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Chinese President Xi Jinping urges accelerated blockchain technology adoptionSo, more on those comments from Xi Jinping - comments that may have proven catnip for the crypto markets.

Recent data suggests that the Swiss blockchain industry is making impressive gains.

Crypto Capital principal Oz Yosef was indicted on three criminal counts by the U.S. Attorney's Office of the Southern District of New York Wednesday, Oct. 23, confirming statements made by Bitfinex's general counsel Stuart Hoegner Friday.

The events of the week are important as they show that the sentiment has changed from sell on rallies to buy the dips.

Now, more than a decade later, the scene looks like a race to be the best blockchain protocol - and rest assured, the contenders are many.

The number of physical merchant locations that accept crypto payments keeps growing.

China is looking into the application of blockchain and Artificial Intelligence to cross-border financing, Reuters reports on Oct. 27.Blockchain in risk management.

The UAE, in particular, already hosts several blockchain initiatives that stand to benefit significantly from the new regulations.

Ever since U.S. Securities and Exchange commissioner William Hinman said last year that a digital asset could start out a security but cease to be one when it was "Sufficiently decentralized," token issuers and investors have been eager for a quantification of what that means.

The exchanges include Coinbase, Kraken, and Bitfinex, as well as the beleaguered Poloniex, which recently announced it would no longer be providing services to US-based customers, following regulatory issues and a near-total collapse of the company's market share.

While these developments might not be directly connected to the Ether, investors are aware that the number of Ether locked into DeFi platforms has risen tremendously risen throughout 2019 and the majority of DeFi platform are built on the Ethereum Network.

The German-speaking world has seen an array of crypto and blockchain-related developments over the past week, with the Federal Ministry of Finance concluding that cryptocurrencies are hardly involved in money laundering and terrorist financing, Bitwala integrating a feature for automatically generating cryptocurrency tax reports, and the Graz startup Lab10 Collective developing a more energy-efficient blockchain.

Blockchain-based gaming has long been one of the most popular and natural expressions of the continually-expanding decentralized economy.

The endorsement of blockchain by Chinese President Xi Jinping created a gargantuan knock-on effect that will dramatically increase the technology's penetration in China, reports cryptocurrency investor and Primitive Ventures founding partner Dovey Wan.Blockchain goes mainstream in China.

A United States court has ordered Christopher Bania, who recently pleaded guilty to drug distribution, to give up almost 17 Bitcoin - worth roughly $150,000 at press time.

To Libra or not to Libra?Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's newest offering to the tech world is a proprietary cryptocurrency called Libra.

Despite the bullish sentiment seen across the entire market, Ethereum, XRP and Litecoin have yet to close above resistance in order to validate the continuation of their uptrend.

OKEx announced that it is joining Klaytn, a global public blockchain platform developed by Kakao subsidiary Ground X.On Oct. 25, OKEx wrote in a press release that blockchain project Klaytn will be onboarding the crypto exchange into their ecosystem aiming to expand blockchain adoption.

Over the past week, the global crypto community bore witness to a unique case wherein California resident and blockchain entrepreneur Seth Shapiro filed a lawsuit against American telecom giant AT&T - alleging that a couple of the firm's employees had perpetrated a nefarious SIM-swap scheme that resulted in the former losing $1.8 million in various crypto assets.

This is clearly a new "Mainstreaming" of crypto to the masses, but a growing number of major banks, hedge funds and family offices are also turning to digital assets to build out their traditional investment portfolios.

The use of blockchain to cement ownership rights for real estate and business has been ongoing since 2016, when the technology was first used to organize new forms of registries and registration of transactions.

An unknown Bitcoin Cash miner was apparently in control of more than 50% of the token's hash rate for 24 hours.

The Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress in China has passed the cryptography law on Saturday and it will be effective on January 1, 2020, according to a Chinese media report.

When receiving new shirts you'd bought online, or bought some jeans from one of the fashion stores on your street, the question that may have come to mind then was, how did these items get to be in my hands? The answer is supply chains.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has sparked controversy among cryptocurrency users after suggesting developers could reverse transactions.

The current health care system - from its arduous processes to its lack of coherency - prevents doctors from providing patients with the best care and negatively impacts the care they already deliver.

Bitcoin's price was quoted in five digits across cryptocurrency exchanges earlier today, but the breakout into $10,000 was short-lived.

The Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress in China has passed a new law regulating cryptography on Oct. 26 that will take effect on Jan. 1, 2020, reports local news outlet CCTV. Per the report, the new regulatory framework aims to set standards for the application of cryptography and the management of passwords.

A crypto executive is suing AT&T over a SIM swapping hack that he claims cost him $1.7 million in digital assets in a hit aimed at three executives attending Consensus 2018.

The incentivized testnet of Shelley, the next iteration of the Cardano blockchain, is set to roll out in November.