Day: February 22, 2020

Get Ready for the Bitcoin Halving – Here Are 9 Countdown Clocks You Can Monitor

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The anticipation for the block reward halving for BTC, BCH, and BSV has been building. All three cryptocurrencies will see rewards halved from 12.5 to 6.25 coins throughout the months of April and May. The following is a comprehensive list of websites that are counting down each crypto’s reward halving in different ways, so people can monitor the data and prepare for halving parties. Also Read: How to Check the Bitcoin Price, Hashrate, Data – The 21 Best Monitoring Sites Clocks and Data Sites So You Can Monitor the 2020…

Scottish Blockchain Company Hypervine Signs with European Space Agency Data To Improve Efficiency And Transparency For The World’s Mining Industry

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Sharing is caring! Hypervine, the Glasgow-based start-up, has announced the start of a project, co-funded by the European Space Agency (ESA), to develop services which utilise space-based data to help extractive industries. Hypervine’s CEO and Founder, Paul Duddy stated: “Working with the European Space Agency is an incredible honour at such an early stage in our development. I started out having seen the potential to help a host of different industries bring their process into a digital age, but also to help eradicate the all too often catastrophic and sometimes…

How to Time the Stock Market Crash We All Know is Looming

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Even the bulls are wary that this stock rally can continue forever. While timing a crash is tricky business, analysts say these three signposts could foreshadow a downturn. For now, stocks are expected to march higher, but in today’s jittery environment, even the slightest misstep could tip the scales. We’ve watched the market climb impossibly higher over the past 11 years. In 2019, warnings that a stock market crash was on the horizon were plentiful. Today, some of Wall Street’s most notable bears have shifted their stance as 2020 continues…

Bad Crypto News of the Week

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The Bitcoin community collectively facepalmed after BTC fell back below $10,000. It was the result of an $800 crash that took place over the course of one hour, the fifth-largest one-hour drop ever recorded. But some analysts are calling for an unprecedented rally ahead of the pending halving. This is largely due to the appearance of a “golden cross,” when the 50-day moving average crosses the 200-day moving average. In today’s market terms, that calls for a BTC price of $26,000 before the next halving. Binance co-founder CZ is also…

This Viral Video From 2013 Is More Relevant Than Ever

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“All the Banks Are Broke,” and they’ve only got worse. Quantitative easing forever? The threat of cryptocurrencies will disrupt the financial sector.  A video from 2013 depicting a European minister’s tirade against the global banking system has recently re-emerged and gone viral. Gaining massive traction within the crypto community, the speech is now more relevant than ever — and central banks know it. “All the Banks Are Broke” Within an impassioned speech, British politician and former member of European Parliament (MEP) Godfrey Bloom thoroughly dismantles the global banking sector, proposing…

FCoin Blames Poor Auditing for Shutdown, but Others Suspect Exit Scam

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Less than two years after bursting onto the scene, Chinese crypto exchange FCoin has shut down its operations. The platform, founded by Zhang Jian, also says it may be unable to pay the 7,000 to 13,000 Bitcoin (BTC) — about $67 million to $125 million — that is owed to its customers. Jian, the former chief technology officer of Huobi, tried to explain the reasons for the platform’s insolvency, identifying poor auditing practices. Crypto pundits, however, say there is a more sinister aspect to FCoin’s demise — one that involves a…

Isaiah Jackson on Bitcoin’s Impact

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CoinDesk reporter Leigh Cuen is joined by Isaiah Jackson, author of “Bitcoin and Black America” and co-founder of KRBE Digital Assets Group, to talk about financial discrimination in the United States and the unique value bitcoin can offer minority communities. According to a survey of 5,126 Americans conducted by Coinbase and Qriously, “Twice as many Black Americans have been negatively impacted by the current financial system” compared to their white peers. As such, the survey suggested, they are much more likely to be curious about bitcoin (BTC). This finding is supported by…

Isaiah Jackson on Bitcoin’s Impact

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CoinDesk reporter Leigh Cuen is joined by Isaiah Jackson, author of “Bitcoin and Black America” and co-founder of KRBE Digital Assets Group, to talk about financial discrimination in the United States and the unique value bitcoin can offer minority communities. According to a survey of 5,126 Americans conducted by Coinbase and Qriously, “Twice as many Black Americans have been negatively impacted by the current financial system” compared to their white peers. As such, the survey suggested, they are much more likely to be curious about bitcoin (BTC). This finding is supported by…

Bitcoin Dominance 6-Month Low Doesn’t Mean Price Is ‘Ultra-Bearish’

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Bitcoin (BTC) continued trading in a narrow corridor on Feb. 22 as markets awaited fresh action after last week’s sudden 8% price drop. Cryptocurrency market daily overview. Source: Coin360 BTC “correcting in an uptrending market” Data from Coin360 and Cointelegraph Markets showed BTC/USD spending another day in a stable zone between $9,500 and $9,800, having stayed there since Thursday. Previously, traders had reacted with bewilderment as the pair dumped almost $1,000 in a matter of minutes, firmly rejecting turning $10,500 resistance into support. Bitcoin 7-day price chart. Source: Coin360 The…

OKEx Now Offers Real-time “Tick-by-Tick” Market Tracker for All of Its Trading Products

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The leading crypto exchange and trading platform OKEx has announced the launch of real-time market trackers across all of its trading instruments. The market tracker christened “Tick-by-Tick” functions via OKEx API to help traders make investment decisions by sending them real-time updates on price movement across all crypto markets in the form of push notifications. Available for all trading products, the Tick-by-Tick market tracker launch closely follows another technical upgrade – Ticket-by-Ticket push notifications for the futures product. With this latest offering, OKEx is now one of the only three…