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News 17 November 2017

Visa launches B2B test transaction for cross-border payments via blockchain

Visa B2B test transaction for cross-border payments via blockchain. Processing started ahead of commercial launch of Visa B2B connect in 2018. Open API for developer community.

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News 16 November 2017

American Express collaborates with Ripple for payments via blockchain

American Express has partnered with Ripple [https://twitter.com/Ripple/status/931150009751429120] to speed up cross-border payments between the U.S. and the U.K.

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News 14 November 2017

IOTA Foundation finally registered in Germany

The IOTA Foundation is official launched as a registered not-for-profit entity (“gemeinnützige Stiftung”) under German law. Founder of IOTA David Sønstebø said [https://blog.iota.

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News 8 November 2017

Bitcoin Segwit 2X suspended

Most awaited and controversial upgrade for Bitcoin - Segwit 2X, has been suspended indefinetly in absense of sufficient consensus for a clean blocksize upgrade.

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News 7 November 2017

Alert! Parity multi-sig wallet discovered another vulnerability

Parity [https://parity.io] wallet, the multi-signature wallet which is considered to be the most secure way of interacting with the Ethereum blockchain seems to

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News 6 November 2017

Alex Tapscott's 'NextBlock Global' finally aborted going public, returning investors money

Alex Tapscott, the co-auther of the book “Blockchain Revolution” has been accused of falsely adding names of blockchain stars as advisors in an investor document

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News 2 November 2017

Amazon in blockchain space, registered Ethereum and cryptocurrency domain

Amazon Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of e-commerce giant Amazon [https://www.amazon.com] has registered three domain names on October 31, 2017 related to blockchain

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News 22 October 2017

EtherWorld's weekly: October 22, 2017

(Blockchain eNewspaper) World news * South Korea [https://news.bitcoin.com/south-korea-supervision-bitcoin-trading-imf-reform/] to Step Up Supervision of Bitcoin Trading After IMF Calls for Reform * JPMorgan [https:

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News 18 October 2017

First Moscow ICO Conference coming up on November 7

The team of the famous Moscow Affiliate Conference & Party are organizing Moscow ICO Conference [http://icoconf.io] that will be held for the first

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News 15 October 2017

EtherWorld's weekly: October 15, 2017

(Blockchain eNewspaper) News * Lufthansa [https://newsroom.lufthansagroup.com/english/press-releases/all/lufthansa-group-partners-up-with-winding-tree-to-bring-blockchain-technology-to-the-travel-industry/s/16fc8ce5-4656-41ee-a6b2-026441ba19b6?utm_campaign=Blockchain%2BWeekly&utm_medium=web&utm_source=

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News 12 October 2017

First Ethereum ETN launched on Nasdaq Stockhom by Coinshare

* Coinshares launches ETN for Ether * As for now the trade is limited for Europeans only * Represents the most diverse investment product line- up in professional

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News 10 October 2017

Metropolis Byzantium testing successful, hard fork on October 17

Metropolis [https://etherworld.co/topic/23/can-metropolis-drift-ethereum-ice-age] , the third phase of Ethereum [http://etherworld.co/topic/105/a-complete-guide-to-understand-ethereum-for-beginners] roadmap proposed in 2015 is not far

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News 9 October 2017

China to reintroduce cryptocurrency after its controversial ban

* China shut down digital currency trade in September * The ban caused much harm than good to China * Countries like Japan and South Korea took advantage

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News 8 October 2017

EtherWorld's weekly: October 8, 2017

(Blockchain eNewspaper) News * Dubai [http://www.dubaided.ae/English/MediaCenter/Pages/PressReleasesDetails.aspx?ItemId=233] Economy launches partnership to expedite emCash (a digital currency) * Bitcoins

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News 5 October 2017

Coinbase under investigation for Ethereum Flash Crash

The US Commodity Features Trading Commission (CFTC) investigate CoinBase Ethereum flash crash. * The digital currency Ethereum experienced a “flash crash” * CFTC is investigating the June21