In this week’s daily editions of Bitcoin in Brief we reported about Coinbase increasing trading limits, Shapeshift acquiring Bitfract, Okex launching a white label platform called Coinall, and much more. The most commented-on article during the week covered the ‘Rich Dad, Poor Dad’ author, Robert Kiyosaki, which came out in favor of cryptocurrencies.
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New Education Centers
A number of new academic education centers around the world devoted to the research of the technology behind cryptocurrency were featured on Monday. China Internet Nationwide Financial Services Inc. (NASDAQ: CIFS), a financial advisory services provider, has reached an agreement with Tsinghua University to establish an “Industry Trusted Blockchain Application Technology Joint Research Center”. The Istanbul Blockchain and Innovation Center was inaugurated at Bahçeşehir University. And Seven Stars Cloud Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: SSC), the fintech firm of Chinese media tycoon Bruno Wu, has announced that it will be establishing its global headquarters for technology and innovation, called Chain Valley, in Connecticut, transforming a Uconn campus into a center for research.
Robinhood Crypto Expands Service
On Tuesday, we reported that Robinhood, the US stocks app, has added another two states where cryptocurrency trading is now supported for its clients, Iowa and Georgia. The app also now supports Ethereum Classic (ETC), in addition to its previous offering of BTC, BCH, ETH, LTC and Doge. In total, Robinhood Crypto is now available in 19 US states. Additional stories included a Chinese user of Okcoin who is suing the exchange over his missing bitcoin cash following last year’s fork and a cybersecurity research that found trading venues experienced a massive surge of user data leaks.
Coinbase Increases Trading Limits
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