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Colorado's Department of Regulatory Agencies (DORA) has unveiled plans to evaluate 3 cryptocurrency-based companies hosting "unregistered ICOs" in the United States as part of continuing investigation into a practice being applied by phony firms to defraud people.

LALA World is thrilled to share the news that ‘LALA Pay by Crypto’ is now finally live on LALA World App. This brings LALA in the Ivy League of Blockchain Start-ups that has launched its products within six months and it is providing usability to its tokens in less than 8 months of its crowd-sale.

Bonner and Butte, Montana, are home to two of the giant Bitcoin mining infrastructures in North America. Further, they are a subject to a big energy producer, the Colstrip power plant, that is almost being closed down. Bitcoin mining has, therefore, become such a significant windfall for the US economy, that Senator Steve Daines, a congressional representative is worried that shutting down the plant could damage its cryptocurrency golden goose.

There is hope that the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) might change its decision to deny nine Bitcoin-related Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs).  Brent Fields, the SEC secretary revealed in a letter to the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) that the commission chairman and commissioners are considering whether to review and revise the action authorized and delegated to its staff, adding that until that time the current decision is pertinent.

According to what is coming out of Washington, it seems like no deal has been struck between the Trump administration and the government of Turkey, led by President Tayyip Erdogan, continuing what is already a shaky financial situation.

Over the past day, tokens like VeChain, PundiX and Ontology registered a 5% increase against the US dollar, as the cryptocurrency market regained and Bitcoin (BTC) displayed stability.

The world Blockchain survey shows that nearly 40% of the respondents were believing that Blockchain was "overhyped."

Do you know that your data is harvested, continuously by big data companies? So what, you say; what if we told you that the data market for the EU is set to hit €1 trillion by 2020, and data companies are making billions from it, without you getting anything for your information, could this make you think differently?

CoinLoan, an Estonia-based startup, has launched a crypto-to-fiat lending platform where cryptocurrency is used as collateral. From now on, crypto-backed loans are available for users all over the world. On CoinLoan, everyone can become a lender or a borrower, on his or her own terms. The platform’s primary objective is to link counteroffers and ensure the safety of the deal.