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First Mover: Bitcoin Miners Find Upgrade Financing Aplenty, Even as Prices Languish
20.7.2020
Big-money players are extending financing to bitcoin miners for equipment upgrades, even though prices are still torpid two months after the halving
Bitcoin Futures Trading Volume Slips to 3-Month Low on CME
20.7.2020
Trading activity in bitcoin futures listed on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange has cooled as the top cryptocurrency languishes in the price doldrums
Coincidence? Top 5 Swiss Bank’s Profits up 34% After Bitcoin Integration
20.7.2020
Julius Baer, a top-five Swiss bank, saw its net profit climb by 34% in the first half of 2020, a period during which it began offering digital assets like Bitcoin to its clients
How Bitcoin Allows Cloudbet to Offer the Fairest Odds in Soccer
20.7.2020
One crypto sportsbook is using the English Premier League’s return to demonstrate how blockchain technology helps it to offer customers fairer prices to maximise their winnings. Cloudbet, the pioneering bitcoin operator, recently announced that for each remaining game in the EPL season, it would...
Japanese Central Bank Creates Digital Currency Unit – Led by Satoshi!
20.7.2020
Source: Adobe/Юрий Дьяконов
The central Bank of Japan (BoJ) has created a "Digital Currency Unit” as the nation heads toward a tentative central bank digital currency (CBDC) launch – and it’s being headed by a man named Satoshi.
Per Reuters Japan, the BoJ has officially opened a specialized...
PayPal and Paxos Might Announce Crypto Partnership This Week - Report
20.7.2020
The partnership announcement between the payments giant PayPal and the issuer of the major stablecoin Paxos Standard Token (PAX) might reportedly be made this week.
PayPal is planning to bring crypto trading to its user base and has chosen New York-based Paxos to handle the new service’s supply...
Bitcoin and Major Altcoins Showing Signs Of an Upside Break
20.7.2020
This past week, bitcoin price extended its decline below the USD 9,300 and USD 9,200 support levels. However, BTC managed to stay above the USD 9,000 support and it is currently (08:30 UTC) showing signs of a possible fresh increase towards USD 9,500 in the coming sessions.
Similarly, most major...
Bitcoin Breakout on July 22? 5 Things to Watch for BTC Price This Week
20.7.2020
Analysts predict that the end of Bitcoin’s compression cycle will hit within days as price action continues to preserve $9,000 support
Bitcoin Price Stable as It is ‘Very Much Altseason’ Now - Binance CEO
20.7.2020
With bitcoin (BTC) recently being “really stable,” and even jokingly referred to as a stablecoin in the community, it is “very much altseason” in the crypto market right now, according to Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao.
In an interview with Bloomberg TV, he said that the fact that altseason...
Binance CEO CZ: ‘Bitcoin Has Been Really Stable’
20.7.2020
Changpeng Zhao, CEO of Binanace, says that Bitcoin will eventually break out of this $9,000–9,500 corridor but the token is "really stable" now
Grayscale CEO: US Regulators Can’t Shut Down Bitcoin
20.7.2020
Grayscale CEO Barry Silbert believes the United States is past the point where regulators have the support to ban crypto assets like Bitcoin
142 Million Guests: Hackers Attempt to Sell MGM Grand Data Dump for Cryptocurrency
20.7.2020
Last year the giant resort firm MGM Grand was hacked and the cybercriminals ostensibly obtained a massive dump of names, addresses, phone numbers, and dates of birth. Now according to vendors on the deep web, hackers have been trying to sell the data dump for monero or bitcoin. The hackers claim...
Crypto Long & Short: Why the Twitter Hack Was Good for Bitcoin (and It’s Not the Media Attention)
19.7.2020
Yes, the Twitter hack was basically a giant bitcoin scam. But the fallout is showing the world the strengths of cryptocurrency and decentralization
Twitter Hack Special: $120K Stolen, FBI Investigate, Calls to Ban BTC — Hodler’s Digest, July 13–19
19.7.2020
Top celebrities, politicians and businesses are caught up in a “social engineering attack” on Twitter — with theories swirling around that it could have been an “inside job.”
Bitcoin Price Predictions by Top Analysts Are Usually Wrong — Here’s Why
19.7.2020
Top analysts often make wild Bitcoin price predictions, while BTC options implied volatility produces conservative estimates. Which group fared better?
The Covid-19 Crisis Fueled Darknet Markets – A Patron’s Biggest Concern Is Mail Disruption
19.7.2020
Ever since the coronavirus outbreak swept the globe, darknet markets (DNM) have grown exponentially and the lockdowns worldwide are prompting first-time DNM buyers. Currently, the largest DNM on the invisible web is the marketplace Empire, and the only thing impeding the rush of DNM sales these...
Top 5 Cryptocurrencies to Watch This Week: BTC, ADA, LINK, XLM, VET, DGTX*
19.7.2020
While Bitcoin’s range-bound action is likely to extend for a few more days, select altcoins continue to show promise
Bitcoin Developer Jimmy Song: Bitcoin Is Money, Not Technology
19.7.2020
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Bitcoin Developer Jimmy Song: Bitcoin Is Money, Not Technology
19.7.2020
“Crypto Titans” is a series of personal interviews conducted by CoinMarketCap with prominent and forward-thinking minds tinkering on and behindContinue Reading
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German Court Rules to Limit Authorities’ Access to People’s Data
19.7.2020
The German constitutional court has ruled that the police and intelligence officials have too much access to people’s personal mobile phone and internet data. A win for privacy activists, the court has directed the government to amend applicable laws to better protect the privacy of German...