QUICK RECAP OF EVERYTHING HAPPENING IN THE CRYPTO WORLD

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🏁Chile's National Energy Commission launches Ethereum based project for Energy Sector data.

🇪🇸Spain's tax authorities seek crypto user names and bank accounts for detecting the use of cryptos in organized crime.

💰Coinbase exchange to support withdrawal of Bitcoin Forks.

🇮🇳India's cryptocurrency exchanges plan to fight back against the Reserve Bank's decision.

📆Omise signs agreement with major South Korean Banking Affiliate, as a move towards Fintech innovation and Blockchain adoption.

🇯🇵Japanese online brokerage Monex Group confirms Coincheck Exchange acquisition.

⏬Monero has completed a hardfork designed to protect the network from certain ASIC miners.

🇿🇦South Africa's Central Bank to establish self-regulatory body to oversee crypto industry.

👎The Texas State Securities Board has filed an emergency cease and desist against a cryptocurrency and weed investment platform on alleged fraud charges.

🏴SEC sues a publicly traded company that saw its stock price soar after announcing a crypto startup acquisition.

🏁Bitcoin Lightning Network sees a milestone after the release of Android Wallet.

🏴India's Central Bank(RBI) to stop dealing with all crypto related accounts, citing risks like money laundering.

🚫Privacy-focused cryptocurrency verge has suffered a hack in the last 24 hours, but the charts indicate better times may lie ahead.

📱Taiwan-based electronics giant Foxconn is to help develop and build a blockchain phone from Sirin Labs.

🇰🇷Four Korean crypto exchange executives detained on Fraud and Embezzlement charges.

🔼A government backed study group in Japan has released a set of guidelines for regulating and legalizing ICOs in the country.

🇰🇷 South Korea's first major blockchain conference saw discussion of the possibility of a central bank cryptocurrency.

✈CoinList, a spin-off AngelList, has raised $9.2 mllion in its initial funding round with investors including Digital Currency Group and Blockchain Capital.

💹BTC below $7000, as crypto markets see modest downward trend.

🇲🇽Mexican government announced a blockchain-based project intended to reduce corruption in bidding for government contracts.

🇨🇦Canada's Bank of Montreal will prohibit customers from purchasing cryptocurrencies using Interac debit cards, on top of an existing Mastercard ban.

🇯🇵Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck accepts Monex takeover bid.

⏰A recently released patent filing shows that IBM has dreamed up a blockchain-based system for distributed software application testing.

🇺🇸Arizona's governor signs Blockchain Bill into law to legally store information on a blockchain-based platform.

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