Blockchain Daily Digest – September 18th, 2019

1. German Policymakers Cannot Accept Facebook’s Libra
   German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz has stated that Berlin will reject the emergence of parallel currencies such as Facebook’s stablecoin—Libra.
   
   
2. VanEck, SolidX Bitcoin ETF Proposal Withdrawn by CBOE from SEC Review
   US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) officially announced that the Chicago Board Options Exchange’s (CBOE) Equity Exchange had withdrawn its application for the VanEck/SolidX bitcoin ETF proposal.
   
   
3. Deloitte Tests Remuneration of Its Staff Using Bitcoin
   According to Luxembourg Times, Deloitte has tested the remuneration of its staff using BTC (Bitcoin) with the intention of mainstream adoption.
   
   
4. United States’ Third Largest Bank Wells Fargo to Reveal Coin in 2020
   In a press release published on September 17, Wells Fargo had expressed the intention of the bank to create a payment network that would be based on the distributed ledger technology.
   
   
5. Binance Invests Heavily in Chinese Crypto Media Firm
   According to Bloomberg, Binance has debuted an investment in China With a crypto media and data sourcing company, Mars Finance. 

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