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Cryptocurrency Market Will Get 'Much Bigger': Former JPMorgan Banker
Daniel Masters, who previously led JPMorgan’s global energy trading desk, says cryptocurrencies are fueling a financial revolution. Masters is now chairman of digital investment bank Coinshares and chief investment officer at Global Advisors, and he explained in an interview with Bloomberg how distributed ledger technology is doing for the democratization of peer-to-peer transactions what the internet did for the democratization of news.
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Opinion | Reinventing the economics of the Internet
Here’s how to get a slice of the tech giants' profits.
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Cryptocurrencies Were Never Good for Anybody But the Rich
The value of cryptocurrencies across the board skyrocketed last year due to speculative investing, and it feels as though early attempts to position digital money as a populist and democratic alternative to traditional finance are falling apart at the seams. But cryptocurrency has always been about the rich getting richer.
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Weekly Cryptocurrency Technical Price Analysis
Cryptocurrency markets have taken a sigh of relief as some major fundamental factors favoring the respective markets flooded in past week. Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman said they are open to becoming a cryptocurrency exchange once the regulation in the respective sector smoothens with maturity. In the meanwhile, they even support current cryptocurrency exchanges.
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Stanford University Physicists Uncover Correlation between Bitcoin Transactions and Laws of Nature
Bitcoin ushered in a new class of asset in 2009, but nowadays, the novel financial instrument has reached somewhat of a peak with its popularity skyrocketing as never before. This growing interest increasing acceptance has also paved the way for several research studies on the subject. On April 23, 2018, a study uncovered a strange similarity between bitcoin transactions and the structure of swirling liquid.
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COSS.io Roadmap + Whitepaper Is Here!
COSS cryptocurrency exchange has released a new and updated whitepaper.
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Bitcoin.com Fraud Lawsuit Group Gaining Steam With Over 1000 Members
The dedicated Telegram group made up of organizers and those who have lost money due to the cryptocurrency news and information outlet’s practices current holds 1016 members at press time April 30. The group has existed less than a week, but already features well-known cryptocurrency figures including Charlie Shrem and Richard Heart, as well as Nakamoto Institute founder Pierre Rochard and entrepreneur Alistair Milne.
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Bitcoin.com Accused of Misleading People into Buying BCH
The Bitcoin (BTC)-supporting community from the everlasting war between BTC and Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is furious because they claim that sites like bitcoin.com are misleading buyers into purchasing BCH instead of Bitcoin. The problem lies in the site using the name Bitcoin for BCH and Bitcoin Core for BTC.
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‘We Need to Respect This Generation’s Interest’ in Bitcoin: CFTC Chairman
Join our community of 10 000 traders on Hacked.com for just $39 per month. The chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said this week that cryptocurrency is a generational interest and that regulators need to treat it with respect. J. Christopher Giancarlo, who was sworn in as a CFTC commissioner in 2014 and has led the commission since August 2017, shared his thoughts on cryptocurrency regulation at the Milken Institute Global Conference, which took place this week in Los Angeles.
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Easing Regulations Bring 4000 New Bitcoin ATMs to Argentina
The Central Bank of the Argentine Republic (BCRA) has this month eased regulations regarding automatic teller machines in the country. The (perhaps unexpected) upshot of this has been a plan to install 4000 new crypto-enabled ATMs. Rules, Rules, Rules The new regulations do not contain any direct reference to bitcoin or cryptocurrency. Rather, they allow the installation of ATMs in non-banking establishments, such as supermarkets...
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All the top law firms in cryptocurrency & blockchain industry
Luvcrypto has listed the best law firms dealing with ICOs, fintech, crypto, and blockchain space.
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Billionaire Peter Thiel-backed Venture Fund Invests in Bitcoin Broker For Institutional Investors
Billionaire Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund is set to invest in Tagomi Systems Inc., a new bitcoin trading firm. This news was revealed by a couple of unnamed sources with insider information regarding the investment. Tagomi is a bitcoin trading platform with lofty ambitions. The startup wants to be the leading bitcoin broker-dealer for the institutional bitcoin investment class. The company is co-founded by Greg Tusar who is a former Goldman Sachs executive. No official word has been given as to the size of fund’s investment in the startup company, but Tagomi has reportedly raised over $15 million in funding.
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Should the Fed Create ‘FedCoin’ to Rival Bitcoin? A Former Top Official Says ‘Maybe’
If cryptocurrency and blockchain technology really are the future of money, the world’s central banks need to get involved, a former Fed governor argues.
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Bitcoin Sees Wall Street Warm to Trading Virtual Currency
Some of the biggest names on Wall Street are warming up to Bitcoin, a virtual currency that for nearly a decade has been consigned to the unregulated fringes of the financial world. The parent company of the New York Stock Exchange has been working on an online trading platform that would allow large investors to buy and hold Bitcoin, according to emails and documents viewed by The New York Times and four people briefed on the effort who asked to remain anonymous because the plans were still confidential.
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Bill Gates Joins Buffett, Munger in Bitcoin Brush-Off
Bill Gates, the second wealthiest person in the world as per Forbes, is not impressed by the concept of Bitcoin as it does not produce anything. On Monday, he told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” he would short the cryptocurrency if he could.
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Facebook To Launch A Team Dedicated To Blockchain Technology
Messenger’s David Marcus has been penciled in to be head of a team that Facebook are putting together that will be dedicated to investigating the blockchain. Facebook are keen to learn all there is to know about blockchain technology, and if/how it will benefit them in the future.
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How to Use Bitcoin Anonymously - Unblock
Bitcoin is often regarded as an anonymous cryptocurrency because it is possible to transmit and accept bitcoins without giving anyone your personally identifying information. While this is true, the current version of the protocol is not exactly anonymous. When Bitcoin was first introduced in 2009, its creator Satoshi Nakamoto envisioned it to be a private and secure protocol for transfer of value over the Internet. Before 2014, the general public didn’t really understand how the blockchain technology operates;
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'Almost Irresponsible' to Not Invest in Bitcoin: Billionaire Mike Novogratz
Billionaire bitcoin bull Michael Novogratz, founder and CEO of Galaxy Digital Capital Management, says every investor should have 1% to 2% of their portfolio in cryptocurrency in an interview with CNN’s Maggie Lake on “Markets Now.” Not to do so, in his view, is “almost irresponsible.”
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Why Now Is The Best Time To Invest In Cryptocurrencies
Whether one should invest in cryptocurrencies or not has been a hot topic as of late. Being such a young asset, the market tends to be extremely volatile, filled with stories of extreme success or massive failure. The question is really about making an informed decision consisting of probability, timing, and if the investment profile fits the investor. For those who have been living under a rock for the last year, just Google “bitcoin success story” and you can read about the kid who made a deal with his parents...
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Bitcoin price analysis: BTC/USD settles above $8,600; Wall Street slowly adopting crypto reality
Bitcoin catapulted to $8,717 on Monday, to trade at $8,670 at the time of writing. The digital currency No.1 has been volatile lately influenced by a variety of factors from Mt.Gox selling Bitcoins rumors to the launch of NASDAQ-powered crypto exchange. Obviously, that positive momentum was triggered by the news that NASDAQ is opening centralized cryptocurrency exchange next month, making Wall Street one more step closer to full adoption of new crypto reality.
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