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H. Peirce: 'Regulators Can Create a Healthy Environment for Crypto'
5.8.2019
This is a speech by Hester M. Peirce, pro-crypto commissionaire at the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), given at the SUSS Convergence Forum: Inclusive Blockchain, Finance, and Emerging Technologies in Singapore on July 30.
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Crypto Market Sentiment Recovered; Bitcoin and Monero in Positive Zone
5.8.2019
The crypto market sentiment measure, Sentscore, jumped up from the 4.43 (the average for the top 10 coins) near-verge of the negative zone from last week, to 5.35 this Monday, according to Omenics, a crypto market sentiment analysis service.
The number one among the top 10 cryptocurrencies...
Crypto Listing & Delisting Announcements: Week 31
5.8.2019
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...
Even Fed Is Not Happy with the Current Payments System
5.8.2019
Fed Chairman Jerome Powell. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube, NBC News
As Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency projects are already forcing banking incumbents to work more efficiently, the Federal Reserve, the central bank in the U.S., is reportedly “seriously considering” to develop a new...
Mastercard to Beef up Crypto, Blockchain Drive with New Hires
5.8.2019
Payments giant Mastercard looks set to move into the blockchain and cryptocurrency sphere in earnest after the company posted three job advertisements seeking senior-level specialists.
Per the company’s job postings board, Mastercard is currently seeking a vice president of product management...
Litecoin Enters Lower Supply Era as Second Halving is Complete
5.8.2019
The fifth cryptocurrency network by market capitalization, Litecoin (LTC) just had its second halving, prompting some miners to shut their machines down, switch to other coins or invest in more powerful mining equipment, while the market is trying to guess how the price of this coin will react....
Bitcoin Rallies, Altcoins Primed For Steady Gains
5.8.2019
This past week, bitcoin price formed a support base above USD 10,000 and USD 10,200. Later, BTC/USD started a steady rise and broke the USD 10,500 resistance. Finally, the bulls took over and recently the price rallied close to 10%. The price climbed above USD 11,500 and USD 11,700 today, signaling...
UN Believes North Korean Crypto Raiders Have Amassed USD 2Bn
5.8.2019
North Korea is reportedly continuing to intensify its attacks on cryptocurrency exchanges – and may have accrued a staggering USD 2 billion from its efforts so far.
In Japan, newspaper Asahi Shinbum says it has obtained access to an as-yet-unpublished, 142-page UN Security Council report that...
Bitcoin Accelerates Above USD 11.5K, Litecoin Hits USD 100 (UPDATED 2)
5.8.2019
The price of the most popular cryptocurrency, bitcoin, is back above USD 11,500, or the level last seen in mid-July. Majority of other coins from the top 100 are also in green, however, bitcoin dominance keeps rising.
(Updated on 07:00 UTC: a new section - "China again" has been added.
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Local Gov’t Stablecoins Booming in South Korea
4.8.2019
A shining windmill in Ulsan, the seventh-largest city in the country, that is planning to launch its UlsanPay project. Cryptocurrency companies are pariahs in South Korea, where initial coin offerings and direct investment remain banned. But blockchain technology, which the government has earmarked...
How Much Bitcoin Is Really Being Traded in Zimbabwe?
4.8.2019
If you are a regular reader of crypto media, you may be under the impression that Zimbabwe is one of the hottest bitcoin trading hubs in the world. Faced with a struggling economy and the re-introduction of a previously-failed sovereign currency, the Southern African state has been labeled as...
What Effect Could an Indian Ban Have on the Global Crypto Industry?
3.8.2019
With a number of Indian crypto-exchanges having closed down in the midst of an already harsh environment for cryptocurrency, it would seem that the introduction of a cryptocurrency ban is now almost inevitable in India.
But while there's little doubt that this would be a massive blow for Indian...
Crypto is the New Black: 20 Crypto Jokes
3.8.2019
Any week is a news-filled week in the cryptoverse.
We were fine without BTC's 10K-up-and-down antics this week, but it met its first interest cut by the US Federal Reserve, and people are not quite sure how to interpret the impact of this event. Nonetheless, after a senator said that U.S. can't...
From Halving to Halving: Litecoin Has Seen Massive Rise
2.8.2019
Source: iStock/da-kuk
The fourth cryptocurrency network by market capitalization, Litecoin (LTC), is nearing its second halving. And while the Litecoin block mining reward will decrease by half again, other numbers show that the network metrics have significantly increased in four years since...
9 Walmart's Blockchain/Crypto Patents Revealed in One Day
2.8.2019
Source: Instagram, Walmart
It's no wonder that the U.S. companies are among the world’s top 10 blockchain patent acquirers when even non-blockchain businessess are seeking for patents in droves. And no one knows how serious those companies are.
After Nike filed for a trademark for the term...
Bitcoin Loses its First "A" Rating But Price Keeps Positive Momentum
2.8.2019
Weiss Ratings, the first financial ratings agency that started covering bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in January of 2018, is once again out with an updated rating for the number one cryptocurrency.
Following a period of price consolidation for bitcoin, the Weiss crypto ratings team has...
German Crypto Firms May Face New Regulatory Hurdles, BitPay Leaves
2.8.2019
Forthcoming regulations are causing cryptocurrency companies to halt services in countries like Germany – with BitPay announcing that it has ceased operating in the nation.
BitPay is a cryptocurrency payment service provider based in Atlanta, in the United States. In response to a user who asked...
Everton Becomes the Latest eToro's Attempt to Reach New Crypto Users
2.8.2019
Thomas Davies, a central midfielder for Everton. In an attempt to bring masses into the cryptoverse and then convert them into their clients, cryptocurrency companies are working hard on their marketing campaigns and targeting top names in the non-crypto world.
This time, cryptocurrency and stock...
Giant Backed Terra's Strategy Works, Says Stablecoin Co-Founder
1.8.2019
The goal of Terra, a South Korea-based stablecoin project aimed at mass adoption, is to become the largest payments network in Asia in the next three years, Daniel Shin, co-founder of Terra, told Cryptonews.com.
To accomplish its goal, Terra, which is backed by South Korea’s internet giant Kakao...
This is How Bitcoin Rally in H1 Was Different From 2017
1.8.2019
Four differences between the bitcoin rally in the first half of this year and the rally in 2017 show that this time it was institutional money that most likely helped the price jump way above USD 13,000 in June, according to a report by CoinShares, a UK-based provider of digital asset investment...