DAILY CRYPTO NEWS AND TOP CRYPTO EVENTS for 15th FEB

Top Crypto Events Planned for Tomorrow

1 - Qtum (QTUM): Airdrop for QTUM holders

Every One-Hundred (100) QTUM will receive Four (4) BOT tokens. Only wallet addresses that contain more than 10 QTUM will receive the airdrop
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2 - HTMLCOIN (HTML5): Deadline 1:1 Swap Ratio

Last day on which you can manually swap html5 to html with a 1:1 ratio.
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3 - Verge (XVG): Crypto Emporium Payments

XVG will be added as one of the payment methods on Crypto Emporium
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4 - Ethereum (ETH): Ethereum Denver Hackathon

An event hosted by www.ColoradoBlockchain.com
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5 - Stellar (XLM): Jed McCaleb Liv

Video Interview: Stellar Roadmap Deep Dive with Jed McCaleb, Brit Yonge, and Nicolas Barry.
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Some World Crypto News

1- Llew Claasen, the executive director of the Bitcoin Foundation, predicted its namesake cryptocurrency will hit $40,000 a coin by the end of the year, but only after more sideways trading.
Claasen also predicted that 90% of all other cryptocurrency projects will fail.
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2 - Researchers at Cisco published information about the new phishing scheme. Organizers of distributed fake copies of the Blockchain.info website thru a Google AdWords service.

3 - An increasing number of Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency traders are reportedly turning to U.S.-based bitcoin futures. The shift away from domestic markets has been spurred by a perception that the American futures markets receive greater regulatory oversight than Hong Kong’s unregulated cryptocurrency exchanges.

4 - According to Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Labs, hackers have been using a zero-day exploit in Telegram to infect its users with a cryptocurrency-mining malware, so as to mine privacy-centric cryptocurrencies like Monero, Zcash, and others. Only Telegram’s desktop app was targeted.
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5 - US Treasury Official Asks Global Regulators to ‘Supercharge’ Cryptocurrency Regulation Efforts.More countries need to put cryptocurrency regulations in place to protect the financial system and national security.That’s according to the undersecretary of the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence (TFI).
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