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Bitcoin price started to grow recently and there is a slight trend for recovery after the January-2018 market crash. This is how the BTC price chart looks at the time of writing: At the moment many of the early adopters and some in the general public wonder whether it's a good time to get…

In a country that has seen an estimated 99% devaluation of their currency over the last year, even $1 is seen as a lot of money. These images that recently surfaced on Reddit are reportedly showing a donation of just $230 that has been channeled into Venezuela through a cryptocurrency called Nano.…

Happy Friday the 13th!! If you live and work in the United States and didn’t get a raise of 2.9% this year, you’re actually making less than you did last year. The CPI data released yesterday showed a rather nasty increase bringing the rate of inflation to just under 3%. Unfortunately for American…

After Coinbase, Gemini, and Ripple; bitcoin.com.au joins the list to hire top executives from Wall Street. The latest one to lose its top executive is the big four accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Australia whose former director of digital strategy is joining Bitcoin.com.au as its new…

Hong Kong-based GSR Capital is investing $160 million in Overstock’s cryptocurrency venture, the exchange tZERO. The news immediately hiked Overstock’s share price by 12.5 .percent. Through its tZERO exchange, a majority-owned subsidiary, Overstock plans to bring “efficiency and transparency” to…

Stellar has acquired Chain, the San Francisco-based startup building blockchain technology for the financial industry, according to people familiar with the deal. According to some published reports, the sale price is to be $500 million. Chain- a strong target for Stellar Founded in 2014, Chain…

Charles Hoskinson, CEO of IOHK – the squad leading up development on the Cardano blockchain – and one of the original founders and alum of Ethereum, believes a really bright future for cryptocurrencies as he feels a lot of equity and traditional investors would start moving their monies from equity…

Graphics card manufacturers NVIDIA and AMD have been raking in huge profits — thanks, in part, to the influx of cryptocurrency mining over the past year. Recently, however, the decreasing prices of cryptocurrencies and a lower demand for GPU mining could bring the engine to a stall. Are the…

In an effort to take advantage of China’s innovation in the cryptocurrency sphere, asset management firm Reality Shares launched the first ever blockchain ETF for the country. The company says their goal is to “democratize the world’s best investing ideas.” According to a news release on June…

Initial coin offerings (ICOs) may provide early-stage startups with an effective way to raise capital and build a dedicated base of followers, but the head of one of the world’s largest stock exchanges believes that they’re harmful to retail investors. Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman levied this…

A group of industry stakeholders is trialing a blockchain system designed to more efficiently cover margin calls in securities trading. Posted by Madeline Meng Shi on June 20, 2018 @ https://www.coindesk.com/nasdaq-blockchain-trial-resolves-margin-calls-in-minutes/

A group of industry stakeholders is trialing blockchain to more efficiently cover margin calls in securities trading. Posted by Madeline Meng Shi on June 20, 2018 @ https://www.coindesk.com/nasdaq-tests-blockchain-based-proof-concept-covering-margin-calls/