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So here are the most important crypto-news of the day:
Bitcoin Exchange BTC-e Still Offline As ‘Laundering’ Theories Begin To Surface
Cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e is still inaccessible after “unplanned” maintenance took its website offline yesterday. The Russia-based trading platform has so far provided only sporadic information about the problem, which appears to be unforeseen and affects its “data center.”
Read more: cointelegraph
Veritaseum Founder Claims $8 Million in ICO Tokens Stolen
Yet another initial coin offering (ICO) project is claiming that it has been the victim of a hack. Just a week after a prominent ICO saw its sale disrupted, the team behind Veritaseum, the issuer of a cryptocurrency called VERI, is claiming 36,000 of its tokens were stolen and subsequently exchanged for ether.
Read more: coindesk
Rothschild Investment Corp Not Affiliated With The Rothschild Family: NYT
Bitcoin pundits were intrigued by certain Rothschild Investment Corporation investment in Bitcoin. However, recent updates come to light that the Rothschild Investment Corporation has no ties with the Rothschild family.
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Goldman Sachs: Bitcoin May Reach New High Over $3,600
Reversing a bearish outlook for the price of bitcoin, Goldman Sachs chief technician Sheba Jafari told clients in a new report this week that the cryptocurrency may reach a new high over $3,600 soon. As profiled by Business Insider, the movement is in line with Jafari's earlier analysis, reported on June 13, when she suggested the price would temporarily drop below $2,000, only to then turn bullish.
Read more: coindesk
Greek Police Arrest Man Who Laundered $4 bln in Bitcoin Over 6 Years
The largest Russian-language cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e was closed on "unscheduled technical work." The owners of BTC-e diligently kept anonymity. However, our source from qugla.com ICO marketing agency has revealed to Cointelegraph that Alexander Vinnik is one of the owners and administrators of the exchange.
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IOTA Plans for the Future, Announces Major Partnerships
The IOTA Foundation has been making waves in the distributed ledger and IoT worlds, with its innovative approach to solving the scalability issues traditionally faced by blockchain-protocols. The Tangle, IOTA’s direct acyclic graph-based distributed network, has demonstrated the power and flexibility founder David Sonstebo set out to deliver. As IOTA has grown along with interest in decentralised applications, and a parallel increase in the widespread desire for a commercial Internet of Things infrastructure, more organisations have come on board to further distributed ledger research utilising the Foundation’s platform.
Read more: cryptocoinsnews
Dark Web Market AlphaBay Shut Down by US Authorities
Famous dark web market AlphaBay has been shut down by the US government. The US Department of Justice on Thursday confirmed that they have shut down the black market and captured AlphaBay’s operator. It was in early July through a combined operation by the US and European authorities that the founder and operator of AlphaBay, Alexandre Cazes, was arrested causing AlphaBay to shut down.
Read more: cointelegraph