal announced on Instagram they would be accepting applications at the end of January (30/01/2020). Not delving too far from their usual air of mystery little information was given about what is in store and nothing was said regarding the 5-month lockdown. Throughout early 2018 such registrations could be seen monthly usually filling up after a few days. However, as the member count increased the opportunities to join dropped.

“Dual Citizenship, Citizenship through Investment and Global Citizenship” Conference will take place in Istanbul for the first time The most comprehensive cryptocurrency conference in MENA and the Eurasia region, “Blockchain Economy” which takes place already the second time in Istanbul, will include the topics on Dual Citizenship, Citizenship through Investment and Global Citizenship as well. Moreover, the Conference will be hosting the governments, companies and organizations offering citizenship worldwide and will bring together with participants for the first time in Turkey. Unlike all the other events in the region, the conference offers its participants various opportunities to explore cross-border citizenship

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