Bitcoin breaks $30,000 as ethereum hits $2k after Shanghai, global crypto adoption rising | Weekly recap

Bitcoin captures $30,000, ethereum reclaims $2,000 following Shanghai upgrade as crypto global adoption rise despite recent hacks

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ARK’s Cathie Wood Says Bitcoin’s Upsurge As Global Banks Roil Will Attract New Institutional Investors In Droves

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Bitcoin and AI: Deal in Crypto Intelligently

The global AI market is forecast to grow $1394. 30 billion in 2023. Investors and traders can tap into AI to benefit from features such as automation and accuracy. Bitcoin and AI also have the capacity to combat frauds in transactions across global markets.

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‘Prohibitive’ Global Crypto Capital Norms Could ‘Derail’ Market, TradFi Groups Say

Banks want to see caps on bitcoin holdings increased fivefold under planned global standards

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First Mover Asia: South Korea's 'Kimchi Premium' Evaporates; Major Cryptos Tumble on Fed Minutes, Continued Global Uncertainty

The gap between bitcoin prices on Korean crypto exchanges compared to global counterparts has declined from 20% to about 3% over the past year; bitcoin and ether tumble.

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Bitcoin's 'potentially serious implications' on future of investment, global finance

Crypto demand skyrocketed as inflation fears grip the market and governments continue to print more money. It is noteworthy that the US inflation picture remains worrying with the rate recently hittinThe post Bitcoin's 'potentially serious implications' on future of investment, global finance appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Global X becomes latest to seek SEC's approval for Bitcoin ETF

Global X ETFs, a New York-based provider of global exchange-traded funds, is in the news today after it filed for a Bitcoin ETF. The global provider of ETFs filed with the U.S. SEC on 21 July and suggThe post Global X becomes latest to seek SEC's approval for Bitcoin ETF appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Bitcoin: A Global Port in a Market Storm?

Turmoil in global markets and economies points to a widening interest in bitcoin, argues Noelle Acheson.

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Global interest for Bitcoin could be about to explode, here’s why

Trade volumes are booming on primary and secondary Bitcoin exchanges as Google searches for the number-one crypto skyrocket, indicating that to some degree a panic-induced flight to BTC may be in its early stages after the global economy’s recent capitulation.

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Bitcoin Still a Safe Haven as Global Economic Storm Brews

Notwithstanding the Friday dump which has just sent bitcoin price back below $8k, the global economy is in a bigger mess and is set to deteriorate even further. Central banks are pumping cash back into their systems, interest rates are going negative, and GDP figures are falling.

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Bitcoin Startup Lolli Looks to Global Expansion With Hotels.com Partnership

The bitcoin rewards app Lolli is going global in 2019, starting with the travel industry.

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Crackdowns from Government in Developing Nations Will Accelerate The Hyperbitcoinization Process

The concept of Hyperbitcoization is not quite as far flung or unrealistic as it would first appear. An article by Daniel Krawisz examines how bitcoin can become the first global cryptocurrency. That was when the term Hyperbitcoinization was coined.

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Why a Global Recession Would Be Good for Bitcoin

Macro trends suggest that a global economic crisis could be looming. Worries about a global recession have been fed by the newly published GDP report showing that China grew at its slowest rate last year since 1990.

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Mythical Games, EOS Lynx & Scatter launch ‘dGoods standard’ to set a benchmark for virtual items on the EOS Blockchain

Mythical Games has teamed up with EOS Lynx and Scatter on the dGoods standard to set a virtual items benchmark on the EOS Blockchain. Mythical Games announced today that it is leading an industry-wide collaboration with key blockchain firms such as EOS Lynx and Scatter to develop a robust standard for the “fast-growing global marketplace of digital […] Mythical Games, EOS Lynx & Scatter launch ‘dGoods standard’ to set a benchmark for virtual items on the EOS Blockchain was originally found on Cryptocurrency News | Blockchain News | Bitcoin News | blokt.com.

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Bitcoin, Ether, and XRP Weekly Market Update: January 24, 2019

The global market cap is down $2 billion since January 17, 2019, and now stands at $119 billion. Bitcoin lost 1. 7 percent for the seven-day period while ether and XRP declined 5. 7 percent and 4. 2 percent respectively.

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Onfido partners with BitPay to power secure bitcoin payments

CryptoNinjas Onfido, a global identity verification platform, today announced a partnership with BitPay to accept payment in bitcoin. BitPay is also using Onfido’s technology to meet Know Your Customer (KYC) requirements and onboard new users to its platform swiftly and securely.

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Crypto Intervention

The action of intervention often has negative connotations, but sometimes intervention can save lives, as any surgeon will probably tell you.   The Bank of International Settlements (BIS) has put out a new research paper that explores the economics of intervention into bitcoin’s blockchain.

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New Indicators Show Bitcoin Gearing up for Short-Term Rally

The GTI Global Strength Technical Indicator for Bitcoin is suggesting that Bitcoin’s price could be stabilizing and could even be heading towards a short-term rally, Bloomberg reported on January 22, 2019.

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Dutch Bank Inks Five-Year Deal With R3

ING and R3 announced on January 22, 2019, that they have entered into a five-year deal that gives ING rights to the use of R3’s Corda platform across their business operations. Corda Goes Global According to a January 22, 2019 statement, ING, a Dutch Bank, and R3 have entered into a partnership that will see ING haunch access to R3’s.

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Nasdaq CEO Predicts Bitcoin Could Be ‘Global Currency of The Future’

Adena Friedman is President and CEO of Nasdaq. Speaking ahead of Davos World Economic Forum, which focuses on “Globalization 4. 0” this year, she makes some interesting predictions. Cryptocurrencies, she says, could still be a global currency of the future.

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Crypto Exchange Huobi still Profitable Despite Layoffs, Reports CEO

On January 22, 2019, Livio Weng Xiaoqi, the chief executive of Huobi Global, insisted that the company is still profitable despite the bear run and event layoffs, as new projects are launched. Beating the Bear Run Within the last year, there have been significant changes in the global cryptocurrency market and not all of them good.

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Bitcoin [BTC]’s Price Approaches Oversold Territory, a Short-term Rally Could Be Ahead

According to a new Bloomberg report, technical indicators are showing an upside rally for Bitcoin could be near as the coin appears to have bottomed out. The GTI Global Strength Technical Indicator suggests that the coin is currently near oversold levels, which could signal a good entry point for investors.

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Governmental Overreach in Developing Nations Will Hasten Hyperbitcoinization

For bitcoin idealists, the coming utopia for global finance stars bitcoin dismantling the fiat hegemony, empowering citizens to own their money without central bank mediation, and facilitating borderless trade.

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Бизнесмен Давид Якобашвили заинтересован в инвестициях в проекты Павла Дурова

Основатель компании «Вимм-Билль-Данн» Давид Якобашвили заинтересован в инвестициях в блокчейн-проект Павла Дурова TON. Как сообщил сам бизнесмен ТАСС на Всемирном экономическом форуме в Давосе (Швейцария), он уже инвестирует в проекты Дурова, а также ему интересны и другие проекты.

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MIT Professor: The Key to Unlocking a Global Borderless Economy Rests with Blockchain

Speaking with Bloomberg’s Daybreak Asia radio show January 21, 2019, professor Silvio Micali of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) spoke positively on the future of blockchain, believing that global blockchain development can lead to the establishment a truly borderless economy.

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Living on Bitcoin Day 6: An Artist, a Dev and a Moon Boy Walk Into a Bar…

This is the fifth instalment of reporter Colin Harper's "Living on Bitcoin" experience in San Francisco. Find out what happened to him earlier on Day 1 , on Day 2 , on Day 3 , onDay 4 and on Day 5.

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China’s Increasing Stake in Crypto

Blockchain technology continues to mature. Despite negative price movements, global powers have positively shifted their sentiments toward the cryptocurrency market. Many countries are further exploring this new digital landscape and developing legislative frameworks.

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Xapo Transfers Key Operations to Switzerland

Global crypto services provider Xapo is moving major operations from its base in Hong Kong to its office in Switzerland. The company is incorporated in the Asian financial hub but that may also change soon due to the friendlier business environment in the Alpine nation.

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Cloudbet Serves Up Live Tennis With Sportradar Streaming Deal

Crypto’s not dead, streaming is live at Cloudbet for the final stages of the 2019 Australian Open and beyond. The leading bitcoin sportsbook is launching live-streaming of tennis and other major sporting events on its platform, following a deal announced today with global sports data service Sportradar .

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Bitcoin Transaction Volume in 2018 6X that of Paypal – Satoshi Capital Research

Satoshi Capital Research, a quantitative cryptocurrency hedge fund based in Atlanta USA, has made a bold declaration that “BTC is not just a serious global currency, but a serious global payment system as well.

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Could The Global Economic Anxiety In 2019 Play In Favor Of Bitcoin Hitting An All-Time High?

According to recent reports, the year 2019 is faced with great financial anxiety. The U. S economy, for instance, is expected to slow down in 2019, with a recession possible in 2020. The same also goes for China, whose economy seems to have slowed down in the last couple of months.

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Lack of ETNs Keeps Wall Street Away From Bitcoin, Says CBOE Analyst Ed Tilly

A lack of Bitcoin exchange-traded notes is preventing Wall Street institutional investors from joining the crypto space, according to Cboe Global Markets CEO Ed Tilly

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Tether (USDT) Dominates Stablecoin Market Despite Treasury Size Shrinking

Recently, CryptoCompare, the global cryptocurrency market data provider published a study offering institutional and retail investors insights into the cryptocurrency exchange industry. One of the observations made by the study is that Tether (USDT) continues to represent the majority of Bitcoin trading into fiat or stable coins at 65% of the total monthly volume in […]

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Платформа TON может быть представлен на ВЭФ в Давосе

Создатель мессенджера Telegram Павел Дуров может представить блокчейн-платформу Open Network (TON) на Всемирном экономическом форуме (ВЭФ) в Давосе (Швейцария). Форум пройдёт на следующей неделе - с 22 по 25 января.

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Bitcoin (BTC) Darknet Transactions Doubled In 2018: Why This Is Bullish

Crypto Darknet Transactions Boomed In 2018 Since Bitcoin (BTC) burst onto the global stage in 2009, the cryptocurrency, known for its decentralized, immutable, censorship-resistant, pseudonymous, and borderless nature, has become a medium for transactions of all shapes and size.

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Haven, a New App From OB1, Lets Users Chat, Shop and Send Crypto Privately

Blockchain startup OB1, the developers of decentralized shopping platform OpenBazaar, have announced Haven, a privacy-focused app for socializing with friends and making purchases with cryptocurrencies.

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Binance Expands Fiat-to-Crypto Exchange Into Europe Via Jersey

Binance’s cryptocurrency exchange platform has expanded into the European market with its entry into the Island of Jersey, a self-governing dependency of Great Britain.

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Huobi Resumes Operations in Japan as a Fully Regulated Exchange

Huobi is back in Japan, this time as a fully regulated exchange under Japan's Financial Services Agency (FSA). Following its merger with BitTrade, Huobi Japan Holding Ltd.

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Deloitte Blockchain Report, 95% of Surveyed Companies Are Investing in Blockchain

Enterprise Ethereum firm ConsenSys recently highlighted a recent report by Deloitte, which showed that 95% of surveyed firms are investing in distributed ledger technology. “Breaking Blockchain Open” the 2018 global blockchain report surveyed over 1,000 executives from a variety of industries and professions who are savvy in blockchain tech.

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Стартап BitGo запускает сервис трейдинга внутри холодного хранилища

Спустя несколько дней после взлома криптовалютной биржи Cryptopia, американская компания BitGo объявила о разработке платформы, позволяющей трейдерам покупать и продавать криптовалюты, не выводя их из холодного хранилища BitGo.

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CODEX Exchange Starts BTC Giveaway and Broadcasts It by Sending Messages on a Blockchain

CODEX, a fully licensed global cryptocurrency exchange, announces Bitcoin Giveaway to give users a chance to try out the platform at no expense of their own. With the substantial decrease in prices of digital assets over the year and bears still pulling down the market, it may be not easy for some of us to […] The post CODEX Exchange Starts BTC Giveaway and Broadcasts It by Sending Messages on a Blockchain appeared first on NullTX.

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Bitcoin Giant Grayscale Bolster Institutional Offerings, Launches Stellar Lumens Trust

While Bitcoin (BTC) and a majority of cryptocurrencies, save for Augur’s REP, have remained in a mundane price lull to start 2019, this industry’s upstarts have forged ahead. Grayscale Investments, a self-proclaimed “global leader in digital asset management,” recently launched an investment vehicle centered around Stellar Lumens (XLM) in a seeming bid to spark Wall.

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Markets Update: Crypto Prices Drift Sideways While Traders Remain Uncertain

A lot has changed since our last markets update as digital asset prices have been consolidating after the cryptoconomy’s last big drop in value. The entire ecosystem’s market valuation has lost about $10 billion over the last week, but stronger global trade volumes have managed to keep values afloat at current prices as traders await […] The post Markets Update: Crypto Prices Drift Sideways While Traders Remain Uncertain appeared first on Bitcoin News.

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Anti-Bitcoin Narrative Flawed: Fortnite’s V-Bucks Use in Money Laundering

Since Bitcoin burst onto the global stage in 2009, amid the breathtaking Great Recession, the crypto has been lambasted for supposedly being a medium for money laundering, illicit activities, and the like.

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BitGo Partners With Genesis Global Trading to Offer Users More Liquidity and Security

BitGo Inc. , a California-based blockchain security company has announced its partnership with Genesis Global Trading, a digital currency group company that offers clients over the counter (OTC) cryptocurrency trading to enable its customers to trade cryptoassets without having to move their funds out of cold storage or handling their private keys, according to a press release on January 16, 2019.

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Crypto-Exchange BitMEX to Freeze Accounts in the U.S, Quebec to avoid Legal Penalties

BitMEX is going through regulatory pressure and to avoid issues with the SEC the Hong-Kong based exchange has been shutting down users from US and Canada, as reported by South China Morning Post Jan 15, 2019.

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Major Oil and Gas Companies Join New Blockchain Oil Trading Platform VAKT

On January 16, London-based blockchain oil trading platform VAKT announced that oil and gas giants Chevron, Total and Reliance have joined its new blockchain-powered commodity trade platform. VAKT Puts Oil onto the Blockchain VAKT’s mission is “to digitize the global commodities trading industry, creating a secure, trusted ecosystem, powered by blockchain,” according to its website.

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New BitGo Partnership Lets Clients Trade Crypto Directly From Cold Storage

American crypto wallet and custodial firm BitGo has teamed up with Genesis Global Trading, a digital asset trading firm, to improve the crypto trading experience for its institutional investors.

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Custodial Bitgo Clients Can Now Access Genesis Global’s OTC Pools

On Wednesday, cryptocurrency custodial service Bitgo and over-the-counter (OTC) brokerage house Genesis Global announced a partnership to provide fast and secure trades directly from Genesis’ cold storage solution.

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