After turning into a Bitcoin-only exchange, the United Kingdom’s oldest crypto exchange Coinfloor is now expanding its consumer BTC services. While the crypto community is talking about “altcoin season,” one of the world’s oldest crypto exchanges is calling BS on everything that is not BTC. After turning into a Bitcoin (BTC)-only exchange, the United Kingdom’s […]
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Indian IT giant Tech Mahindra is launching a blockchain accelerator together with the government of the southern state of Telangana. Tech Mahindra, the IT subsidiary of Indian conglomerate Mahindra Group, is launching a blockchain accelerator together with the government of the southern state of Telangana. The parties hope the accelerator will become a “torch-bearer” for […]
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The Central Bank of Russia is moving forward with a proposal to integrate appropriate tokenization regulations in Russia’s troubled digital financial assets bill project. A successful tokenization trial could lead to big changes in Russia’s proposed cryptocurrency legislation. The Central Bank of Russia (CBR) announced on Feb. 17 the completion of a blockchain tokenization pilot […]
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Crypto’s success may hinge on users’ ability to pay for $5 items with Ether, Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash. Are we there yet? Cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology were meant to liberate the oppressed, bank the unbanked and democratize countries with opaque authoritarian governments. Whether or not the crypto sector has actually achieved these goals remains a […]
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Joe Lubin’s long path from managing a lab in Princeton to building the technology serving as “an organizing principle for earth, the world, the planet.” Canadian entrepreneur and software engineer Joseph Lubin helped spearhead the development of the open-source smart contract blockchain platform that came to be known as Ethereum. Lubin has long believed that […]
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Stock-to-flow model creator PlanB says “few people realize” that February 2020 is currently the third most successful month for BTC/USD. Bitcoin (BTC) is having its third-best month in history, says the creator of a forecasting model that calls for a $100,000 price in 2021. In a tweet on Feb. 14, PlanB, the analyst behind the […]
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China continues to get ahead in the CBDC race, but will Japan attempt to counter it with its own digital currency? China continues to pull ahead in the central bank digital currency race as more details on its secretive digital yuan project intermittently surface. As a result, more countries are beginning to worry about the […]
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“Serious resistance” should trigger above $400 as General Strength Indicator suggests Ether is at its most overbought since May 2019. Ether (ETH) price could continue its gains to hit $440 before resistance kicks in, one analyst has told mainstream media. Speaking to Bloomberg on Feb. 14, Edward Moya, senior market analyst at online forex broker […]
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The U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence is seeking a researcher to model risk scenarios for how and why the dollar could lose its global supremacy. The United States intelligence community is seeking a researcher to model risk scenarios for how and why the dollar could lose its global supremacy, and how best […]
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Twitter users churn out 75,000 posts mentioning Bitcoin in a single day, as price action sees mainstream consumers pay fresh attention. Bitcoin (BTC) hitting $10,000 catapulted it back into mainstream consciousness — but internet consumers were paying attention before, data shows. Statistics from monitoring resource Bitinfocharts reveal that in early February, mentions of Bitcoin on […]
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