The rules and strategies for the technical trading in the cryptocurrency market: What did we learn from the past? In two recent studies, I investigated the technical trading rules in the cryptocurrency market and profitability of technical trading rules among cryptocurrencies with a privacy function. In our first study, we collected daily price data on eleven […]
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BTCs halving seems to be the only one on the minds of traders, with several forks correlating with BTC in the run-up to their halvings. With the halvings for Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Bitcoin SV (BSV) failing to drive a surge in demand, it appears that their block halvings may turn out to be non-events. […]
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Bitstamp may announce first new listing in nearly three years, with the exchange contemplating support for seven new crypto assets. Bitstamp, one of the longest-running active cryptocurrency exchanges, is considering launching a batch of new crypto asset listings. Curiously, Bitstamp is contemplating support for Zcash (ZEC), despite an increasing number of exchanges seeking to distance […]
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Is Bitcoin anonymous, and can mixing services make it more private? Here are the weaknesses and strengths of popular crypto privacy solutions. The cryptocurrency industry was initially headlined as anonymous digital cash. While experts were keen to point out that this was not exactly the case, Bitcoin (BTC) found initial popularity in darknet markets such […]
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U.S. agencies work to handle crypto in sanctions evasion, but may ultimately just cut the country off from an evolving financial world. Running up against limited experience and resources for monitoring potentially illegal use of digital assets, United States authorities delegate sanctions monitoring to cryptocurrency exchanges and industry players. But do current practices do more […]
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Two men arrested in Japan are accused of knowingly purchasing stolen NEM from the Coincheck hack as the thieves set up a dark web website to launder their proceeds. Tokyo police arrested two men in connection to the Coincheck hack on March 11. The men are accused of purchasing stolen NEM (XEM) through a dark […]
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The new Coronavirus outbreak has pushed Chinese officials to track individual citizens by their medicine purchases, which presents major ramifications for crypto. The government of Hubei, the Chinese province at the epicenter of the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) outbreak, issued a report on Feb. 18 detailing measures taken against the disease. The officials revealed that they tracked […]
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How is the FATF’s AML guidance being implemented around the world, and what is its impact on the crypto industry? It’s been nearly eight months since the Financial Action Task Force issued its divisive crypto directives, establishing traditional banking regulations within the crypto sector. With the year-long adoption deadline fast approaching, how have the world’s […]
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Spencer Bogart from Blockchain Capital and Jacob Canfield from Signal Profits debate whether the halving is priced in and if Bitcoin will hit a new all time high in 2020. In this week’s crypto market update, Spencer Bogart from Blockchain Capital and Jacob Canfield from Signal Profits debate whether Bitcoin will top it’s all time […]
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Chainalysis, a provider of crypto transaction data for IRS and FBI, does not think that privacy coins are bad despite not being able to fully track them. A major global company that helps fight illicit cryptocurrency-related activity does not think that privacy in crypto markets is necessarily bad. Despite representing one of the primary sources […]
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