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The platform is backed by 15 bank and commodities investors, which include ING, ABM Amro, and oil giant Shell.

Software-firm Emsisoft released a bug fix for the bitcoin-ransoming malware, WannaCryFake.

Yesterday, Sept. 24, Cointelegraph reported from the United States House Financial Services hearing with the chairman and four commissioners of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The recent collapse in crypto markets led by Bitcoin has broken the support and market capitalization has dipped to just under $220 billion.

In what is being considered a major step forward for Binance, CEO Changpeng Zhao recently announced that his firm was all set to make its first strategic investment in China since leaving the Asian powerhouse back in 2017.At the time, the government had enforced a local crypto trading ban that resulted in a number of firms either shutting down completely or relocating to other, more hospitable destinations.

One, the software company behind the EOS blockchain, will expand its U.S. footprint with a new headquarters and a $10 million investment in Arlington County, Va. Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam announced the plans on Monday, along with a $600,000 grant from the Commonwealth's Opportunity Fund.

David Marcus, the head of Calibra at Facebook, has set forth arguments in favor of blockchain-based payment networks.

DeFi Saver, a platform that provides its users with advanced control over Ethereum collateralized debt positions, suffered a delay in their automation system forcing a few monitored CDPs into liquidation.

Facebook's Libra has pushed central banks to consider two major issues in global payment systems, an exec at the European Central Bank said.

Mercedes-Benz parent company Daimler AG and mechanical engineering firm Dürr AG have conducted a pilot transaction on blockchain software firm R3's Marco Polo trade finance network.

The Brazilian Securities Commission has banned a forex broker offering Bitcoin options, Cointelegraph Brasil reported on Sept. 25.

Bitcoin price made a strong downside move yesterday, dropping nearly 16% from the daily open at $9,691 to a new local low at $8,164.

Online lender SoFi announced its crypto trading platform will go live next Tuesday.

The Fold app, a mobile shopping app that supports Bitcoin's Lightning Network enabling users to withdraw funds to an external Bitcoin wallet, has raised $2.5 million and added a fiat currency payment option.

Crypto investment fund 1Confirmation, backed by tech billionaire Peter Thiel, has raised $45 million for its second fund.

63% of American consumers perceive blockchain tokens to be an easy form of payment, according to a new survey from "Big Four" auditor KPMG.VentureBeat reported the survey's results on Sept. 25, citing an accompanying statement from KPMG's United States blockchain leader Arun Gosh:."Tokenization provides inspiring new ways to classify value, either by creating new assets or reimagining traditional ones Businesses that take advantage of tokenization can open the door to entirely new process improvements, revenue streams and customer engagement opportunities."

Decentralized file hosting protocol Filecoin announced in a post published on its blog on Sept. 24, that its alphanet will be launched tomorrow, testnet on Dec. 11 and mainnet in Q1 2020."These windows are best estimates".

Bitcoin network hash rate, Oct. '18-present.

California-based financial firm SoFi has added zero-fee cryptocurrency trading to its platform SoFi Invest.

In Siberia, cheap hydropower, cold climate, and abandoned Soviet industrial infrastructure has made the region of Irkutsk an attractive spot for urban explorers and crypto miners.

The lightning-friendly Fold App, which allows users to spend bitcoin on goods like clothes and pizza and then earn bitcoin-back rewards, just added fiat capability after raising its first round as an independent startup.

Venture capital firm 1confirmation is announcing a new, $45 million fund for investing in cryptocurrency startups.

The sharp price movements that characterize Bitcoin's trend have left different price gaps in the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Group Bitcoin futures contracts.

Bitcoin is down over 13% on the day, inviting competing interpretations as to what could have triggered the top coin's downward turn.

Customers of major crypto exchange Binance can now purchase crypto directly using debit and credit cards via payment processing firm Koinal.

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Bitcoin escaped a fresh dip to $7,500 on Sept. 25, avoiding the worst scenario analysts had warned about before its major crash.

The cryptocurrency's violation of the historically strong 55-candle exponential moving average on the three-day chart also favors a deeper price slide.

Japan's financial giant Monex Group, owner of cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck, will be granting Bitcoin as a mid-term shareholder benefit in 2019.

London has beaten New York to become the world's most active fintech hub by the number of fundraising deals in 2019, collecting $2.1 billion in funding from 114 deals in the first eight months of the year, CNBC reported.