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      "body": "The humans are to be blamed for any disturbance in the well-organized system. It is the humans that are the real threat and not the computers. Hackers are the unauthorized user that steal, change or corrupt the data from the system that they are logged in to. A recent activity from the hackers has again reminded us of these predators when a major crypto exchange, Zaif, in Japan was hacked this week losing almost $60 million in user funds.\n\nAs reported by the Local news agency and Japan Times that 6.7 billion Yen was stolen by an anonymous group of hackers. About 2.2 billion yen in corporate funds and 4.5 billion yen in user funds were lost during the breach.\n\nThe victimised firm, Zaif, has promised its customer that all the investors affected by the incident will be reimbursed in cryptocurrencies. Fisco, a Tokyo-based financial markets research firm, has made a deal with Zaif in which Fisco has given 5 billion Yen to the company in return for a majority stakes in the exchange. It was also reported in the Japan Times that, \"The firm originally said about ¥6.7 billion was hacked, but the actual amount has yet to be confirmed as the server that was attacked has not been rebooted for security reasons,”\n\n![pic2ecba505c8817840b6590f774b656594.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmYhHS1WmooTEUnk5RH6K9kdFJTLFWgXyjJFu7F2AVnZBG/pic2ecba505c8817840b6590f774b656594.jpg)\n\nThe Japanese Financial Services Agency (FSA) implemented strict policies to regulate crypto exchanges in April last year. FSA also created a licensing program in which the crypto trading platform was to file license in order to operate within the country. 160 companies are currently planning to file licenses to operate as regulated digital asset exchanges in the country.\n\nThe Zaif incident has made the Japanese government realize the importance of implementing more strict policies and a proper internal management system as the digital asset trading platform require proper regulations.\n\nThis recent hacking should hint the Japanese government to cooperate more actively with exchanges, and involving the leading government agencies in the security and internal management system of exchanges that will ensure the investor fund remains safe.",
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      "body": "Coinbase is a cryptocurrency exchange headquartered at San Francisco California, was founded in June 2012 by Brian Armstrong and Fred Ehrsam. Coinbase broker exchanges of Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Ethereum Classic and Litecoin with fiat currencies in around 32 countries, and bitcoin transactions and storage in 190 countries worldwide. In the recent news, Coinbase has appointed Brian Brooks as their Chief Legal Officer.\n\nThe firm is focused on expanding their legal, compliance and government affairs capabilities as they plan for the further growth of their firm in the cryptocurrency business. Until now, Mike Lempres has been the leading the company's legal efforts and from now Brooks will be taking over as a seasoned law expert.\n\nThe firm aims to push effort in the direction to increase their legal affairs as there have been evolving regulatory ambience from the regulatory officials.\n\nThe firm has given assigned new mission for Lempers, as Brooks takes over. He will now focus on scaling the crypto exchange’s government affairs program.\n\nThis will include Coinbase as a founding member of the Blockchain Association, a non-profit trade association based in Washington DC which will serve as the unified voice of the blockchain ecosystem. The program also includes managing the Coinbase Political Action Committee.\n\n![2018060718285063.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmWBuYB2HUPAEgBxBpRpFKtVPWT4i27Y7cPjXuqSB2zyP5/2018060718285063.jpg)\n\nBrian Armstrong, the Co-founder and CEO of Coinbase said that the appointment of Brooks was coming at a critical time in the regulatory crypto environment.\n\n\nA statement from Armstrong said, “In recent years, the industry expanded faster than we could have imagined with an explosion in customer demand and entrepreneurial activity pushing the capabilities of the ecosystem forward.\n\n“As this trend continues, it is more important than ever that we contribute to a public policy and regulatory environment that fosters innovation while protecting investors.”\n\nBrooks has held a number of legal roles at reputed firms. In his previous profession, Brooks served as an Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Fannie Mae, the largest financial institution in the United States. He has also acted as a senior advisor to the Chief Executive Officer of Fannie Mae and its Board of Directors. Brooks has held many responsible positions at presumed firms having the legal offices.",
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      "body": "The People’s Bank of China (PBoC) which is the central bank of the People's Republic of China engaged for carrying out monetary policy and regulation of financial institutions in mainland China, has recently rectified their laws by issuing a new warning concerning the investment in initial coin offering and cryptocurrencies after the citizens were found to bypass the legal barriers.\nThe notice issued contained a reminder for the illegality of the ICO fundraising model and stated, \"suspected of illegally selling tokens, illegally issuing securities, illegal criminal activities, financial fraud, pyramid schemes and other illegal and criminal activities.”\n\nThe notice also had a gist of the successfulness of the ban which resulted in the reduction of Yuan trading volume to under 1% of the global trading volume. The central bank, throwing light on its recent ban on ICO, said “The global share of domestic virtual currency transactions has dropped from the initial 90% to less than 5%, effectively avoiding the virtual currency bubble caused by skyrocketing global virtual currency prices in the second half of last year in China’s financial market. The impact has been highly recognized by the community.”\n\nThe government has shut down almost 88 ICO trading platform, and 85 ICO projects were operating in the country but Chinese investors are still finding methods to circumvent the ban by using Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) and offshore exchanges with constantly changing domain names.\n![960x0.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmUJU9FG7oYJPwWKtiPCzwEFJKG3cvPMgQwY5EehvC15gd/960x0.jpg)\n\nThe bank has stated their new methods of restricting the ICO industry have been a success and the also blocked 124 IP addresses, and have closed 3,000 accounts as a result of their increased oversight. The central bank, during the early stage of the ban, stated last year that “As of the date of this announcement, all types of token issuance financing activities shall cease immediately. The organizations and individuals who have completed the financing of tokens should make arrangements for repatriation and so on, reasonably protect the interests and properly handle the risks.”\n\nChinese companies are also working to put down the crypto and ICO operations by communicating with the investors through their platforms. WeChat and Tencent, have been the prominent platforms that have censored much news related to cryptocurrency and peer-to-peer crypto exchanges.\n\nThe Chinese government is strict towards the regulations on cryptocurrencies, and it is unclear what would be their further actions to stop the illegal activities.",
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      "body": "What goes up will come down, the famous quote once again comes alive and this time everyone is the witness, and there is no denying. The cryptocurrencies, after hitting the top and gaining interest worldwide since January, is having a hard time to find the same spot on the charts again.\n\nThe recent hit of bitcoin to almost 80% of its peak followed by Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies have again strengthened the doubt the people had with the future of crypto. The cryptocurrency market is showing red as a whole recently.\n\nAfter seeing some positive results from last week for Ethereum, the bear market has made a comeback to reclaim some gains. Currently, ETH is trading at a price of $196.97 marking a 10.9% drop in the price in last 24-hours. This week Ethereum took the hardest hit among all other cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin also had a similar fortune and could not hold the mark of $6500 and is down around 3.5% over the past 24 hours. The highest cryptocurrency is trading at a price of $6283.\n\n![Ethereum.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmVNCHZERZfLVKMywXvKxHz53SeqRrhpnGSvuyphEbfbd1/Ethereum.jpg)\n\nThe top Altcoin also had a down around 0.6% over the past seven days losing its weekly gain. EOS and VeChain are among to see some most significant losses in the past 24 hours, down to 10.29% and 10.47%. EOS is the fifth top cryptocurrency by market cap and is now trading at $4.88, the least of the top 20 coins list, VET, is trading at $0.0127.\n\nLt. General Dhahi Khalfan Tamim who is the senior Dubai law enforcement official believes that lack of public awareness and the absence of crime prevention policies are the only circumventing reasons to the mainstream adoption of the industry. With this, he also suggested that \"soon\" digital currencies will replace cash.\n\nThe Ripple's head for regulatory relation for Asia-Pacific and the Middle East also stated that global policymakers are now addressing the crypto asset and blockchain technology more holistically.",
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      "body": "Many Oregonians across business, educational and technological fields are keen to see their state playing a leading role in the blockchain world. A partnership among various entities is set to launch the Oregon Blockchain Venture Studio in Portland later this month. The studio plans to guide and nurture 20 to 30 different organizations within the next three years. However, the official announcement hasn't been made so far, but it's expected to arrive within the next month.\n\nDigital Agency R/GA and many partners including Nike, Intel, Portland State University and Oregon Health & Science University host the upcoming studio. Smith + Crown, a Blockchain research firm, is also one of the participating partners in hosting the studio.\n\nUp until this point, investors are set to contribute $3 million for each year towards the project. The individuals who are partaken in the studio will get $1,00,000 in venture capital and will be mandated to work in R/GA's Pearl District office. Organizations involved with the studio additionally receive investment dollars from any studio partners potentially.\n\nThe thought behind a venture studio is to attempt and straddle the advantages and functionalities of an accelerator, incubator and a venture capital project.\n\n![cheatsheet-cryptocurrency-tokens-coins-1.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmRV7i4H6XKHc5CTR26AAqj3w9yjZWzzvgfWTeQKMwVwEe/cheatsheet-cryptocurrency-tokens-coins-1.png)\n\nThe increasing number of the state's influential figures see the new venture as an approach to drive innovation associated with the technology. Additionally, it's possibly setting up Oregon as a major player in the blockchain world down the road.\n\nOne of Oregon Blockchain Venture Partners, Jeff Gaus said that he wants Oregon to be recognized as the blockchain state. He further told to Portland Business Journal about how the \"Oregon ethos exactly maps to what is the need for blockchain to work\".\n\nWhat are your thoughts about Oregon's innovation studio? Let us know whether the state can be a big player in the blockchain world or not?",
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      "body": "The decentralized system has replaced the bank and has given freedom to trade and the idea was to add security to the system. Perhaps it was not thought thoroughly as total independence is more volatile than beneficial. The regulators after the global adoption of the crypto and blockchain currency in particular.\nThe idea to put an authority is to stop the wrong that might come with the virtue. Regulators need to stay on the fine line where they do not intervene with innovation. U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo said, \"When it comes to the oversight of cryptocurrencies, regulators need to avoid inhibiting innovation, yet be vigilant against manipulation.\" He further added \"the internet flourished because the government did not step in too heavily, and applied a \"do no harm\" approach.\" He also gave his views on cryptocurrency \"And I'm advocating the same approach to cryptocurrencies and all things having to do with this new digital revolution of markets, and of currencies, and of asset classes.\" \nBut, at the same time, caution is required because some kinds of fraud and manipulation often seen in foreign exchange and precious metals are now taking place in cryptocurrency markets, he said.\n\"When it comes to fraud and manipulation, we need to be strong. When it comes to policy making, I think we need to be slow and deliberate and well informed,\" he shared his views on cryptocurrency future and the regulating laws required.\nThe CFTC is responsible for regulating commodity, futures and derivatives markets, said in 2015, cryptocurrencies are commodities. Virtual currencies like bitcoin can be regulated as commodities by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, a federal judge ruled this year.\n\n![105435011-1536201301773gettyimages-1030734204.1910x1000.jpeg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmPT9SXgJSa57AHr6bcp4TmDZtjwqwce7uAvh9rec2dGPg/105435011-1536201301773gettyimages-1030734204.1910x1000.jpeg)\n\nThe virtual currency market is as fraudulent as the normal market and the need to put a command over it is a necessity. The CFTC and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) both have already warned about the vulnerabilities related to it and the need to fight with it. \nAs far as the need is concerned, the critics for authorities to form the necessary regulation are moving too slow. On his offence, Giancarlo pointed to how bitcoin futures are now allowed in the U.S. and said \"Some would say we're too slow, others have said we've been too fast. So, we at the CFTC, saw the very first regulated offerings of bitcoins futures.\" He further added, \"No other regime in the world has allowed this to go forward.\"",
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      "body": "According to a recent survey conduct by a human resource start-up company, ChronoBank two third of crypto investors are disappointed with the current payment mechanism and they want to get their salaries and other benefits in the form of bitcoin and altcoins, despite the price instability.\n\n \n\nHR start-up ChronoBank has conducted a survey of 445 crypto enthusiasts from Australia, United States, Russia, and other countries. 92% of respondents were male, 75% employed, and 40% were aged between 25 and 35. The results of the survey were amazing. 66% of the participants said that they will like to receive their salaries in cryptocurrencies while only 30% thinks that in the future their employers will switch to digital assets to pay salaries. When it comes to bonus distribution 83% of respondents were willing to receive bonus in the form of cryptos.\n\n \n\nHalf of the respondents believe that getting paid in cryptocurrencies would make them spend less. 60% of respondents aged 18 to 24 stated that they will not use their digital assets for any transaction because there are high chances that the value of digital assets will grow at a rapid pace. When it comes to taxation, 52% of the respondents are willing to pay their taxes by their crypto revenue. 60% of U.S. respondents are ready to pay their taxes in cryptos while for Russia it is just 30%.\n\n![Blockchain-Technology.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQme5wsfj41T54Ec4Wg8jba2EeYzJKrYRAdtb25u2mwGu3K/Blockchain-Technology.jpg)\n \n\nAccording to the chief executive officer of ChronaBank, Sergei Sergeinko cryptocurrency payment options will not only beneficial for the employees but also for the employers. Crypto investors are disappointed with the current payment mechanism because their employees are not willing to pay salaries in digital assets.  72% of the respondents said they will prefer to work with an employer who has the salary payment option in digital assets. When that much of the employees want to receive salaries in cryptocurrencies it is better for the employers to adopt the technology as soon as possible in order to attract and retain the best talent.\n\n \n\nThere are legislative uncertainties in the crypto ecosystem. Respondents from all countries believe that they are not aware of the recent developments of regulatory requirements of crypto receiving and handling. According to Sergeinko, there are ongoing changes in the legislation of cryptocurrencies and the investors are unaware of the recent developments and innovations. 50% of the respondents do not even know whether salary payment in digital assets is allowed in their countries or not.\n\n \n\nDespite the uncertainty in the regulatory environment and price instability most crypto investors are in favor of the crypto payment system. In future blockchain technology will be used as a secure payment processing method and will positively affect the economic growth.",
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      "body": "Ocean Falls, of the Central Coast county, a tiny town in the British Columbian hinterlands was mentioned in the introduction to a book in 1971, by an 11th grader named Greg Strebel. The town, now famous as \"Ghost Town\", in 1966, had a mill that was manufacturing newsprint, rotoprint, kraft wrapping, tissue, and specialty papers town was shut down because of the Economic conditions imposed hardships and production was gradually decreased until March 1973 when the mill was closed. The town has a new buzz, the air around the town is having a new smell of Bitcoin. In the recent news, the Bitcoin mine has come to Ocean Falls after almost four decades of mill failure.\n\nThe world has realized what crypto has to offer, no one likes to be controlled, the word 'democracy' has been given a new definition by the introduction of crypto. There is no need for centralized institutions to validate transactions. Central institutions inevitably lead to power accumulation and more and more control. Crypto had brought a new revolution into the world of economics and also has again proved to benefit the society. With the need to support the crypto industry, crypto mining has brought the town to a new life and hope.\n\nThe dam that powered the wood mill is still capable of producing about 13 megawatts of electricity. The power is shared to run Ocean Falls and two nearby towns, Bella Bella and Shearwater. The powerhouse dam, which is now the only tourist attraction the town is left with, gives less than one-third of the electricity, leaving plenty to support new industrial uses. The dam wasn’t connected to the grid, which seems to be an opportunity that can be an advantage to the crypto mining industry. The town is accessible with a plane or boat only and is 300 miles up the coast from Vancouver.\n\n![Cryptomining.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmaPfTZvSYxLYKe1GQEbqvbJm5uKEgSW4j11kcqF2w2t1H/Cryptomining.jpg)\n\nSince the rise in the price of Bitcoin, mining migrated from PCs to data centers occupied with specialized hardware and hungry for enough electricity to power whole towns. China has been the biggest location for Bitcoin miners, where the coal-powered data centers cranked away in such places as Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, and Heilongjiang. But the challenges of doing business in China pressurized crypto players to look for other locations. The places with cool weather, stable governments, and ample hydroelectricity are the best locations, a form of power that lets miners avoid awkward questions about whether computational busywork justifies significant carbon emissions. Bitcoin mining took hold in Scandinavian countries, as well as parts of Canada and the northern U.S.\n\nBitcoin and other cryptocurrencies rely on a decentralized network of computers to confirm transactions, rewarding people who do the work with new coins in a process known as mining. Basically, mining is the pure conversion of electricity into money. With the spare hydroelectricity produced from the dam, the future of the town seems bright as it is more economical and is promising for the crypto miners to plant the industry to reach their optimum and simultaneously giving hopes to the silent town.",
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