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AstraZeneca (AZN) stock up rose by about 4% after the news that President Trump is reportedly ready to give the AZN-Oxford developed AZD1222 vaccine an Emergency Use Authorization Status. The shares of British-Swedish multinational pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca Plc (LON: AZN) is up by about 4% following reports that President Donald Trump is considering fast-tracking the drug manufacturer’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate, in order to make it available to Americans before the November election. Per the reports, President Trump aims to get the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to award…
Ripple Co-Founder, Chris Larsen believes the Cold Tech War between China and the United States is going to be won and lost on the blockchain battlefield with the stewardship of the global financial system at stake. Chris Larsen, the Co-Founder of Ripple believes that blockchain, Bitcoin and interoperability protocols have presented China with a “once-in-a-century” opportunity to replace the dollar with the Digital Yuan. In an op-ed published by the Hill on Aug. 21, Ripple Co-Founder Chris Larsen wrote that too much of the focus in the US-China Cold Tech…
Swipe’s Swipe Token (SXP), the 68th digital asset by market capitalization, has been one of the most volatile cryptocurrencies of the previous weeks. Fueled by a new cryptocurrency card and partnership with Binance, SXP price soared from $1.50 to $5 in a matter of days in mid-August. However, the price of Swipe dropped more than 50% to $2.30 over the past week. Crypto market daily performance snapshot. Source: Coin360 Swipe Token retraced with 54% to bottom out at $2.30 SXP/USDT 12-hour chart. Source: TradingView The 12-hour chart of Swipe Token is…
Researchers reportedly traced bitcoin sent as payments to Ryuk ransomware controllers and found a good portion passed through Binance. Original
Bitcoin ads have popped up around the world in various newspapers this month, with the latest being a non-company ad in Hong Kong promoting the use of Bitcoin. Hong Kong’s Bitcoin Call Apple Daily, the Hong Kong tabloid whose founder was arrested this month in the city by authorities, took out a front-page, full-page ad today that touted the use of Bitcoin to circumvent banking and political action. The ad said Bitcoin does not discriminate on gender, nationality, or personal belief. It added that Bitcoin is digital money. It is…
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The prediction market is getting a facelift through the power of technology by PlotX. The platform was conceived by former Nexus Mutual and GovBlocks developers, and is akin to Ethereum-based Uniswap, except for prediction markets. Built on the Ethereum network, PlotX allows users to interact over predictions that span anywhere from one hour, one day, and one week. For example, users can answer a question like, “What will the price of BTC/USDT be in the next 1 hour?” The correct users would earn peer-to-peer (P2P) rewards. To date, this game-changing…
The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, one of 12 regional Federal Reserve banks operating under the U.S. central bank, is evaluating more than 30 different blockchain networks to determine if they would support a digital dollar. The Boston Fed, as it’s more commonly known, announced earlier this month it was actively testing a digital dollar – a tokenized version of the U.S. dollar – with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Digital Currency Initiative. The collaboration builds on previous research efforts, and is intended to establish how a digital dollar might…
Bitcoin (BTC) is “at the beginning” of an extended bull run and there are increasingly clear reasons to accept it. That was the opinion of Dan Held, head of growth at United States cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, who listed the latest evidence for bullish Bitcoin on Aug. 24. Many commentators have argued that Bitcoin is just getting started when it comes to price rises. For Held, the contributing factors are both Bitcoin-specific and macro-related. In-profit UTXOs near 98% Over 97% of Bitcoin unspent transaction outputs (UTXOs) — or parts of a…