Analysts are anticipating Bitcoin’s second-largest negative difficulty adjustment of the year following the end of Sichuan’s rainy season. Mining data aggregators attribute a slump in Bitcoin’s hash rate to the end of the wet season in Sichuan, resulting in many miners migrating to other jurisdictions. On Oct. 26, Thomas Heller of Bitcoin (BTC) mining blog […]
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Recent exit scams have displaced the users of darknet markets, with Eastern European-only platform Hydra now the largest worldwide. A report published by blockchain forensics firm CipherTrace has detailed significant disruptions to the clandestine darknet marketplace sector following a spate of exit scams during recent months. Despite opportunities for new marketplaces to capture the users […]
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The new venture will reportedly include 34 “physical branches and operations” in northern India. According to an Oct. 26 announcement from Cashaa, the fintech firm will be partnering with India’s United Multistate Credit Cooperative Society to build a crypto-friendly financial institution called UNICAS. This new venture will reportedly include 34 “physical branches and operations” in […]
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Bitcoin and altcoins are showing signs of short-term exhaustion, meaning a few days of consolidation could occur. Morgan Creek Digital co-founder Anthony Pompliano highlighted data from Santiment, which showed that the 30-day rolling correlation between Bitcoin (BTC) and the S&P 500 is 0. Pomp stressed that the lack of correlation shows that Bitcoin is a […]
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The current conservative international financial system doesn’t suit young people or young economies, says Ma. Jack Ma, the now-retired founder of Alibaba Group, recently spoke to a crowd of bankers and regulators at the Bund Summit in Shanghai about the role digital currencies will likely play in the future global financial system: “Digital currency could create […]
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Cointelegraph interviews antivirus pioneer John McAfee on the state of Blockchain from his confines in Barcelona, Spain. John McAfee, an eccentric millionaire, crypto enthusiast, and anti-virus expert, was recently detained in Spain on charges of U.S. tax evasion. He also faces charges arising from a series of questionable crypto promotions, from which he allegedly profited millions […]
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Bitcoin whales own almost 8M Bitcoin and do not appear to be in a hurry to sell. The number of Bitcoin (BTC) whales reached a new all-time high amid last week’s price ascension. On October 20, there were 2,178 Bitcoin addresses that held at least 1,000 BTC. By October 25, this number increased to 2,231. At […]
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The company is testing a new blockchain pilot that would give customers the power to track their beer’s barley by the bottle. Anheuser-Busch InBev, the parent entity of Budweiser, Corona and many other beer brands, recently began to pilot a platform which lets end-customers track their malt beverages on the blockchain. This is not the first instance […]
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Central bank digital currencies will fundamentally change our conceptions of money and its uses. An astonishing 80% of central banks are engaging in work around central bank digital currencies, from research to experimentation and pilot programs. A recent Bank for International Settlements, or BIS, chart demonstrates the growing interest in CBDCs by central banks, as […]
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An anonymous crypto holder just completed the largest dollar value Bitcoin transaction in history. With Bitcoin’s price continuing to hold close to $13,000, one anonymous trader decided now was the time to move more than $1 billion of the digital asset. According to on-chain data, a Bitcoin (BTC) trader moved more than 88,857 BTC — worth […]
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