Crypto Digest #18: JPMorgan and Bank of America banning crypto purchases, Qtum node in space, Vitalik fighting aging.
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2 min readFeb 4, 2018
JPMorgan and Bank of America will ban the crypto purchases, Canada’s first Exchange Traded Fund approved and Vitalik fighting the aging. These are your today’s most important crypto news, presented to you by the Divers Collective.
- Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase are reported to ban crypto purchases for their customers.
- According to the Coindesk article the banks are concerned, that their customers could purchase more crypto with their credit cards then they can afford.
- Canada’s first Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) has received approval and will be traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange next week.
- In contrary to the Canadian regulation the US regulators are not ready to allow such funds.
- Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum is reported to donate $2.4m in Anti-Aging research.
- The SENS (Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence) Research Foundation is a non-profit organization and medical research foundation co-founded by Aubrey de Grey. You can watch his Ted talk here.
- The blockchain project Qtum launched a blockchain node in space on a SpaceChain satellite.
- SpaceChain describes itself as space exploration initiative based on human consensus and is aiming to make space exploration more accessible to people.
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