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Daily Market analysis
December 21, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Daily Market News: BCH leads crypto bull run

Mati Greenspan, Senior Market Analyst at FX broker eToro, has provided his daily commentary on traditional and crypto markets for December 21, 2018. Highlights include: BCH Leads Crypto Bull Run: Crypto’s recent bull run has been headlined by Bitcoin Cash, which has risen nearly 200% since Monday. The cause of this meteoric rise is possibly…

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fca fine
December 21, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Merrill Lynch fined $6m for selling Facebook, General Motors, LinkedIn IPOs to industry insiders

FINRA has informed the public that it has fined Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc. for improperly selling shares in initial public offerings (IPOs) to industry insiders. Merrill Lynch will pay a $5.5 million fine, and disgorge $490,530 it earned as revenue from the sales. IPOs included Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ:FB), General Motors Co. (NYSE:GM),…

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Facebook gearing up to develop a crypto-based P2P payment system
December 18, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Facebook gearing up to develop a crypto-based P2P payment system

Major payment system providers like Visa (NYSE:V) and MasterCard (NYSE:MA) may be having nightmares lately and for good reason. The word on the street is that Facebook is aggressively moving forward with plans to create an internal payment system that connects overnight its 2.3 billion active customer base. How do you do this feat without…

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Analyst predicts Facebook’s FaceCoin could earn up to $19 billion by 2021
December 16, 2018 BY Mariela Naydenova

Facebook's blockchain strategy

Facebook is on a hiring blockchain spree. The company has started forming a blockchain group in mid-2018, and now has over 40 "blockchain" employees. Facebook was rumoured to be launching its very own digital coin. David Marcus, who was a President at Paypal and a Board Member in Coinbase, has joined Facebook in the blockchain…

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June 06, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

LeadCoin to offer web marketing alternative to Google and Facebook

LeadCoin partners with Stox, a Blockchain-based prediction market platform to offer the $400 billion crypto industry a web marketing alternative to Google and Facebook LeadCoin, has just announced that it launches the first lead sharing network on the blockchain that offers businesses a new way to buy and sell high quality, unused leads in real-time.…

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April 17, 2018 BY Mariela Naydenova

TopiaCoin - Facebook's "new enemy"

Mark Zuckerberg is literally under fire these days, after it became known that Facebook has been misusing users' data in multiple ways. Cambridge Analytica was accused of using data provided by Facebook to get insight into people's voting "habits", preferences etc. After Mark Zuckerberg testified in front of the US Congress, the scandal seems to…

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March 22, 2018 BY Mariela Naydenova

The future "duel" between Facebook and Blockchain

Facebook recently got under fire for security issues. The social media giant was accused that leakage of information of users is misused by companies and especially by data analytics companies. The most recent example comes from Cambridge Analytica, a data analytics company that gained access to personal data of almost 50 million users. There were…

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January 07, 2018 BY Mariela Naydenova

Mark Zuckerberg on the future of Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies

Technology moguls are by far the most frequent leaders to speak about the value of blockchain, Bitcoin and the overall cryptocurrency market. While central banks and governments are fighting against the power and revolution the digital currencies have created, technology leaders seem to understand and embrace the currency of the "future" constantly. Facebook's founder and…

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