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Ontario Regulator Lets Security Token Startup Test Secondary Trading The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) is allowing startup TokenFunder to facilitate secondary-market trading of its tokens in a testing environment.

Sally Ho's Technical Analysis 24 October 2019 Bitcoin
Bitcoin (BTC/USD) was slightly weaker early in today’s Asian session as the pair fell back to the 7430.02 area after trading as low as the 7296.44 area during yesterday’s North American session. Selling pressure emerged during Tuesday’s North American ...

Tencent Says Libra Would Pose Serious Threat to Alipay, WeChat Pay Chinese internet giant and parent of WeChat, Tencent said Libra would pose serious risks to current digital payment systems in the country.

Germany’s Financial Crisis Invokes 5-Year Rent Freeze All eyes are on the German economy which was once perceived as stable and strong. However, the financial state of affairs has been tumultuous and Berlin’s state cabinet recently agreed to a five-year rent freeze to help curb the rising ...

Twitter Calls Out Jason Kidd For Making Subtle Power Grab It appears that Jason Kidd isn’t wasting time making a grab for power with the Los Angeles Lakers. Some were concerned when the team hired him as an assistant that he would try to undermine head coach Frank Vogel, but ...

Ethereum Blockchain Being Utilised By Microsoft For AI & Machine Learning The Ethereum blockchain is turning out to be a popular one as engineers at the tech giant, Microsoft is now using it to democratise AI and machine learning making these typically centralised and costly systems more available to everyone.
Smart ...

Tesla’s Surprise Profit Sends Shares Rocketing 20% Higher Tesla’s highly anticipated Q3 earnings report crushed expectations on Wall Street. Shortly after the closing bell Wednesday, the electric automaker reported net income of $1.91 per share. Analysts were expecting a loss of 46 cents per share. Piper Jaffray’s Alexander ...

Democrat Katie Porter Torches Facebook for ‘Black Mirror’ Behavior Mark Zuckerberg appeared before Congress on Wednesday to defend Facebook’s new cryptocurrency project, Libra, but U.S. lawmakers quickly seized the opportunity to grill him on other issues. The Facebook CEO fielded questions on a variety of topics, from the company’s ...

Blockstack’s STX Token Now Traded on Binance and HashKey Pro The advance is set to expand investors' access to Stacks (STX) – especially in Asia, a "priority region" for Blockstack.

Belarusian Bank Gets the Go-Ahead to Service Crypto Investors A bank in Belarus has effectively gotten the green light to process transfers related to digital assets. DFS, an affiliated company of Belveb Banking Holding’s member VEB Technologies, was recently registered as a resident of the High Technologies Park. The ...

Ethereum (ETH) All Set To Begin Its Uptrend Against Bitcoin (BTC) Ethereum (ETH) is all set to begin its uptrend against Bitcoin (BTC). The daily chart for ETH/BTC shows that the pair has found support on the 50 day EMA and could soon begin its uptrend. The RSI as well as ...

Mark Zuckerberg: Libra Can Make the U.S. a Financial Leader Again The testimony of Mark Zuckerberg revealed some interesting takeaways. First, Zuckerberg seems to think that crypto is the future, and that the longer the U.S. waits to develop its own coin, the further it will fall behind. Second, many members ...

How Fallout 76 Shows Bethesda’s Utter Contempt for Gamers The recent announcement of Fallout 76’s new $100-a-year premium subscription service has unsurprisingly been met with a lot of criticism. Despite already being a full-priced game with micro-transactions, Bethesda decided the monetization wasn’t heinous enough yet. So, in case anyone ...

U.S. Treasury Yields Freeze After British Parliament Forces Another Brexit Delay U.S. government debt yields stabilized on Wednesday, as demand for equities waned over concerns of a dysfunctional Brexit process. Treasury Yields Little Changed The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note reached a session low of 1.73% on Wednesday, according ...

How Dash Is Dominating Nigeria The dominance that Bitcoin has on exchanges stands at just more than 50 percent and it’s the standard by which all other cryptocurrencies are measured.
In Nigeria, there is a dedicated group that is slowly but surely going in a ...

Norway’s Princess Plugs Book That Blames Cancer on Unhappy Children A Norwegian publisher is pulling a controversial book that claims childhood cancer is caused by unhappiness, but that’s just the tip of this Scandinavian scandal. The book, titled “Spirit Hacking,” was authored by Durek Verrett, a self-described “shaman” who is ...

Boeing’s Earnings Missed Wall Street’s Expectations Yet Its Stock Is Rising Investors gave Boeing a massive pass on its terrible third-quarter earnings results that ordinarily would have sunk the company’s stock. The company didn’t disclose any additional bad news about the 737 Max. Net income at the Chicago-based company fell 51 ...

Computer Software Giant Makes Trademark Infringement Claims to Eliminate Competition in Blockchain News Space Computer software heavyweight Oracle Corporation has begun using questionable trademark infringement claims and bully-boy tactics as it seeks to build a presence in the blockchain news market. The company has existed for 40+ years, but only added the word ‘blockchain’ ...

Dow Winces as Trump Berates Republican Critics as ‘Human Scum’ The Dow Jones dipped on Wednesday, unable to garner any meaningful momentum even as Boeing shrugged off some wobbly earnings and Apple basked in more positive forecasts. A lack of China trade war developments appears to have removed the volatility ...

Can Bitcoin Reverse Itself in the Next Two Months? The end of the year is not looking good for the world’s biggest crypto asset. Recently, Live Bitcoin News produced an article asking if bitcoin would somehow repeat its November 2018 behavior. As things currently stand, this doesn’t seem too ...

Why are regulators afraid of Libra? Cryptocurrencies have been around for a while now. From the announcement of Bitcoin in 2008, there have been many rumors about the fate of the blockchain-based currencies.
Many analysts, as well as other pessimists, believed that the new online money ...

It’s Finally Fair to Wonder if Father Time Has Come for LeBron James LeBron James turns 35 in December. He’s already played the fifth-most minutes in NBA history and is coming off the most significant injury of his 16-year career. Needless to say, that’s not exactly the normal resumé of a player expected ...

How You Can Help Kelly Ripa’s Son Escape from ‘Extreme Poverty’ Kelly Ripa’s son, Michael, is having a hard time. After moving out of Ripa’s $27 million townhouse in Manhattan, 8 miles away to Brooklyn, he’s apparently experiencing “extreme poverty.” He can now join the 38 million other Americans living paycheck ...

How Centralized Payment Systems Learned to Accept Decentralized Cryptocurrency They might not be shouting it from the rooftops, but fiat payment gateways are no longer the enemy of bitcoin. Hostilities have ceased, the bad blood has been let, and today the fiat and crypto worlds are bridged and doing ...

Ex-Bankers Offer First Hot Wallet for Institutional-Grade Crypto Finance A simple, insured wallet lets customers store smart contracts and crypto simultaneously.

Kawhi Leonard’s “Terminator” Ad With PG Is an Epic Piece of HoF Cringe Kawhi Leonard knocked off the Los Angeles Lakers and LeBron James, even without co-star Paul George on Tuesday night in an epic NBA opener. Unfortunately, a historically cringe-worthy advert for Terminator: Dark Fate, starring Leonard, George, and movie stars Arnold ...

Fallout 76 Critics Raze Bethesda’s Money-Grubbing $99 a Year Subscription In an ambitious, misguided attempt to resurrect Fallout 76 from the dead, Bethesda has announced a new premium subscription service for the beleaguered multiplayer survival game. Unsurprisingly, the news has proven perfect ammunition for a dressing down on social media. ...

Bitcoin Loses $800; Crashes to the $7,400 Mark Well, it sure seems like we’re in for another faulty end-of-year mark for bitcoin. At press time, the currency has fallen by roughly $800 over the past 24 hours and the asset is now trading at $7,400. Bitcoin Falls; Zuckerberg ...

Saudi Arabia Joins SoftBank in Biggest-Loser Club with $1.1 billion Uber Loss Uber Technologies’ (NYSE:UBER) fifth largest shareholder, the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia, has now lost over a billion dollars by investing in the ride hailing firm. Based on the most recent holdings report to the SEC, the Kingdom of ...

Oil Prices in Danger of Crashing Next Year Thanks to Weak Demand Oil prices were flying high when the year began. OPEC and its allies decided to reduce their output to the tune of 1.2 million barrels per day for the first six months of 2019. Consequently, the international benchmark Brent crude ...

New Rumors Heighten Fears Sony Will Delay Ghost of Tsushima Two well-known industry leakers recently hinted at a possible delay to an unnamed first-party Sony title that fans fear could be Ghost of Tsushima. The rumor comes from Daniel Ahmad and Jason Schreier, two gaming insiders who’ve reliably leaked valuable ...

Zuckerberg: Facebook Would Quit Libra if the Association Launched Prematurely Facebook's CEO told lawmakers the company would pull out of the Libra Association if the consortium launched its cryptocurrency without regulatory approvals.

The 1 Ingredient Driving Chipotle (CMG) Stock’s Huge Gains Chipotle (NYSE:CMG) stock is once again a star on Wall Street. It is up more than 80% year-to-date and this is even after a 7% dip from its earnings report this week. CMG Stock Update CMG is a stock that ...

Bitcoin (BTC) Bullish Setup Still Remains Valid Bitcoin (BTC) seems to be caught up in some serious bearishness short term but the near term outlook still remains positive. If we look at the 4H chart for BTC/USD, we can see a diamond formation that is quite significant. ...

Gold Price Regains Its Shine as U.S. Economy Flashes Two Warning Signals The price of gold rallied on Wednesday and was making a fast return to $1,500 as investors weighed the multitude of risks facing the U.S. economy. The latest warning signal came from the housing market after existing home sales tumbled ...

Tesla Lawsuit Blames Space-Age Door Handles for Horrific Driver Death Most of the controversy stemming from Tesla accidents has revolved around the electric carmaker’s “autopilot” feature. But now Elon Musk’s company is in the spotlight following a fatal accident the family blames on something far more basic – door handles. ...

New Members Added to Ripple’s Regulatory Team, Will Experience Improve the Blockchain Association? The San Francisco-based crypto firm, Ripple has been going crazy on the partnership this past year and even now, they have just announced three new appointments to its international regulatory team and that the company will be joining the Blockchain ...

How Fiat Money Fails: Deconstructing the Government’s Paper-Thin Promise Fiat money has a surprisingly short lifespan. The almighty U.S. dollar currently serving as world reserve currency is not exempted, in spite of all proclamation that it cannot fail. Throughout history, fiat money has failed over and over again, where ...

CZ Claims Vladimir Putin To Be the Most Important Person in Blockchain The CEO of the world’s biggest crypto platform, Changpeng Zhao has called the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin as the most influential person in the blockchain space.
Earlier this week, on RBC News, Zhao highlighted the Russian President as one ...

Bitcoin (BTC): Short Term Bullish Trend Reversal Is Only A Matter Of Time Bitcoin (BTC) is long overdue for a major bullish reversal short term and it is only a matter of time that we see that happen. The daily chart for BTC/USD shows how the price has been trading within a diamond ...

Pompliano Raises $61 Million Blockchain Fund With Only 11 Investors in Under a Week Over $61 million has been raised by Morgan Creek Digital for a new blockchain fund in order to look into opportunities using distributed ledgers.
At the end of last week, the cryptocurrency asset management giant Morgan Creek addressed a filing ...

$7.5K: Bitcoin’s Price Tanks to Four-Month Low Bitcoin's price fell to less than $7,500 today and traders believe a "long squeeze" is to blame.

How to Watch Mark Zuckerberg’s Grilling in Congress Today Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg will be testifying before lawmakers on Libra and more later today. Watch the livestream here.

New IBM Collaboration to Further Blockchain Payments Based in both Taiwan and California, the blockchain platform, TBCASoft has just announced a collaboration project with the tech giant, IBM and the telecommunications firm, SoftBank.
The new project is being done in order to adopt a cross-carrier telecommunications blockchain ...

PeerNova Validates Shift to Enterprise Blockchain With $31 Million Funding Blockchain startup PeerNova has received $31 million through a Series B round, bringing the company’s total fundraising to $74 million.

BND Capital; Save time and generate profits with a managed investment account Discretionary investment management firm BND Capital offers a new way to profit from trading without having to stay on top of the markets every day. BND Capital offers a completely managed service through an innovative and easy to use online ...

Securities Numbering Body Launches Task Force to Standardize Digital Assets The Association of National Numbering Agencies is addressing the lack of standardised digital asset ticker symbols for traditional finance markets.

Is crypto leverage trading worth it The past years witnessed the rapid expanding of crypto derivatives market, a growing number of exchanges offer margin trading such as BITMEX, BEX500, OKEX. Some of them offer up to 200x leverage.
Some people dismiss it as shy of gambling, ...

US Treasury to Monitor Libra Over Possible Financial Risks The Treasury Department has committed to monitoring the Facebook-led cryptocurrency project Libra alongside regulatory efforts by Congress.

Bitcoin Volatility Hits 6.5-Month Low as Price Falls Back to $8,000 Bitcoin's struggle for clear directional bias looks set to end, with volatility hitting multi-month lows and the charts calling a big move to the higher side.

Malaysia Regulator Approves International Crypto Exchange Luno The strict financial regulator in Malaysia is trying to help the local fintech industry scale up and attract new investors. As part of that trend the Malaysia Securities Commission is recognizing the right of cryptocurrency exchanges such as Luno to ...

Zuckerberg Confirms There Won’t be a Libra Launch Without US Approval The founder and mogul of the social network, otherwise known as Facebook, has got plans to tell the United States Congress that the upcoming stablecoin, Libra won’t be launching anywhere until regulators give it the green light.
According to the ...

Regulate Stablecoins – Don’t Squash Them Regulators should offer a path for stablecoins to exist alongside current financial systems, writes a fellow at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center.

Winklevoss Argues ‘Bitcoin Vs Gold’ Debate One-half of the Winklevoss twins, Cameron Winklevoss has come out to say that Bitcoin’s possibilities go beyond just ‘digital gold’.
In a tweet posted earlier today, Cameron argued:
“Because Bitcoin is open source software, its possibilities are boundless. I often ...

What to Expect When Facebook’s Zuckerberg Defends Libra on Capitol Hill Here's what you need to know before Mark Zuckerberg testifies in front of the House Financial Services Committee on Libra.

Cardano (ADA) Price Analysis: Bears Sighting Fresh Monthly Lows ADA price struggled to surpass the $0.0400 resistance and decline recently against the US Dollar. The price is currently declining and is trading near the key $0.0375 support area. There is a major bearish trend line forming with resistance near ...

Former World Gold Council Exec Develops New Bitcoin ETF The portfolio manager behind SPDR Gold Shares is developing a bitcoin ETF, but winning SEC approval remains a holy grail in the nascent space.

Bitcoin Price Analysis: BTC Could Tumble Below $7,700 Bitcoin price failed to surpass $8,350 and $8,400 resistance levels against the US Dollar. The price is currently declining and it is trading below the $8,080 and $8,000 support levels. There is a major bearish trend line forming with resistance ...

Bank Crisis Spreads in India – Deaths, Strike, Supreme Court Denial The Indian banking sector is facing multiple challenges. Customers of several cooperative banks are still struggling to withdraw their money, and deaths have been reported in connection with withdrawal restrictions. Meanwhile, some 300,000 state-run bank employees are on strike against ...

ING Bank Devises Privacy Fix for R3’s Corda Blockchain ING, the Dutch megabank, has come up with a privacy fix for R3's Corda blockchain.

Binance Joins Governance Council of Kakao’s Klaytn Blockchain Binance has joined the governance council of Kakao's Klaytn blockchain network as the project scrambles for partners and use cases.

Bitmain Aims to Build a 300MW Texas Mining Farm The Beijing-based Bitmain Technologies and DMG Blockchain Solutions announced the launch of a 25MW mining facility in Rockdale, Texas. The new mine aims to bolster Bitmain’s international expansion which will soon expand to 50MW of processing power and then extend ...

Crypto Extortion on the Rise, Says Academic Study Hackers can make up to $130,000 a month for a $10,000 investment.

Sally Ho's Technical Analysis 23 October 2019 Bitcoin
Bitcoin (BTC/USD) depreciated to the 7998.90 level early in today’s Asian session as the pair failed to sustain a move higher to the 8317.14 area during yesterday’s North American session. The pair has recently been orbiting the 8200.63 area, ...

How to Start a Crypto Podcast The idea of starting your own podcast is undeniably appealing. Not only do you get to sound off about a topic that’s close to your heart, but if you opt for the host-and-guest format, you get to engage in stimulating ...

TRON & BitTorrent: The Story Of Two Firm’s Under One Man After having quite a turbulent few weeks, let’s take a look at TRON and its recently acquired BitTorrent subsidiary and what’s been happening with the two firms.
CEO of both firms, Justin Sun worked on the idea that crypto needs ...

The Silk Road Investigation: A ‘Pattern of Bad Behavior and Double Agents’ Kathryn Haun, a general partner at U.S. venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, has revealed in recent interviews how she helped take down the Silk Road when she was working for the Attorney General’s office. According to her accounts, the U.S. ...

Algorand Wins Sharia Compliance Certificate to Enter $70 Billion Market A sharia certification could open up the platform to a global network of observant Islamic investors estimated to be worth more than $70 billion.

Ethereum Researcher Justin Drake Will Discuss Creating a Blockchain Startup at Disrupt Berlin Ethereum needs all the help it can get these days, and with the addition of researcher Justin Drake at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin, it just might garner the appeal it so desperately needs. Ethereum Needs Some Good PR Ethereum is the ...

Ethereum (ETH) Inches Closer To Breaking Out Of Ascending Triangle Ethereum (ETH) is trading with an ascending triangle that will soon have to be broken. Whether to the upside or to the downside remains to be seen but historically we have seen ascending triangles break to the upside most of ...

Hot Or Cold? How To Store Your Ethereum If you own Ethereum, you’ve probably wondered if you’re storing it in the most effective away. You’ve got to weigh up safety vs ease of use, security vs accessibility in what seems to be a constant battle between hot and ...

Pension Funds Put $50 Million Into Morgan Creek’s New Blockchain Fund Morgan Creek Digital raised the first $50 million for its second venture capital fund from the same two large institutional investors in its first.

How Cryptocurrency Developers Can Earn Bitcoin Cash With REST APIs A recent video by Chris Troutner, Senior Javascript Developer at Bitcoin.com, points out a problem with anti-profit seeking approaches to crypto development, and how devs can incentivize growth and attract business using REST APIs to earn BHC. Without incentives, Troutner ...

Trump Administration Popped 2017 Bitcoin Bubble, Ex-CFTC Chair Says "We saw a bubble building and we thought the best way to address it was to allow the market to interact with it," said Christopher Giancarlo.

Adam Back: Altcoins Might Disappear Soon Is it possible that altcoins could potentially disappear forever? Altcoins Don’t Have the Same Appeal They Once Did While they may not vanish into thin air, Adam Back – the CEO of Block Stream and the co-author of a bitcoin ...

Program Funding Manager at UNICEF Explains why They Teamed up With Ethereum UNICEF, originally known as the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund has been a god send since it was created by the UN general assembly following World War II in December of 1946.
Typically, when disaster strikes somewhere in the ...

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 ...