Bitwise Analysts Call $219,000 The Fair Value of Bitcoin

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21.co CEO Sees ‘No Material’ Impact on Bitcoin Following Silvergate’s SEN Platform Closure

Hany Rashwan, co-founder of the Zug, Switzerland-based ETP provider, says bitcoin’s price is being driven by more macro economic factors, including inflation and East Asian traffic.

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Bitcoin sees $43K dip amid expectations of 'another run' for BTC price

The overnight retreat is not being treated as a break in Bitcoin's uptrend, which began a week ago.

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Sanctions May Be The Driving Force For An Increased Number Of Countries Adopting Bitcoin As Legal Tender

Bitcoin has come a long way from being a fringe asset to being adopted by an entire country. However, it still has a lot to do for nation-states to begin mass adoption but there appears to be a more rapid route.

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Why Sovereign Nation States May Begin Acquiring Bitcoin In 2022

Bitcoin has grown from being ‘internet money’ used by only a few thousand people during its first few years to being part of the balance sheets of big companies and sovereign states. El Salvador is a case in point for a country that has committed fully to the bitcoin mission, putting millions of dollars into the digital asset as a national reserve.

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Bitcoin Multisig Security Options Are Expanding

Emerging apps like Nunchuk 2.0 show that a robust decentralized financial system is being built on Bitcoin with self sovereignty in mind.

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An ETF Approval Is The Next Major ‘Rocket Fuel’ For Bitcoin: Raoul Pal

There are a number of milestones that bitcoin lovers anticipate happening in the next decade. These include bitcoin being accepted by more merchants for payment for goods and services, bitcoin being added to the balance sheets of prominent companies, and of course, the bitcoin exchange-traded fund.

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Popular Bitcoin Slang “HODL” Lands On Fortnite

As it turns out, Bitcoin is not only being embraced as an asset. Bitcoin slangs and memes are also being adopted by leading firms like Fortnite developer, Epic Games, which is currently ranked as one of the most popular games in the world.

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What to expect as $6 Billion worth of Bitcoin options expire this Friday

Bitcoin has been on a sloppy sloop since its crash below $60,000. Although interpreted as a correction that was the result of the bullish momentum not being strong enough, analysts have reasons to believe that the bear market will be here for a while.

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Latest CME Report Reveals Growing Appetite for Bitcoin Amongst Institutions

Bitcoin has been consolidating within the $30,000 region throughout the past few days and weeks Bulls and bears have largely reached an impasse, with buyers and sellers both being unable to spark any trend This comes as large institutional inflows show some signs of tapering, with these buyers largely being viewed as the ones responsible […]

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Bitcoin In Midst of “Losing Some Steam” as Crucial Support Levels Near

Bitcoin has pushed considerably higher since falling to $10,400 this week on news that BitMEX was being charged by the CFTC. The cryptocurrency wicked as high as $10,760 just a day ago as buyers re-enter the market.

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Blockchain Bites: What Rising Inflation Could Mean for Bitcoin and the US Dollar

Bitcoin is a tool to avoid police extortion in Nigeria, centralized social media is being censored amid Thai protests and what Powell's address means for bitcoin.

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Recent Bloodshed in Stocks Was Different Than Drop in Bitcoin Price

As the panic around the spread of the Covid-19 virus continues to engulf the globe, and traditional markets react negatively, a light is being shone on Bitcoin. Questions surround why the supposed anti-correlated asset is not flourishing.

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Bitcoin [BTC]: #DropGold campaign gets called out for being ‘Bitcoin cartel’

The Bitcoin [BTC] ecosystem has seen a resurgence of sorts recently, with multiple price fluctuations in the cryptocurrency field being spearheaded by the world’s largest cryptocurrency. Several movements and campaigns were launched to spread the message that Bitcoin is a thing of the future, along with its benefits over the standard ‘store of value,’ Gold.

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Is The Bitcoin (BTC) Market Currently Being Manipulated?

A portion of the crypto sphere has always been vocal about whether or not the Bitcoin market is being manipulated and who might be behind it. After the recent issues with Tether that faction got louder.

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What Is Ciri for Ethereum?

Ethereum is not only one of the largest cryptocurrency networks measured by market capitalization, but it also possesses one of the largest developer communities in the industry. As a result, innovations are continuously being built on top of the Ethereum blockchain.

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South African Man Hands $60k Worth of Bitcoin to Thieves After Being Tortured

A cryptocurrency trader has been targeted by a criminal gang in South Africa. After being kidnapped and tortured, the victim eventually handed almost $60,000 in Bitcoin, along with cash and various other gadgets on his person at the time.

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Bitcoin’s Tech Trends of 2018: What This Year Brought Us (Part 1)

Where 2017’s dizzying price highs embedded “hodl” into the public consciousness, 2018 was the year that “buidl" became a trend in the crypto-industry — and Bitcoin was no exception.

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South Korea Is Trialing Blockchain Voting — Here’s What That Means

South Korea will test out a new blockchain voting system this month, sources close to the developments have confirmed to Bitcoin Magazine. Developed by the country’s National Election Commission (NEC) and its Ministry of Science and ICT, the distributed ledger system is based on IBM’s Hyperledger Fabric and will be used to authenticate voters and save voting results in real time.

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Etherscan Users Can now Validate Transactions on Infura, MyCrypto, and MyEtherWallet

Infura, MyCrypto, and MyEtherWallet partner to allow an extra layer of security by introducing verified transactions for Etherscan users. What Is EthValidate? The development of the Ethereum platform is moving ahead at full steam despite the drop in ETH price.

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Paris Protests See Support for Bitcoin Against Unchecked Money Printing

The Paris protests have a lot more to do with Bitcoin than you think. Why? Because the root cause is not tax hikes, but unchecked money printing that erodes citizens’ savings and purchasing power.

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The Daily: 29% of Freelancers Want to be Paid in Crypto, Asian Exchanges Fake Volume

Today’s edition of The Daily covers everything from hardware wallets to fake volume on cryptocurrency exchanges. But to kick-start proceedings, we’ve got the first report on a survey in which a surprising proportion of freelancers express an interest in being paid in cryptocurrency.

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Bitcoin by Design; Falling Difficulty and Hashrate Makes Mining Easier

With all the doom and gloom being published about Bitcoin at the moment it is often hard to overlook how it has been designed. When prices plummet, hashrate and mining difficulty follow suit as the blockchain operates exactly as it has been designed.

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Thai Revenue Department Tests Blockchain Technology to Track VAT Payments

Blockchain technology is being tested by the Revenue Department of Thailand to keep track of value-added tax (VAT) payments, reports Bangkok Post, December 3, 2018. If successful, Thailand could become the first country in the world to utilize distributed ledger technology (DLT) for tax purposes.

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Dogecoin (DOGE) Defies the Red Bearish Market: Founder Blocks XRP Enthusiasts

The remarkable characteristic of Dogecoin’s token price to refuse obeying the general market movement [from the leader Bitcoin – BTC, to all following altcoins] is being highlighted strongly per time of writing.

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US Mining CEO: Bitcoin Miners Are Being Flushed Out of the Market

The CEO of one of the largest cryptocurrency mining firms in North America says miners are being flushed out of the market after Bitcoin’s latest price drop. Bitcoin Mining No Longer Profitable, Miners Exiting En Masse While November has typically been among the most profitable months for Bitcoin investors in the past, this November led.

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Bakkt Creates Buzz, Forecasts New Crypto Products Being Added To The Platform In The Future

Bakkt Creates Buzz, Claims Their Platform Will Lead To Many Future Bitcoin Investment Products Bakkt is one of the biggest news stories of the year for the crypto community. We already know about Bakkt’s primary crypto product scheduled to launch in early 2019.

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Trading Platform Paxful Completes Construction for Second School in Rwanda

Children in the Rwandan village of Kasebigege are being given a greater chance to pursue a sound education as construction on a new school, developed by bitcoin marketplace Paxful, has been completed.

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Wyoming Passes Bill to Secure Banking Relations for Blockchain Companies

The state of Wyoming has passed a blockchain bill that allows banks to provide banking services to blockchain companies in the state. According to the legislative document, the new bill would create a new banking category called the Special Purpose Depository Bank, a group of financial institutions in the state that provide banking services to blockchain-based businesses.

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Bitcoin Cash [BCH] Continues to 2018 Lows

The hard fork of the Bitcoin Cash protocol has ended up being detrimental to price. The hard fork resulted in a battle for hash power taking place between Bitcoin Cash and the hard forked Bitcoin Cash SV.

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My Matching Ads Review: Safe Bitcoin MLM Investment or Crypto Advertising Affiliate Scheme?

My Matching Ads was recently the subject of a review by BehindMLM, and it seems that their information doesn’t quite line up with what a business should detail. With any one of these reviews, the website cautions their reader to be aware of checking who owns or runs the business before they invest. That being […]

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G20 Summit Discusses Taxation Bill

  With the G20 Summit meet ongoing in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires, among other important issues, the cryptocurrency market is also being discussed. With that the discussion is essentially a decision to regulate the cryptocurrency market and with specific interest on Bitcoin.

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G20 Summit Discussies Taxation Bill

  With the G20 Summit meet ongoing in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires, among other important issues, the cryptocurrency market is also being discussed. With that the discussion is essentially a decision to regulate the cryptocurrency market and with specific interest on Bitcoin.

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Bitcoin Can Rise 20x in Next 10 Years According to Mark Yusko

  With the cryptocurrency market on a year-long downward trend, a lot has changed for the individual cryptocurrencies in the market. All the cryptocurrencies in the market so far have booked double digit losses and have had a pretty rough time.

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KidLet Uses NEM Technology in Teaching Kids About Blockchain and Money Management

NEM published a blog post on Nov. 28th highlighting how its blockchain protocol is being utilized by 10-year old Kaede Takenaka to develop a platform that she uses to teach other kids about blockchain technology, the fourth industrial revolution, disruptive technologies, and fiscal management.

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Price Manipulation in the Bitcoin Ecosystem

Over the years, there have been many articles on the possibility of Bitcoin price being manipulated by some invisible forces and big players in the market. The demand for the authenticity of this claim has been on the rise in recent times, and this post presents some reported evidence on this case.

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Stellar (XLM) Vying For Top 4 Coin Market Cap Over Weakened Bitcoin Cash (BCH) Post-Fork Performance

Stellar (XLM) Beats Bitcoin Cash (BCH) And Has Best Performance Around Top 10 Cryptos Even with the bear market being so strong right now and the whole market slowly sliding down month after month in 2018, there are some clear winners and losers in this year.

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VanEck, Cboe and SolidX Meet With SEC to Discuss a Bitcoin ETF

Having met the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in August 2018, officials of VanEck, SolidX and Cboe BZX Exchange have met with the Commission again, in the latest attempt to convince the regulator to approve the nation's first bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF), according to an official presentation submitted to the SEC.

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Intel Files Patent for More Efficient Bitcoin (BTC) Mining

Bitcoin Mining, Cryptocurrency–Even with the falling price of Bitcoin and the recent questions being raised about the profitability of crypto mining, American tech company Intel has made headlines with a new patent filing that seeks to improve upon the efficiency of mining.

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“Guidance by Enforcement”: How the SEC Is Slowly Shaping ICO Regulation

On November 27, 2018, a California judge turned back the SEC’s request for an injunction against token company BlockVest, a company the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is pursuing for allegedly conducting an unregistered securities offering.

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EU Workers Now Have the Option to Take Their Pay in a Euro Stablecoin

Blockchain Payroll Platform WorkChain. io has partnered with tokenization platform STASIS to enable euro-backed crypto paychecks for its European Union (EU) users with the EURS stablecoin.

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Stellar (XLM) is The Best Performing Cryptocurrency on Coinmarketcap’s Top 10. Overtakes BCH’s Place

After a bearish trend that has been labeled “bloodbath” by social media, finally, the cryptomarket has shown a bullish correction that seems to have strong prospects of being sustained over time.

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Bitcoin SV Price Tries to Control $100 Despite Bearish Pressure

A plethora of bearish cryptocurrency market pressure is forming as of right now. All top currencies are in the red again, with a few exceptions persisting for the time being. Even so, it would appear there are some markets which are getting hammered once again, for no real reason.

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Bitcoin Addresses Remain Unable to Be Blocked or Blacklisted by US Government

Bitcoin has been around for a decade now, and it thrives on the fact that it cannot be censored, cannot be altered, and is completely transparent. Regulatory measures are being made around the world to determine how digital assets will be handled in their jurisdictions, but the main point of these tokens is that they […]

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U.S. District Judge Turns Back SEC Request Regarding ICO

A new development has arisen in the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) efforts to regulate ICOs: a District Judge has turned back a request for an injunction.

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AriseBank CEO Charged in $4 Million Alleged ICO Scam

Jared Rice Sr. , CEO of the Dallas-based bank AriseBank, was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Wednesday, November 28, 2018, and charged with six counts of securities fraud and wire fraud.

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Some Bitcoin For The Bride: This Chinese Man Is Taking Cryptos To The Next Level

When Bitcoin came into being about a decade ago, very few people really knew about it. Also, many of those who heard about it didn’t understand it or its potential. Ten years later, Bitcoin is now the topmost valued digital asset.

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Iranian Bitcoin Users Are Already Being Affected By New US Sanctions

New sanctions from the US government are driving Iranian bitcoin users to pursue more secure and private wallet solutions.

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Report: Crypto Exchanges Are Recording Impressive Revenues

Cryptocurrency exchanges are catching up to their traditional counterparts, a new study suggests. According to a report released by global professional services company Accenture, revenue from cryptocurrency exchanges is now matching that of traditional exchanges.

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