Litecoin remains bearish while record dormant coins move

The price of Litecoin remains ranged under $45 as bears take control, with data...

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BitGo Launches FATF Travel Rule Compliance Product, Rallying Other VASPs to Adopt

BitGo, a San Francisco domiciled crypto custodian, is extending its API's for clients to append their data in line with the FATF ‘Travel Rule.' This set of regulations came into action back in 2019 under recommendation 16, requiring all Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASP) to comply with the guidelines. Most notably is the aspect of […]

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With Chat Privacy Under Threat in US, Firm Develops ‘100% User-Controlled’ Messaging

Unstoppable Domains is working to give users full control over their chat data with a new decentralized protocol.

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US Appeals Court Allows Warrantless Search of Blockchain, Exchange Data

A federal appeals court ruled public blockchain information and information stored on crypto exchanges do not provide a reasonable expectation of privacy under the Fourth Amendment.

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TikTok under scrutiny again for accessing sensitive user data

Apple’s new iPhone update reveals that the Chinese video making app is snooping over... The post TikTok under scrutiny again for accessing sensitive user data appeared first on Coin Journal.

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Over 900 Days Since Bitcoin All-Time High, Data Shows Another Year Before New Record

On December 17, 2017, Bitcoin price set a record for its all-time high, touching just under $20,000 before a reversal into a bear market took place. Since then, over 900 days have passed and with each new day, Bitcoin inches closer to setting a new record.

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Crucial Fundamental Data Shows Bitcoin Will Break Out of $10,500 Resistance

It’s been a tough past few days for Bitcoin. In spite of the recent rally off the $8,600 lows that has brought BTC to $9,300, the market remains depressed. BTC is trading just under 10% shy of the May highs of $10,100.

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Hacker Attempts to Sell Data Allegedly Tied to Ledger, Trezor, Bnktothefuture Customers

According to an online monitoring web portal called, Under the Breach, a hacker is purportedly trying to sell customer information that stems from companies like Keepkey, Trezor, Ledger, and even the investment platform Bnktothefuture.

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The Bitcoin Price Just Plunged Under $6,400 After Days of Stagnation

Over the past ten minutes, Bitcoin has performed extremely poorly, falling from $6,700 to a price as low as $6,265 in an over 6% sell-off, per data from TradingView. As a result, at least $20 million worth of long positions on BitMEX were liquidated, while millions more probably bit the dust on other exchanges. This...

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Bitcoin regression models accurate, but only under the store-of-value premise

Charting price predictions are a common trend with respect to Bitcoin and the cryptocurrency market. Due to high market volatility and limited market data, many analysts and crypto-enthusiasts are conThe post Bitcoin regression models accurate, but only under the store-of-value premise appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Fake volume in crypto and equities market similar: TradingView's Crosby

Not so long ago, crypto exchanges came under fire for allegedly facilitating wash trading and trade volume manipulation. Following Bitwise's report about exchanges faking volumes, popular data site, CThe post Fake volume in crypto and equities market similar: TradingView's Crosby appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Wawa Data Breach Provides Another Case for Cryptocurrencies

Wawa, a convenience store chain based on the East Coast of the United States, has recently suffered a big data breach. For the past nine months, the company’s databases have been under fire from an attack and they have little idea as to who carried it out.

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Bitcoin (BTC) Price At Risk Of More Downsides Below $11,200

Bitcoin price is currently under pressure below the $11,600 resistance against the US Dollar. The price could slide sharply if there is a break below the $11,200 support area. There is a major bearish trend line forming with resistance near $11,700 on the hourly chart of the BTC/USD pair (data feed from Kraken).

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Breaking: Binance’s old KYC data breach leaked on telegram group

During the start of 2018, Binance had faced a massive threat that its KYC data point was allegedly breached by a hacker under a pseudonym – exploitDOT. Earlier today, a Telegram user by the name, “Guardian M”, started dumping the proof of the allegedly “breached” KYC data of Binance customers.

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Google Play hosted 205 harmful apps with over 32M installs last month alone

It seems Google is losing the battle against sketchy Android software big time. The company hosted over 205 harmful apps on the Play store in July only. The kicker: these apps were downloaded over 32 million times in total in the past month alone.

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Facebook Admits Libra Crypto Project May Never Launch

Since its inception, Facebook’s foray into crypto has been under fire from all sides. The reaction to Libra was unsurprising really given the social media giant’s poor track record when it comes to data protection and security.

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Analyst: BitMEX Data Suggests Bitcoin is Fairly Valued at $8,800 to $9,300

Once again, Bitcoin (BTC) is trading under $10,000. In fact, as of the time of writing this article, the cryptocurrency is sitting around $9,500 — up 0. 8% in the past 24 hours. Related Reading: Crypto Tidbits: Bakkt’s Bitcoin Futures, Monex & Libra, Andrew Yang PAC Accepts BTC While some cynical analysts are expecting for BTC.

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Datawallet Creates Privacy Solutions For Protecting Online Identities

Personal privacy is a huge problem on the internet, as evident in Facebook’s latest privacy fiasco. Companies routinely mine data on their users, from political leanings to holiday destinations and buying preferences.

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Altcoin community attempts to rank crypto-exchanges by eliminating wash trading figures

The reported volumes of cryptocurrency exchanges came under fire earlier this year after trading analytics platform, The Tie, released its own findings and concluded that 90% of the trading volumes were incorrectly reported by crypto-exchanges.

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CFTC Investigation Incites a Run on Bitmex, Regulatory Risk Paramount in United States

After initial reports that the CFTC had begun to investigate BitMex under customer protection rules, the latest data from TokenAnalyst suggests that this has been sufficient to scare users into removing their bitcoin (BTC) from the platform, July 20, 2019.

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Bitcoin Tumbling As Libra Attacks Intensify, BTC Down 20%

Bitcoin (BTC) is crumbling The success of Facebook’s Libra instrumental for Bitcoin Under attack for their reckless past, the success of Facebook will be immense for cryptocurrencies and Bitcoin.   Even so, privacy is prime.

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Blockstream’s Samson Mow: “Facebook Should Have Just Used Bitcoin” Regarding Libra Project

The combative hearing in the U.S Congress in the past two days left citizens and other onlookers with much doubt on the success of Facebook’s Libra. While Bitcoin (BTC) caught on a bullish vibe across the financial committee led by Maxine Waters, Libra’s CEO David Marcus was under fire on the privacy of data issues […]

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Trump’s Economy Boosts Bottom 10 Percent of the American Population

White House Economic Adviser Larry Kudlow believes the U. S. economy is booming under Donald Trump and the data supports it. Kudlow appeared on Fox Business where he expressed frustration that the mainstream media and certain “individuals running for higher office” were attempting to paint the economy as being in a recession.

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Will Facebook Store Data of Libra Cryptocurrency Users

Recently, Facebook came under heavy fire for a massive security breach of its network and personal data pilferage of millions of users. However, in a letter to US senators, the social media giant has assured that it will not be collecting and storing data of users of its “cryptocurrency” Libra.

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Spotify now has a Lite app for Android users in 36 countries

Spotify has just launched a Lite version of its Android app that’s designed to work well on low-end devices and spotty connections. The app comes in at under 10MB, and is set to stream tunes at ‘Basic’ quality by default, which the company says should work out to roughly 0.

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Ripple Price (XRP) Testing Crucial Support Post Bitcoin’s Correction

Ripple price declined again after it failed to clear the $0. 4070 resistance zone against the US dollar. The price is under a lot of pressure and it recently broke the $0. 3950 support area. There is a key declining channel forming with resistance near $0.

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”Stop Right Now!” – How Much Government Officials Already Hate Facebucks

The best thing about Facebook’s proposed digital currency isn’t its BTF consensus algorithm, account-based data model or single Merkle tree structure. No, the greatest thing about Libra has to be the triggered reactions from politicians and bankers who can sense the rug being pulled from under their feet, threatening their hegemony and upending their world […] The post ”Stop Right Now!” – How Much Government Officials Already Hate Facebucks appeared first on Bitcoin News.

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Korean Crypto Exchanges Face Backlash, Could it Stunt Bitcoin's Run?

According to Business Korea, hundreds of minor crypto exchanges in South Korea could run smack into heightened scrutiny for failing to abide by proposed enhanced know-your-customer (KYC) regulations, which would require exchanges to only provide services to users with "real-name accounts" issued by local financial institutions.

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Blockchain startup replaying 10 years of Bitcoin transaction history in an hour

Radix, a public trustless decentralized ledger, plans to replay 10 years of Bitcoin transaction history with full signature and transaction validation in under an hour. A new layer for the internet Radix describes itself as a new layer for the internet, where data, money, and other assets can be transacted quickly and easily.

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Sidechains vs Plasma vs Sharding

Special thanks to Jinglan Wang for review and feedback One question that often comes up is: how exactly is sharding different from sidechains or Plasma? All three architectures seem to involve a hub-and-spoke architecture with a central “main chain” that serves as the consensus backbone of the system, and a set of “child” chains containing actual user-level transactions.

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Bitcoin SV (BSV) Price Drops 10% Correctively; Massive Dump Coming?

By CCN: Price of Bitcoin SV (BSV) is showing the first signs of significant downside correction after rallying more than 300-percent over the last two weeks. The BSV-to-dollar exchange rate today dropped close to 10-percent to establish $194.

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Bitcoin Price: Whales ‘Manufactured’ Dump to Accumulate More BTC

Bitcoin price fell below $8000 for the first time in over a week June 4 after several huge transactions appeared to move markets artificially. BTC Sheds $600 After Coinbase Sell-Off Data from cryptocurrency exchange Bitstamp painted a volatile picture for bitcoin Tuesday, BTC/USD suddenly dropping $500 in around 90 minutes.

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Ethereum (ETH) Price Showing Signs of Weakness: $250 Holds Key

ETH price recovered recently, but it struggled to clear the $275 resistance against the US Dollar. The price is currently under pressure and it could decline below the $260 support area. There was a break below a major bullish trend line with support at $270 on the hourly chart of ETH/USD (data feed via Kraken).

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Chinese Listed Companies and Bitcoin Mining: Partner or Predator?

This article was originally published by 8btc and written by Lylian Teng. Some Chinese listed companies have jumped on the bandwagon of bitcoin mining following the bitcoin bull run throughout 2017, either under the guise of cloud computing or providing mining hosting services, in an effort to bypass regulations considering the country’s tough stance on bitcoin.

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Grayscale: BTC Holdings Make Up $1.97B of $2.1B Assets Under Management

According to the published data, the Grayscale’s bitcoin trust is responsible for nearly 94% of the firm’s total assets under management

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Numerous Social Media Platforms Make Headlines For All The Wrong Reasons

There has been a lot of unsavory news about Facebook and Google with sharing and selling our data for the past few months which have made users somewhat uncomfortable. More recently LinkedIn, IBO Toolbox and Steemit have been under fire.

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Dow Futures Wobbles Under Economic Data Scrutiny on Memorial Day

By CCN: The Dow and U. S. stock market could see significant action this week as a fresh wave of economic data make their way through the financial markets. Critically, these data releases will help investors determine the latest impact of the U.

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Facebook (FB) Registers Secret Libra Crypto Project in Geneva as Data Privacy Concerns Loom

Facebook registered its crypto payments project in Geneva under the company name Libra Networks on May 2. According to a just released Reuters report the listing names Facebook Global as… The post Facebook (FB) Registers Secret Libra Crypto Project in Geneva as Data Privacy Concerns Loom appeared first on CoinCentral.

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Bitcoin (BTC) Price Uptrend Pauses But Not Out of Woods Yet

Bitcoin price is currently under pressure below the $7,800 support area against the US Dollar. The price declined recently and it is currently trading just above the $7,500 support area. There is a major declining channel in place with resistance at $8,000 on the hourly chart of the BTC/USD pair (data feed from Kraken).

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Announcing CryptoSlate Research, an exclusive newsletter delivering thoroughly researched analysis and crypto market insight

Since 2017, CryptoSlate’s mission has been to provide high quality and objective analysis of the blockchain and cryptocurrency market. CryptoSlate has achieved this by becoming a key community resource for important news, comprehensive analysis, and relevant data under one streamlined platform.

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Ethereum (ETH) May Pull Back Over Next Two Weeks, BitMEX Data Hints

Ethereum May Soon Consolidate It isn’t a secret that the cryptocurrency market has been on a tear. Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and many other crypto assets are right under their year-to-date highs, and look poised.

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Emergency services still struggle with GDPR — but the regulation could be a benefit

GDPR is an incredible piece of legislation that protects our personal data from being abused by companies and organizations. It keeps data handlers in check and gives us a say in the process, but it’s effectiveness is only ensured because it applies to everyone that has our data — and that includes emergency services.

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After a Bear Market Relapse Day, Bitcoin Price Bounces Back Bullish to $8,250 BTC/USD

Investors who had missed out on buying Bitcoin at under $7,000 levels were really hoping for the top crypto to fall more, but that was not meant to be. Bitcoin has again surged towards $8,200. Here you can see the real-time price of BTC in USD and all market cap data: Bitcoin’s value was slashed […]

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BitMax.io (BTMX.com) Announces Strategic Listing Partnership with DREP

BitMax. io (BTMX. com), the industry-leading next-generation digital asset trading platform, has announced the new listing of DREP (DREP) under the trading pairs of DREP/USDT, DREP/BTC at 10:00 a.

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Up 55%: NEM (XEM) Defies Crypto Snooze as Week’s Biggest Gainer

By CCN: The crypto market took a breather from its bull run this week, with Bitcoin slightly departing from its recent year-to-date peak. However, NEM has been defying this mini-correction mood to gain over 55 percent since Monday, according to Coinmarketcap data.

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Ripple (XRP) Price Showing Signs of Weakness But Likely To Bounce Back

Ripple price failed to stay above the $0. 4450 pivot level and declined below $0. 4200 against the US dollar. The price is currently under pressure and it could test the $0. 3740 or $0. 3400 support.

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Bitcoin is Dominating Crypto Taking Over 90% of All Mining Fees

When considering Bitcoin dominance in terms of market cap and trading volume, spare a thought for the poor miners. The miners of other altcoins, that is, as they share under 10% of the total fees value between them.

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Microsoft Is Building an ID Verification Platform on Bitcoin

Microsoft is leveraging blockchain technology to create a trustless digital identity scheme, but its not launching a token or building a private blockchain to do so.

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Facebook to Sue South Korean Data Analytics Company, Rankwave, Over Failure to Abide by Policies

Facebook was under a lot of heat when the Cambridge Analytica scandal exploded. As we may have all heard, the scandal involved a personality-quiz app created by a representative from Cambridge, where Facebook users downloaded and answered the questions.

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