Fresh reports have revealed that France wants to block Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency in Europe. Meanwhile, financial regulators in Switzerland say they are open to international cooperation in the creation of a regulatory framework for the proposed cryptocurrency project. Libra Shall Not Pass London-based City A.M. has released a report purportedly from AFP that regulators in Read more…
The bitcoin safe haven debate has been raging recently as global recession fears mount. Central banks and governments are actively putting the brakes on their economies in order to protect themselves, but this does no favors for the masses and their paper money. A generational paradigm shift on this disruptive technology could be the best Read more…
Just recently Binance acquired a crypto-asset derivatives trading platform and announced that it intends to foray into the field of cryptocurrency futures, options, and other derivative products. Hence, one of the things that it had to settle was the auto-deleveraging section which governs counterparty liquidation. Looking at Binance’s official page, however, we can see that Read more…
The bullion market is slowly but steadily flooded with ‘dirty gold bars,’ according to a recent Reuters report. It’s interesting to know what Peter Shiff and other gold supporters would say about this. Is the precious metal better than Bitcoin in terms of money laundering? Gold Market Flooded with Fake Bars Many Bitcoin skeptics have Read more…
Controversial bitcoin maximalist Samson Mow described Ethereum as “a technological dead-end” after the digital ledger project ran out of capacity. Ethereum Struggles With Congestion Again The network utilization of Ether, Ethereum’s native asset, soared above 90 percent, according to data provided by Etherscan.io. The surge, according to Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, could prompt transactions costs Read more…
A set of rare, first-edition Pokemon cards sold for $100,000 at auction, valuing Charizard at $20k – more than a bitcoin. Source: Shutterstock A complete set of first edition Pokemon cards from 1999 just sold at auction for $107,010. Among the set, as any avid Pokemon fan from the ‘90s will remember, is a shiny Read more…
US president Donald Trump thinks he’s being smart but it could be that China ends up denting his re-election prospects and boosting bitcoin. The US Federal Reserve not playing ball doesn’t help either – and the more he pushes the harder he makes it for Jay Powell to maintain his institutions independent standing – or Read more…
WazirX founder Nischal Shetty believes that the recent IMC (Inter-Ministerial Committee) report put forward by the Indian government calling for a complete bitcoin and crypto ban in India drew its conclusion from inaccurate assumptions. Indian Authorities Don’t Know What Crypto is Tweeting on Tuesday (July 23, 2019), the bitcoin exchange founder described the report by Read more…
By CCN Markets: Stamp collecting just entered the 21st century, as the Austrian Post Office unveiled its limited edition ‘crypto stamp’ collectibles, powered by the Ethereum blockchain. Send Your Stamp, Keep A Collectible Crypto Stamp A limited 150,000 unit run of five different stamps – black, red, blue, yellow, black – allows the owner to Read more…
From Cash to Satoshi’s Vision, to Private, to Gold, to Atom and to Adult, the prefix Bitcoin has been used to depict and more commercially, sell and market a host of cryptocurrencies. Currently, there are 38 among the 2186 coins listed on CoinMarketCap, that sport the name “Bitcoin” as their introductory sell. This excludes the Read more…