Stories from Blockchain & Crypto community
Sharing last week stories from blockchain and crypto community
1. NY District Court Postpones Telegram’s TON Hearing to 2020
The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York has postponed the hearing regarding the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) injunction filing against Telegram Open Network (TON) and its Gram token to Feb. 18–19, 2020.
As Coin Telegraph reported recently, following Telegram’s counterclaim on Oct. 16, where the firm argued that its native crypto is not a security and the preliminary injunction should be denied, the SEC has responded with a new filing in the New York Court on Oct. 17.
Details here
2. Bank of England Governor Carney Defends Facebook’s Libra Stable coin
Bank of England Governor Mark Carney has defended Facebook’s choice to create a new currency.
Canadian news outlet The Star reported Carney’s remarks on Oct. 15, noting that he highlighted the shortcomings of the current traditional financial system. Because of the inefficiency of the payments, Carey thinks that firms such as Facebook should be involved in projects like Libra.
Details here
3. Crypt-Friendly Browser Brave Hits 8 Million Monthly Active Users
Cryptocurrency-powered web browser Brave announced on Oct. 16 that it has reached eight million monthly active users.
Daily active users stand at over 2.8 million, and the number of creators subscribed to its web advertisement network also reportedly increased substantially.
There are also over 290,000 Brave Verified Publishers who subscribed to the advertisement platform powered by Brave’s Basic Attention Tokens (BAT). Regarding the composition of those publishers, Brave said:
Details here
4. Coin telegraph Blocked in Russia
Cointelegraph’s website has become widely inaccessible in Russia as authorities added the domain to a registry of blacklisted sites.
The blacklist
Although Cointelegraph has been publicly on a list of blocked sites since 2017, it was only on Oct. 16 that the Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media, more commonly known as Roskomnadzor, implemented the block on a technical level.
Details here
Update from Ethx-
1. Buy and Sell Digital Dollar Coin (DDCT) with INR and USD pairs
2. We had launched our new Podcast channel “Living on Blockchain” by our co-founder Tarusha Mittal, do check our last episode with Jillian Godsil, co-founder of Blockleaders.io
3. We had also launched “TRSTS” a digital platform for signing and storing important business documents and contracts over blockchain and making them documents immutable.
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