Buying Bitcoin Currently Is Too Risky, Could Remain So For The Next Six Months: Expert

‘To be or not to be,’ goes the famous phrase in William Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet. For crypto investors currently, the question is to buy or not to buy. While the current Bitcoin price may seem alluring for some, one expert advises against it, urging investors to wait it out and observe the market first.

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Crypto Exec: Bitcoin Will Remain Under $5,000 For At Least Six Months

Although the crypto industry has its fair share of over-ardent speculators, many of which are blinded by visions of grandeur, high ceilings, and chandeliers, others in this nascent line of business have erred on the side of caution.

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Vinny Lingham Warns Of ‘At Least’ 3-6 Months Of Bitcoin Price Under $5K

Civic CEO Vinny Lingham forecast the Bitcoin price to remain below $5000 for at least three to six months this week as sentiment throughout the industry takes a beating. $3K Bitcoin Price ‘Could Go’ Speaking in an interview with CNBC November 26, Lingham, whose Civic raised $33 million in an ICO last year but now trades below its original market cap, joined analysts such as Tone Vays in delivering a more bearish mid-term outlook for Read More The post Vinny Lingham Warns Of ‘At Least’ 3-6 Months Of Bitcoin Price Under $5K appeared first on Bitcoinist.com.

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Just the Facts: An Unembellished Examination of Ross Ulbricht's Arrest

The Let’s Talk Bitcoin Network hosts several podcasts for regular discussion topics in the world of blockchain and cryptocurrency, including the popular weekly show What Bitcoin Did.

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Korean Exchange Zeniex Closes After Only Six Months

The Korean exchange had previously delisting the ZXG asset.

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Bitcoin Miner ‘Canaan Creative’ IPO Will Not Happen in 2018

Bitcoin mining equipment maker, Canaan Creative, on Thursday (November 15, 2018) allowed its Initial Public Offering (IPO) filing to elapse. Reports suggest that the company will shelve its IPO plans at least for the remainder of the year.

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Live Look at the Bitcoin Cash Hard Fork: BCH Teams ABC, SV and Crypto Community Takes

All the cryptocurrency market is closely following the events that will take place in the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) network. The fourth largest virtual currency in terms of market capitalization will be experiencing a hard fork that has divided the community between Bitcoin SV and Bitcoin ABC.

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Top Bitcoin Mining Player Canaan Creative Allows HKEX Filing to Lapse, Leading to Delay of IPO Possibly

Canaan Creative recently applied for an initial public offering over six months ago in Hong Kong, but it does not seem like they met the requirements within the timeframe allotted. Considering that these applications are only good for six months through HKEX, it is possible that this IPO may ultimately be delayed. On the HKEX […]

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Canaan’s Hong Kong Listing Plans in Limbo

Plans by bitcoin mining equipment manufacturer Canaan to list shares on the Hong Kong stock exchange are now uncertain, as the Chinese company’s application for an initial public offering (IPO) expired on Nov.

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Unlikely Source Predicts $1bn STO Revolution

A boom in security token offerings (STOs) may just be around the corner. At a breakfast briefing sponsored by CoinShares last Thursday, a panel suggested that a multi-billion dollar STO market would begin in 2019, with the first sales beginning in as little as six months.

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Ethereum Price Analysis - Neutral to bullish for the first time in almost six months

Technicals are beginning to lean neutral to bullish for the first time in almost six months. Momentum now favors a mean reversion of price towards US$340-US$355. However, the overall trend remains bearish so long as price is below the daily 200EMA and below the daily Cloud.

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Winklevoss Twins Sue Charlie Shrem For Allegedly Stealing 5,000 Bitcoin

The Winklevoss twins have filed a lawsuit against bitcoin investor Charlie Shrem, alleging that Shrem “stole” 5,000 bitcoins from them in 2012. According to a recent report released by the New York Times, Charlie Shrem has made several large purchases over the past year, including multiple real estate properties, luxury cars, powerboats and a $2 million house.

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Morgan Stanley Reports: Bitcoin is a New Institutional Asset Class

Cryptocurrencies are a new investment asset class, according to a report by Morgan Stanley, released on October 31. The Evolution of Cryptocurrencies The banking giant has conducted research over the last six months on Bitcoin to identify trends, based on which it concluded that cryptos are an investment asset class.

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[VIDEO] November 1st Daily News Recap for Blockchain and Cryptocurrency

Hong Kong Stock Exchange and Digital Asset Partner to Create New Blockchain Trade Platform Hong Kong Stock Exchange and Digital Asset Partner to Create New Blockchain Trade Platform Coinbase Loses Head of Trading After Six Months, Hired by Adam White Who Went to Bakkt Coinbase Loses Head of Trading After Six Months, Hired by Adam […]

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Unchained Capital Revamps Loans With Multi-Party, Multi-Sig Storage

Blockchain financial service company Unchained Capital will now offer multi-signature and multi-institution cold storage solutions for borrowers who leverage its crypto-collateralized loans service.

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Justin Sun Picks Bitcoin and Ethereum as his Favourites Apart from Tron

For some time now, Tron token has been in the news after it lost its market capitalization and was the 12th cryptocurrency before the Tron founder, Justin Sun said it could take six months for it to return to the top 10 positions.

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Coinbase's Head of Trading Resigns After Six Months on Job

The head of trading at Coinbase, Hunter Merghart, has resigned just six months after joining the crypto startup from Barclays, CoinDesk has learned.

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Unwriter Launches ‘Bitsocket’ — A Push API for the Bitcoin Cash Network

After a slew of new applications released over the last six months, on Oct. 24 the software developer Unwriter published another platform for the BCH ecosystem called Bitsocket; a real-time application program interface (API) for Bitcoin Cash.

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CBOE Bitcoin Futures Trading One of Most Successful Products Just Six Months After Launch

Bitcoin Futures Underwhelm In December 2017, Bitcoin futures launched. This was right before the peak of last year’s price bubble. By October 2017, many believe that the update has been somewhat disappointing.

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Moonday Morning: DJ Khaled & Floyd Mayweather finally sued over scamcoin

It’s Moonday Morning! Time to serve up a hot, steaming pile of cryptocurrency news leftovers that we all missed over the weekend, but taste oh-so-good when you reheat them. On today’s menu: 1.

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Ethereum Foundation Grants $120K to Philly Data-Transparency Startup TrueBlocks

TrueBlocks received the award to continue working towards a “fully-decentralized way to access data from any Ethereum address or smart contract. ” The money will support the project over the next six months.

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The Daily: Goldman Sachs Invests in Wallet, Institutional Traders Borrow $553M

In today’s edition of The Daily we cover stories about the latest investment in the cryptocurrency space by Goldman Sachs, the amount institutional traders borrowed in the last six months from just one OTC desk, research on state-sponsored hackers, and a new security tool from Coinbase.

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Cryptocurrency Loans Go Big As Company Reveals $550M Half-Year Traffic

The cryptocurrency loans offshoot of just one firm saw through-flow of over half a billion dollars in its first six months on the market. ‘Incredibly Strong Reception’ That’s according to third quarter statistics released October 18th by Genesis Capital, a US-based over-the-counter trading firm.

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Crypto OTC Broker Genesis Processes $553 Million in Institutional Lending in Six Months

Over Half a Billion Dollars Processed Through Genesis Global Trading Loan Spin-off Within First Six Months A new report on October 18th revealed that Genesis Global Trading has been experiencing a substantial amount of success this year.

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After ten years, TNW Conference has a new home

Written by Wytze de Haan, Director of Events For our 14th edition, TNW Conference is moving to a new location! But before I tell you where we’re going, I’d like to share where we’ve been. I’ve worked at TNW for almost seven years now, which makes me a very “odd” millennial.

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50% of American WhatsApp users don’t know it’s owned by Facebook

Just over half of Americans (50. 42 percent) who have used WhatsApp in the last six months are unaware that it’s owned by Facebook. This, my friends, is a pretty high figure. The research was carried out by DuckDuckGo, the privacy-protecting search engine.

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6 reasons to invest in your 20s (when all you want to do is spend)

You’ve probably heard this a thousand times. If you aren’t investing yet, you should start soon. The truth is, you should have already started. When all you want to do is save up for six months, quit your job, and blow all your money backpacking around South America Motorcycle Diaries style, consider these six reasons first.

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Ethereum Classic (ETC) Can Easily End The Year Above $100

Ethereum Classic (ETC) is highly likely to trade north of $100 by end of the year. This does not require a very bullish Bitcoin (BTC). In fact, if Bitcoin (BTC) trades around $10,000, that would do the job for Ethereum Classic (ETC).

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Report: Google to launch censored Search in China despite denials

Google intends to launch a censored version of its Search app for China sometime in the next six to nine months, according to a leaked transcript from a private employee meeting held last month.

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Binance to Make Listing Fees Transparent, Give Proceeds to Charity

Binance, the largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, said that it will make new cryptocurrency listing fees transparent and donate 100 percent of those fees to charity.

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Tron (TRX) Will Be Among Top Ten Cryptos In Six Months, Says CEO Justin Sun

CEO and founder of Tron, Justin Sun has expressed optimism on how he plans to take the Tron project to stardom within six months. Sun made this known in a telephone interview with Investopedia yesterday.

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Philippines to deport fugitives to South Korea for $33M Bitcoin scam

Filipino authorities have advanced on international criminals suspected of running a large-scale Bitcoin pyramid scheme. Authorities have detained two of the six individuals thought to have defrauded South Korean investors for over $33 million, while the others remain on the run.

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ICO crisis

“The rush for ICO is over, and the projects are still left” - market analysts concluded. At the beginning of 2018 the ICO projects mobilized more than $ 3 billion dollars monthly, and now, only six months later, the statistics has shown a rapid decrease of funds collection – $ 326 million per month, and that is 10 times less comparing with the beginning of the year.

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[promoted] How Invictus Capital Is Reshaping the Landscape of Cryptocurrency Investing

One of the impacts of the rapid, global advancement of digital asset markets has been seasons of volatility and turbulence. This creates a challenging environment for even the most astute investors in terms of managing cryptocurrency portfolios and investment strategies.

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September’s 10 Most Active ERC20 Projects Told Us What They’re Working On

There are BUIDLers, and then there are BUIDLers. More than six months ago, we at Santiment developed a better way to track dev activity of ERC-20 projects that goes far beyond just counting git commits – which often provides skewed, unusable data.

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Bitcoin Group SE Reports Half-Year Profit Surges 300% to $3.85 Million

German digital currency exchange Bitcoin Group SE reported on Friday a first-half net profit increase of more than 300% to €3. 32 million (~$3. 85 million USD). The company added 86,000 new accounts of people buying and selling cryptocurrency like bitcoin and bitcoin cash in the first six months of 2018.

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Bitmain IPO Prospectus Reveals Offering May Be a Gamble for Investors

Bitmain, the biggest company in bitcoin mining, has filed for its IPO in Hong Kong. As part of the approval process, the company submitted a prospectus to the Hong Kong stock exchange at the end of August 2018.

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World’s Largest Crypto Mining Firm Bitmain Releases Financial Results, Plans To List In Hong Kong

The price of Bitcoin may have come tumbling down this year, but the world’s largest crypto mining hardware manufacturer has continued to rake in the big bucks. Bitmain released its financial results revealing that it had generated $2.

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Top 6 Projects Gaining the Most Market Cap Positions – Q3 2018 Ediiton

A lot of things have changed in the cryptocurrency world over the past six months. Many new coins have come to market, whereas some have almost disappeared into obscurity. The following currencies have noted the biggest gains in terms of overall market cap position over the past six months, as reported by Bitgur.

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A Snapshot of Cryptocurrency Forks Shows the Biggest Winners and Losers

Forking cryptocurrencies, usually Bitcoin or one of its offshoots, was all the rage 12 months ago. Today, the spate of new forks has dwindled to a trickle. With the benefit of hindsight, and armed with over a year’s worth of data, it’s possible to determine which forks succeeded and why.

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Top 6 Cryptocurrencies Losing Market Cap Positions – Q3 2018 Edition

As things change in the world of cryptocurrency, the market cap rankings are always interesting to keep an eye on. In the case of the following six projects, the past few months have been challenging.

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Brazil Investment CEO On Bitcoin Exchange Launch: ‘I’d Rather Crypto Didn’t Exist’

XP Group, owner of the largest investment firm in Brazil, XP Investimentos, confirmed it would launch a cryptocurrency exchange this week – despite its CEO saying he wished it “didn’t exist.

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In First Half of 2018, Japan Counts $540 Million Lost to Crypto Thefts

When Tokyo-based Mt. Gox got hacked to the tune of 650,000 bitcoin in 2014, Japan learned early on the tough lessons of cryptocurrency theft. Yet, to this day, despite the country’s ongoing efforts to educate investors and ramp up oversight of crypto exchanges, it still feels the sting of hackers.

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Japan Sees Rising Crypto Theft, $540 Million Stolen in First Six Months of 2018

Japan, often fondly referred to as the ‘Land of the Rising Sun’ has this year increasingly become the ‘Land of rising crypto theft,’ with a new report suggesting that the yen equivalent of $540 million has been stolen during the first six months of the year.

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Six Months of New Digital Policy: Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Belarus to Discuss Decree No.8

On October 10, Minsk will host Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Belarus, an event dedicated to blockchain and cryptocurrencies. The post Six Months of New Digital Policy: Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Belarus to Discuss Decree No.8 appeared first on CoinSpeaker.

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Japan lost over $540M in cryptocurrency hacks in first half of 2018

Hackers have swiped over $540 million (60 billion Yen) worth of cryptocurrency from Japanese netizens over the first six months of 2018. On September 20, Japan’s National Police Agency revealed the number of cryptocurrency-related reported incidents rose to 158 – triple the amount of incidents over the same period last year, local outlet The Asahi Shimbun reports.

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Latest TTC Protocol Development Progress

It has been about six months since the team released the first Whitepaper of TTC Protocol.

The post Latest TTC Protocol Development Progress appeared first on CoinSpeaker.

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Grin Is Hard Forking Every Six Months to Keep ASICs Off the Network

Amid crypto's war on ASICs, the Grin community is taking a new approach – shut them out for a limited time with consistent hard forks.

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Texas Man Sentenced to Jail after Being Found Guilty of $9 Million Crypto Fraud

A Texas man, formerly a citizen of Somer, has been sentenced to 21 months in prison for his involvement in a cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme worth $9 million. Homero Joshua Garza, the 33-year-old convict, will be put under three years of supervised release after his jail term ends.

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