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Financial Giants Boerse Stuttgart and SBI Holdings Are Now Partners in Crypto
20.12.2019
Boerse Stuttgart Group (BSG), the operator of the second-largest stock exchange in Germany, and Japanese Financial giant SBI Group has partnered in order to order to create a "global end-to-end ecosystem for digital assets, utilizing blockchain technology."
Moreover, SBI Holdings will invest...
Santander & Other Spanish Banks Test Blockchain Payments + More News
19.12.2019
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.
Adoption news
A number of major Spanish banks including Santander and BBVA are testing blockchain-powered payment solutions, with...
Altcoins Drop Against Bitcoin as the Top Coin Increases its Dominance
19.12.2019
Despite a recent rally against USD, majority of the top 100 altcoins are in red against bitcoin (BTC) today. Also, the bitcoin dominance, or the percentage of the total market capitalization, increased to almost 68% and is at a three-month high.
In the top 10, only EOS (EOS) has registered gains...
EU Asks Its Citizens For Help in Creating Crypto Regulation
19.12.2019
The European Commission (EC), the executive body of the European Union (EU), has launched a public consultation on the regulation of cryptoassets, as the world's second largest economy aims to strengthen its positions in the global payments market.
The EC invites investors, banks, supervisors...
Ping An Subsidiary & Ripple Friendly SBI to Bring Blockchain to Banks
19.12.2019
Japanese financial giant and long-time Ripple partner SBI has struck a deal with OneConnect, part of the Chinese insurance giant Ping An Group. The companies have agreed to launch a recently formed company in Japan, with the aim of revitalizing smaller, regional Japanese banks using blockchain...
IOTA Pledges a ‘Bright 2020’ in New Roadmap but Market Is Unimpressed
19.12.2019
IOTA (MIOTA) prices have fallen in the past 24 hours – despite upward trends in most altcoin prices and the release of a new roadmap.
At the time of writing (11:46 UTC), IOTA, ranked 23rd by market capitalization, is down almost 2% on the past 24 hours, at a time when tokens like Ethereum (ETH)...
MoneyGram's Success Depends on Ripple's Success - CEO
19.12.2019
While major money transfer company MoneyGram has already pushed more than USD 100 million through Ripple's platform, the blockchain-based startup's capability to lure more clients will be crucial to the partnership’s future, according to Alex Holmes, CEO and Chairman of MoneyGram.
As reported...
PlusToken Ponzi Scheme Moves USD 100 Million Worth of Ethereum
19.12.2019
After reporting that an alleged Ponzi scheme may still dump at least USD 243 million worth of crypto on the market, their Ethereum (ETH) seems to be on the move.
China-based PlusToken, deemed a scam by local and foreign media, as well as the crypto community at large, seems to have moved...
Bitcoin and Altcoins Correcting Strong Gains
19.12.2019
This week, we saw a bearish extension in bitcoin price below the USD 7,000 and USD 6,850 support area. However, the USD 6,550 support area acted as a strong buy zone, resulting in a sharp recovery in BTC/USD. The price surged close to USD 1,000 and climbed above many hurdles including...
Check out These Dozens of Crypto Christmas and New Year Gift Ideas
18.12.2019
We are just days away from one of the biggest holidays of the year in the Western World, known for the bright, colorful lights, colors red and green, the decorated trees, cookies, and gifts. It’s well-known that holidays are commercialized to the max. Gifts are a major part of almost any holiday...
CNN: Bitcoin is the Best Investment of the Decade + More News
18.12.2019
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.
Investment news
Major news outlet CNN told its multi million audience that Bitcoin (BTC) is the best investment of the decade....
Report: Ethereum Has Pulled ahead of EOS and Tron in Blockchain Gaming
18.12.2019
Characters from the My Crypto Heroes game. Source: a video screenshot, My Crypto Heroes
A new report from DappRadar, a dapp data aggregator, claims that Ethereum (ETH) is now leading the field in blockchain gaming, with both EOS (EOS) and Tron (TRX) “falling away” in 2019, despite the merits...
'Craig Wright Is Not the Victim Here' as He Tries to Dodge Sanctions
18.12.2019
Craig Wright. Source: a video screenshot, Youtybe, CoinGeek
Craig Wright, the controversial Australian computer scientist and supporter of Bitcoin SV (BSV), 'is not the victim here,' claims the latest court filing from David Kleiman’s estate, as Wright is trying to dodge the sanctions order which...
Is Bitcoin SV About to Sabotage Itself?
18.12.2019
As a major crypto company warned that their users will not be able to receive funds to their Bitcoin Satoshi’s Vision (BSV) wallets due to the coin's hard fork in February 2020, people online wonder if the project is sabotaging itself.
Digital asset custody company BitGo said that this comes as...
Circle Prepares for Crypto Mass Adoption as USD Coin Trading Volume up 954%
18.12.2019
Jeremy Allaire. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube, IMF
Major crypto financial services firm behind the USD Coin (USDC) stablecoin, Circle , intensifies competition in the stablecoin market as the company estimates mass crypto adoption in 2-3 years. In the meantime, USDC trading volume has already...
Twitter Erupts after Tron's Justin Sun Evokes Greta Thunberg’s Name
18.12.2019
Greta Thunberg. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube, PBS NewsHour
Tron’s Justin Sun has sparked a Twitter storm by publicly committing USD 1 million to climate change activist Greta Thunberg’s cause.
Sun was writing in the wake of the recent UN-led COP25 climate conference, which concluded recently...
Bitcoin and Altcoins Still in a Downtrend
18.12.2019
This week, bitcoin price faced a strong rise in selling pressure below USD 7,000. As a result, BTC/USD even failed to stay above the USD 6,850 support. Recently, the price declined below USD 6,650 and tested the USD 6,550 support area.
Similarly, there were heavy downsides in most major altcoins...
Worldwide Crypto Christmas Challenge is on!
18.12.2019
Disclaimer: The text below is a press release.
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Worldwide Crypto Christmas Challenge is on!
There are no many contests in the cryptocurrency sector on such a scale! CoinCasso worldwide exchange platform is organizing an international competition, lasting until the end of the year....
Bitcoin ETP Issuer Amun: Trading Volumes Will Come From Retail
17.12.2019
Amung AG, a Switzerland-based digital asset investment company, known for its exchange-traded products (ETPs), plans to list them on at least two new European regulated exchanges, and believes that the trading volume will come from retail investors.
Today, the exchange-traded products issuer lists...
Read Messari CEO Ryan Selkis’ 19 Bitcoin, Ethereum Forecasts for 2020
17.12.2019
When it comes to making crypto predictions for 2020, Ryan Selkis, CEO of crypto researcher Messari has written the book on the subject – literally.
His 71-page Crypto Theses for 2020 is quite a tome, and would take hours to read in full – which is why we’ve read it for you, and sifted out Selkis’...