Crypto giant Binance has acquired the most-referenced crypto pricing website, CoinMarketCap for an undisclosed amount. While global markets are experiencing tough times amid the coronavirus pandemic, the crypto industry is getting stronger as its core players have tapped one of the biggest crypto mergers in history. Binance, the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange, has reached an […]
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Panic buying of gold by the rich due to coronavirus will force everyone else into Bitcoin, the celebrated TV host forecasts. People are going to buy Bitcoin (BTC) in droves — because there will be no gold for sale due to coronavirus, Max Keiser predicts. In a recent edition of his Keiser Report news program […]
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The Financial Action Task Force analyzed U.S. compliance to its recommendations, arguing that some of the enforcement is not specific enough for cryptocurrency. The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has reevaluated the United States on its compliance with global anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorist financing (CFT) regulations. According to the report published on March 31, […]
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Nik Bougalis, a cryptographer, software engineer and lead of the C++ team at Ripple, has published a proposed method for enhancing transaction privacy on the XRP ledger. Nik Bougalis, a cryptographer, software engineer and lead of the C++ team at Ripple, has published a proposed method for enhancing the privacy of transactions on the XRP […]
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Blockchain intelligence firm Chainalysis has found that the COVID-19 pandemic and global economic contraction is affecting Bitcoin consumer habits in surprising ways. Leading blockchain intelligence firm Chainalysis has found that the COVID-19 pandemic and global economic contraction is affecting Bitcoin (BTC) consumer habits in surprising ways. In a new report published on March 30, Chainalysis […]
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Coincurve founder Wayne Chen spoke to Cointelegraph about the U.S. stimulus package, claiming it would gradually help the crypto market. The $2 trillion economic stimulus package the United States Congress passed on March 26 might not cause the Bitcoin (BTC) market to skyrocket just yet, but investors could see modest, gradual improvements starting in 2020. […]
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The mainstream media largely avoided April Fools Day pranks this year, but the crypto community decided to have some fun. While much of the mainstream media decided against running pranks this year due to the seriousness of the coronavirus crisis — the crypto community decided to have some fun anyway. One of the earliest, and […]
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Portfolio tracker and tax calculator CoinTracker has topped 100,000 users and brought six new partners on board. Cryptocurrency portfolio tracker and tax calculator CoinTracker has surpassed 100,000 users and has signed up six new partners. The site, which is used by many traders to comply with tax reporting obligations, announced the news in a blog […]
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Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin clashed with a Bitcoin developer on Twitter when he told him that Bitcoin wasn’t always ‘digital gold’. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin was involved in a spat with a Bitcoin developer on Twitter yesterday, when he suggested BTC was originally designed to be P2P cash, not digital gold. Replying to Blockstream employee […]
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U.S. crypto ATM network Bitcoin Depot has begun shutting off machines in high-risk areas for coronavirus prevention. Bitcoin Depot, the largest Bitcoin ATM operator in the world, has begun powering down some of its machines in an effort to halt further spread of COVID-19. As much of the world sits in quarantine, Bitcoin Depot has […]
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