BitDigest July 13 · Issue #698

• Alt-coins increase market cap as bitcoin dominance continues to weaken
• The G20 plans to draw-up a framework allowing its members to accept digital payments
• Singapore releases report on final stages of blockchain roll-out

What I Read This Weekend

• The South American nation of Uruguay was the first nation to explore the viability of a central bank digital currency in 2017 and although they developed it using their local mobile phone network instead of on a decentralized ledger, the system appears to have been successful.
• Ripple’s Executive Chairman has initiated a program to fund the installation of high definition security cameras across San Francisco to enable local communities to monitor and police their neighborhoods.
• In an interview with the US Secret Service, Forbes reports the cryptocurrency is only an ‘element’ of a crime, not its own separate ‘category’, and it is not relevant to the prosecution whether cryptocurrency is involved. only an ‘element’ of a crime, not its own separate ‘category’, and it is not relevant to the prosecution whether cryptocurrency is involved 

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