As we reported yesterday, Ohio will become the first U.S. state to allow its residents to pay taxes with Bitcoin (BTC).

The Block published an interview with Josh Mandel, the State Treasurer of Ohio behind this push.

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We are the first, fully blockchain-based payment gateway in the Middle East and Africa. MenaPay replaces traditional payment methods with a blockchain-based fully backed cryptocurrency. This provides a secure and transparent payment gateway to enable transactions for every aspect of daily life. The MenaPay project was started in November 2017 to serve 420 million people, across 18 countries, as their primary payment method. MenaPay will distribute 75% of total revenue amongst holders of MenaPay. It is creating a new standard in the crypto industry for the level of participatory returns, beyond the regular incentives for users and investors

You can check our website: menapay.io

Also our english one pager: menapay.io/onepager.pdf
Arabic one pager : menapay.io/onepager_ar.pdf
Chinese one pager: menapay.io/onepager_cn.pdf
Watch our presantation video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzTryRjWf9U&t=1s

⚠️ICO Launch has not started yet. Please do not believe anyone except our admins.
👇🏼Our admins (please make sure the usernames are correct)👇🏼
@tolgaodoglu
@ilkercikrikcili
@BurakErdir
@tuuceb
@kuanh92
@simgeicen
Official English Chat: @MenaPay
Official Arabic Chat: @MenaPayAr

Follow us on our social media 👍🏼
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🔺Our Community Rules:
- Respect each member
- No Spamming
- No inappropriate content
- No posting of other ICOs and projects
- You can share any relevant news and articles


✔️Hope everyone enjoys our ICO channel and we can create an amazing MenaPay community.

Have you checked out @imusify? An award-winning music platform on NEO designed to provide an open-source innovation space for developing new means of music distribution, consumption, and engagement.

imusify is officially backed by NEO, the team looks experienced and more than 300 contributors are dedicated to imusify's success. Not to mention that it is rated high on ICOBench, ICOTrack and others. They have 100k members in their telegram community @imusifycommunity. Imusify has confirmed partnership with Switcheo.Exchange and the O3.Network, and the presale hasn’t even started yet.

Get whitelisted for the most amazing ICO of the year — visit imusify.com :: IMU presale begins shortly — get IMU tokens at a discount of 30%. Need more discount? Private Sale is On!!

You can earn IMU tokens by taking part in their bounty campaign — http://bit.ly/imusify_bounty

USEFUL LINKS :
Website: https://www.imusify.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/imusify
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/imusify
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/imusify
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/imusify
Medium: https://medium.com/imusify
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/imusifyyt
Telegram: https://t.me/imusifycommunity
Github: https://github.com/imusify
Discord: https://discord.gg/rrYxjBh
Instagram: http://instagram.com/imusify
BitcoinTalk: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4327428.0
Steemit: https://steemit.com/@imusify

Prototype :: https://imusify.io/signin

UX/UI Mockup :: http://demo.imusify.com/

imusify DevCon Video :: https://youtu.be/qePPo0AbP1s

imusify Explainer Video :: https://youtu.be/SuiZP9i3GWg

KYC Instructions :: https://medium.com/imusify/how-to-participate-in-the-imu-token-sale-cf03b626cb56

Thanks for joining us, for being a part of the imusify community, and our ongoing #getIMU token sale.

In Rhythm,

The imusify Team

Eatonomy

While brands pump millions of $$ into their loyalty programs, active use of these programs by customers has steadily declined since 2010 at a rate of 3% per year. Eatonomy is here to change that - by providing fun, engaging, and personalized rewards points for customers.

#loyalty

https://crowdsale.eatonomy.ca/
https://www.t.me/eatonomy/

The June 2018 GitHub development bounty program has ended. We’d like to thank everyone who contributed, and would like to invite many more to get involved — it’s never to late to join (scroll to the end for instructions on how to get involved).

This was one of the most exciting months so far, we’ve seen a RECORD number of PRs merged in 1 month, partially because RipaEx development bounty program has just started three months ago, but we expect it to rise. We are truly grateful for all of the enhancements community developers provide and, with your help we truly see this GitHub bounty program paying off and making RipaEx better and better for the coming future. With Ripa Exchange just around the corner we cannot wait for everyone to get involved on that front as well!

Repositories eligible for the GitHub bounty program are all the repositories in GitHub owned by RipaEx

Missed what this is all about and you want to get involved?
Read : "RIPA GitHub Development Program Bounty”

Website: www.ripaex.io
Telegram: t.me/ripaex
Bitcointalk ANN: bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3759172
Facebook: www.facebook.com/ripaex
Twitter: twitter.com/ripaex
Gitter: gitter.im/RipaEx/RipaEx
GitHub: github.com/RipaEx/
Blog: steemit.com/ripaex

Tether has launched a redesigned platform and reopened account verification and direct redemption of fiat funds. The company has also introduced new minimal issuance and redemption requirements for its customers.

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Throughout all of 2018, there was no week more unprofitable for the crypto market than the previous one. On Sunday, November 25, Bitcoin updated its 12-month low, dropping to $3,838 and losing more than 26% over the week. Other coins followed Bitcoin as Ether went down to $115, losing its place in the market. The second-largest coin by capitalization was Ripple, which was trading at $0.37. And the total capitalization of the crypto market over the week decreased by $57 billion. Under the current situation, many market players panicked, while others found opportunities to make money. DeCenter found out what traders and large investors are doing during the current drop and what leading analysts forecast.

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📨 #DeCenterDaily

🇺🇸 Jay Clayton, head of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), said that the approval of cryptocurrency exchange-traded funds (ETFs) depends on exchanges’ ability to eliminate manipulation.
via CoinDesk

🏦 According to a person familiar with the matter, Fidelity’s cryptocurrency VC fund is back on track with a new fund manager.
via The Block

🇨🇦 Yesterday, the Toronto Stock Exchange halted trading in Mike Novogratz’s crypto merchant bank, Galaxy Digital Holdings Ltd. ($GLXY), for a few hours.
via CNW

👁 Cryptocurrency exchange Bitstamp will be utilizing a new market surveillance tool to combat price manipulation.
via Bitcoin.com

💵 Binance is adding six trading pairs for the dollar-backed stablecoin Paxos Standard Token (PAX).
via Binance

The U.A.E.-based Al Hilal Bank has become the world’s first Islamic bank to leverage the blockchain technology for the resale and settlement of an Islamic sukuk.

Sukuks generate returns to investors without violating Islamic law prohibiting interest.

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According to Mike Novogratz’s cryptocurrency merchant bank Galaxy Digital Holdings LP’s filings this week, the company has lost USD 136 million in the first nine months of the year.

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We are the first, fully blockchain-based payment gateway in the Middle East and Africa. MenaPay replaces traditional payment methods with a blockchain-based fully backed cryptocurrency. This provides a secure and transparent payment gateway to enable transactions for every aspect of daily life. The MenaPay project was started in November 2017 to serve 420 million people, across 18 countries, as their primary payment method. MenaPay will distribute 75% of total revenue amongst holders of MenaPay. It is creating a new standard in the crypto industry for the level of participatory returns, beyond the regular incentives for users and investors

You can check our website: menapay.io

Also our english one pager: menapay.io/onepager.pdf
Arabic one pager : menapay.io/onepager_ar.pdf
Chinese one pager: menapay.io/onepager_cn.pdf
Watch our presantation video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzTryRjWf9U&t=1s

⚠️ICO Launch has not started yet. Please do not believe anyone except our admins.
👇🏼Our admins (please make sure the usernames are correct)👇🏼
@tolgaodoglu
@ilkercikrikcili
@BurakErdir
@tuuceb
@kuanh92
@simgeicen
Official English Chat: @MenaPay
Official Arabic Chat: @MenaPayAr

Follow us on our social media 👍🏼
Facebook: facebook.com/menapayio
Twitter: twitter.com/menapayio
Bitcointalk: bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4884588.0
Medium: medium.com/menapay
Instagram: instagram.com/menapay/

MenaPay Bounties Are Waiting For You!
Click for more info: bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4918239

🔺Our Community Rules:
- Respect each member
- No Spamming
- No inappropriate content
- No posting of other ICOs and projects
- You can share any relevant news and articles


✔️Hope everyone enjoys our ICO channel and we can create an amazing MenaPay community.

Have you checked out @imusify? An award-winning music platform on NEO designed to provide an open-source innovation space for developing new means of music distribution, consumption, and engagement.

imusify is officially backed by NEO, the team looks experienced and more than 300 contributors are dedicated to imusify's success. Not to mention that it is rated high on ICOBench, ICOTrack and others. They have 100k members in their telegram community @imusifycommunity. Imusify has confirmed partnership with Switcheo.Exchange and the O3.Network, and the presale hasn’t even started yet.

Get whitelisted for the most amazing ICO of the year — visit imusify.com :: IMU presale begins shortly — get IMU tokens at a discount of 30%. Need more discount? Private Sale is On!!

You can earn IMU tokens by taking part in their bounty campaign — http://bit.ly/imusify_bounty

USEFUL LINKS :
Website: https://www.imusify.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/imusify
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/imusify
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/imusify
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/imusify
Medium: https://medium.com/imusify
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/imusifyyt
Telegram: https://t.me/imusifycommunity
Github: https://github.com/imusify
Discord: https://discord.gg/rrYxjBh
Instagram: http://instagram.com/imusify
BitcoinTalk: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4327428.0
Steemit: https://steemit.com/@imusify

Prototype :: https://imusify.io/signin

UX/UI Mockup :: http://demo.imusify.com/

imusify DevCon Video :: https://youtu.be/qePPo0AbP1s

imusify Explainer Video :: https://youtu.be/SuiZP9i3GWg

KYC Instructions :: https://medium.com/imusify/how-to-participate-in-the-imu-token-sale-cf03b626cb56

Thanks for joining us, for being a part of the imusify community, and our ongoing #getIMU token sale.

In Rhythm,

The imusify Team

Eatonomy

While brands pump millions of $$ into their loyalty programs, active use of these programs by customers has steadily declined since 2010 at a rate of 3% per year. Eatonomy is here to change that - by providing fun, engaging, and personalized rewards points for customers.

#loyalty

https://crowdsale.eatonomy.ca/
https://www.t.me/eatonomy/

The June 2018 GitHub development bounty program has ended. We’d like to thank everyone who contributed, and would like to invite many more to get involved — it’s never to late to join (scroll to the end for instructions on how to get involved).

This was one of the most exciting months so far, we’ve seen a RECORD number of PRs merged in 1 month, partially because RipaEx development bounty program has just started three months ago, but we expect it to rise. We are truly grateful for all of the enhancements community developers provide and, with your help we truly see this GitHub bounty program paying off and making RipaEx better and better for the coming future. With Ripa Exchange just around the corner we cannot wait for everyone to get involved on that front as well!

Repositories eligible for the GitHub bounty program are all the repositories in GitHub owned by RipaEx

Missed what this is all about and you want to get involved?
Read : "RIPA GitHub Development Program Bounty”

Website: www.ripaex.io
Telegram: t.me/ripaex
Bitcointalk ANN: bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3759172
Facebook: www.facebook.com/ripaex
Twitter: twitter.com/ripaex
Gitter: gitter.im/RipaEx/RipaEx
GitHub: github.com/RipaEx/
Blog: steemit.com/ripaex

Coinbase has debuted OTC (over-the-counter) trading, targeting institutional investors.

“We launched our OTC business as a complement to our exchange business because we found a lot of institutions were using OTC as an on-ramp for crypto trading,” said Christine Sandler, company’s head of sales.

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The value of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies that have been experiencing a rapid collapse in rates recently is displayed using various factors, the most popular of which is market capitalization. Some analysts believe that it is wrong to evaluate a crypto asset by its price, which is based on the current level it’s trading at on the exchanges. Why is the market capitalization of digital assets not a reliable metric?

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“Bitcoin’s Back to Where Jamie Dimon Cried ‘Fraud,’” the media said. On November 25, the first cryptocurrency dropped below $4,000 to $3,853, whereas in September 2017, when Dimon, chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, called Bitcoin “fraud” and said that it was “worse than tulip bulbs” (referring to tulip fever in the Netherlands at the beginning of the 17th century), the price of Bitcoin was $4,077. While some gloat, believing that the famous Bitcoin haters have already won, DeCenter recalls one of the most exciting anti-romances with Bitcoin.

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📨 #DeCenterDaily

🇺🇸 The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) took action against two Iran-based individuals, who helped exchange Bitcoin ransom payments into Iranian rial. The authority also identified two wallets associated with these individuals.
via CoinDesk

👨🏻‍💻 Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange Huobi has launched a crypto derivatives marketplace.
via Cointelegraph

☁️ Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the launch of two new blockchain services: Quantum Ledger Database and Amazon Managed Blockchain.
via TechCrunch

🗞 Decrypt Media published an infographic of the fake Ripple hype generated amid the cryptocurrency market slump.
via Decrypt Media

🇰🇷 South Korea’s National Election Commission and the Ministry of Science and ICT will soon start trialing the blockchain-powered voting system.
via ccn

Link to article: https://goo.gl/kuqpaJ

In an attempt to find new sources of income due to international sanctions imposed on the country, North Korean hackers are now aiming at stealing funds of individual cryptocurrency users.

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