On Colombian-Venezuelan border, there is a new cryptocurrency exchange service that may help refugees who travel across the Simon Bolivar International Bridge. The information comes from Mrs. Aguilar from CoinDesk. According to press, the service is a point-of-sale one with digital coins that can be used to buy different types of goods. The point-of-sale is…
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Bitcoin is on fire again, if this weekend’s trading is any sign of things to come in the near term. Today’s trading has almost been a repeat performance, with BTC hovering over $9,000, bouncing down twice from resistance at $9,400, and now nestling in at $9,250. The sudden spurt caught most everyone off guard, but…
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The regulatory wheels of justice may move slowly, but it appears that the long arm of the law of the self-regulatory body, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), got their man. Rules are rules, and Kyung Soo Kim, an ex-employee of Bank of America-owned broker-dealer Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc., recently met his…
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Facebook has announced the launch of its Calibra wallet that is backed by the Libra Association, an independent consortium with members such as Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and Coinbase. The association will independently govern and oversee Calibra's bespoke cryptocurrency, Libra—with the digital coin imagined to further a global financial system, this historically marks the social media…
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It may be far too early in its short history to claim that Bitcoin has arrived and that its future is secure, but the fact that it depreciated 80% over eleven cruel months and that every critic known to man was claiming its imminent demise, but then picked itself up, dusted itself off, and rose…
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Binance is launching a bitcoin-pegged token for trading called BTCB. The token will be released on the native blockchain of Binance or, simply, on Binance Chain. The information comes from a blog post of the exchange. The token will be made available for trading on the decentralized part of Binance - DEX, as well as…
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Blockchain is going on new horizons, no doubt about it. The largest drug store retailer in Canada is planning to use the disrupting technology to trace the cannabis it distributes. The goal is to set some standards since the industry is flourishing. TruTrace, a Canadian software company and Shoppers Drug Mart are partnering to develop…
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Where is the 30%+ correction in Bitcoin prices? It was certainly not present during weekend trading, as the world’s favorite cryptocurrency bolted past $9,000, climbed to $9,388, pulled back, only to repeat its magical mystery tour once more. The ensuing attack on what many analysts have claimed to be an inordinate concentration of profit taking…
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LeapRate Exclusive... 55.com, an asset network, announced today the release of the Air Jordan (AJ) Token. 55’s Asset Network will tokenize 50 pairs of the highly collectible Air Jordan Jordan 1 Retro High Travis Scott sneaker and sell these tokens during the upcoming Air Jordan Asset Token Onboarding (ATO); the Air Jordan ATO will be…
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Jack Dorsey, the CEO of both Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) and Square, Inc. (NYSE:SQ), and a self-made billionaire in his own right, has taken to the Bitcoin advocacy trail once more by teasing the industry with his first major hire for his proprietary “Square Crypto” service offering. Dorsey had envisioned long ago that the combination of Square…
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