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Crypto Market Sentiment Climbs Higher; Bitcoin Gets Company
20.1.2020
The cryptocurrency market sentiment made another long step upwards for the third week in a row, and now we see the combined moving average 7-day market sentiment measure, Sentscore, for the top 10 coins standing at 5.83, compared to last week's 5.47/10, according to Omenics, a cryptocurrency market...
Venezuela to Launch a ‘Crypto Casino’ in Caracas + More News
20.1.2020
Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
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The Venezuelan government will create a “crypto casino” in the Hotel Humbolt de Caracas in the country’s capital....
Block.one Not Sure About Giving EOS Voice; Market Unmoved
20.1.2020
Source: a screenshot, Instagram, eosio_official
As the community is learning about Block.one’s change of plans about blockchain on which their anticipated decentralized social media platform, Voice is to be launched, the price of EOS doesn’t seem to be affected.
The announcement in June 2019...
Lithuania Central Bank: Limited Edition Digital Coin Ready for Launch
20.1.2020
The reverse of the coin. The Bank of Lithuania, the country’s central bank, has approved a sample of the LBCoin, a token that it claims will be the world’s first blockchain-powered digital commemorative coin. The bank says the token will be issued in spring this year.
The coin is made of silver...
CME Doubles Bitcoin Options Volume, Leaving Bakkt in the Dust
20.1.2020
Seven days after the launch of bitcoin options contracts on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), the latest trading volume figures still indicate that CME completely dominates over its competitor Bakkt.
According to trading data from CME, 122 bitcoin options contracts changed hands last Friday...
How Bitcoin Critic Peter Schiff Launched Another 'Proof of Keys' Day
20.1.2020
Peter Schiff. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube, Real Vision Finance.
A Bitcoin critic and a gold bug lost the ability to access a wallet holding his bitcoin (BTC), and it has once again raised a discussion on the oft-repeated adage: not your keys, not your coins.
Peter Schiff, a prominent gold...
South Korea Mulls 20% Crypto Tax Plan, Russia Also Wants to Tax Tokens
20.1.2020
The South Korean government is reviewing a proposal that could see it introduce a tax on cryptocurrencies. Meanwhile, new Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin appears keen to see the government adopt a crypto tax law by spring 2020.
Per news agency Yonhap, the Korean finance ministry...
Bitcoin and Altcoins Uptrend Intact Despite Recent Setback
20.1.2020
This past week, there was a strong rally in bitcoin price above the USD 8,500 and USD 8,850 resistance levels. BTC/USD even surpassed the USD 9,000 level, before sellers appeared near USD 9,200. Recently, there was a sharp downside correction and the price declined to test the USD 8,550...
Learn These 5 Key Crypto Terms – and Start Trading Like a Pro
19.1.2020
Do you think you’ve mastered the basics of Bitcoin and altcoin trading? Perhaps you think you’re ready to move on from casual trading and want to take the next step – but are put off by grizzled veterans using terminology you don’t understand.
If that’s the case, Cryptonews.com has good news...
Ethereum 2.0: The Original Ethereum Will be Gradually Phased Out
19.1.2020
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19.1.2020
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Are Attacks Between Rival Blockchains About to Rise?
18.1.2020
It's no secret that rival blockchain networks, or to be more precise, the people behind the projects, don't like each other. The Bitcoin community rags on Ethereum, while the EOS community rags on Tron, and so on, in a seemingly endless chain of barbs, criticisms and mockery.
But does the war...
Safe Havens, Lawsuits, Pandora’s Boxes and 20 Crypto Jokes
18.1.2020
This week we saw 55 contracts marking the first day of Bitcoin options on CME, ETF giant WisdomTree planing to launch a stablecoin, and 21 leading crypto industry players that'll advise OECD on blockchain. We looked into a report about the strongest validation of the BTC safe haven theory,...
Launching Bitcoin ETFs Could Burst the Bitcoin Floodgates – Study
17.1.2020
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A new survey has found that financial advisors in the U.S. would be keen to put their clients' money into cryptocurrency exchange-traded funds (ETFs) – hinting that should Bitcoin ETFs become easily available, widespread BTC adoption could follow.
The findings come from...
Proof of Trust, BTCX Consider IPOs, KyberSwap Leaves Malta + More News
17.1.2020
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Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
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Proof of Trust Ltd said Friday it is planning to float its shares on the Main Market of the London...
Where Does Europe Spend its Bitcoin? The Answer Will Surprise You!
17.1.2020
With more and more of us now choosing to spend our cryptocurrency holdings – instead of simply hoarding tokens – you might assume that people are starting to spend big on finance and investment. And according to a new report, you’d be wrong.
Per data compiled by financial platform 2gether, their...
Kenyan Crypto Entrepreneurs Urge CMA to Create Regulatory Framework, Not Demons
17.1.2020
Lone giraffe against backdrop of the Nairobi city skyline. Kenyan market regulators should focus on creating an innovative regulatory framework instead of demonizing initial coin offerings (ICOs), which is an "independent and viable way" to raise capital, according to local market...
Researchers Cut Hardware Wallet Market Forecast
17.1.2020
It seems that Mordor Intelligence, a market research company, downgraded its hardware wallet market growth forecast, while the market is still expected to grow more than 4 times its current size and reach USD 708 million by 2025.
Now, the company says that in 2019, the hardware wallet market...
Ethereum Classic Nears Top 10 Cryptos After Rallying 180%
17.1.2020
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Ethereum classic (ETC) has been in a parabolic run, starting in late December and accelerating over the course of this week. As of pixel time (10:00 AM UTC), the ETC rally has brought the price up by 80% in the last four days, and over 180% since the bottom on December...
Ripple Spent Less Lobbying but Had More Lobbyists Working With Trump's Staff
17.1.2020
Donald Trump, the President of the U.S. Source: a screenshot, Instagram, realdonaldtrump
Compared to 2018, California-based blockchain startup focusing on payment technologies, Ripple, had more lobbyist but spent less on lobbying in the first three quarters of 2019, according to OpenSecrets.org...