Summary New startup Bakkt is founded by the owners of ICE and backed by Microsoft, Starbucks and the Boston Consulting Group. Bakkt is launching this November, and plans to make Bitcoin a mainstream currency and a stable investment vehicle. Bakkt will provide a regulated exchange for institutional investors, but also plans to replace credit cards …
SEARCHING FOR A BITCOIN BOOM Chambers, recently writing for Forbes, gathered some interesting statistics from Google Trends. Searches for “Bitcoin,” compared to “Trump,” or “Taylor Swift,” are significantly higher. Chambers says: “Bitcoin has massive brand clout. For whatever reason, the world is fascinated by it.” Chambers notes that interest in the stock market rises when stock prices slump, but …
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Ahead of Ethereum Classic Listing Coinbase has announced that it is in the final stages of testing support for ethereum classic (ETC) as it prepares to offer support for the cryptocurrency across it different services. In a statement published on its official blog, the platform revealed that it is making the information public in line …
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BCH Roundup: More Developments, 687K Transactions, and Rebirth Parties Bitcoin Cash proponents are celebrating the one year anniversary of ‘Bitcoin Independence Day’ on August 1st and now into the weekend. Over the past week, quite a few bitcoiners have noticed there’s been a lot of developments, announcements, and commemorative parties within the BCH space. Bitcoin …
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Dash Core Group (DCG) is continuing an effort that began in 2017 to improve the formal documentation of Dash and recently started an effort to offer quality translations of Dash Core Group’s products. The recent announcement references how general computer and internet consumer questions used to be common, but have subsided as help documentation has gotten better. …
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LocalCoinSwap has announced its planned support for NEO on the upcoming launch of its Hong Kong-based decentralized, peer-to-peer (P2P) exchange. Fiat currencies the exchange will support include the US Dollar (USD), European Euro (EUR), Japanese Yen (JPY), British Pound (GBP), Canadian Dollar (CAD), and Chinese Yuan Renminbi (CNY) among many others. LocalCoinSwap will support a variety of …
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South Korean exchange Bithumb has resumed deposit and withdrawal services for a number of cryptocurrencies after the recent hack. Another major Korean exchange, Upbit, has released an audit report showing more crypto and cash reserves than needed to pay customers. Meanwhile, all customer deposits at Korbit will now be held by a bank. Bithumb Resumes …
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Cryptocurrencies tumbled once again today in value as a great majority of digital assets are seeing losses this Saturday. Since our last markets update the entire digital currency economy shaved another $15 billion off the market capitalizations of all 1,600+ cryptocurrencies. Alongside the dreary prices, trade volumes have also been lackluster, leading many individuals to …
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A crypto mining company has raised £25 million (about $32.5 million) through an IPO on the London Stock Exchange (LSE). U.K.-based Argo Mining (ticker: ARB), which provides “accessible” crypto mining via a subscription service, is the first crypto company to be listed on the LSE. The company raised £5 million (about $6.5 million) more than its initial …
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A CoinMarketCap “data issue” caused significant artificial inflation of several coins listed on the platform on Friday, with some prices inflated by nearly 1000 percent. While bitcoin’s price spiked 12 percent on the crypto data site, other coins saw more drasticincreases. The price of aeternity, the eighth most valuable cryptocurrency, increased more than 951 percent, while …
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