• Not a photo of PayPal potentially leaving its partnership with Facebook's Libra. Instead, this is the PayPal float at the Dublin LGBTQ Pride Parade, June 29, 2019 (photo by William Murphy via Wiki commons).
    Libra

    Libra Association won’t deny reports PayPal pulling out

    Facebook’s crypto project partnerships show signs of buckling with increased government pressure

    The Libra Association would not quite deny reports that digital payment service PayPal is withdrawing from the group, designed to oversee Facebook’s highly controversial, proposed cryptocurrency.

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    Technology

    Deloitte survey finds blockchain vital, overhyped

    Executives are seeing more business cases, but asking more questions

    While business executives around the world are growing more certain that blockchain will be a game changer, a new survey also reveals that skepticism remains. According to Deloitte, it’s 2019 Global Blockchain Survey finds the technology is entering a new phase, in which the question is no longer, “Will blockchain work?” but, “How can we make blockchain work for us?”

  • Chamber of Deputies of France's National Assembly in Paris (via Pixabay).
    Europe

    France makes move for European blockchain leadership

    During Paris Blockchain Week, France’s finance minister promotes its new law as a model for the EU

    Malta may call itself the “Blockchain Island” but it got some stiff competition on April 15 when French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire proposed that its European Union partners “set up a single regulatory framework on crypto-assets inspired by the French experience."

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    Asia & Australia,  Bitcoin,  Innovators,  Media,  Ripple,  XRP

    Must-reads for October 26, 2018: Crypto’s pay-to-play, Coinbase cuts, and other stories

    These are the crypto stories you should be following today

    We Asked Crypto News Outlets If They’d Take Money to Cover a Project. More Than Half Said Yes (Breaker) This is the little article burning up the cryptosphere today. Corin Faife of The Breaker posed as a Moscow-based public relations agency and contacted several crypto news sites, asking them if he could pay for favorable articles on their website. “Of the 22 outlets who replied conclusively, 12 of them—more than half the total—were willing to publish paid content without disclosing it as such,” Faife writes. The sites that were willing to take money were: CryptoNinjas Cointelligence Coinsepeaker CryptoPotato Blokt BTCManager Coinidol AMB Crypto Globalcoinreport Cryptovest Bitcoinist NewsBTC Keep that in…