Day: November 17, 2019

Crypto Markets Showing Signs of Recovery, While BTC Stalls Above $8500

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Sunday, Nov. 17 — Crypto markets are showing mild signs of recovery, while Bitcoin (BTC) stumbles above the $8,500 price mark. Cryptocurrency market daily overview. Source: Coin360 For the better part of the day, the world’s largest cryptocurrency has been trading within a tight range between $8,500 and $8,600, while slowly finding its way towards the $8,700 price mark in recent hours. Bitcoin is currently trading at a price of $8,515, showing limited gains of .32% on the day. Bitcoin daily price chart. Source: Coin360 Slow bleed to $8,200 possible?…

BlockShow Asia, Bitcoin Crash Warning, India Delays Crypto Ban: Hodler’s Digest, Nov. 11–17

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Coming every Sunday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — a week on Cointelegraph in one link. Top Stories This Week BlockShow Asia 2019: Binance’s CZ speaks publicly about China’s digital currency BlockShow Asia 2019 was held in Singapore this week, leaving us with plenty of stories to chew over. Binance’s Changpeng Zhao was among the speakers, and he predicted that the central bank digital currency…

Venezuela to Pay Retirees and Pensioners Christmas Bonus in Petro

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Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro announced that the Christmas bonus of the country’s retirees and pensioners will be paid to them in the national cryptocurrency Petro. The Twitter profile of local news outlet Venepress reported on Maduro’s remarks on Nov. 17. This particular instance is not the first time that Venezuela pushes Petro into the wallets of pensioners so far. As Cointelegraph reported in December last year, Venezuela back then has automatically converted pensioners’ bonuses for the year into Petro. Petro, the future for Venezuelan economy? The crypto asset in question…

LocalBitcoins Receives Finnish FSA Virtual Currency Provider License

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The Finnish Financial Services Authority (FIN-FSA) has officially registered LocalBitcoins as a virtual currency provider, starting at the beginning of November 2019. Finland only allows officially registered providers who fulfill the legal requirements to operate in the country. A safe pair of hands In order to receive the registration, LocalBitcoins had to prove to the FIN-FSA that it had implemented suitable Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Know Your Customer (KYC) procedures, along with having adequate safeguarding for customer assets. Management and key personnel also had to fulfill the criteria to be…

Top-5 Cryptos This Week: NEO, LINK, ADA, BNB, LEO

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Bitcoin’s bearish price action has led many traders to set their sights on altcoins and this week a handful of tokens added notable gains. The United States Federal Reserve believes that stablecoins “could complement existing payment systems and improve consumer welfare” but the operators behind the digital assets will require constant oversight and regulation. The Fed warned that if a stablecoin payment network achieves a global scale quickly, it will increase risks related to financial stability and monetary policy. Interestingly, with all the regulations and monetary policy initiatives of the…

Iran Central Bank Branch Set on Fire, Crypto Community Follows Events

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Iranian protesters have set the building of the Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the city located in the city of Behbahan on fire, as the cryptocurrency community closely follows the developments. The official twitter profile of libertarian media company BeingLibertarian published a video of what is presumably a branch of Iran’s central bank in Behbahan, in the southwest of the country, being set on fire amid protests. Interestingly, the reaction to the tweet was overwhelmingly positive, with one user saying: “We might consider trying that here!!…

OneCoin Scam Paid $300K to Neil Bush, George H.W. Bush’s Son and George W. Bush’s Brother

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The vanished head of the OneCoin crypto Ponzi scheme, Ruja Ignatova (also known as the CryptoQueen), has paid $300K to Neil Bush, the son of the late 41st U.S. President George Bush and the brother of the 43rd President George W. Bush, for attending meetings organized by Ignatova’s fraudulent cryptocurrency company. OneCoin is again in the news for all the wrong reasons. It is undergoing a legal investigation in the United States for allegedly laundering money. Mark Scott, a former attorney at Locke Lord (an international firm) is also facing…