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Thursday, November 8, 2018
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The "Off the Chain" cryptocurrency podcast produced by Anthony Pompliano, a crypto-analyst and a partner at Morgan Creek Digital, seems to have been blocked on Apple's iTunes app; this comes as the podcast reportedly soared to 4th place for podcasts in the “investing” category in the U.S. iTunes store, before it was taken down; Pomp's podcasts are still available on other websites such as Libsyn, as well as Google Play and Spotify - Link
Blockchain.com, the world's most popular crypto wallet, has partnered with the Stellar Development Foundation to distribute $125M in Stellar lumens (XLM), nearly half a billion tokens, to Blockchain.com wallet holders who sign up for the airdrop; this makes Stellar the first partner for Blockchain's airdrop program and guiding framework announced last month; the recipients each get about $25 worth of the cryptocurrency - Link XLM-Dashboard
Bitcoin development startup Blockstream has announced the release of the Liquid source code for open peer-to-peer use; the company first went live with client to a small set of users on 15th of Oct; any user can join the P2P Liquid Network by operating a full node, in order to trustlessly self-validate the chain just like they can with the Bitcoin network; the client allows users to issue assets, send and receive Liquid issued assets, send and receive Liquid Bitcoin (LBTC), and view information of the state of the Liquid chain - Link
The Finance Committee of the lower house of French parliament, has adopted amendments to a tax bill that lowers capital gains taxes on cryptocurrency sales by 30%: LeFigaro reports; currently crypto income is taxed at a rate of 36.2%; if the amendments to the budget are accepted, the rate will be reduced to 30% since these profits are currently taxed at a flat rate of 19%, to which add social security contributions (17.2%), starting Jan. 1, 2019- Link
IBM and data storage firm Seagate have announced a joint initiative to fight counterfeit hard drives using blockchain technology; the project will reportedly use IBM’s Blockchain Platform to help manufacturers, integrators, and business partners better authenticate the provenance of hard disk drives; updating the IBM Blockchain Platform on the IBM Cloud with product authentication data based on Seagate’s security solution Seagate Secure Electronic ID  - Link Seagate
A cybersecurity subsidiary of Japan’s Nomura Research Institute (NRI) unveiled a new blockchain security alert tool and a partnership with blockchain software company ConsenSys Deligence; dubbed the “Blockchain Security Monitoring Service,” NRI SecureTechnologies (NRI ST) said it aimed to increase security in blockchain implementations, informing operators about “vulnerabilities”; the solution’s first outing will target smart contract weaknesses, the release says, while at the same time NRI ST will work with ConsenSys’ Diligence team on expanding its security offering - Link
Several verified Twitter accounts have been hacked to impersonate Elon Musk today, Nov. 5, with one reportedly collecting almost 28₿ in one day; after compromising verified accounts, scammers changed the profile name and picture in order to pose as the Tesla CEO; hackers reportedly compromised several different accounts, including those of film production firm Pathe U.K. and U.S. politician Frank Pallone Jr. - Link
The Korean National Police Agency Cyber Bureau has said in an official statement that a group of five hackers released 32,435 emails containing cryptocurrency mining malware targeting desktop users in South Korea; the emails were posing as employers; the attack resulted in the injection of crypto mining malware on more 6000 computers in a period of 2 months; the five men in South Korea were arrested on Thursday - Link
Hong Kong-based bitcoin mining pool BTCC has announced it is shutting down operations indefinitely end of the month; BTCC Pool, which began mining activities in 2014, is shutting down due to unknown “business adjustments,” the company wrote, without giving details about the circumstances that led to the decision - Link
Crypto mining firm Bitfury raises $80M led by Korelya Capital with participation from Galaxy Digital and others; the firm produces processors and devices for mining digital currencies and other crypto assets; raised $170M to date; text- Link
The Bank of Israel has released a report recommending that the Central Bank of Israel not issue a "Digital Shekel"; the report wascommissioned in late 2017; sites the fact that there are no examples of advanced governments in the world that have issued a Central Bank digital Currency (CBDC), and also mentions Venezuala's well-publicized controversies and failures over the past few months; the report recommended that the Central Bank of Israel observe the landscape further before issue a CBDC - Link
Poloniex announced Tuesday it will be the first cryptocurrency exchange to offer trading for the pending bitcoin cash hard fork amid an ongoing debate over the technology's roadmap; Poloniex has begun to offer customers the option to buy Bitcoin Cash ABC (BCHABC) and Bitcoin Cash SV (BCHSV) trading tokens. It is noted however on their website “deposits and withdrawals will be enabled after the fork happens and the network is stable”; the exchange earlier in the year was acquired by Goldman Sachs-backed startup Circle for $400M - Link
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