1. Binance CEO Delists Bitcoin SV, Calvin Ayre Responds, Crypto Feud Ensues
Binance is delisting Bitcoin SV (BSV), a fork of Bitcoin Cash, effective April 22. Announced in a tweet on Monday, BSV is currently trading at $65.58, down 6.9% at time of writing. Binance CEO CZ threatened to delist Bitcoin SV if Bitcoin SV founder Craig Wright continued to proclaim that he’s the creator of Bitcoin, aka Satoshi Nakamoto, and if he continued to go on offense against those who disagree with him.
[Source: Dailyhodl] ✩✩✩✩✩
2. ShapeShift.io to Delist Bitcoin SV, Kraken Considers Following Suit
After crypto exchange Binance’s decision to delist Bitcoin SV (BSV), anonymous exchange ShapeShift has also decided to drop the cryptocurrency, with Kraken considering to follow suit. In a tweet posted on April 15, ShapeShift CEO Erik Voorhees revealed that the company came to a decision to stop listing BSV:
“We stand with @binance and CZ’s sentiments. We’ve decided to delist Bitcoin SV #BSV from @ShapeShift_io within 48 hrs.”
[Source: Cointelegraph] ✩✩✩✩✩
3. Reuters: France to Push EU Member States to Adopt Its Cryptocurrency Regulations
Bruno Le Maire, French Minister of the Economy and Finance, reportedly stated that France will encourage other EU countries to adopt cryptocurrency regulations similar to those France approved last week. The news rules reportedly aim to attract cryptocurrency issuers and traders to France by providing them some official recognition, while taxing their profits in return.
[Source: Cointelegraph] ✩✩✩✩
4. South Korea Banks to Open Payment Network to Fintech Firms by December 2019
Banks in South Korea have agreed to make their payment networks fully available to financial technology (fintech) firms by December this year, according to local news outlet Korea Bizwire. The move is seen as the latest in a government effort to encourage the development of modern payment technologies and foster a more competitive financial sector.
[Source: Bitcoinnews] ✩✩✩✩
5. Report: Blockchain Startup ConsenSys Seeks $200 Million From Outside Investors
New York-based blockchain company ConsenSys is reportedly seeking investors to raise $200 million, technology media outlet The Information reported on April 15. According to sources familiar with the matter, ConsenSys is trying to attract outside investors to raise $200 million. The company’s executives reportedly talked to investors in Hong Kong and South Korea, however as of early April ConsenSys had purportedly not yet found a lead investor.
[Source: Cointelegraph] ✩✩✩
6. XRP Hits UK-Based Payment Platform As Ripple Pushes for Crypto Adoption in Europe and Asia
XRP is now live on Uquid, giving people in 150 countries a new way to pay for cell phone service. The company says users can now top off and recharge their mobile phone minutes with XRP in an instant. The company says it’s also enabling XRP payments for mobile data plans in more than 11 countries.
[Source: Dailyhodl] ✩✩✩
7. LedgerX Reveals Bid to Beat Bakkt to Physical Bitcoin Futures Launch
Cryptocurrency derivatives provider LedgerX plans to become the first U.S. firm to offer physically settled bitcoin futures contracts. The company announced Monday that it has filed for a designated contract market (DCM) license, which would allow LedgerX to offer physically-settled bitcoin futures products to its customers. Unlike the cash-settled bitcoin futures offered by CME Group (and previously, Cboe), customers would receive the actual bitcoin underlying a contract after it expires, rather than the U.S. dollar equivalent.
[Source: Coindesk] ✩✩✩
8. Largest Travel Management Firm in UK Accepts Bitcoin
Corporate Traveller, the largest travel management firm in the United Kingdom, is now accepting Bitcoin (BTC) for payments, according to a press release on April 15. A newly announced partnership with crypto payments company BitPay will allow Corporate Traveller — which provides business travel management services to SME companies — to accept bitcoins.
[Source: Cointelegraph] ✩✩
9. North Korea’s $700 Million Crypto Theft Chest Could Fund Nukes: Report
According to the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), one of the chief ways North Korea is financing its WMD programs is through cryptocurrencies, which it has obtained mostly illegally. Currently, it estimated that North Korea may have amassed cryptocurrencies worth between $545 million and $735 million.
[Source: CCN] ✩✩✩
10. Nestlé US , Carrefour Work With IBM to Track Mashed Potato Brand With Blockchain
Switzerland-based food giant Nestlé, French supermarket chain Carrefour and IBM have partnered to use the latter’s blockchain technology to track a famous French convenience food, the companies announced in a press release on April 15. Nestlé and Carrefour, both of which are members of IBM’s Food Trust blockchain platform, will use the technology from today to track the supply chain of Mousline, a well-known brand of instant mashed potatoes.
[Source: Cointelegraph] ✩✩
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