Day: February 2, 2020

Top 10 Congresspeople Working on Crypto Policy

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Following a year that has seen unprecedented interactions between United States legislators and the crypto industry, Cointelegraph has compiled a roster of congresspeople who have established stances and policies for blockchain and cryptocurrency that will shape the future of the industry within the country.  Some of the congresspeople listed are bullish on blockchain, while some have established clear opposition to topics like Facebook’s Libra or other cryptocurrencies, but Cointelegraph believes that all of them are worth watching in 2020. Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) As ranking member of the Fintech Task…

Top Cryptocurrency Tezos Sets New All-Time High: Are More Gains Imminent?

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Although almost all eyes have been on Bitcoin, top cryptocurrency Tezos has seen a stellar past 24 hours. Per data from TradingView, the altcoin, in the top 20 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization, has gained upwards of 15%, surging as high as $2.04 from yesterday’s price of $1.75. Related Reading: Analyst Who Predicted Bitcoin’s $3,000 2018 Bottom Says This is Next Analysts across the board say that this strong move higher in the price of XTZ could be a precursor to an even larger surge higher, citing their technical analysts and…

Hodler’s Digest, Jan. 27–Feb. 2

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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 SEC tells Telegram its crypto is worth less than donuts The United States Securities and Exchange Commission has gotten its claws out as it takes Telegram to task over its offering for Gram tokens. In a feisty memo to the Southern District Court of New…

Top 5 Cryptos This Week (Feb 2): ETC, LTC, ADA, MIOTA, ZEC

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The top crypto performers of this week have resumed their up move and are now likely to rally to their next overhead resistance levels. Several major altcoins have outperformed Bitcoin in January 2020. However, with the reward halving just over three months away, Bitcoin might play catch up. During the previous two halvings, Bitcoin rallied just before and after the event. Weiss Ratings believes that history will repeat itself in the upcoming halving and the only question is how high can the rally extend. Bitcoin’s current technical set up has…

Libre Not Libra – Thinking Critically About Facebook’s Blockchain Project

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In “Libre Not Libra: Facebook’s Blockchain Project,” Andreas answers the burning question… Has he tried haggis? Just kidding… He shares his thoughts on the recently released Libra whitepaper, as part of a permissioned blockchain project spearheaded by Facebook. Years of jokes about “FaceCoin” and “ZuckBucks” have finally come to life – sort of. In a previous episode, he talked about how some venture capitalists are monkeying around by downplaying the killer applications of open blockchains  in favor of… bananas. Now he makes us wonder whether Libra will even survive to…

Bermuda Is Planning a Comprehensive Crypto Framework

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In what must have been a drastic change for Denis Pitcher, chief fintech advisor to the Premier of Bermuda, he and CoinDesk’s Michael Casey took to the chilly streets of Davos to talk about his government’s steps to enable blockchain adoption in the island nation. “In the summer of 2018, we launched a comprehensive regulatory framework to provide clarity and leverage,” said Pitcher. “We introduced a principle-based framework that allowed us to define more of a scope around a business plan as opposed to specific activities. That allows you to…

UAE Health Ministry Debuts Blockchain Platform for Medical Data

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The UAE’s Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) together with the Ministry of Presidential Affairs, Dubai Healthcare City and other relevant authorities has launched a blockchain-based health data storage platform. According to The Emirates News Agency on Feb. 2, the blockchain-based platform aims to improve the efficiency of MoHAP and other health authorities’ smart health services. It will help users streamline the search for health facilities and its licensed medical and technical personnel, as well as inquire about medicine supply chains. According to Dr. Lubna Al Shaali, the Director of…

UAE launches blockchain-based health data platform

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The new platform forms part of a wider plan to incorporate artificial intelligence technologies into 100% of all health services The UAE’s Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) has teamed up with the Ministry of Presidential Affairs, Dubai Healthcare City and a number of other entities to launch a blockchain-based digital platform to store medical data, it was announced on Sunday. The new platform forms part of a wider plan to incorporate artificial intelligence technologies into 100 percent of all health services. According to MoHAP, the new platform will help…

Bitcoin Price Has the Best January in 7 Years, Halving Is Getting Closer

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Bitcoin price has risen to new monthly highs. The price made a historic jump in January. It has risen about 10% this week alone and about 30% since December. Recent data points to the Bitcoin price rise to current levels from $7,208 at the end of 2019. Now the coin is trading around $9,395. This coincides with a similar rally in January 2013. Bitcoin prices rose by 54.5% then.  A pattern for Bitcoin prices may be emerging. Based on past performances of the digital asset, prices may be set for…

Twitter’s Bitcoin Emoji Excites Crypto Community

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Twitter’s Bitcoin emoji has been introduced. This has generated lots of excitement within the crypto space. Twitter’s cryptocurrency community has been on fire as the Bitcoin symbol has been trending. However, it could have been rather expectable. Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey has been known to be a Bitcoin fan for many years now. His recent tweet has got a lot of positive feedbacks. #bitcoin cc:@unicode — jack 🌍🌏🌎 (@jack) February 2, 2020 The Bitcoin symbol was approved as a Unicode symbol in 2017. This is the first time that any…