North Korea is stepping up mining of the privacy coin monero as the regime continues its efforts to circumvent sanctions… https://www.coindesk.com/north-korea-is-expanding-its-monero-mining-operations-says-report
The parent company behind the bitcoin-based smart contract platform RSK has launched a new token bridge joining it to ethereum… https://www.coindesk.com/rsk-launches-interoperability-bridge-between-bitcoin-and-ethereum
India’s National Strategy on Blockchain has been published. It recommends, among other things, for the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to issue a central bank digital currency… https://news.bitcoin.com/india-rbi-digital-currency/
Tether Gold “represents ownership of one troy fine ounce of physical gold on a specific gold bar,” a press release said Thursday. The new stablecoins, will be issued on ethereum and tron as ERC-20 and TRC20 tokens. .. https://www.coindesk.com/tether-says-its-newest-stablecoin-is-backed-by-gold-in-swiss-vault
Cryptocurrency brokerage Voyager Digital has listed three stablecoins and will soon allow customers to earn interest on their holdings… https://www.coindesk.com/voyager-to-offer-interest-on-three-newly-listed-stablecoins
A recent academic study says Tezos is threatened by “selfish mining,” providing a valid threat model for other live and up-and-coming proof-of-stake (PoS) cryptocurrencies… https://www.coindesk.com/why-harvard-research-on-a-low-profit-tezos-attack-matters-for-proof-of-stake
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will continue its evaluation of cryptocurrency-based securities for U.S. retail investors… https://www.coindesk.com/sec-examination-office-gets-specific-about-crypto-priorities-in-2020
It’s not just China that’s issued a green light to blockchain, if not bitcoin: all across South-East Asia, officials have issued similar blessings, and crypto projects have eagerly stepped up to the plate… https://news.bitcoin.com/asias-love-affair-with-blockchain-is-blossoming/
The predictions for 2019 were numerous: it was to be the year of the DAO, the year of the STO, the year of the decentralized exchange, the year of enterprise blockchain, and the year of dapps… https://www.coindesk.com/looking-backward-to-build-the-future-how-academia-is-shifting-its-blockchain-focus
A new study of 140,000 crypto addresses finds that few accounts are needed to form majority ownership of many coins… https://news.bitcoin.com/whales-control-most-of-litecoin-many-ethereum-tokens/