Bill Clinton to Give Keynote Speech at Ripple’s Tech Conference, Former Wall Street Exec Jeff Horowitz Joins Coinbase & Other News

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A $300,000 blockchain loan backed by land has been issued by the Agricultural Bank of China, the world's fourth-largest bank by assets.   A new U.S. Ripple-based decentralized crypto marketplace dubbed DCEX has now opened registration for retail and institutional accounts, initially offering 15 crypto-to-crypto trading pairs.   Former U.S. President Bill Clinton will start off Ripple's fall Swell conference with a keynote speech and Q&A.   Major U.S. cryptocurrency wallet and exchange Coinbase has hired ex-Pershing exec Jeff Horowitz as its Chief Compliance Officer.   Will Blockchain Protect the World Economy from Financial Crises? Read our analysis to get some food for thought. SPONSORED: ⁠​​An Ethereum-based audit firm is developing a Bug Prediction Market, aiming to provide a transparent and accountable metric for smart contract security. Price Index for July 31, 2018 4PM EST The price index changes constantly, so check out the latest one on the site. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list. COINTELEGRAPH LIMITED · Shelton Street, Covent Garden · London

New Exodus Smartphone to Support LTC, Kim Kardashian Staked Physical Bitcoin Chips on Her Instagram & Other News

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What's going on with the crypto markets today? Read our latest price analysis. Litecoin founder Charlie Lee tweeted that he will be an advisor for HTC's new smartphone Exodus, which will support LTC and the Lightning Network. Kim Kardashian West, the reality television starlet with 114 million followers on Instagram, staked what appeared to be physical Bitcoin chips at a charity poker night in LA. Global markets will be "ready to accept" a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund in as soon as a "couple of months," says Fatfish Internet Group CEO Kin-Wai Lau. Mike Novogratz's crypto-focused merchant bank, Galaxy Digital LP, is set to begin trading on Canada's TSX Venture Exchange on August 1. SPONSORED: A peer-to-peer network says it wants to stop users from being obstructed and spied upon. They are creating the infrastructure and protocols for DApps where the personal data could be under the full control of the user. Price Index for July 30, 2018 4PM EST The price index changes constantly, so check out the latest one on the site. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list. COINTELEGRAPH LIMITED · Shelton Street, Covent Garden · London

Winklevoss Twins Bitcoin ETF Application Rejected by SEC, An Interview With Ethereum's Joe Lubin & Other News

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Don't Miss The Top Five Stories From The Last Week   Winklevoss Twins Bitcoin ETF Application Rejected by SEC What actually happened? The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has rejected the application for a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund by brothers Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss. Did anything happen after that? U.S. SEC Commissioner Hester M. Peirce has published a statement of official dissent from the agency's second disapproval of the Winklevoss brothers' application for a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund. Read the full article here. Top 10 Crypto Deals in 2017 Returned Over 136,000% on Average What is it all about? Crypto finance conference research on the top 10 crypto deals in 2017 based on their investment returns has revealed that each returned over 136,000 percent on average. Is there a top asset among the others? Out of all the crypto projects that raised a minimum of $1 million in 2017, IOTA clinched a staggering 614,934 percent return for investors, sealing the top spot in the researchers' rankings. Learn more here. An Interview With Ethereum's Joseph Lubin Who is this guy? This 53-year-old Canadian-born entrepreneur is one of the most prominent figures in the blockchain space. He co-founded Ethereum and later founded ConsenSys. He is probably a really good trader, right? Here's what he says: "I work from 16 to 20 hours a day, and I have no time to day trade. But I do know how to move tokens around; I've done that before." Read more in the full interview. Ex-J.P. Morgan Exec: Blockchain May Be Key to Avoiding Next Global Financial Crisis What happened? Pang Huadong, the former vice president of North American investment banking at J.P. Morgan Chase, has said that blockchain "may be the key to avoiding the next global financial crisis." Did he say anything else? Huadong added that while the technology is still "at a very early stage," its development prospects are "limitless." Read full article here. Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian Upholds Serious Predictions of BTC & ETH How much exactly? Alexis Ohanian, a co-founder of both Reddit and VC firm Initialized Capital, reaffirmed his $20,000 Bitcoin and $1,500 Ethereum forecasts for 2018. What does he think of decentralized cryptocurrencies? Ohanian also characterized them as a "changing sign of the times," while tempering his stance to emphasize that he "is not calling for the end of fiat or anything like that." Learn more here. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list. COINTELEGRAPH LIMITED · Shelton Street, Covent Garden · London