[Weekly News] Bitcoin fires up in 2020, ETC – HARD FORK, Craig Wright does not have 1.1 million BTC!

We have prepared a brief overview of the most important news for this week in cryptoworld.

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News 13.01. – 19.01.20

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Cryptocurrencies

• Bloomberg: Bitcoin will shoot up in 2020

• BTC futures trading on CME will be launched today

• Ethereum Classic successfully finished Agartha hard fork yesterday

• Ethereum awaits the transition to a PoS algorithm that will replace the existing PoW

• Craig Wright now reportedly has a private key to $ 8 billion in BTC

• Bitcoin whale shifts $ 1 billion in BTC

• Ripple released another 100 million XRP

• MoneyGram and Ripple want to break through in India

• Another USDC for USD 20m is heading to the markets

• Maduro: All flights must pay for fuel in Petro

• 36% of US small and medium-sized businesses accept crypto-currency payments

• Fortune: Ripple in the Top 25 Best Workplaces for 2020

• TRON back in the top 10 after Justin Sun announced the new stable coin

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Regulations

• Deribit, the European cryptoexchange, is moving due to EU regulatory rules

• US SEC warns investors against IEO (Initial Exchange Offering)

• European regulator ESMA wants to unify cryptocurrency regulations in the EU this year

• IMF: cryptocurrencies in focus in 2020

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Crypto Exchanges / Banks

• Visa wants to buy Plaid, a cryptopay fintech unicorn for $ 5.3 billion

• In a single day, CME outperformed BAKKT in trading volumes with BTC futures options

• Fidelity has partnered with a London-based company for custody services for BTC

• Bitstamp and Silvergate have partnered for a new BTC leverage project

• eToro plans to release its own debit card and extension

• Gemini launches an insurance company under the name Nakamoto

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Blockchain / Technology

• PricewaterhouseCoopers Switzerland takes over ChainSecurity to audit smart contracts

• PewDiePie, youtuber with over 100 million subscribers, considering moving from YouTube to DLive blockchain platform

• The OneGold Gold Purchase Platform has announced a partnership with BitPay

• AliPay, China introduces the first blockchain car rental service based on face recognition

• The real estate company used blockchain to buy property in Switzerland for $ 134 million

• Research: UAE could save $ 3 billion by using blockchain

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News of the Week :

In a single day, CME outperformed BAKKT in trading volumes with BTC futures options

CME Group started trading on BTC futures on Monday and outperformed its rival, Bakkt, in a single day. According to the spokesperson, the CME Group concluded 55 contracts worth approximately 275 bitcoins or $ 2.1 million. Since its launch on December 9, Bakkt has traded little more than $ 1 million in BTC since its launch.

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European regulator ESMA wants to unify cryptocurrency regulations in the EU this year

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has recently published its 2020-2022 plan detailing how it will attempt to integrate co-regulation of cryptocurrencies in the European Union. As already mentioned, it is very unlikely that ESMA will focus on any technical or prohibition of ICO, IEO or STO coming into the market in the future. However, it will most likely focus on how information on the trading of cryptocurrencies in the European Union is handled. Probably the best model currently belongs to the United Kingdom, which permits all cryptoactivities in the country, but here and there will request more information from local cryptocompanies.

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Bitcoin SV decreases by 45% because the lawyer admits that Craig Wright has no private keys

The controversial altcoin Bitcoin SV (BSV) dumped 45% after its main supporter failed to have access to $ 9 billion in bitcoins (BTC). After Wright promised to prove he was the manager of the funds associated with the bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, a BSV – a hard fork BTC, who claims to be a “real” bitcoin – fired at historically high levels of $ 436. Finally, Wright failed.