Month: January 2019

Genesis Capital | Crypto Lending Weathers a Bearish Market

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Crypto lending firm Genesis Capital processed $1.1 billion in loans last year. This is according to the company’s recently released ‘Lending Snapshot’ for Q4 2018. Genesis Capital The figure shows the massive growth in processed loans as Bitcoin price fell over 44% in 2018. The first Digital Asset Lending Snapshot was released at the end of Q3 2018. This reported that Genesis processed $553 million in loans from the period starting March 2018. Therefore the most up-to-date figures show that “Q4 loan originations increased more than 100% in the final three months of 2018…

Crypto Hacks Take $1.7 Billion in 2018

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Yesterday, a rather shocking cryptocurrency anti-money laundering report was released by the crypto analytics company CipherTrace. This report states that around $1.7 billion worth of cryptocurrency was obtained illegally in 2018. What’s more surprising is that crypto hacks happened three times more than in 2017. No wonder institutional investors don’t want to put big money into the crypto industry yet. Crypto Hacks Worth $1.7 Billion Of the total stolen in 2018, over $950 million was from cryptocurrency exchanges. This is 3.6 times more than what was stolen from exchanges in 2017.…

Bitcoin Price Analysis: BTC at $4,500 Not an Impossibility

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Bitcoin Price up 1.8 percent, double-bar bull reversal pattern prints Fidelity Investment custodial services set for March Transactional volumes expected to rise in days ahead Three months after announcing their interest in crypto, Fidelity Investment will set out and roll out Bitcoin custody in three months. No doubt this will easy crypto trading as BTC is usually the base pair as BTC/USD rise from $3,500. Bitcoin Price Analysis Fundamentals Here’s why Fidelity Investments delving into the cryptocurrency world is such a big deal. First, the Boston based firm has over…

Startup Offers “New Generation” Coin

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A startup named Pyrex says it has created the “next generation cryptocurrency,” which enables untraceable payments and unlinkable transactions. Its ecosystem includes three separate but interchangeable blockchain payment methods, together with its own crypto bank, cloud mining platform and multi-currency exchange. Secure and private The first blockchain payment method is PyrexCoin (PYX), operated by a decentralized peer-to-peer (p2p) exchange network with no management or major issuer to rule it. The company assures that this cryptocurrency is untraceable, secure, anonymous and borderless. A p2p network makes all the users’ transactions on…

Bitcoin, Ripple, Ethereum, EOS, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, Tron, Stellar, Bitcoin SV, Cardano: Price Analysis, Jan. 30

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The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Cointelegraph.com. Every investment and trading move involves risk, you should conduct your own research when making a decision. The market data is provided by the HitBTC exchange. Crypto investors lost about $1.7 billion worth of cryptocurrencies to hackers in 2018. Though prices are down, it has not deterred the criminals. The volume of stolen coins in 2018 was 3.6 times larger than in 2017, according to the report from research…

Tron Price Analysis: TRX May Be a Security, CEO Fuels Rumors

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Tron prices bullish, up four percent from last week’s close Thomas Schultz of ChaChing wallet warned to “stay away” from Tron Transaction volumes low, price bullish Hours after BTT ICO, Thomas Schultz now claims he has been warned by an “SEC Insider” to wade clear off Tron. Unless verified, this will be another attempt of FUD in an otherwise robust asset. Our TRX/USD trade plan is valid as long as TRX prices trend above 2.5 cents. Tron Price Analysis Fundamentals Nothing has been substantiated, but rumor has it that TRX…

Top Russian Official Urges Parliament to Discuss Draft Crypto Bill Without Further Delays

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The chairman of the upper house of Russian parliament has urged MPs to expedite their work on digital economy bills that include a draft on crypto regulation, local news agency TASS reports on Tuesday, Jan. 29. Valentina Matvienko, who has headed the Federation Council since 2011, spoke to officials from several institutions, including the Upper House Committee for Economic Policy and Russia’s Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media. She asked him to investigate the reasons behind the significant delay with the digital economy bills, TASS writes. According to…

Privacy and Scaling: Schnorr Signatures Are Coming to Bitcoin Cash

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On Tuesday, Jan. 29, Bitcoin Cash developer Mark Lundeberg revealed two planned features for the scheduled May 2019 BCH upgrade. In the gist published to Github, Lundeberg described a specific improvement that’s been discussed by cryptocurrency developers for years — implementing Schnorr signatures in place of ECDSA signatures. This could upgrade the BCH chain to a new level of innovation by bolstering scaling and privacy all at once. Also read: A Look at Openbazaar’s Multi-Currency Wallet and Vendor Listings The Bitcoin Cash Chain May See Schnorr Signature Support in the Near…

Inside Wyoming’s Race for Crypto Prominence

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In the first month of 2019, the state of Wyoming has performed yet another series of power moves showcasing its continued commitment to becoming America’s new crypto hub, even despite recent changes in political leadership. The incoming governor, Mark Gordon, made room for some blockchain talk in his inauguration speech, celebrating the state’s innovative approach to regulation and touting a handful of homegrown startups. Over the next couple of weeks, Wyoming’s legislature erupted with a series of groundbreaking crypto-related bills that is only comparable to a similar wave in March of last year.…

Amid Bear Market, Crypto Venture Fund Strategy Wins out Over Hedge Fund Model

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Amid the 2018 market slump, the launch of new crypto venture funds for the first time exceeded that of new hedge funds in the space, according to a Bloomberg report on Jan. 30. Bloomberg cites data from Crypto Fund Research that indicates that 125 new crypto venture funds — which typically provide capital in exchange for an equity stake — launched in 2018, as compared with 115 new investment-oriented crypto hedge funds. In 2017, by contrast, new hedge funds outnumbered venture funds by 47: 136 hedge funds as compared with…