View in Browser | Forward to a Friend Financial Stability Board not to regulate cryptocurrency; the FSB is a G20 economic watchdog that heavily pushed new regulations in the wake of the financial crisis; however, the FSB has now announced they will now review existing guidelines rather than create new ones; the FSB will therefore not step in and limit the use of cryptocurrency, leaving this to other organisations - Link Crypto mining to honor Earth Hour; the Russian crypto community has started an initiative to allow crypto miners to take part in this year’s Earth Hour; some hope that the ”Crypto Hour” will give eco-friendly blockchain technologies some time in the spotlight; this comes as 2018’s Earth Hour is projected to be the biggest ever - Link Bitmain feuds with the Monero community after release of its latest X3 cryptocurrency miner; the Cryptonight-capable miner is being offered to existing customers at a discounted rate; however some claim the miners will soon be nearly ineffective at mining Monero; Monero’s lead developer has however replied that the units will stop working on Monero due to a scheduled hard fork especially designed to be incompatible with the Cryptonight algorithm - Link Employee at a digital currency trading company in Dubai embezzles Dh 800,000; the sum, worth approximately $218K, was reportedly embezzled through a serie of fake accounts established by the employee; the employer did not suspect the employee as he had himself developed the trading platform; the firm has now lodged a case against the employee - Link Trump to impose sanctions on Venezuelan ”Petro” cryptocurrency; Petro was launched partly to circumvent US and European sanctions on the Venezuelan economy; the report states that tougher sanctions could be implemented as soon as on Monday; this comes as Petro has already received some criticism - Link Wall Street’s ”most secretive firm” now trading Bitcoin; the global proprietary trading firm Jane Street Capital, well-know for being secretive, has recently announced that they are involved with Bitcoin; the company stated that ”if cryptocurrencies continue to rise, they expect to be involved”; this comes as the company has openly stated it will consider offering clients CME and Cboe Bitcoin futures - Link Shipping company APL to use blockchain technology to reduce bureaucracy; the project will be a cooperation between Accenture and Luehne + Nagel; the aim is to reduce the amount of papers needed for shipping and transport processes; APL is following a blockchain example set by Maersk; Accenture will provide the technological and consulting expertise; this comes after Accenture published a paper on blockchain in the logistics industry together with DHL - Link Infamous Coincheck exchange to stop dealing in Monero, Dash and Zcash; the Japanese exchange says that these three cryptocurrencies ”pose a risk” as they provide a high level of anonymity; this comes as Coincheck is trying to recover from a hack which lost the exchange nearly $550M; no matter what Coincheck does, the exchange will have a hard time reversing the damage from its hack - Link Forward this to your friend Did we miss anything or do you have any suggestions? We know that many of our readers are smarter and more informed than we are – so please reply and let us know when we miss something! Copyright cryptotickerr © 2018. All rights reserved



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