Ken’s Cryptocurrency News 1-liners 007

Cryptocurrency News items worthy of attention:

• 22 European countries sign Blockchain & Artificial Intelligence Development Partnership (financemagnates.com)

• Litecoin blockchain to launch smart contracts on April 13th, 2018. (cryptoslate.com)

• Jeremy Gardner co-founder of Augur reports OTC demand for bitcoin (BTC) is now at historic highs with many multi-BILLION dollar bids. (Twitter@Disruptepreneur)

• Bittrex world’s 7th largest exchange by volume reopens New User Registrations for only 25 minutes before being overwhelmed. (finance.yahoo.com)

• TenX (PAY) announces a Litecoin (LTC) Debit card. (ethereumworldnews.com)

• Maker’s (MKR) decentralized stablecoin, Dai, is set to become available on the OmiseGO (OMG) network. (cryptocoinspy.com)

• OmiseGO (OMG) token to become part of the foundation of Dai decentralized stable coin. (cryptocoinspy.com)

• IBM & Sovrin Foundation partner to build global decentralized/blockchain identity system. (ca.reuters.com)

• Monero (XMR) privacy coin will be compatible with Ledger Nano S with Monero 0.12.1 release. (usethebitcoin.com)

• Ledger Nano S currently fixing issue with Bitcoin Cash (BCH) transfers. (news.bitcoin.com)

• Dubai company creates OneGram Sharia-compliant cryptocurrency for the devout Muslim world. (mixedtimes.com)

• Brazilian University Fundacao Getulio Vargas (FGV) in Sao Paulo offers Brazil’s 1st Master degree program in cryptofinance. (altcointoday.com)

• EU’s new privacy laws General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) were designed to work with centralized data storage not with Public blockchains. (cointelegraph.com)

To learn more about these topics just cut and paste into your favorite search engine. FYI: I use the Brave browser (brave.com) and search engine DuckDuckGo.com for best speed and privacy.