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Bitcoin Consolidating Losses While Altcoins Rebounding
10.9.2019
In the past few sessions, bitcoin price faced an increase in selling pressure below USD 10,500. The BTC/USD pair even broke the USD 10,250 support level and traded close to the USD 10,000 support. On the other hand, most major altcoins started a recovery, including ethereum, ripple, BCH, litecoin...
Has the Uruguayan Central Bank Taken a Crypto U-turn?
10.9.2019
Alberto Graña, governor of the Banco Central del Uruguay. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube, Felipe Buitrago
Uruguay’s financial chiefs appear to have made a volte-face on cryptocurrency and blockchain policy – and may look to embrace crypto- and blockchain-powered finance instead of pushing...
Facebook ‘May Omit’ Yuan from Libra Reserve, Tether’s CNH-pegged Coin
10.9.2019
Facebook seems unlikely to include the Chinese yuan in the basket of fiat currencies that will underpin its forthcoming Libra token.
The company outlined its stance in a written response to “concerns” voiced by American Senator Mark Warner, who believes China may “push” the Libra Association...
Weiss Crypto Ratings Downgrades Bitcoin, Some Altcoins, Ups NEO
9.9.2019
An updated grade list by Weiss Ratings, the financial ratings agency that covers Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, shows a number of top coins being downgraded last week, including the world’s number one cryptocurrency, Bitcoin.
As previously reported, BTC was given its first A rating ever,...
Crypto Market Sentiment Recovering; Bitcoin is Back in Positive Zone
9.9.2019
Source: iStock/da-kuk
This week, we find the average crypto market sentiment measure, Sentscore, for the top 10 coins by market capitalization, at 5.26, up from last week’s 4.46, according to Omenics, a crypto market sentiment analysis service.
There are no coins in the negative range this week....
Crypto Listing & Delisting Announcements: Week 36
9.9.2019
Source: iStock/BrAt_PiKaChU
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...
Huobi Confirms That USD 1B Transaction Did Not Include Their Own BTC
9.9.2019
Source: iStock/D-Keine
The recent transfer of more than 94,500 bitcoins, worth USD 1 billion at the time, sent crypto twitter into a theorizing frenzy, trying to figure out who could be behind this and why. We now know that cryptocurrency exchange Huobi’s funds are not a part of it.
As previously...
Dozens of Altcoins Outperform BTC, Fueling Altseason Talks
9.9.2019
The cryptocurrency market shows its intriguing, even if unpredictable, face yet again with dozens of altcoins from the top 100 coins outperforming Bitcoin in the past week. This has led many in the Cryptoverse to ask that all-too-familiar question yet again: has the altcoin season begun?
While...
Venezuelan Gov’t Releases Crypto Calculator + More Crypto Briefs
9.9.2019
Crypto Briefs is your daily bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – keeping you up-to-date with under the radar crypto news from around the world.
Cryptocurrency News
The Venezuelan government has announced it will release a currency convertor app for Android smartphones....
Bitcoin Millionaire Jumps From Window to Escape Burglar
9.9.2019
A previously unknown event in Norway should serve as a reminder to all crypto holders to secure not only their funds but to take care of their personal security also.
According to Norwegian broadcaster TV2, a high-profile local bitcoin investor in his forties barely got away from a robbery in...
Bitcoin and Altcoins Correct Lower
9.9.2019
This past week, there was an upward move in bitcoin price above the USD 10,500 resistance. BTC/USD even broke the USD 10,800 resistance and traded close to the USD 11,000 level. A swing high was formed near USD 10,950 before the price started a downside correction. The price is now (08:00 UTC)...
Cryptoverse Laments Binance.US KYC Announcement, Lack of Token List
9.9.2019
Many cryptocurrency enthusiasts have been left bemused by the latest news from soon-to-launched American Binance branch Binance.US.
The cryptocurrency exchange posted news of Binance.US’s launch on September 7, explaining that the company would be following KYC (know-your-customer) protocol,...
LG ‘Likely’ to Follow Samsung into Blockchain Phone Market
9.9.2019
Tech giant LG could be set to launch its own blockchain-powered smartphone in response to Samsung’s recently unveiled Klaytn Phone, say industry insiders in South Korea.
LG is Samsung’s closest domestic rival, and according to a report from daily newspaper Chosun, LG is keen to respond to...
What (Most) Bitcoiners Love About Austrian Economics
8.9.2019
A physical Bitcoin coin and Carl Menger. Source: iStock/JUN2, Austriancenter.com, Cryptonews.com.
Bitcoin is an innovative amalgamation of pre-existing technologies and the creation of new ones that has lead to an entirely new form of money. However, for many, the support for the world's first...
Cardano's Potential in the Real World
8.9.2019
Juan Villaverde is an econometrician and mathematician devoted to the analysis of cryptocurrencies since 2012. He leads the Weiss Ratings team of analysts and computer programmers who created Weiss cryptocurrency ratings.
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If Aesop's classic tale of the Tortoise and the Hare were applied...
Has the IEO Craze Already Fizzled Out?
7.9.2019
Touted as the successor to the wildly lucrative initial coin offering (ICO), initial exchange offerings (IEO) were sold as a safer way of investing in new blockchain projects.
However, a new market report from TokenInsight has found that investor interest in IEOs has waned in recent months.
But...
Gadgets, Bulls, Misconceptions and 20 Crypto Jokes
7.9.2019
There's never a dull moment in the Cryptoverse, and this week is flourishing with exciting announcements.
First and foremost, Bitcoin rallied back above USD 10,000, thus cementing its market dominance at c. 70% and leaving more altcoins bleeding. This led to more experts expressing their bullish...
Bitcoin-Yuan Divergence Reached New Heights
6.9.2019
Bitcoin-yuan divergence reached new heights, once again fueling speculations that Chinese are possibly seeking safety in the world's largest decentralized cryptocurrency.
Bitcoin and yuan have been going to different directions for a while now, and their inverse correlation has reached a record...
Trezor and Ledger Started This Fall With Two News
6.9.2019
Source: a video screenshot, YouTube, Cursed Mining
Two major players in the hardware wallet industry, Trezor and Ledger had some news to their fans this week. While the first company implemented a new security feature, the second had good news for the ERC-20 token owners.
What is Shamir Backup...
Tokyo Mulls Own Stablecoin + More Crypto Briefs
6.9.2019
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.
Stablecoin news
The Tokyo government has been talking up its local stablecoin plans, with two major pilots already planned....