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SEVEN PREMIER LEAGUE CLUBS PARTNER WITH ETORO FOR BITCOIN PAYMENTS

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  Tel Aviv-based multi-asset global investment platform eToro has entered into a historic partnership with seven Premier League football clubs, which will make payments to their players in Bitcoins. WHEN BITCOIN COMES TO THE WORLD OF FOOTBALL The seven Premier League clubs who have agreed to set up a digital wallet with eToro include Brighton & Hove Albion F.C., Cardiff City F.C., Crystal Palace F.C., Leicester City F.C., Newcastle United F.C., Southampton F.C., and Tottenham Hotspur F.C. As a part of the deal, team players will be made payments in bitcoins through eToro digital wallets. eToro’s UK MD Iqbal V. Gandham tweeted the announcement through the company’s official handle. As a global multi-asset platform where you can purchase the world’s biggest cryptoassets alongside more traditional investments, we are excited to be partnering with so many Premier League clubs and make history by being the first company ever to pay for a Premier League partnership...

Electron Cash Wallet Now Available for Basic Feature Phones

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The bitcoin cash (BCH) centric wallet Electron Cash has seen a bunch of development with Coinshuffle integration, and a new iOS version of the wallet. Now another version of the Electron Cash wallet has launched which can run on basic feature phones (Nokia-style) adding more versatility to the BCH ecosystem. Electron Cash Can Now be Installed on Nokia Style Feature Phones Last February the Electron Cash lead developer, Jonald Fyookball, announced the development team would be funded by the firm Coingeek, and Electron Cash would launch a bunch of new features over the course of the year. So far the team has launched a new iOS version of the wallet and added a Coinshuffle plugin to the client’s desktop version. Now, this week the Electron Cash team has released a Java Micro-Edition of the wallet (J2ME) which makes the client available to feature phones much like the popular and less sophisticated Nokia phones. Over 1.3 Billion Feature Phone Users Can Now Use the Bitcoin Cas...

Indian Exchange Zebpay Enables Trueusd (TUSD) Stablecoin Trading

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One of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in India, Zebpay, has enabled Trueusd (TUSD) trading, deposits and withdrawals. The dollar-pegged stablecoin is offered as an alternative to fiat trading which is problematic under the Indian central bank’s ban. Zebpay Enables Trueusd Mumbai-headquartered cryptocurrency exchange Zebpay has announced the addition of Trueusd (TUSD) trading, deposits and withdrawals going live, starting today, August 6, 2018. Trueusd is part of the recent torrent of so-called stablecoins to have hit the market as fears around the performance of Tether (USDT) refuse to die down. According to its promoters, each TUSD can be redeemed 1-for-1 for US dollars. Trust Token is said to partner with registered banks and fiduciaries to securely hold the funds backing the tokens. And for increased security, the banks and fiduciaries handle all funds directly. Moreover, the Trueusd system supposedly does not handle or even have access to the escrowed ...

Yenom Launches Bitcoin Cash Library Implemented in Apple’s iOS-language Swift

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This week the developers of the Bitcoin Cash-centric mobile wallet called Yenom have introduced a new Bitcoin Cash Kit (BCK) for BCH developers. The BCK is a Swift implementation of the BCH protocol and the first library (lib) for iOS which represents an important addition to the Bitcoin Cash ecosystem. Yenom Developers Launch Bitcoin Cash Kit Bitcoin Cash protocol development has been on fire lately as there’s a slew of new products and services announced nearly every day. Now the Japanese developers who created the Yenom wallet have released a new library called the Bitcoin Cash Kit (BCK). The protocol toolkit allows users and developers to maintain a wallet that enables storing, sending and receiving bitcoin cash without the need to download a full node. In addition to revealing the BCK library the Yenom developers, Hashhub, and the Crypto Age are hosting a mobile phone application hackathon on August 18 https://news.bitcoin.com/yenom-launches-bitcoin-cash-library-...

Cryptocurrency Exchange Binance Buys Ethereum Wallet Service in First-Ever Acquisition

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Binance, one of the world’s two largest cryptocurrency exchanges, has just completed its first-ever acquisition. According to  TechCrunch , the Malta-based exchange operator acquired Trust Wallet, creator of the eponymous mobile  Ethereum wallet  that includes support for ether, as well as ERC-20 and ERC-223 tokens. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed, but Binance confirmed that it included a mixture of cash, Binance stock, and Binance tokens (BNB). Trust Wallet is not one of the better known Ethereum wallets. It has about 50,000 downloads on Android through the Google Play store, earning a 4.6 out of 5 star rating from 1,138 reviewers. Download statistics were not immediately available from Apple’s App Store, but the wallet had a comparable rating from a similar number of reviewers. For comparison,  imToken , the most popular Ethereum wallet, has more than 5 million monthly active users, most of who are based in Asia. “The Trust Wallet team shares t...

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