Day: December 13, 2018

Major Stablecoin Basis to Close, Return Funds to Investors: Sources

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Major United States-based stablecoin project Basis will shut down operations and return most of its funds to investors, crypto news outlet The Block reports today, Dec. 12. Citing “multiple people with direct knowledge of the situation,” the reports states that the algorithmic stablecoin project is set to return the majority of the $133 million in funding it raised in a private placement in April. Basis’ investors include major names in venture capital, among them Bain Capital Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz. The Block reports that the firm plans to communicate directly…

Ethereum Price Analysis: ETH at Potentially Significant Turning Point

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Key Highlights ETH price remained in a bearish zone and it is currently trading below $90 against the US Dollar. This week’s followed important bearish trend line is active with resistance at $90 on the hourly chart of ETH/USD (data feed via Kraken). The pair may decline in the short term towards the $85 level or the $82 support zone. Ethereum price failed to extend gains and declined against the US Dollar and bitcoin. ETH/USD might continue to face sellers near the $90 and $92 resistances. Ethereum Price Analysis There…

Bitcoin (BTC) Stable At $3,400: Analyst Compares Crypto With Dotcom Bubble

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Bitcoin Stable At $3,400, Altcoins In Similar Position  Interestingly, after a multi-week bout of lower lows, the crypto market at large stabilized on Tuesday and Wednesday, as Bitcoin (BTC) found itself trading in a tight range between $3,300 and $3,500. Since Ethereum World News’ previous market update, released not 24 hours ago, the aggregate market capitalization of all cryptocurrencies has barely budged, up by $1.4 billion (~1.2%) to $111.39 billion in comparison to yesterday’s $109.9 billion. Like crypto asset values, volumes posted by exchanges have begun to slow, with 24-hour volumes…

Pro-Crypto French MPs Want to Invest 500 Million Euros to Make France ‘Blockchain Nation’

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Two pro-crypto members of the French Parliament (Parlement français) want the country to invest up to 500 million euros in blockchain programs to elevate France as a “blockchain nation.” Deputies Jean-Michel Mis and Laure de La Raudière released a report on Dec. 12 outlining 20 proposals to support the development and mainstream adoption of blockchain, according to French financial newspaper Les Echos. “2019 will be the year of the blockchain in France,” Jean-Michel Mis said in the report, according to a rough translation. “This 10-year technology is moving out of the…

Pro-Crypto French MPs Want to Invest 500 Million Euros to Make France ‘Blockchain Nation’

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Two pro-crypto members of the French Parliament (Parlement français) want the country to invest up to 500 million euros in blockchain programs to elevate France as a “blockchain nation.” Deputies Jean-Michel Mis and Laure de La Raudière released a report on Dec. 12 outlining 20 proposals to support the development and mainstream adoption of blockchain, according to French financial newspaper Les Echos. “2019 will be the year of the blockchain in France,” Jean-Michel Mis said in the report, according to a rough translation. “This 10-year technology is moving out of the…

Hyperledger Onboards 12 New Members Including Alibaba Cloud, Deutsche Telekom and Citi

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Hyperledger has onboarded 12 new members, including such major firms as Alibaba Cloud, Citi, and Deutsche Telekom, according to an announcement published on Dec. 11. Launched in 2016, Hyperledger is an open source project created by the Linux Foundation and created to support the development of blockchain-based distributed ledgers. The new members were announced at the Hyperledger Global Forum in Basel, Switzerland. The latest general members that joined the initiative include Alibaba Cloud, a subsidiary of the e-commerce giant; financial services firm Citigroup, Deutsche Telekom, one of the largest telecoms…

Court Ruling to Return Mistakenly Sent Cryptocurrency Could Set Precedent

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A Dec. 12 Business Law Blog post from the University of Oxford Faculty of Law notes possible repercussions for lost and stolen crypto claims following a case in a Canadian trial court earlier this year. In the post, SAFE Frankfurt researcher Grygoriy Pustovit notes the case of Copytrack Pte Ltd v Wall. The superior trial court of British Columbia ruled that Ethereum (ETH) tokens, which were mistakenly sent by the plaintiff, Singapore blockchain startup Copytrack, to the defendant, Brian Wall, must be returned to Copytrack. The defendant mistakenly received 530…

Crypto Trading App Circle Invest Lists BCH Offshoot Bitcoin SV

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Circle’s Invest app now providers users the ability to buy Bitcoin SV (BSV), according to a tweet from the company this morning. CCN verified that BSV is available in the application as of its latest version. The application has over 50,000 installations on the Google Play store, making it significantly less popular than Coinbase, which has over 5 million installations on the same platform. Bitcoin SV was trading just under $90 on Circle Invest at time of writing, while its cousin Bitcoin Cash was trading at $98.61. Combined they are…

Google Trends Reveals One of the Top Questions of 2018 — ‘What Is Bitcoin?’

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Google has just published its annual Year in Search query statistics for 2018 and the biggest question of last year was “What is Bitcoin?” According to Google Trends, searches for the term “Bitcoin” have declined rapidly since 2017, but web users querying its definition led internet searches last year. Also read: Indian Supreme Court Moves Crypto Hearing, Community Calls for Positive Regulations 2018’s Most Asked Question of the Year — What Is Bitcoin? In 2017, one of the biggest terms searched on Google was “Bitcoin” as the price rose significantly throughout…

Google Trends Reveals One of the Top Questions of 2018 — ‘What Is Bitcoin?’

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News Google has just published its annual Year in Search query statistics for 2018 and the biggest question of last year was “What is Bitcoin?” According to Google Trends, searches for the term “Bitcoin” have declined rapidly since 2017, but web users querying its definition led internet searches last year. Also read: Indian Supreme Court Moves Crypto Hearing, Community Calls for Positive Regulations 2018’s Most Asked Question of the Year — What Is Bitcoin? In 2017, one of the biggest terms searched on Google was “Bitcoin” as the price rose significantly…