Day: November 16, 2020

Skype Co-founder Donates Bitcoin and Ethereum to UK AI Firm, Keeps Wealth in Crypto

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Jaan Tallinn noted that the reason for donating in Bitcoin and Ethereum is the fact that it is much easier to send digital assets. Estonian investor and Skype Co-founder Jaan Tallinn has most of his wealth in digital assets: Bitcoin and Ethereum. This is according to a post on media outlet Fortune that highlighted that the Estonian computer programmer donated 350 units of Ethereum and 50 Bitcoins in the past few years to a London-based company called Faculty AI. Apparently, according to the post by Fortune, the UK based startup…

Blockchain Voting Systems Are Untrustworthy, MIT Cybersecurity Experts Say

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Amidst the ongoing discussions of the results of the presidential election, a group of researchers has come up to disapprove of blockchain voting as an alternative for trusted democratic elections. Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MIT) researchers published a report on November 16 cautioning against reliance on blockchain voting technology as a way of promoting greater turnout in an election. According to them, using the system would not improve the integrity of voting but instead increase the risk of hackers tampering with the way elections…

Citibank Expects Bitcoin (BTC) Price to Cross $300K by December 2021

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Citibank executive noted that Bitcoin is going through a similar period to that of Gold in the 1970s and expects a potential breakout next year. In a moment of excitement for Bitcoin investors, Wall Street banking giant Citibank expects Bitcoin (BTC) price to hit $300K by the end of 2021. It means that BTC price can 18.5X from the current levels surging more than 1700%. Well, crypto analysts have been giving such massive targets for a long time. But it seems that even senior executives of banking institutions have started…

Apple Stock at Stake as Privacy Activist in EU Files Complaints over iPhone Tracking

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With Europe being a major user of Apple’s products, such accusations put AAPL stocks in jeopardy. Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) stock risks nose-diving if a case filed by a privacy activist in Europe over iPhone tracking goes through. AAPL stock has been among the winning stocks in 2020 especially at the height of the initial coronavirus pandemic. According to data provided by MarketWatch, AAPL stocks are up 62.45% year to date. Meanwhile, AAPL stocks are trading around $119.60, 0.29% up in Monday’s premarket having closed Friday at $119.26. As a…

Dash claims ‘inaccurate categorization’ as ShapeShift delists privacy coins

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It shouldn’t come as a surprise that regulators are starting to pay close attention to cryptocurrencies this year. For instance, as the price of Bitcoin (BTC) continues to soar, it’s predicted that regulators will start taking direct action – possibly even banning Bitcoin completely.  While the ban may sound extreme, regulators have recently honed in on the use of privacy coins like Monero (XMR), Zcash (ZEC) and Dash. For example, in September this year, the United States Internal Revenue Service offered a bounty of up to $625,000 for intelligence firms that…

$1T market cap is ‘next big resistance’ for Bitcoin — Bloomberg analyst

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Bitcoin (BTC) hitting its all-time highs of $20,000 again is not the end, but the start of its explosion to a $1 trillion asset, a senior Bloomberg analyst says. In a tweet on Nov. 16, as BTC/USD reclaimed $16,000, Mike McGlone, senior commodity strategist at Bloomberg Intelligence, delivered a fresh bullish forecast for the largest cryptocurrency. Bloomberg Intelligence: BTC will keep rising in 2021 Bitcoin saw lower levels over the weekend, briefly dipping to $15,800 before conspicuously rising on Monday to see highs of $16,400 at press time. “$20,000 #Bitcoin…

Global Stock Market Goes Higher amid Positive COVID-19 Vaccine News

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The growth currently observed in the global stock market may be the tip of the iceberg compared to the period when a vaccine will be approved by authorities around the world and will go into wider circulation. The global stock market has seen an increased boost or growth following the positive COVID-19 vaccine news that emanated from Pfizer Inc (NYSE: PFE) in the past week. The positivity surrounding a functional and effective COVID-19 vaccine has renewed the hopes of a scheduled global economic recovery and this is having a positive…

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Jay Clayton will step down as US SEC chair by year’s end

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Jay Clayton, who has served as the chairman of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission since May 2017, will be leaving the agency by the end of 2021. In its official news release, the agency noted that Clayton has been one of its longest-standing chairs. Crypto enthusiasts will likely be familiar with the agency’s work, whose activities have engaged some of the most controversial regulatory questions facing the new asset class.  These include early debates as to whether or not certain crypto assets should be defined as a security in…

Risks of Bitcoin Correction Grow on Positive Moderna Vaccine Trial

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Bitcoin was trading higher ahead of the New York opening bell Monday but risked shedding its intraday gains on Moderna’s latest announcement. The tech-savvy pharmaceutical firm updated earlier Monday that its experimental coronavirus vaccine is 94.5 percent effective in protecting people from catching the infection. That marked the second successful trial seven days after Pfizer and its partner BioNTech also showed 90 percent efficacy in their COVID-19 trial. Bitcoin initially reacted negatively to the Pfizer vaccine news on Monday last week as its price fell by more than $1,000 within…