Day: April 11, 2020

Top Venezuelan Exchange Launches Support for Offline Bitcoin Transfers

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Venezuelan crypto exchange Criptolago has announced that it will launch a text message-based payment system that can process transactions in Venezuelaโ€™s oil-backed Petro (PTR) and other cryptocurrencies. The system may expose new segments of Venezuelaโ€™s population to cryptocurrencies amid the countryโ€™s ongoing hyperinflation crisis โ€” with the value of the Venezuelan bolivar fluctuating by 1.58% in the past 24 hours and roughly 2,500% in 12 months. Criptolago unveils SMS-based crypto transfers In a tweet published on April 6, Criptolago stated that it developed the service in response to a call…

Free Market Think Tank FEE Now Accepts Bitcoin Cash Donations

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The oldest free market think tank in the United States, the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) has announced the 501(c)3 educational foundation now accepts bitcoin cash (BCH) for donations. The libertarian organization promotes sound economic theory, publishes books and articles regularly on the benefits of a laissez-faire attitude, and hosts lectures and conferences that aim to encourage the philosophy of freedom. Also read: Bitcoin Going Industrial: New York-Based Natural Gas Provider Sells Fully Compliant โ€˜Hashpower Contractโ€™ 74-Year Old Libertarian-Based Foundationโ€™s Relationship With Bitcoin The Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) is…

Citizen reporters go do what the media won't! Mirror

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Despite COVID-19 Scams, Crypto Fraudstersโ€™ Incomes Fell 30% in March

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Data published on April 10 by blockchain forensics firm Chainalysis indicates that the average value of transactions received by the wallets of known scams fell 30% during March. Amid fraudstersโ€™ attempts at leveraging COVID-19 fears to dupe victims into downloading malicious apps, donating to impersonations of charities, or purporting to peddle coronavirus cures, the coronavirus pandemic appears to have driven a sharp decline in crypto scammersโ€™ revenues. The mid-March crash crypto market crash appears to have also impacted the incomes of crypto scammers. COVID-19 scams represent a small percentage of…

XRP, Stellar โ€˜Too Closely Heldโ€™ to Offer Fund Investors โ€” Mark Yusko

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One of cryptocurrencyโ€™s biggest hedge funds says it will keep avoiding XRP and Stellar (XLM) because their supply is too centralized. In an interview with YouTube series Thinking Crypto on April 10, Mark Yusko, CEO of Morgan Creek Digital, confirmed that its policy on the two altcoins would stay unchanged. Yusko: We donโ€™t own XRP or Stellar โ€œWe exclude anythingโ€ฆ thatโ€™s too closely held, so we donโ€™t own Stellar and we donโ€™t own XRP,โ€ he told the show.ย  Yusko was referencing the joint fund that he set up with asset…

Coronavirus-Tracking Apps Take Different Approaches in Keeping People Safe

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A team of academics at the University of Cape Town in South Africa is developing a blockchain-powered application that will allow users to verify their own COVID-19 status. The platform, named Covi-ID, is still under development but aims to address a number of pressing concerns around the global coronavirus pandemic. Itโ€™s being developed by a team of academics and software developers in Cape Town and is aiming to launch on April 21. The application intends to improve contact tracing of infected patients, while users of the platform will be able…

Is Technical Trading in Cryptocurrency Markets Profitable?

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In two recent studies, I investigated the technical trading rules in the cryptocurrency market andย profitability of technical trading rules among cryptocurrencies with a privacy function. In our first study, we collected daily price data on eleven cryptocurrencies for the period Jan. 1, 2016 to Dec. 31, 2018. Our sample consisted of cryptocurrencies exhibiting the highest market capitalization as at Jan. 3, 2016. Our main sample comprised Ripple (XRP), Litecoin (LTC), Ether (ETH), Dogecoin (DOGE), Peercoin, BitShares, Stellar Lumen (XLM), Nxt, MaidSafeCoin and Namecoin. Using a simple buy-and-hold strategy of an…