Litecoin remains bearish while record dormant coins move

The price of Litecoin remains ranged under $45 as bears take control, with data...

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BitGo Launches FATF Travel Rule Compliance Product, Rallying Other VASPs to Adopt

BitGo, a San Francisco domiciled crypto custodian, is extending its API's for clients to append their data in line with the FATF ‘Travel Rule.' This set of regulations came into action back in 2019 under recommendation 16, requiring all Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASP) to comply with the guidelines. Most notably is the aspect of […]

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With Chat Privacy Under Threat in US, Firm Develops ‘100% User-Controlled’ Messaging

Unstoppable Domains is working to give users full control over their chat data with a new decentralized protocol.

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US Appeals Court Allows Warrantless Search of Blockchain, Exchange Data

A federal appeals court ruled public blockchain information and information stored on crypto exchanges do not provide a reasonable expectation of privacy under the Fourth Amendment.

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TikTok under scrutiny again for accessing sensitive user data

Apple’s new iPhone update reveals that the Chinese video making app is snooping over... The post TikTok under scrutiny again for accessing sensitive user data appeared first on Coin Journal.

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Over 900 Days Since Bitcoin All-Time High, Data Shows Another Year Before New Record

On December 17, 2017, Bitcoin price set a record for its all-time high, touching just under $20,000 before a reversal into a bear market took place. Since then, over 900 days have passed and with each new day, Bitcoin inches closer to setting a new record.

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Crucial Fundamental Data Shows Bitcoin Will Break Out of $10,500 Resistance

It’s been a tough past few days for Bitcoin. In spite of the recent rally off the $8,600 lows that has brought BTC to $9,300, the market remains depressed. BTC is trading just under 10% shy of the May highs of $10,100.

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Hacker Attempts to Sell Data Allegedly Tied to Ledger, Trezor, Bnktothefuture Customers

According to an online monitoring web portal called, Under the Breach, a hacker is purportedly trying to sell customer information that stems from companies like Keepkey, Trezor, Ledger, and even the investment platform Bnktothefuture.

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The Bitcoin Price Just Plunged Under $6,400 After Days of Stagnation

Over the past ten minutes, Bitcoin has performed extremely poorly, falling from $6,700 to a price as low as $6,265 in an over 6% sell-off, per data from TradingView. As a result, at least $20 million worth of long positions on BitMEX were liquidated, while millions more probably bit the dust on other exchanges. This...

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Bitcoin regression models accurate, but only under the store-of-value premise

Charting price predictions are a common trend with respect to Bitcoin and the cryptocurrency market. Due to high market volatility and limited market data, many analysts and crypto-enthusiasts are conThe post Bitcoin regression models accurate, but only under the store-of-value premise appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Fake volume in crypto and equities market similar: TradingView's Crosby

Not so long ago, crypto exchanges came under fire for allegedly facilitating wash trading and trade volume manipulation. Following Bitwise's report about exchanges faking volumes, popular data site, CThe post Fake volume in crypto and equities market similar: TradingView's Crosby appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Wawa Data Breach Provides Another Case for Cryptocurrencies

Wawa, a convenience store chain based on the East Coast of the United States, has recently suffered a big data breach. For the past nine months, the company’s databases have been under fire from an attack and they have little idea as to who carried it out.

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Bitcoin (BTC) Could Rise Again Before Fresh Monthly Low

Bitcoin price is back to where it started and trading below the $7,380 resistance against the US Dollar. The price is currently under pressure, but it is likely to hold the $7,100 support area. There is a short term contracting triangle forming with resistance near $7,220 on the hourly chart of the BTC/USD pair (data.

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Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later

Special thanks to Justin Drake and Jinglan Wang for feedback In 2014, I made a post and a presentation with a list of hard problems in math, computer science and economics that I thought were important for the cryptocurrency space (as I then called it) to be able to reach maturity.

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Bitcoin (BTC) Price Diving, Gates To $7,400 Now Wide Open

Bitcoin price is diving and it recently broke the $8,000 support area against the US Dollar. The price is under a lot of pressure and recently traded to a new monthly low at $7,828. Morning’s bearish flag pattern was breached with support near $8,080 on the hourly chart of the BTC/USD pair (data feed from.

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Ripple (XRP) Price Resuming Decline, Bitcoin Breaks $8.5K

Ripple price is under pressure and struggling to surpass the $0. 2660 resistance against the US dollar. The price is currently declining and it is likely to break the $0. 2580 support area. There is a major bearish trend line forming with resistance near $0.

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Dow Wobbles as US Senate Hong Kong Bill Pressures Trump-Xi Relations

US stocks are under pressure, with the US Senate poised to pass a bill supporting Hong Kong that may destroy Trump’s hopes of a phase one trade deal. The Dow made no progress as a huge sell-off in Cisco undid a decent rally in Boeing stock.

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Google Collected Personal Health Data Through ‘Project Nightingale’

Coinspeaker Google Collected Personal Health Data Through ‘Project Nightingale’It is believed that Google secretly gathered millions of patient records in the framework of the initiative that is known under the name “Project Nightingale".

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BitMEX Twitter ‘Hack’ Incites Ominous Warning: ‘Take Your Bitcoin & Run’

Following the mammoth BitMEX user data leak, the bitcoin exchange’s Twitter account was allegedly hacked. While under the perpetrator’s control, the account tweeted an ominous warning: “Take your BTC and run.

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Crypto Exchange Giant BitMEX Doxxes Thousands of Users’ Emails IDs

BitMEX leaks customers’ data with a simple mistake. The crypto community condemns the incident. BitMEX is among the world’s biggest crypto derivatives exchanges. Cryptocurrency exchange and derivates trading platform BitMEX is under fire after doxxing thousands of user email addresses.

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Ethereum (ETH) Stuck In Range, Bitcoin Struggling Near $9K

Ethereum price declined recently and traded below the $180 support area against the US Dollar. Bitcoin is under pressure and it seems to be struggling to stay above the $9,000 support. There is a new connecting bearish trend line forming with resistance near $183 on the hourly chart of ETH/USD (data feed via Kraken).

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Ethereum (ETH) Losing Pace, Could Dip To $175 Before Higher

Ethereum price is under pressure and it could slide towards the $175 support against the US Dollar. Bitcoin is currently correcting higher and it recently tested the $9,000 support area. There was a break below a key bullish trend line with support near $186 on the hourly chart of ETH/USD (data feed via Kraken).

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Bitcoin Longs by Institutional Investors Have Been Rising

According to recent data, institutional investors going long on Bitcoin (BTC) is on the rise since the beginning of October. However, it is still under levels seen in early September. According to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Bitcoin futures exchange, long positions are on the rise since the beginning of this month.

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Blockchaining is the future of data tech, so learn it all for just $29

The Complete Blockchain and Ethereum Programming Bundle help you understand cryptocurrencies and its root technology for under $30.

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Bitcoin has a long road to mass adoption, Facebook data suggests

People interested in Bitcoin represent less than 1 percent of the world’s population, and are most likely to be males under 34 years old holding university degrees, data from Facebook Audience Insights suggests.

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Apple under scrutiny for sending Safari browsing data to China’s Tencent

Apple is attracting scrutiny for its practice of checking if the websites you’re visiting visiting are fraudulent and malware-infested after Chinese internet conglomerate Tencent was found listed as a Safe Browsing provider.

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Ethereum (ETH) Price Holding Key Support But For How Long?

ETH price is currently under pressure and is trading below the $175 level against the US Dollar. The price is trading above the $170 support area, but it is struggling to climb higher. There is a major contracting triangle forming with support near $170 on the hourly chart of ETH/USD (data feed via Kraken).

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Wallet Provider Blockchain.com Sees a String of Exec Departures: Report

U.K.-based cryptocurrency data and wallet provider Blockchain has come under the spotlight after a string of executive departures

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Here’s how data driven startups are helping to make cities greener

The world is in a state of climate emergency. The importance of tackling climate change has arguably never been higher. Governments around the world are coming under increasing pressure to act and deliver initiatives to make our cities greener, cleaner, and all-round better places to live.

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A Little Privacy? Coins Zcash And Dash Under Scrutiny

Earlier this year, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) issued its guidance to member states on a “risk-based approach to virtual assets and virtual asset service providers. ” The intergovernmental regulator puts the onus of responsibility onto exchanges and wallets to share user data, virtually eliminating privacy in crypto transactions.

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Facebook and WhatsApp will share ‘electronic communications’ with UK police under new treaty

Update at 6:30 PM IST: The treaty between the US and the UK to disclose information of individuals suspected of serious criminal acts will not require social media platforms to install backdoors or break end-to-end encryption, a further analysis of the CLOUD Act reveals.

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Bitcoin Price Plunge Came From $1.2B Sell, Data Says Amid Hashrate Row

A giant Bitcoin transaction – possibly a sell-off – caused Bitcoin to drop to lows of under $8000 on September 24. Byte Tree: Exchange Triggered ‘Short Term Panic’ That was the conclusion of monitoring resource Byte Tree, which provided fresh data for the past 24 hours’ trading activity on Wednesday.

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Bitcoin Price (BTC) At Risk Of Downside Break Below $10,200

Bitcoin price is under pressure and it recently declined below the $10,500 support against the US Dollar. The price is struggling to climb higher and is approaching the $10,200 support area. There is a key bearish trend line forming with resistance near $10,400 on the hourly chart of the BTC/USD pair (data feed from Kraken).

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Forget Facebook — Here's Who's Really Been Selling Your Data

While many people remain at least partially wary of Facebook and other Big Tech giants leaking their data or sharing it with other companies, one government agency has been selling citizens' personal data from right under their noses.

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Learn to handle major data analysis work in Excel for under $20

So how do you properly do hardcore analytics with Excel? That’s the focus of this comprehensive Microsoft Excel Data Analysis and Dashboard Reporting course. You can train up now for less than the cost of dinner and a movie, just $19.99 from TNW Deals.

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Bitcoin Price Hit $10K 19 Times Since July, Will This Finally Be the Last Time?

Bitcoin price crossed the $10,000 mark almost 20 times in the past two months – but some analysts are hopeful that this week may have been the last time we see BTC under five figures. Bitcoin Flip-flops Over $10K Again Discussing data tracking BTC/USD since the start of July, the analytics entity known as Skew Markets noted that $10,000 has come and gone no fewer than 19 times.

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Bitcoin Price: 4 Key Similarities to Previous Bull Market Corrections

Bitcoin price dip under $10K doesn’t mean the end of a bull market, historical data shows

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Ethereum Price (ETH) Testing Crucial Support But Recovery Won’t Be Easy

ETH price is under a lot of pressure below the $170 and $175 resistances against the US Dollar. The price is likely to decline sharply if it settles below the $165 support area in the near term. There is a declining channel forming with resistance near $169 on the hourly chart of ETH/USD (data feed.

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Hacker who sold Uber’s and Sainsbury’s customer data forced to give up $1M in cryptocurrency

A hacker has been ordered to pay back over $1. 1 million (two-year investigation called ‘Operation Draba. ’ West operated on the dark web under the ‘Courvoisier’ alias and mostly used phishing emails to gain access to financial data of tens of thousands of customers before flogging them on several illicit marketplaces.

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Tron Founder Justin Sun Gets Under Fire While Boasting New Tron dApp Volume Data

As Justin Sun shares new data on growth of Tron-based dApps’ monetary volume, the community accuses him of failing to make TRX price grow

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Humans have been listening to our ‘AI-transcribed’ conversations for over a decade

It was a scandal. Third-party contractors, many working from places where data protection legislation is lax (or even non-existent), were listening and transcribing recordings of conversations from people who unwittingly believed robots were doing all the work.

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Bitcoin (BTC) Price At Risk Of More Downsides Below $11,200

Bitcoin price is currently under pressure below the $11,600 resistance against the US Dollar. The price could slide sharply if there is a break below the $11,200 support area. There is a major bearish trend line forming with resistance near $11,700 on the hourly chart of the BTC/USD pair (data feed from Kraken).

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Breaking: Binance’s old KYC data breach leaked on telegram group

During the start of 2018, Binance had faced a massive threat that its KYC data point was allegedly breached by a hacker under a pseudonym – exploitDOT. Earlier today, a Telegram user by the name, “Guardian M”, started dumping the proof of the allegedly “breached” KYC data of Binance customers.

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Google Play hosted 205 harmful apps with over 32M installs last month alone

It seems Google is losing the battle against sketchy Android software big time. The company hosted over 205 harmful apps on the Play store in July only. The kicker: these apps were downloaded over 32 million times in total in the past month alone.

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Facebook Admits Libra Crypto Project May Never Launch

Since its inception, Facebook’s foray into crypto has been under fire from all sides. The reaction to Libra was unsurprising really given the social media giant’s poor track record when it comes to data protection and security.

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Analyst: BitMEX Data Suggests Bitcoin is Fairly Valued at $8,800 to $9,300

Once again, Bitcoin (BTC) is trading under $10,000. In fact, as of the time of writing this article, the cryptocurrency is sitting around $9,500 — up 0. 8% in the past 24 hours. Related Reading: Crypto Tidbits: Bakkt’s Bitcoin Futures, Monex & Libra, Andrew Yang PAC Accepts BTC While some cynical analysts are expecting for BTC.

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Datawallet Creates Privacy Solutions For Protecting Online Identities

Personal privacy is a huge problem on the internet, as evident in Facebook’s latest privacy fiasco. Companies routinely mine data on their users, from political leanings to holiday destinations and buying preferences.

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Altcoin community attempts to rank crypto-exchanges by eliminating wash trading figures

The reported volumes of cryptocurrency exchanges came under fire earlier this year after trading analytics platform, The Tie, released its own findings and concluded that 90% of the trading volumes were incorrectly reported by crypto-exchanges.

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CFTC Investigation Incites a Run on Bitmex, Regulatory Risk Paramount in United States

After initial reports that the CFTC had begun to investigate BitMex under customer protection rules, the latest data from TokenAnalyst suggests that this has been sufficient to scare users into removing their bitcoin (BTC) from the platform, July 20, 2019.

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