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Weiss Crypto Ratings Downgrades Litecoin & Cardano, Ups Monero
18.9.2019
In its most recent move, Weiss Ratings, the financial ratings agency, downgraded Litecoin and Cardano , while Monero was upgraded.
The ratings of both Litecoin and Cardano went down from “C+” to “C”. Litecoin’s risk/reward grade remains “D”, both of those aspects rated as “weak,” while...
Dozens of Altcoins on the Rise, but is it Alt Season Yet?
18.9.2019
There’s a lot of green among altcoins. The last day has seen almost ten coins in the top 100 reach the double-digit rise, while many more have entered the double-digit-percentage space in the last seven days. So, has the altcoin season started yet? Well, the Cryptoverse says – maybe (not)?...
Survey: 74% Understand that Crypto is Money + 7 More Crypto Briefs
18.9.2019
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
The seventh ING International Survey on new technologies found that general attitudes towards the usefulness...
Binance's Riddle: What is BNB Doing on Binance.US?
18.9.2019
Ethereum and Ripple Rally While Bitcoin Stalls
18.9.2019
Yesterday, we saw a strong rise in ethereum price above the USD 195 resistance. Later, ETH/USD climbed above the USD 210 and USD 212 resistance levels. More importantly, ripple price started a strong rally after it broke the USD 0.265 and USD 0.272 resistance levels. XRP/USD gained nearly 20%...
Line and Huobi Launch Cryptocurrency Exchanges in Japan, Argentina
18.9.2019
Big players are expanding into key cryptocurrency markets – with Japan and Argentina welcoming new exchanges.
In Japan, chat app giant Line has officially launched its new exchange platform. The platform is named Bitmax, and is officially operated by Line’s Tokyo-based subsidiary LVC. The company...
Germany ‘Rejects’ Stablecoins – and Wants the World to Do Likewise
18.9.2019
Germany’s cabinet has launched a stinging attack on stablecoins. The country’s finance minister suggested that it will “clearly reject” tokens like Facebook’s forthcoming Libra token, with Berlin hoping to push the rest of the international community to follow suit.
This is a key week...
BitPay to Announce New Coins Soon; Litecoin, XRP Being Evaluated
17.9.2019
After announcing support for ether yesterday, major crypto payments processor, BitPay expects to "announce support for additional options in early Q4," Stephen Pair, BitPay’s CEO, told Cryptonews.com. Litecoin and XRP are both being evaluated, he confirmed.
“We will be looking closely at network...
Ether Hit USD 200; On its Way to Surpass BTC in Daily Transaction Fees
17.9.2019
After a strong rally in the past week, the second largest digital token by market capitalization, ether (ETH), climbed above the USD 200 level today, where it was almost a month ago. Moreover, researchers claim that Ethereum is also overtaking Bitcoin in daily transaction fees. A major reason...
JPMorgan, UBS and Now Wells Fargo Builds Own Digital Cash
17.9.2019
U.S.-headquartered banking giant with USD 1.9 trillion in assets, Wells Fargo, plans to pilot its internal settlement service, Wells Fargo Digital Cash, in 2020.
The service will run on Wells Fargo’s first distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform and "will not be connected to any other digital...
Four Crypto Traders on Their Biggest Mistakes in the Bear Market
17.9.2019
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At the Baltic HoneyBadger 2019 Bitcoin conference in Riga this past weekend, four well-known bitcoin traders, Florian Maier, Tone Vays, WhalePanda, and Ambroid, have shared their biggest mistakes during the 2018-2019 bitcoin bear market, and what helped them to endure...
Binance's First Strategic Investment in China + 11 More Crypto Briefs
17.9.2019
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 crypto exchange Binance has made its first strategic investment in China as it has joined a funding round...
Bitcoin Struggling While Altcoins Climb Higher
17.9.2019
Yesterday, there was a minor decline in bitcoin price below the USD 10,250 support. BTC/USD is now trading below the USD 10,200, with a few bearish signs. On the other hand, a few major altcoins climbed higher, including ethereum, ripple, BCH, litecoin, cardano and TRX. ETH/USD is up around 2%...
'No Space for More than 4 Blockchain Standards Until 2022'
17.9.2019
Research firm Gartner says that interoperability issues and other factors may hinder financial companies hoping to deploy blockchain solutions over the next three to five years – meaning that only well-established public blockchain platforms or enterprise solutions stand a chance of cornering...
Samsung & Other S Korean Companies Make Blockchain, Crypto VC Push
17.9.2019
Some of South Korea’s biggest companies are investing in domestic blockchain and cryptocurrency startups – with the Seoul government also looking to get in on the action.
Although it may come as no surprise to hear how keen on blockchain the likes of Samsung, Kakao and LG are, all three companies...
Cryptocurrency ‘at play’
17.9.2019
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If you’re interested in dealing with cryptocurrency then you’ll naturally have quite a few questions to keep yourself well and truly in the ‘know how’. In this article we explore the whole concept...
Bitcoin Perhaps More Dependent on Governments than Many Think
16.9.2019
Saifedean Ammous, an economist and the author of The Bitcoin Standard, argues that the world’s most popular cryptocurrency may depend more on the government than we think. But there are good news for Bitcoin (BTC) too.
Ammous gave a presentation on “How to really kill Bitcoin” at the Baltic...
BitPay to Start Supporting Ethereum
16.9.2019
Major crypto payments processor, BitPay said it plans to start supporting payments in ether in the coming weeks.
Also, wallet users will be able to store and use ether in a BitPay wallet and BitPay Prepaid Visa Card holders can top up debit cards, the company added. Now it supports bitcoin...
Crypto Listing & Delisting Announcements: Week 37
16.9.2019
Below is our weekly collection of digital asset listing and delisting announcements by cryptocurrency exchanges that we found last week.
Have we missed something? Do you have information about new listings and/or delistings? Let us know here.
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Crypto Market Sentiment Slightly Lower; EOS is This Week’s Winner
16.9.2019
This Monday, the average crypto market sentiment measure, Sentscore, for the top 10 coins by market capitalization is 5.22/10, slightly less than last week’s 5.26, according to Omenics, a crypto market sentiment analysis service.
Not a single coin is in the negative range for the second week in...