Real estate tycoon Ben Shaoul has sold a retail condo in Manhattan’s prestigious Upper East Side for $15.3 million in Bitcoin. Real estate tycoon Ben Shaoul has sold a retail condo in Manhattan’s prestigious Upper East Side for $15.3 million in Bitcoin (BTC). The news was reported by New York real estate magazine The Real […]
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Both Argentina and Venezuela see their biggest ever weekly volumes on Localbitcoins as citizens grapple with the deteriorating purchasing power of their fiat currencies. Bitcoin (BTC) trading set new records in two of its most keenly watched South American markets last week, new data has revealed. As monitoring resource Coin Dance confirmed on Nov. 10, […]
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A price of $500,000 is easily in reach within the next nine years, says the BTCC co-founder, with $1 million possible afterward. Bitcoin (BTC) will surpass the market cap of gold and could ultimately be worth $1 million, well-known industry figure Bobby Lee has said. In a series of tweets on Nov. 10, Lee, who […]
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Turkey’s president asks for completed testing of the digital lira by the end of 2020 as local fraudsters rake in 600 BTC among crypto news from Turkey this week. In this week’s selected cryptocurrency- and blockchain-related news from Cointelegraph Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan directed the government to finish testing a national central bank digital […]
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New U.K. crypto tax policy paper: Crypto is an asset and subject to capital gain tax. Only a few weeks after the United States Internal Revenue Service published new guidance for crypto taxation, the United Kingdom’s tax, payments and customs authority, Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, has updated its cryptocurrency taxation policy paper for businesses […]
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Within the decentralized nature of blockchain technology lies a chance to avoid the financial collapse rooted in the concepts of center and power. A central bank’s role is to manage a nation’s currency, money supply and interest rates. The United States did not have a central bank until 1913, when Woodrow Wilson signed the Federal […]
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Transacting in both paper and the precious metal involves “friction,” whereas Bitcoin combines settlement and transacting, says the Wall Street veteran. Bitcoin (BTC) beats both fiat currency and gold because it does not need settlement, RT host Max Keiser has said. In the latest episode of the network’s Keiser Report on Nov. 7, the well-known […]
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Square’s Cash App reports that first-time Bitcoin buyers almost doubled in Q3 2019, despite the low profit margin on BTC sales. According to its Q3 2019 shareholder letter, Square’s Cash App reported many new first-time Bitcoin (BTC) buyers, but low profits related to its Bitcoin business. On Nov. 6, payment processing giant Square issued a […]
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U.S. regulators seek to curb binary options scams as they are entering the crypto sphere and becoming more clever. Mainstream finance and cryptocurrency are becoming more closely intertwined with each passing day. Just over a year ago, the idea of centralized financial behemoths trialing blockchain or crypto solutions would have been unthinkable. Currently, cryptocurrency is […]
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Trading strategies that yield consistent profit can be hard to find but crypto analyst PlanB says it’s possible to gain 7-10% per year from Bitcoin. Trading crypto assets, or any market for that matter, is a zero-sum game. When one person wins, someone else must lose, making trading highly competitive. That being said, consistently profitable […]
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