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Asian Stocks Mixed as Bank of Japan Hints at New Stimulus Measures in October Stocks in the Asia Pacific region diverged on Thursday, as investors assessed the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) latest policy decision, which maintained the status quo on a long-running stimulus program designed to boost growth and inflation. Asian Stock Markets Diverge ...

Binance to Add Fiat-to-Crypto OTC Trading in a Month, Co-Founder Says As the world's largest exchange continue to do deals and build products, it indicates that fiat-to-crypto OTC trading will soon be available.

Sally Ho's Technical Analysis 19 September 2019 Bitcoin
Bitcoin (BTC/USD) was weaker early in today’s Asian session as the pair traded as low as the 10131.82 area after trading as high as the 10224.12 area during yesterday’s North American session. During that session, traders experienced some interesting ...

Sony Considers Remaking "The Princess Bride" as Internet Explodes in Fury As Hollywood movie studios get further and further away from producing original content and instead rely on remakes and reboots of familiar franchises, Sony has apparently floated the idea of remaking "The Princess Bride." This would, of course, be a ...

Tiny Block Advocates Speak Up After Veriblock ‘Abuses’ Bitcoin’s Block Size The BTC community recently celebrated the fact that Segregated Witness (Segwit) transactions accounted for 50% of transactions and bech32 transactions doubled as well. However, the celebration quickly came to an end when a few Bitcoin Core developers found out where ...

Microsoft Stock Blows Away Critics With Huge Buyback Plan Quick, guess the world's most valuable company? Apple, Facebook, Google? It's none of those. Instead, Microsoft has claimed the title. The software giant is now worth $1.1 trillion, narrowly edging out Apple for the top spot. And Microsoft's lead is ...

Home Depot Stock a Proven Gem in Low Interest Rate Environment The economy is currently grappling with a combination of recession fears and persistently low interest rates. Of these two forces, only one of them is clear for the foreseeable future and that's low rates. The jury is still out on ...

Why Ethereum (ETH) Is On The Verge Of A Crippling Downtrend Ethereum (ETH) has long been very vulnerable and on the verge of a downtrend. If you zoom in on the price action around the 21 day EMA, you would notice how the price kept on facing rejection to break past ...

Taxation Isn’t Just Theft – It’s Bad for Crypto Adoption Crypto awareness is reaching levels almost unimaginable just years ago, with telecommunications giants, big banks, mainstream media, and even professional sports teams now discussing and flouting digital assets. AT&T now allows customers to pay their phone bills in bitcoin, Japanese ...

DOJ Brings Extortion Charges Against Early Advisor to Ethereum, tZero U.S. law enforcement has charged an early supporter of the ethereum project and former advisor to Overstock’s tZero with extortion.

Bit Pay Will Support Ether Token Payments for Merchants Crypto payments provider Bit Pay has announced that it will soon support Ethereum payments, allowing merchants to continue their journeys in adopting and accepting altcoins and assorted digital assets as means of payment. Bit Pay checks, validates and confirms transactions ...

Trump Buries Fed Chair Jerome Powell After ‘Gutless’ Policy Decision The Federal Reserve’s quarter-point rate cut on Wednesday was met with hostility by President Trump, who blasted Chairman Jerome Powell for lacking vision and being totally ‘gutless’ about helping the American economy. Trump Ups Anti-Fed Rhetoric Trump took to Twitter ...

Israeli Startup Creates Offline Crypto Wallet with Online Connectivity Israeli startup GK8 unveiled a cold-storage crypto wallet with on-network transfer capabilities.

SEC Charges Token Sale Platform ICOBox With Securities Violations The SEC has charged ICOBox and its founder with violating securities and registration requirements with its token sale and operations.

Recession-Blind Federal Reserve Cuts Interest Rates to 1.75% The Federal Reserve’s recalibration of monetary policy continued Wednesday, as officials voted to lower the benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points. Although the decision was widely expected, traders had grown skeptical about the prospect of another rate cut in ...

Bitcoin Dominates On Price - Can It Dominate On Other Factors, Too? At the beginning of September, something pretty significant happened. Bitcoin’s market dominance exceeded 70 percent — something that hasn’t happened in nearly two and a half years. The last time Bitcoin had this kind of market share was before the ...

Jamie Dimon Quashes Recession Fears — Here's Why He's Wrong Despite worries of an impending global recession, Jamie Dimon is still feeling rather positive about the state of the U.S. economy — but his sentiment might be misguided. The J.P. Morgan Chase chairman says his gut feeling is that the ...

Dow Mounts Stunning Recovery to Erase Brutal 200-Point Loss The Dow Jones dropped sharply after the Federal Reserve cut interest rates by 25 basis points to 1.75%, only to mount a stunning recovery in late afternoon trading. The US dollar surged, with Treasury yields hitting the Dow hard as ...

New Bitcoin Mutual Fund Eases Crypto for Wary Asian Investors A new mutual fund will provide crypto currency access to accredited investors in Asia who are very interested but slow to buy the coins directly.

US Housing Market: Economist Says Stellar Data Won't Stop Recession The US housing market continues to mystify investors as they scrutinize economic data in search of a smoking gun that will vindicate - or vanquish - fears that the US economy is on the brink of a recession. The needle ...

VanEck Solid X Disables Their ETF Application Early Well, here’s a real downer. If you had high hopes for the possibility of a bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) finally getting approved this October, you can douse those hopes in gasoline and set them on fire. Why? Not because the ...

BitMEX CEO - “Get Ready for Bitcoin $20K” It’s scary to think that it was almost two years since bitcoin hit its all-time high of $20k. It seems it was just yesterday when the leading cryptocurrency hit mainstream news shows and media sites before it inevitably sunk below ...

How Every Fed Member Voted on Today's Interest Rate Cut As expected, the Federal Reserve voted to reduce its interest rate target to 1.75% to 2.00% at its September policy meeting. The US central bank has now cut interest rates at two consecutive FOMC meetings, after not cutting rates for ...

The End of the Blockchain Scalability Problem? ILCoin Achieves 33,000+ Tx/s With 1.5 GB Blocks Blockchain technology has the potential to change the world and disrupt numerous industries with its positive features like increased security, transparency, traceability, and decentralization. Cryptocurrencies are one great example of the possible use-cases of blockchain technology. They allow us to ...

Bitcoin Cash Futures Expected to Open up US Market by Q1 2020 Futures contracts on bitcoin cash can be available at a CFTC-regulated exchange by the end of this year or the first quarter of 2020. This will allow institutional U.S. investors to trade on a derivative of the cryptocurrency and bring ...

Juul’s Valuation Is Going Up in Smoke After China Terminates Sales Mere days after launching in the world's largest tobacco market, Juul, a leading e-cigarette producer, had its sales terminated in China; meanwhile, stock estimates have been reduced to little more than vapor, with the firm's $38 billion valuation slowly evaporating. ...

BitMart Will Join The World Blockchain Forum New York 2019 On September 27th and 28th, 2019, WBF will come back to New York City to hold the World Blockchain Forum New York 2019 & World Blockchain Awards Global at Altman Building. The event will bring together over 1000 blockchain practitioners, ...

Billionaire Mark Cuban: 'There Is No Streaming War' What streaming content wars? Billionaire sports mogul Mark Cuban says you're getting it all wrong. Considering that content streamers such as Netflix, NBC, AT&T, HBO, Disney, and Apple have reportedly poured $2 billion into content in an attempt to win ...

Litecoin Non-Profit to Hold Undisclosed Treasury Sum with Crypto Lender The Litecoin Foundation has tapped Celsius Network, a blockchain-based crypto lending program, to become its preferred crypto wallet.

Stellar Spikes – Then Falls Again Minutes Later If you thought bitcoin wasn’t doing well as of late, just look at some of its main competitors, specifically Stellar. The currency has fallen greatly since it peaked in early 2018, but then jumped back up during today’s early morning ...

Altcoin Season Is About to Return - Here's Why Alternative coins or altcoins have been slowly bleeding over the last two years. This is especially true for altcoins in their bitcoin (BTC) pairs. Many are down by over 90% from their all-time highs. Some mid-cap coins have even breached ...

Binance Is Pitching Its Stablecoin as a Government-Friendly Libra Competitor Binance is now positioning its Venus stablecoin project as an alternative to Facebook's Libra, a month after downplaying any suggestions of rivalry.

Bitcoin (BTC)’s Next Move Is Going To Shape The Direction Of The Market Bitcoin (BTC)’s next move is going to shape the direction of the market. Many of you might be wondering, “isn’t that obvious?” Well, it’s not. For the past few days, Ethereum (ETH) not Bitcoin (BTC) has been dictating the direction ...

Snowden: US Seizing My Book Revenue is ‘Good for Bitcoin’ Former U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) subcontractor Edward Snowden is being sued by the Department of Justice (DoJ) for his latest memoir. The agency won’t stop Metropolitan Books from publishing Snowden’s new book but the government will take the revenue ...

Not My Safe Haven: Investors, Speculators Dismiss Bitcoin as Global Risks Loom Earlier this year, the anecdote that bitcoin serves as a safe-haven asset in times of heightened macroeconomic risks received support from factual data. The benchmark cryptocurrency and its traditional rival gold both established year-to-date highs as the U.S. and China ...

66% of Europe Refuse to Use Calibra for Libra Transfers The results of a cryptocurrency survey conducted by the Dutch banking group, ING, revealed a significant lack of appetite for Facebook's Libra, and its designated use case: Sending payments across social media. Taking 15,000 Europeans, from 15 distinct countries, the ...

Dutch Bank Survey Suggests the More You Know About Crypto, The Less Bullish You Are New research has come out from the ING Group Bank based in the Netherlands which suggests that those who have less knowledge of cryptocurrency and blockchain are more likely to be bullish on its future.
The survey, published today (18th ...

SIGEF2019 in Tokyo to Shape a Smarter Future The path to fostering a better future for all implies the search for urgent appropriate solutions to the greatest challenges that humanity has faced since the beginning of time: namely, social inclusion and sustainability. And that path inevitably goes through ...

Decentralized Employment Ecosystem Opolis to Integrate MakerDAO’s Dai Cryptocurrency Opolis received a grant from MakerDAO to integrate its Dai cryptocurrency into its decentralized employer ecosystem for payroll and benefits.

Apple Arcade Might Just Be The Best Deal In Gaming In anticipation of Apple Arcade's launch tomorrow, Apple has been kind enough to grant access to the platform to a selection of media outlets. The reviews are in, and the consensus is that Apple is on the right track. Much ...

Justin Sun Donating More than $1 Million For UBI Program By US Presidential Hopeful The main man, CEO and founder behind TRON, Justin Sun has recently revealed that he will be giving away more than $1 million to 100 people in 2020 in order to show support for Andrew Yang, the US presidential candidate ...

Germany Passes National Policy to Explore Blockchain But Limit Stablecoins Germany's cabinet has passed a national strategy for exploring blockchain tech, while limiting the threat of stablecoins like Facebook's Libra.

Aussie's Green-light for September 28th - TAGZ Exchange to Go Live Australians are anxiously awaiting the first regulated crypto exchange platform services provider to release its Exchange Platform to the public. Since the initial Alpha release of the TAGZ Exchange platform the company has been delivering on its roadmap and exceeding ...

Finance Expert: Dow Jones Industrial Average Is Undervalued Despite All-Time High The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) is on a monster decade-long bull run. In March 2009, the index bottomed out at 6,470. Since then, the market has been in a strong uptrend and in July 2019, it climbed to its ...

Bitcoin (BTC) And Altcoins Are At A Decision Point Like it or not the cryptocurrency market is at a decision point. As a trader, you have to make a decision here depending on whether you are bullish or bearish on the market. If you want to wait it out, ...

Dow Quivers as Wall Street Reckons With Fed Disunity The Dow slid back into decline on Wednesday as Wall Street quivered ahead of what an increasing number of market analysts expect will be a less-than-satisfying Federal Reserve policy statement. Dow Trades Down Ahead of FOMC Decision The US stock ...

These iAngels Are Bringing New Heavyweights Into Bitcoin Investing The three women behind Israeli investment platform iAngels are promoting crypto adoption by connecting with traditional investors.

Binance.US Platform Registration Opens Today! Earlier this week, September 17th the CEO of Binance.US, Catherine Coley sat down with Siamak Masnavi of CryptoGlobe for an interview where she answered several questions about the upcoming crypto exchange.
Based on Coley’s responses and previous blog posts, Masnavi ...

Is a Watered-Down Market A Good Thing For Crypto? Ever since bitcoin was created in 2009, the crypto space has seen hundreds upon hundreds of new and wacky digital currencies enter the space and following in the footsteps bitcoin left behind.
There are several ways of looking at this. ...

Why One Key Troubled Sector Could Ruin Strong U.S. Stock Market Rally As markets approach the year’s end, the sentiment around the U.S. stock market is improving with important fundamental sectors like housing and manufacturing outperforming the expectations of analysts amidst a pending Federal Reserve rate cut. However, throughout the past two ...

Snowden Triumphs Bitcoin While US Govt Tries Book Earnings Seizure U.S. President Donald Trump has previously spoken out against Bitcoin but he probably would never have imagined that his own justice department would unwittingly get involved in promoting the cryptocurrency. But they are, according to the American whistleblower hiding in ...

Overstock to Restructure Ex-CEO’s Crypto Dividend to End Lockup The online retail giant is to drop trading restrictions for its digital asset-based dividend instigated by former CEO Patrick Byrne.

10 Tax Tools to Help Crypto Owners While tax laws on cryptocurrency vary by jurisdiction, there are many useful tools to help you calculate crypto taxes, lower your tax liabilities, and simplify your filing — no matter where you are. Many of them work globally, supporting tax ...

Valve Banhammers Toxic Dota 2 Players Until 2038 Hot on the heels of Valve's announcement yesterday that it was cranking up the heat on a wave of Dota 2 bans, the developer is issuing some players with 19-year bans up to 2038. Low Behavior Score Bans Valve bestows ...

People With Least Knowledge Most Positive on Crypto’s Future: ING People with less knowledge about cryptocurrency are the most likely to be positive on its future, according to research from Dutch bank ING.

Is Bitcoin Legal In The US? Cryptocurrency Regulations Trends | Crypto-Geography - Part 3 In case you missed you can check out the first and second part of this series here.
Influence of the US Foreign Crypto-Policy
American foreign policy can be one of several factors moving the following countries towards buying Bitcoin, alongside ...

Bitcoin May Be Building for Move as Price Volatility Nears 5-Month Low Bitcoin’s volatility has hit the lowest level in over four months – a price squeeze that may force a big move either way.

Buterin Talks on How He Would Stop ICO Scams The Ethereal Summit, currently taking place in Tel Aviv, Israel has got several prominent figures speaking at the event. One of which is the co-founder of Ethereum Vitalik Buterin. Dubbed as a ‘Q&A On Ethereum 2.0 With Vitalik,’ the topic ...

Watford’s First Game With ฿ Logo Draws Path For the Future Season Whereas for members of the community, bitcoin is a household name, in many parts of the world, bitcoin is an unknown entity. So for many fans of the Watford football club, when they saw Tom Cleverley run out onto the ...

Craig Wright ‘in Discussions’ to Settle Multi-Billion-Dollar Court Case Craig Wright, the entrepreneur who controversially claims he is Satoshi Nakamoto, is moving to settle the $10 billion Kleiman court case.

Cardano (ADA) Price Analysis: Upsurge Could Continue Above $0.0530 ADA price started a strong rise from the $0.0450 support area against the US Dollar. The price is currently gaining momentum above $0.0500 and it could continue to rise in the near term. There is a strong support forming near ...

How Much Money Is Lost Globally Due To Document Fraud? What are the most global problems facing developing countries? Is it corruption? Yes. Lack of quality housing? Also yes. Poor infrastructure? Yes. Every country has its own unique problems, but one of the most common problems that every country shares ...

New York Among 13 States Excluded as Binance.US Opens for Registrations The U.S. arm of cryptocurrency exchange Binance is opening for registration and deposits on Wednesday.

Bitcoin Price Analysis: BTC Approaching Next Crucial Break Bitcoin price is trading in a minor downtrend below the $10,500 resistance against the US Dollar. The price is holding a couple of important supports near the $10,150 and $9,880 levels. There is a crucial breakout pattern forming with resistance ...

Meet Nimbus, a Concept for Enhancing BCH Smart Contracts On Monday, software developer Tobias Ruck introduced a new transaction version for the BCH chain called Nimbus in a demonstration video. The introduction is a longer version of the presentation Ruck had shown at the Bitcoin Cash City conference. According ...

European Space Agency Backs Blockchain Satellite Project Blockchain startup SpaceChain won a 60K euro grant from the European Space Agency to investigate use-cases for their satellite-based wallet system.

Huobi Expands Crypto Exchange to Argentina Amid Peso Devaluation Crypto exchange Huobi is expanding to Argentina as cryptocurrencies gain acceptance in the region as a hedge against the infamous inflationary peso.

Messaging App LINE’s Crypto Exchange Goes Live for 80 Million Users in Japan Messaging giant LINE has officially launched a crypto exchange service to its 80 million users based in Japan.

Ether, XRP Rise to 1-Month Highs While Bitcoin Falls Ether, XRP rise to 1-Month highs despite bitcoin's poor performance in recent weeks.

Volatility for Bitcoin Hits Four-Month Low At press time, you may not think bitcoin is doing much… And you’d be right. In fact, the currency has barely swung at all over the past 1-2 weeks and has largely remained between $10,100 and $10,300. Volatility Has Dropped ...

Steve Schwarzman: I Don’t Have Much Interest in Crypto As the CEO of investing firm Blackstone, CEO Steve Schwarzman says that he’s used to a world where currencies are controlled by a central body, and thus he’s not a huge fan of how crypto is structured. Schwarzman: I Don’t ...

18,000 Traders and Growing – Bitcoin.com’s Crypto Exchange Shines Brightly Since exchange.Bitcoin.com launched, our premier trading platform has seen a significant influx of users from Asia and Europe. So far, the grand opening of Bitcoin.com’s exchange has led to more than 18,000 registered traders. Moreover, exchange.Bitcoin.com’s Chief Operating Officer, Danish ...

Marshal Lion expands to China Marshal Lion Group is a company that dared to transfer its achievements in fiat finance to the blockchain platform. The company has been operating since 2015 in the non-bank lending market. During this time, more than 10 thousand satisfied customers ...

Indian Parliament Member Helping Crypto Community Influence Regulation The Indian crypto community has made progress towards influencing the government’s crypto policies. Some industry leaders have met with an influential lawmaker who has agreed to help bring about positive crypto regulation in the country. Also read: India’s Popular ‘Who ...

FATF-Driven Delistings Capture the Criminalization of Privacy The delisting of privacy coins like monero, zcash, and dash is becoming something of a trend in Asia, and could soon expand elsewhere. In the wake of the intra-governmental Financial Action Task Force (FATF) issuing new global standards, Korean exchanges ...

Here’s How Europeans Can Deal With Negative Interest Rates Low and negative interest rates have been a burden for account holders across Europe for some time. And it’s only getting worse, as the European Central Bank just announced a new rate cut to a record low of -0.5%. Private ...

Democratizing the Platform Economy: The Quiet Revolution Through Blockchain Blockchain – a bursting bubble or disruptive transformation? The Internet has created digital marketplaces that efficiently bring supply and demand together. The success of tech giants such as Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon, but also Tencent and Alibaba, can be ...

Dapper Labs Announces Cheeze Wizards Hackathon in Lead up to The First Official Tournament Dapper Labs, creators of the massively popular Ethereum game, Cryptokitties have announced a hackathon for their latest creation, inviting developers to build on top of the game for the chance to win cash prizes, limited edition crypto-collectibles and the chance ...

Bull Bitcoin CEO Pouliot: SegWit Activation Process Showed Value of Running a Node During the opening panel of this year’s Understanding Bitcoin conference in Malta, some prominent members of the Bitcoin community reflected on the block size limit controversy and the eventual activation of Segregated Witness (SegWit). One of the individuals involved in ...