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ETHNews: IBM'S Blockchain Division 'Escapes' Mass Layoffs

Thursday, 20 June 2019 20:55

With IBM laying off 1,700 this month, most of the company's blockchain division employees have stayed on, though losses were suffered in the division's consulting department.

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ETHNews: Unstoppable Domains To Hold First Auction For 'Uncensorable' Blockchain Domains

Thursday, 20 June 2019 21:03

As a domain registry, Unstoppable Domains partnered with blockchain platform Zilliqa to offer users .zil domain names. Now Unstoppable Domains is setting up for a June 27 sale of some of its most popular domain names, including "bitcoin.zil," which already has more than 500 prospective buyers.

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ETHNews: Facebook Yet To Speak With RBI About Its Libra Project

Thursday, 20 June 2019 21:25

With the Royal Bank of India (RBI) looking to find out whether or not Libra will operate on a "closed system," reports indicate Facebook is yet to meet with RBI officials or anyone within the Indian government.

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ETHNews: Forget Hard Forks And Soft Forks, Alternateth Is A 'Friendly Fork'

Friday, 21 June 2019 15:50

In development at Ethereum-based startup ETHSignals, Alternateth will act as a kind of test network for validating ideas and working on proof of concepts before they're released to mainnet.

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ETHNews: At-Home Mining Rig Coinmine One Can Now Mine Bitcoin

Friday, 21 June 2019 16:01

According to Coinmine founder Farbood Nivi, the Coinmine One's new bitcoin mining capabilities can earn at-home miners about $15-$20 a month in BTC, but the electricity it takes to meet those marks isn't outlined.

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ETHNews: Group Of Seven Task Force Created In Wake Of Libra Announcement

Friday, 21 June 2019 16:12

France’s central bank governor Francois Villeroy de Galhau has announced the creation of a Group of Seven central bank governors task force, which will work to produce a study outlining how central banks can regulate Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency to keep it in line with anti-money-laundering regulations and…

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ETHNews: 2 Ethereum Improvement Proposals Approved For Istanbul Upgrade

Friday, 21 June 2019 20:38

With over 30 Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs) discussed during today's biweekly Ethereum developers call, EIP 2024, which adds a new precompile to the Ethereum Virtual Machine, and EIP 1702, which aims to smooth out smart contract upgradability, were both approved for the Istanbul upgrade.

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ETHNews: South Korean Crypto Exchanges Have A 'Beehive Account' Problem

Friday, 21 June 2019 20:44

Smaller crypto exchanges in South Korea are offering some customers "beehive accounts," which manage traders' money via the exchanges’ own corporate bank accounts, masking users' identities.

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ETHNews: The Future Of Money After Facebook's Libra Announcement

Friday, 21 June 2019 20:53

The internet and financial regulators were spewing hot takes on Libra after Facebook released its white paper. With cryptocurrencies, stablecoins, and the future of money on everyone's mind, what can we expect from fiat and digital currency in the future?

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