After much speculation about the direction of Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency hit a new all-time high, hitting almost $7,400, as could be seen in the graph below. There may be several reasons for that. First, there was a lot of interest in Bitcoin from traders in Japan and South Korea. Second, when CME, the largest options…
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TEND, a blockchain-powered platform for life-enriching investments, was launched today by former Credit Suisse Chief Digital Officer Marco Abele. Featuring former UBS and SAP Group CIO Oliver Bussmann as a Strategic Advisor, the Ethereum-based project will enable a new paradigm of shared ownership of unique assets with both meaning and financial value. Using TEND, small…
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The word blockchain has been swirling around the public space for quite some time now. Bitcoin and the other 1,000 digital currencies have a total market capitalization of around $170 billion. Blockchain has disrupted a series of industries from the technology companies to the agriculture companies in Russia. So, it is interesting to understand the…
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This might be the sign that Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies have finally arrived as real tradable commodities that are here to stay. And, that the ‘establishment’ is finally buying in. Derivatives marketplace operator CME Group Inc (NASDAQ:CME) has announced that it intends to launch Bitcoin Futures in the fourth quarter of 2017, pending all relevant regulatory…
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Kochava, the leading mobile attribution and marketing analytics platform, today announced XCHNG, an open and unified blockchain framework for the digital advertising ecosystem. The XCHNG blockchain-based system of record enables the tokenization of an insertion order (IO, or a contract to buy advertisements) with the supporting immutable infrastructure to facilitate transactions between buyers and sellers…
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One of the greatest investors of all time, Warren Buffet, has now mentioned several times that Bitcoin is a "bubble", an asset that does not produce any long-term value. The "Oracle of Omaha" does not seem to be very optimistic about the future and intrinsic value of Bitcoin. Buffet has warned multiple times that the…
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The well established Russian agricultural company, Khokholskaya, decided to turn to digital currencies and an ICO to boost production. The upgrade will be used for the funding of a dairy farm. The company is going to release the MilkCoin. Since the demand in Russia is significantly high for dairy products and agriculture, there is a huge…
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During one of the biggest Ethereum hackathons, ETHWaterloo, the founder of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin, shared his views on the current situation with tokens and ICOs. Buterin compared the potential fail of 90% of all ICOs, or initial coin offerings, with the 90% fail rate of startups. In his opinion, it is inevitable that a large amount of…
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MetaTrader technologies provider Gold-i has announced the launch of a new product called Crypto Switch, providing MT5 brokers with access to cryptocurrency exchanges. Following the recent launches of Gold-i MAM Pro for MT5 and Gold-i Visual Edge, the company has launched Crypto Switch, providing access for MT5 brokers to leading global crypto exchanges and crypto…
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Iran is the next country in line that is preparing to adopt Bitcoin infrastructure, as reported by Iran’s Deputy Minister of Information and Communication Technology, Amir Hossein Davaee. Iran is known for strict financial regulations, especially when it comes to digital payment options and technological disruption. However, with the enormous spread and popularity of Bitcoin, Iran…
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