2018-8-9 00:20 |
The SEC is set to make final decisions on nine proposed bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) in the next two months. origin »
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Monaco based crypto trader and CIO of Digital Currency Fund, Alistair Milne must think a rally is coming soon. With the next Bitcoin halving in mind, he says that over the next several months’ people in the space should be buying as much as possible.
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Always on the lookout for novel ways to attract teens, Facebook purchased viral polling app TBH last October. The app fell well short of anything innovative but did manage to snag an estimated 2.
2018-8-9 04:01 | |
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Cryptocurrency custody services are seen by many as the next step for institutional adoption. As per a Bloomberg report released on Monday morning, Goldman Sachs, one of the most respected financial institutions in the world, is considering the creation of an in-house custody service.
2018-8-7 03:10 | |
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There’s a new game for Bitcoin enthusiasts on Reddit: poking fun at what they have or – rather – have not been able to buy with their cryptocurrency. Members of the r/Bitcoin subreddit have been posting pictures of what their Bitcoin has enabled them to buy for a number of months now.
2018-8-6 16:41 | |
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The headlines today have been riddled with theory that points towards a number of issues with Bitcoin that are now leading experts to believe that Bitcoin can’t peak again this year. This means, many now expect that Bitcoin will continue to exist under a value of $10,000.
2018-8-6 14:00 | |
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Environmental crime is a strange beast. It’s extremely broad – it spans everything from illegal wildlife trading to unregulated fishing to dumping hazardous waste. It’s very lucrative – Europol estimates the annual value of transnational environmental crime to be in the hundreds of billions of dollars.
2018-8-6 10:50 | |
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It’s been more than a couple of months since GDPR (the EU General Data Protection Regulation) came into force. The promise of giving the citizens back control of their personal data was brash and resonated with many of us, but apart from emboldening few data protection activists, the GDPR has not meaningfully changed the privacy status quo and hasn’t won us much control over our data.
2018-8-6 15:30 | |
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Creditors of the now disbanded Mt. Gox cryptocurrency exchange have made another step towards reclaiming their lost Bitcoin, following updates to a court ruling issued in June, first spotted by Coindesk.
2018-8-3 15:30 | |
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BlackBerry unveiled its Key2 Android-based handset just two months ago, and the brand is already set to launch a couple more devices through Optiemus, its hardware partner in India. The new Evolve and Evolve X don’t have physical keyboards like the iconic models that made BlackBerry a household name, but they do come with 5.
2018-8-3 08:54 | |
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Capital gains on crypto transactions are easy to track, one at a time. What about when there are thousands?Cryptocurrency capital gains taxes are becoming a point of interest for governments.
2018-7-31 20:04 | |
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At the height of the blockchain rush last year, we saw a new unusual phenomenon crop up: cryptocurrency mystery boxes. The concept was pretty simple. You pay a fee to receive a USB stick loaded with a random selection of cryptocurrencies – five, to be exact.
2018-7-30 15:53 | |
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Some major news regarding the eSports Reward Token are coming up in the next few months. The ERT will have its first real implementation in the Esports. com portal very soon. The first step is to implement the ERT as a utility driven token.
2018-7-30 15:45 | |
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Although YouTube has offered a dark theme on its web and iOS apps for months, it’s been taking its own sweet time bringing it to Android for some reason (seriously, what’s the hold-up?). Now, there’s hope.
2018-7-30 12:02 | |
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If you’ve been waiting anxiously to follow the adventures of Eleven and her friends as they battle monsters from another dimension in the town of Hawkins, I’ve got some bad news for you: season three of Netflix’ 80s-themed sci-fi show Stranger Things will skip 2018 and air next summer instead.
2018-7-30 08:54 | |
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Last November, a user accidentally froze around 514,000 ETH (worth approx. $155 million) in Parity, a popular Ethereum wallet. The culprit was a bug in the wallet’s software, which the user in question accidentally triggered.
2018-7-30 08:30 | |
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At the time of this article, the news from the Winklevoss ETF being denied by the SEC is still fresh and it is unclear what impact it may have on the overall macro trend of the market.
2018-7-27 00:57 | |
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Are you tired of hearing how ICOs are disrupting fundraising? The first five months of 2018 saw funds raised through token sales jump to $13. 7 billion, around double the amount raised in the whole of 2017.
2018-7-26 17:10 | |
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Billionaire Bitcoin bull Mike Novogratz announced a multi-million dollar foray into the crypto-lending sector, predicting that the total cryptocurrency market capitalization will exceed $800 billion in the next 12 months.
2018-7-26 12:00 | |
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As I mentioned in my last post, the data in my new 2018 Q3 Global Digital Statshot – produced in partnership with We Are Social and Hootsuite – shows that clicks on Facebook advertising have tumbled over the past three months.
2018-7-25 18:39 | |
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For many, the complex nature of crypto investing is an unsolvable enigma. Despite the potential for great returns, many are hesitant to jump in and navigate the complexities and uncertainties inherent in this space.
2018-7-25 17:09 | |
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The new 2018 Q3 Global Digital Statshot report from Hootsuite and We Are Social shows that there was plenty of change in the world of digital, social, and mobile over the past three months. There are many encouraging trends within this new data, but there are also some more worrying findings that marketers will need to monitor closely over the coming months.
2018-7-24 15:05 | |
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The CEO of Blockchain Inc. , Peter Smith, recently stated in an interview that the cryptocurrency market will see consolidation in the next few months. He quoted his reasons for saying so as the increased entry of institutional investors into the market.
2018-7-22 13:55 | |
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Peter Smith, CEO of Blockchain Inc. has recently released several statements in an interview given on the forward movement of the current cryptocurrency marketplace. Specifically, Smith has stated his view on the consolidation of the market happening over the next few months.
2018-7-22 04:52 | |
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Although the ideas behind the current Ethereum protocol have largely been stable for two years, Ethereum did not emerge all at once, in its current conception and fully formed. Before the blockchain has launched, the protocol went through a number of significant evolutions and design decisions.
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
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It’s summertime earnings season – and as I’ve written about before, I expect this to be the beginning of a deep global earnings recession… Q2 hedge fund letters, conference, scoops etc Things are in the early stage – but the next 12 months will be ugly for investors. As a brief recap: it all started in early May […]
2018-7-20 19:28 | |
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Tom Lee, a renowned and an influential cryptoanalyst, opines that this period is the best time to invest in Bitcoin. He envisaged an investment in Bitcoin at the moment, either buy or hold to have 90% probability in the next six months.
2018-7-20 23:21 | |
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DMG Blockchain Solutions Inc. has announced that its Board of Directors has authorized the purchase of up to 4,662,474 of its common shares over the next twelve months by means of a share buy-back program through the facilities of the TSX Venture Exchange.
2018-7-19 14:32 | |
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It’s been almost 15 years since Skype launched and soon you’ll be able record calls on the app. What a time to be alive. Skype used to be the monarch of video calls, but it has fallen behind its competitors in recent years.
2018-7-17 14:36 | |
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Months after announcing it in January, Japanese messaging giant Line has finally opened their new cryptocurrency exchange – everywhere except Japan and North America. BITBOX is now hosting trade in around 30 coins, sans fiat trading for the time being.
2018-7-16 13:10 | |
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A few months ago, security researchers at 4iQ uncovered a 41-gigabyte file being sold on the dark web that contained 1. 4 billion username and password combinations from online services such as Netflix, Last.
2018-7-13 11:17 | |
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It’s official: at long last, the Indian government has approved net neutrality to ensure that all web traffic is treated fairly, and that internet service providers won’t block, throttle, or favor any content or services (with a few reasonable exceptions).
2018-7-12 08:45 | |
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Twitter today announced it’d be removing locked accounts from users’ follower counts. If you’ve noticed a precipitous drop in follower counts today, it’s not you — it’s your followers. Reports surfaced earlier this week that Twitter had suspended a multitude of fake accounts in the months of May and June — apparently in an attempt to curb the rise of bot and their accompanying cocktail of issues.
2018-7-12 02:47 | |
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The Kin Foundation has announced a new developer incentive program aimed to entice people to build distributed applications using Kik Messenger’s KIN token. The program will see the Kin Foundation disburse up to $3 million in incentives to 25 selected different developers.
2018-7-11 17:00 | |
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Despite declining daily transactions, NVT has begun to decrease, suggesting more on-chain value is being transmitted. SegWit and batching have massively improved scalability going forward for the next swath of heavy network usage.
2018-7-9 07:50 | |
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Fundstrat Global Advisors’ price target for Bitcoin was updated to “over $20,000 by the end of the year”, according to Tom Lee, founder and head strategist of the equity research house.
2018-7-5 23:00 | |
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Bitcoin (BTC) is currently in a tough spot. The next few days have the potential to decide the fate of Bitcoin (BTC) for the months ahead. So far, the cryptocurrency has done well to stay above $6,000 but having breached that level once, it would not be a surprise if it did that again.
2018-6-27 18:00 | |
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Cryptocurrency exchange Belfrics has resumed trading operations in India after halting earlier this year due to banks refusing to provide payments solutions to the exchange. Belfrics has also added four more cryptocurrencies to its platform, with 20 more planned for the next six months.
2018-6-27 07:25 | |
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The Let’s Talk Bitcoin Network has added a new show to its lineup, “What Bitcoin Did. ” The WBD podcast is hosted by U. K. -based Peter McCormack, an “accidental Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency investor, miner, blogger and podcaster.
2018-6-26 20:34 | |
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Witek Radomski — co-founder and CTO of Enjin Coin — has developed ERC-1155, a new standard for defining video game tokens on the Ethereum blockchain. Radomski’s journey to improve the gaming experience began 12 months ago in June 2017, when he created code for the first non-fungible token.
2018-6-26 00:25 | |
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At press time, bitcoin has shrunk down to $6,100 – the lowest it’s been in nearly four months. All the talk of bitcoin developing newfound resistance appears to be moot; the coin remains as vulnerable as ever, and traders should brace themselves for bitcoin to strike the $5,000 range next. The problems seem to be […]
2018-6-22 20:45 | |
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Bitcoin (BTC) is trading sideways for the time being, with a dwindling daily volume and a lack of interest on behalf of both the buyers and the sellers. An important principle of technical analysis is that volume precedes price.
2018-6-18 17:30 | |
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OPINION: A long, long time ago, as seen in the history books, last December Bitcoin reached almost $20K and other cryptos saw an exciting rise with some tokens witnessing a massive 1000% increase. No one would have expected what is to follow.
2018-6-18 06:06 | |
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Bitcoinist has once again caught up with Mati Greenspan, Senior Market Analyst at eToro, the most popular social trading platform in the world with millions of users. Greenspan keeps a close eye on cryptocurrency markets and shares his thoughts on the recent Bitcoin price plunge and why he believes this current downtrend nothing out of the ordinary.
2018-6-15 03:00 | |
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Coinbase dominated headlines across the space this week with a pair of significant developments. The San Francisco–based exchange announced on Monday, June 11, its intention to add Ethereum Classic to its trading platform and then quickly followed the news on Tuesday with the official opening of a crypto index fund.
2018-6-14 01:32 | |
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Canada’s government has released draft regulations for “virtual currencies” with a consultation period of 90 days, saying that proposed regulatory changes could mean a loss of $60 million over 10 years for businesses that deal in cryptocurrencies but will improve Canada’s international reputation and make it easier for crypto businesses to deal overseas.
2018-6-13 20:24 | |
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After months of speculation over what Coinbase will list next, the crypto-broken and exchange has surprised everyone by stating: “We are pleased to announce our intention to add support for.
2018-6-12 12:56 | |
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Well, we didn’t see this coming. Coinbase have announced their next listing, stunningly in the form of Ethereum Classic. As it stands, Coinbase only list Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin and Ethereum, making Ethereum Classic the fifth to be added to the growing Coinbase portfolio.
2018-6-12 12:30 | |
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Coinbase has unexpectedly announced on its home blog and through twitter that it will be integrating Ethereum Classic over the next few months to be listed sometime in September causing the price of ETC to gain dramatically.
2018-6-12 07:30 | |
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South Korea just ruled that bitcoin is a legally recognizable asset, which is good news for investors, but not such good news for convicted criminals that had managed to hold onto their cryptocurrency in the past.
2018-6-11 18:04 | |
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What role do privacy tools play in crypto, and how does this discussion develop? Those were some of the questions at a panel I moderated last week at the DC Privacy Summit.
Gobit and ZM Quant were secretly offering market manipulation services to projects that wanted to artificially inflate their trading volume, prosecutors allege.
Decentralized crypto exchange Mango Markets has already weathered a debilitating multimillion-dollar hack and the expensive regulatory investigations it spawned. The group may soon take another blow: a six-figure settlement with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
Trump believes the US needs to be involved and take the lead in crypto development; otherwise, another country, likely China, will. The post Trump says US must lead in crypto or risk China’s takeover appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
The U.K. is set to hold its first election in five years on Thursday and crypto is not a campaign-trail issue.
Juan Tacuri, oe of the top promoters in the Forcount crypto ponzi scheme – a Brazil-based scam that bilked Spanish-speaking investors around the world of a collective $8.4 million – has pleaded guilty to his role in the operation, federal prosecutors announced Wednesday.
CoinDesk held its annual Consensus conference in Austin, Texas last week, where we heard from lawmakers and regulators, developers, company execs and all sorts of other people in and around this sector.