Localbitcoins.com is a very popular P2P website where users can buy and sell bitcoins. And this has not made banks happy, especially the ones in the UK. HSBC and Barclays have frozen bank accounts of users that are trading on localbitcoins.com.

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Wirex is the most popular bitcoin debit card player and today, it has been granted FCA license. This makes Wirex the third crypto and fiat payment platform in the world to hold a UK Financial Conduct Authority e-money license.

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Until now, the best GPU for mining was the Nvidia GTX 1080Ti and while Nvidia Titan V yielded 30 percent more power, it cost 3x the money too. The new Nvidia RTX 2080Ti is many times more powerful than the Nvidia 1080Ti but it is not better in terms of mining. So just like the Nvidia Titan V, we may get around 30-50 percent more performance.

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OmiseGO has released public v1.0.0 of their eWallet. So why is this considered news? That is because it is a white label eWallet development platform that is meant to plug into the OMG network. This means that company “xyz” can use this to create an eWallet with their logo on it and have it easily integrated into a network with massive interoperability.

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Ripple wants to target the Indian market with its blockchain technology to speed up inter-country payments. Navin Gupta, Ripple’s Managing Director for South East Asia, Middle East and North Africa recently spoke in an interview with Cryptocoindaddy. Ripple opened their office in Mumbai, India last year and has been busy adding Indian banks to xCurrent.

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Last week, Binance announced acquisition of Trust wallet and since Coinbase does not want to be left behind, it has announced today that it has acquired Toshi and the Toshi wallet now becomes Coinbase Wallet. This is define future of the decentralized web and make that future accessible to anyone.

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Remember the NEXT wallet that we mentioned couple of months back? Well, its developer has updated it and has added support for many other cryptocurrencies that include Litecoin, PivX, Dash, Crown, Viacoin, Particl and Phore. Available for Windows, Mac and Ubuntu Linux operating systems, the NEXT is a lite wallet that lets you manage your funds without downloading entire blockchain. There is full node option available as well that lets you stake PoS coins and earn the stake – just like the Core wallet. 

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Red Pulse team will be swapping the current RPX tokens with the PHX tokens as they will be launching an upgraded infrastructure called Phoenix. The token swap will be done around 6PM CST (UTC+8) on August 12 at the block 2608500 of Neo blockchain.

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Using phased approach, Bittrex added USD pairs for many top tier coins on their cryptocurrency exchange. Today, they have announced that they will be adding USD markets for both Ethereum Classic (ETC) and Ripple (XRP) on August 20 2018.

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Coinbase has announced on its blog that they are now accepting inbound transfers of Ethereum Classic. Their testing has gone according to plan and they will be launching Ethereum classic support on Coinbase Pro followed by consumer centric, Coinbase.com.

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