Standard Chartered reaffirms $100K Bitcoin bet as bears see more pain

Bitcoin has fallen more than 15% this week and briefly slipped towards $61,000, yet Standard Chartered has kept its year-end price target at $100,000 and said the current decline may offer a buying opportunity. According to a note sent to…

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Standard Chartered, Bernstein revise Bitcoin price targets amid shifting institutional demand

Both Standard Chartered and Bernstein remain broadly positive on Bitcoin despite recent declines and ETF outflows.

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Bitcoin (BTC) to Hit $200,000 by End of 2025, Standard Chartered Predicts

Standard Chartered has predicted that the Bitcoin price will hit $200,000 soon

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Standard Chartered Sees Bitcoin Surging to $130,000 in Near Future

Bitcoin might test its current all-time high in coming days, according to Standard Chartered

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'Rich Dad Poor Dad' Author Reveals Stunning Truth About ‘The Bitcoin Standard’

Financial guru Kiyosaki explains why he supports ‘The Bitcoin Standard’

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Standard Chartered to Launch Spot Trading Desk for Bitcoin and Ether

Сообщение Standard Chartered to Launch Spot Trading Desk for Bitcoin and Ether появились сначала на Coinstelegram.

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Standard Chartered doubles down on $150k Bitcoin prediction

Geoff Kendrick, head of digital assets research at Standard Chartered, is still optimistic about Bitcoin, with his firm setting a year-end price target of $150,000.

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The Price Of Principles

It is my hope that a transition to a world on a Bitcoin standard will re-center the focus of medicine on the doctor-patient relationship.

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Life After The Death Of Fiat

Four days in inflation-ravaged Lebanon with "The Bitcoin Standard" author Dr. Saifedean Ammous.

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The Fiat Standard and Debt Slavery

In this exclusive extract, the author of "The Bitcoin Standard" introduces its sequel, "The Fiat Standard."

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Researchers Expose Flaw in Bitcoin Wallets That Could Be Exploited for Double-Spending

A standard way to transact Bitcoin could be vulnerable to double-spending and DoS attacks, ZenGo has found.

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Major British Paper Edited by Former Chancellor Can’t Spell Ethereum

Former British Chancellor George Osborn once bought some bitcoin in 2014, but the paper he edits, the Evening Standard, can’t spell ethereum. “Bitcoin, etherium and other cryptocurrencies surge in popularity,”...

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About The Clouds: Bitcoin Holds Retest Of Key Weekly Level

Last night at 8PM eastern standard time, Bitcoin price closed its weekly candle at roughly $9,325. While the close marked yet another week of failed attempts to break above $10,000, it also marked the first retest of the Ichimoku indicator Kumo, or “cloud.

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Bitcoin Wallets Are Adopting This Tech to Simplify Lightning Payments

Bitcoin’s Lightning network has a long way to go in terms of user experience. To tackle this problem, a standard known as lnurl is quietly gaining ground.

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How would Bitcoin react if the world went back to the gold standard?

Remember the days when the standard economic unit was a fixed quantity of gold? The United States turned into one of the wealthiest countries during that era, however, nearly every economist refers toThe post How would Bitcoin react if the world went back to the gold standard? appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Tech Investor Palihapitiya says Bitcoin Price will Either Reach Millions or go to Zero

In a recent interview with Anthony Pompliano, Partner at Morgan Creek Digital Assets, crypto billionaire Chamath Palihapitiya said bitcoin could reach $1 million once it is globally adopted, creating a new financial model similar to a quasi-gold standard.

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Chainalysis and Paxful Set Compliance Standard for Peer-to-Peer Exchanges

Blockchain analysis company Chainalysis has announced a partnership with Paxful to boost the Bitcoin marketplace’s KYC compliance efforts. Chainalysis’ Dim View of P2P Exchanges  For Chainalysis, peer-to-peer (P2P) cryptocurrency exchanges...The post Chainalysis and Paxful Set Compliance Standard for Peer-to-Peer Exchanges appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

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Human Readability and Privacy: BCH Can Be Sent by Email With Tips Tool, No Usernames Required

Tips.Bitcoin.com allows users of crypto to tip BCH to friends and family via email address, arguably cutting out some of the inconvenience associated with standard bitcoin address formats. Unlike Coinbase Wallet’s new username option, which achieves similar ease for transactions, sending keys via email does not require a centralized database of usernames connected to crypto […] The post Human Readability and Privacy: BCH Can Be Sent by Email With Tips Tool, No Usernames Required appeared first on Bitcoin News.

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Jack Dorsey Enables Bitcoin Emoji on Twitter Posts

The Twitter and Square founder also appears to be pushing Unicode to introduce the bitcoin emoji in the universal web standard.

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Bitcoin Trading Volumes in Venezuela Continue to Climb

Many Venezuelans have been buying up Bitcoin in ever-increasing numbers to hedge against currency devaluation. An Unparalleled Currency Crisis Venezuela was once one of the wealthiest countries in Latin America, with the highest standard of living on the entire continent.

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On the Coast of El Salvador, Bitcoin Is Becoming the Standard

Inside a circular economy built on bitcoin

The post On the Coast of El Salvador, Bitcoin Is Becoming the Standard appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.

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Jack Dorsey is Building an Open Source and Decentralized Twitter

Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey has taken another step towards building a decentralized standard for social media. Bitcoin believer took to Twitter to announce his plans for an open-source Twitter for which the social media giant is funding a small independent team of up to five architects, engineers, and designers dubbed Bluesky. lo https://t.co/Yr1Bwjd4mA […]

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BitPay Enabling Merchants to Overcome Bitcoin Volatility with Stablecoins

BitPay, a leading bitcoin (BTC) and altcoins payments processor established in May 2011, has added support for top stablecoins including Circle’s USD Coin (USDC), the Gemini Dollar (GUSD) and Paxos Standard Token (PAX).

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Thai Government to Integrate DLT, A.I and Emerging Technologies into the Digital Economy

In a bid to improve the income, quality of life, and competitiveness of ordinary people in the society, Thailand’s Digital Economy and Society Ministry (DE)  intends to use innovative technologies like blockchain in developing mobile applications and e-commerce solutions over the next three months, reports Bangkok Post on August 11, 2019.

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Standard Chartered Bank Issues First DLT-Powered Letter of Credit

In a press release on August 7, 2019, U. K. -based Standard Chartered Bank, revealed it had successfully executed a pilot of the first cross-border Letter of Credit (LC) on blockchain for companies in the oil industry, including PTT Group, a Thailand state-run oil and gas company, PTT International Trading Pte Ltd, and IRPC Public Company LimitedRead MoreRead More.

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Hitting Milestones: Ripple Pushing XRP To Become The World’s Standard For Payments

Ripple, a blockchain company, has been advocating the use of cryptocurrency for cross border payments. Specifically, its native cryptocurrency – the XRP and its xRapid technology have been adopted by banks, governments, institutions, among others globally.

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Bitcoin Market Dominance Is Actually Over 75%: Ex Google Exec

Bitcoin in fact accounts for a much larger proportion of the overall cryptocurrency market, a former Google and Facebook executive has claimed. Bitcoin Market Dominance Has Long Been over 60% Presenting new figures on social media August 6, Avichal Garg, who now runs cryptocurrency asset management firm Electric Capital, said standard methods for measuring Bitcoin’s dominance were flawed.

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The Role of Gambling in Cryptocurrency’s Expansion

The number of digital currency users has grown exponentially over the past few years. There were approximately 3 million cryptocurrency owners in 2015 but that figure more than quadrupled by 2017.

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Deflationary Coins: Can These Tokens Explode In Price, Or Just Burn Out?

Inflation is a favorite antagonist in the cryptocurrency community. Most investors are probably familiar with the graphs showing how much value the U. S. dollar has lost since 1933, when the Federal Reserve left the gold standard.

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Trader Predicts Ripple to Dump by 60% Against Bitcoin Before It Moons

  Ripple is having a horrible 2019 against bitcoin. The Standard (Ripple) as known in the crypto community is down by over 66 percent against the leading cryptocurrency year-to-date. Ripple is so weak that it already posted seven consecutive red candles on the monthly chart.

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Стоит ли инвестировать только в Биткоин?

Автор книги The Bitcoin Standard и известный криптоаналитик Сайфиддин Аммос считает инвестирование в Биткоин «игрой с нулевой суммой». По его словам, все, кто не хочет вкладывать свои деньги в главную криптовалюту, проиграют.

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RBI Forced Inter-ministerial Panel to Propose Ban on Bitcoin: Report

The central government initially wanted to regulate the bitcoin sector but changed its stand due to objection from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), reports Business Standard. The Indian daily claimed that Economic Affairs Secretary Subhash Chandra Garg, who was heading the interministerial committee to study cryptocurrencies, favored regulating them.

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55,000 cryptocurrency users affected in Bitpoint’s $28 million hack

Embattled cryptocurrency exchange Bitpoint has revealed that roughly half of its 110,000 users were affected by last week’s $3. 02 billion yen ($28 million) hack, reports The Mainchi. Speaking at a Tokyo press conference, Bitpoint president Genki Oda noted that of the 3.

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Spend.com app partners with Paxos enabling easier crypto payments

CryptoNinjas - Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Asset SourceSpend. com, a crypto payment ecosystem, today announced a partnership with Paxos, a regulated Trust company, which operates itBit, a bitcoin exchange with oversight from the New York Department of Financial Services (DFS).

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Stratis SRC-20 token issuance contract now deployable

CryptoNinjas - Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Asset SourceStratis, the blockchain technology company and platform, today announced that the SRC-20 standard token issuance contract has been voted into the whitelist by the community operated masternodes and is now deployable on the Cirrus Sidechain.

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Grayscale Bitcoin Trust Continues Upward Performance Against Main Indexes In 2019

2019 has been a pretty great year for cryptocurrencies so far. As revealed by the Wall Street Journal recently, this meant that the Grayscale Investments’ Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) has outperformed most of the other indexes this year.

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Erik Voorhees’ new ShapeShift platform takes a jab at Coinbase by providing self-custody services

Erik Voorhees, CEO of ShapeShift, spoke about a new feature for its users with Naomi Brockwell, and how it should be a standard for cryptocurrency platforms in the present day. Voorhees, a Bitcoin enthusiast, founded ShapeShift back in 2014.

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Tether slowly migrating from the Bitcoin to Ethereum blockchain

Tether’s USDT is steadily migrating from Bitcoin Omni-based addresses to Ethereum-based ones, with 40 percent of USDT now using the ERC-20 standard.  Major cryptocurrency exchanges Binance and Poloniex announced they were both moving their Tether addresses from Omni.

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Setting the Stage for Bitcoin: Stock Market Hits Record Highs, All thanks to the Fed

“It took exactly nine months, but the Dow finally closed at a new all-time high,” said Ryan Detrick, Senior Market Strategist for LPL Financial. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up 179 points, surpassing its high from October 3rd.

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4 Awesome Bitcoin Casinos!

Cryptocurrencies are all the rage right now. After all, there are a lot of advantages to them in comparison to standard currency; anonymity, security, direct transactions, etc. It’s even possible that in the future, cryptocurrencies will be the standard rather than paper bills and metal coins.

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West Africa Gets Serious with New Banking Technologies

Nigeria, the most populous nation in Africa has announced plans to officially adopt an open banking standard powered by new technologies such as distributed ledger technology (DLT), to promote transparency in the financial services sector, according to a report by local news source the Guardian on July 1, 2019.

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Indian Police Busted Call Center Scam Who Stole $1.7 Million In Bitcoin From US Citizens

According to the Business Standard, a gang in India has been busted by the Police in Madhya Pradesh state. The scammers were stealing Bitcoin (BTC) from US citizens through a call centre. The reports show that the scammers were able to steal around $1.

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BREAKING: ICE’s Bakkt Will Start Testing Its Bitcoin Futures Platform on July 22

Coinspeaker BREAKING: ICE’s Bakkt Will Start Testing Its Bitcoin Futures Platform on July 22ICE's plans to set a new standard for institutional market quality for digital assets with the launch of its Bitcoin Futures platform on July 22, 2019.

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Indian Call Center Scam Milks $1.7 Million in Bitcoin From US Citizens

By CCN Markets: A gang in India’s Madhya Pradesh state which scammed U. S. citizens hundreds of thousands of dollars through Bitcoin and other methods has been busted and its members arrested. The gang which ran its operations out of a call center is estimated to have made around $1.

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Local Governments Work To Shape Bitcoin Mining's Impact On Climate

Officials in Missoula County, Montana, changed the way crypto mining operations need to implement clean energy initiatives, helping set a standard for how local governments can hold mining operations responsible for the energy they use.

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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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CME Bitcoin Futures Volume Reaches Record Highs During the Month of May 2019

CME currently makes use of a one hour period — between 3PM to 4PM every day— during which it calculates its CME CF Bitcoin Reference Rate (BRR). This metric standard is used by the derivatives exchange to calculate the monetary worth of its futures contracts.

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Standard Tokenization Protocol (STP) to Launch IEO on Bittrex

Standard Tokenization Protocol (STP), an open-source decentralized platform for the issuance of tokenized assets, has joined forces with Bittrex International, a Malta-based cryptocurrency exchange, in a bid to conduct its initial exchange offering (IEO) on the exchange, according to a press release on June 5, 2019.

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Bitcoin [BTC] is growing, but is not entirely free of ‘government interference’, claims Saifedean Ammous

Bitcoin [BTC] was very dominant in 2019 and the decentralized asset, which is free of any government oversight, retrieved positive market sentiment. According to Saifedean Ammous, Bitcoin is up by 18 million percent over the last 10 years, indicating its rapid growth over the period.

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