New details have emerged in the ongoing lawsuit in the U.S. filed last year against Craig S. Wright, the technologist who claims to be the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto.
A redacted declaration filing from Kleiman v. Wright surfaced, which details Wright's purported ownership and the trustee scheme of the Tulip Trust, which supposedly holds over one million Bitcoin. According to the filing, access to the holdings of the trust requires participation of all trustees, at least one of whom he hasn't been in contact for several years.
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It seems things are moving along with the bankruptcy proceedings of Bitgrail as an Italian court said the defunct cryptocurrency exchange's creditors will be soon able to file their claims in order to claw back their trapped assets.
The legal statement further explains that the Court of Florence will hold two hearings to determine the "passive state" in the bankruptcy procedures of Bitgrail's subsidiaries: "WebCoin Solutions" on September 24, 2019 and "BG SERVICES SRL" on October 07, 2019.

Ran NeuNer, host of CNBC's Crypto Trader programme, predicted that it's only logical that Amazon launches a crypto next. Facebook has more users but Amazon has more transactions. "I would imagine their currency would have a network effect component for currency appreciation based on spend in the ecosystem," added he.

Regarding Facebook's Libra, Governor of Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), Philip Lowe who is a long-time skeptic about cryptocurrencies, suggested the project might be a long way off yet. "There are a lot of regulatory issues that need to be addressed and they've got to make sure there's a solid business case, so we've got to be careful before we jump to conclusions," Lowe stated.
"I have long thought that a kind of cryptocurrency would not take off in Australia because we already have a very, very efficient electronic payments system that allows anyone of us to make bank payments to another person in five seconds just knowing their mobile phone number," Lowe said Thursday, June 20.

Facebook used the same San Francisco-based design firm for its crypto project unveiled this week as online bank Current, according to CEO Stuart Sopp.
The results are two extremely similar logos for the two brands.
"This is a funny way to try and create trust in a new global financial system – by ripping off another fintech firm," Sopp told CNBC.
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Coinbase sought to reassure investors over concerns that customer accounts may have been targeted in an attack that exploited a recent Firefox zero-day.
The San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange said that the attack, discovered on Monday, June 17, had targeted Coinbase employees and that the exchange and its customers' accounts were untouched.

As of 18:00 (UTC) on June 20, the global index of Bitcoin (BTC) hovers above the $9,300 level, marking $9,354.45, with an increase of 2.40% in the past 24 hours.
The CoinNess.com Bullish vs. Bearish Indicator shows our four-hour technical bias on BTC is "Buy" with three indicator sending out a selling signal, two showing a neutral signal, and 13 indicating a buying signal.
The broad market is still in favor with bears, with 73 out of Top 100 cryptos by market cap decreasing.
The global market cap reads $288.85 billion, and the 24-hour trading volume is $53.83 billion.
Major Coins
1. BTC quotes show 9,331.75 USDT on Binance, $9,385.80 on Bitfinex, and $9,335.76 on Coinbase Pro;
2. CoinNess.com Market Index presents quotes for major cryptocurrencies besides BTC as following: ETH marks $268.33 (+0.28%); XRP marks $0.4286 (-0.83%); LTC marks $133.85 (-3.47%); BCH marks $409.68 (-0.71%); EOS marks $6.75 (-1.05%); ETC marks $8.45 (-0.35%).
Top 3 Gainers and Losers in Cryptocurrencies
1. Top 3 gainers among Top 100 cryptocurrencies by market cap: EGT (+26.31%), NEX (+8.72%), and HEDG (+8.71%);
2. Top 3 losers among Top 100 cryptocurrencies by market cap: KMD (-9.08%), ETP (-8.42%), and WTC (-7.81%).
Top 3 Gainers and Losers in Categories
1. Top 3 gainers among 24 categories: DApp Platform (+1.64%), Asset Anchoring (+0.93%), and Decentralized Transactions (+0.22%);
2. Top 3 losers among 24 categories: DAG Technology (-14.40%), Smart Economy (-7.84%), and Contract Tools (-5.90%).
Cap Flows of Coins/Exchanges
1. Top 3 capital inflows within the last 24 hours: DASH (+$325.94 mln), ETH (+$167.65 mln), and BTC (+$120.64 mln);
2. Top 3 capital outflows within the last 24 hours: EOS (-$167.63 mln), LTC (-$151.35 mln), and XRP (-$95.37 mln);
3. Net inflows/outflows of exchanges: Binance (+$9.32 mln), Bitfinex (+$1.35 mln), and Coinbase Pro (+$11.72 mln).

Bank of England governor Mark Carney said that distributed ledger tech (DLT) projects have the potential to "unlock billions of pounds in capital and liquidity" — and that they might one day see closer cooperation with the central bank itself.
Carney spoke on June 20 during an appearance at the Lord Mayor's Banquet for Bankers and Merchants of the City of London, according to published remarks. During his appearance, Carney returned to a topic he touched on earlier this week: the subject of Facebook's newly-unveiled cryptocurrency, Libra. In the wake of the announcement, Carney remarked that he expects Libra to abide by high standards of compliance and regulation, and on Thursday, he restated that sentiment.

Citing data from Binance, BTC just broke below the 9,300 USDT. Currently, BTC swings around the level, marking 9,308.45 USDT.
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"Everybody's been focused on how do you build a third-generation blockchain. Libra is a take on that," said Jeremy Allaire, CEO of Circle, a mobile payments platform, at the Fortune Brainstorm Finance conference in Montauk, N.Y., on June 19.
Allaire doesn't see Libra as merely a pure-play cashless payments service at all. In fact, he thinks "payments is an initial use case," but a "much more decentralized, private way to exchange information" is the end goal.

Two different books published under Satoshi Nakamoto's name have recently appeared on Amazon.
According to Amazon, both of the books — Wave and Ripple Design Book and The Official Bitcoin Coloring Book — are scheduled for release on June 28. The profile of the author makes it clear that he indeed claims to be the same Satoshi Nakamoto who created Bitcoin (BTC): "Satoshi Nakamoto is the renowned inventor of Bitcoin."

In a speech, March Carney, the governor of the Bank of England, says that Libra - the new digital currency proposed by Facebook and other tech companies - could substantially lower costs and increase financial inclusion.
However, while Mark Carney says he has an open mind, he is not offering an open door.

On June 26, both Bitfinex and Ethfinex will be offline for up to seven hours as the exchange commences a platform upgrade designed to enhance the stability and scalability of the iFinex matching engine.
The platform upgrade will require taking all iFinex trading platforms offline for the duration of the maintenance period. This means that traders across both Bitfinex and Ethfinex will be unable to trade, view, or access their wallets during the update.

Coinbase is introducing a new push notification feature to alert mobile App users of price swings and market fluctuations in cryptocurrencies supported by the exchange startup.
These automatically generated messages are intended to assist investors and Coinbase clients of real-time market performance without the hassle of shifting between different websites and apps. The startup previously offered price alerts for a limited number of assets.

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The Energy Web Foundation (EWF), based in Zug, Switzerland, has launched their Energy Web Chain (EW Chain) which they claim is the world's first public, open-source, enterprise-grade blockchain for the energy industry.

NEM Holdings, the not-for-profit holding company of NEM Ventures, and the NEM Foundation, today announced the creation of NEM Studios, a dedicated strategy and backend development unit to support the ongoing development of Catapult – the next generation of the NEM protocol.

SERO subscription will be available on gate.io Startup from 04:00 to 06:00 (UTC), June 28. Users who reach the VIP1 level and above will be eligible to participate in the activity.
The GT price will be calculated based on the exchange price between GT and USDT within three hours prior to accepting the user's subscription. The quantity of Each subscription which is worth about $100 - $200 needs to be set up. Users can choose the number of subscription on the basis of their subscription amount.
The platform will set the subscription amount based on the average amount of GT held by the users for 14 days. Users without holding GT have no right to participate in the activity, and the number of GT held by users determines their subscription amount.

As part of its efforts to support user privacy and security, Google on Wednesday (June 19) announced the open-source release of Private Join and Compute, a multi-party computation (MPC) tool designed to help organizations work together with confidential data sets.
Boiled down, Private Join and Compute is a cryptographic protocol that can be used jointly by two parties to encrypt data before sharing it with each other for research purposes. The system ensures that neither party reveals their raw data, and all identifiers and associated data remain fully encrypted and unreadable throughout the sharing process. The only thing that's decrypted and shared is in the form of aggregated statistics, which organizations can then use to discover commonalities and glean insights.

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Citing data from Binance, BTC has stood upon the 9,300 USDT level, currently marking 9,309.68 USDT (+2.16％).
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Cryptocurrency exchange operator Paxful announced on Thursday (June 20) that it has formed a partnership with The White Company (TWC), a technology company that builds blockchain-based products for both consumers and businesses.
The partnership means that users will be able to convert Bitcoin into ten different fiat currencies, including the pound sterling, US dollar, Swiss franc and Australian dollar.

Blockchain is one of the top ten most important employee skills in the Asia Pacific region, a new report from professional social network LinkedIn confirmed in June.
A regular feature on the network, the 2019 APAC version of "The Future of Skills" lists blockchain among the most sought-after abilities workers will need in the coming years. Specifically, "setting up and managing a distributed and decentralised public ledger" will be a useful skill, while other areas making the top ten include compliance and artificial intelligence (AI).
Both areas are closely tied to the blockchain sphere, with the disruptive technology producing a need to inform regulator attitudes.

Co-founder of the Wyoming Blockchain Coalition and a blockchain evangelist, Caitlin Long, recently spoke about Libra during an interview with WhatBitcoinDid.
Long stated that Libra's launch would result in local currencies taking a hit and facing devaluation, if people actually started using the cryptocurrency. The blockchain evangelist further stated that she "suspects" the central banks of developing countries of being "nervous" about Facebook's own digital currency. However, she stated that the developed world's central banks "don't seem to be as nervous."
She further stated that this competition would force central banks to maintain the value of their fiat currencies. This was followed by Long speaking about whether countries would ban the cryptocurrency. She stated that that country could ban the cryptocurrency, adding that this was the risk Mark Zuckerberg was taking with Facebook. She also said that Facebook getting into the money business could potentially risk a ban of Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram.

According to Huobi Global, FastTrack Phase 1 Voting Round 2 concluded at 13:00 June 20 (UTC) with a total of 48,020,096 HT votes. All validation checks have been completed to ensure voting results are valid.
New Kind of Network (NKN) has won the FastTrack Phase 1 Voting Round 2 with 25,843,368 HT votes and will officially open trading in HT, USDT and BTC zones at 14:00, June 20 (UTC).

Citing information from 1ml.com, the number of Bitcoin lightning channels has dropped by 5.2% to 34,666 in the last 30 days. The number of nodes, on the other hand, has increased by 4.42% to 8,829 in the last month. The network capacity is 946.85 BTC, valued at more than 8.76 million.

IT security specialists ESET has identified an unusual new cryptocurrency miner, known as LoudMiner, that utilises virtualisation to infect the machines of unsuspecting users.
Described by ESET as "an unusual case" LoudMiner uses virtualisation software, either QEMU on macOS or VirtualBox on Windows, to mine cryptocurrency on a Tiny Core Linux virtual machine.

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Algorand (ALGO) will be launched on Huobi Global on June 20, 2019. Deposits will be available from 12:00, June 20 (UTC). ALGO/USDT, ALGO/BTC and ALGO/ETH trading will be available from 07:00, June 21. Withdrawals will be available from 06:30, June 24.

BlockTower Capital co-founder Ari Paul stated on Twitter, "I have no special insights, but my best guess is that Libra is 50/50 to ever launch. There's dozens of different legislative and regulatory authorities that will explore blocking it. Bitcoin and other permissionless cryptocurrencies win to it launching."