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• Cryptocurrency Memes: The Only Assets That Can Survive a Bear Market - Bitcoin News (press release)

  18-11-2018 23:51 via news.bitcoin.com
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  Cryptocurrency Memes: The Only Assets That Can Survive a Bear Market
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  If there are two things a bear market's good for, it's building and memeing. Your portfolio might be down, but if you're anything like crypto Twitter, your meme bank will be filled to overflowing with riches. Bloody markets make for marvelous memes ...
  
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• Big Cryptocurrency Player Based In China Establishes Foothold In Pacific Northwest - NW News Network

  18-11-2018 23:32 via nwnewsnetwork.org
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  Big Cryptocurrency Player Based In China Establishes Foothold In Pacific Northwest
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  One of the biggest players in the global cryptocurrency space has established a foothold in the Pacific Northwest. China-based Bitmain Technologies held a ribbon cutting for a $20 million data center near the Wenatchee airport on Friday. A celebratory ...
  
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• Nail in the Coffin? BTC.top Shifts Hash to Bitcoin Cash ABC to ‘End Chaos’

  18-11-2018 23:03
  Significant cryptocurrency mining outfit BTC.top has begun mining bitcoin cash on the blockchain supported by Bitcoin ABC (BCHABC), potentially putting another nail in the coffin of the minority Bitcoin SV (BSV) chain. Including its BTC operation, the pool has more hash by itself than all of BSV combined, meaning that the threat of a potential
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• Nvidia: Cryptocurrency Mining no Factor for Company Moving Forward

  18-11-2018 22:30 via crypto-news.net
  Nvidia, one of the world’s largest chipmakers known for their affiliation with gaming studios and publishers, did enjoy a significant boost in sales last year, during the crypto craze which emptied the GPU shelves of many stores. All but the lowest-tier GPUs were sold out, and Nvidia saw this as an opportunity to create their own mining series, similar to what ASUS created to seize this upcoming market.
  Unfortunately, things do not seem to be panning out well for Nvidia, as CEO Jensen Huan
  
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• Major Venezuelan Department Store Chain Accepts Cryptocurrency - Bitcoin News (press release)

  18-11-2018 21:49 via news.bitcoin.com
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  Major Venezuelan Department Store Chain Accepts Cryptocurrency
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  The people of Venezuela have been forced to cope with an increasingly difficult economic situation in recent years. This has led to a loss of trust in government-issued fiat by the population in a way that many believe exemplifies the need for ...
  
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• Fake News: Nvidia Stock Didn’t Drop Due to Crypto Bear Market

  18-11-2018 21:45
  The market cap of Nvidia has dropped by more than $23 billion, and analysts were quick to claim that the overnight plunge in the firm’s stock price was caused by an overall drop in demand for crypto. Susquehanna Financial Group analyst Christopher Rolland said: “While disappointing, the crypto-bubble is temporary, but secular growth opportunities like
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• Google Boots Four Malicious Crypto Apps from Play Store

  18-11-2018 20:35
  Despite attempts to weed out fake cryptocurrency apps on the Android marketplace, the war is far from being won. Cybersecurity researcher Lukas Stefanko recently came across four fake crypto apps in the Google Play Store that impersonated Ethereum wallet MetaMask, as well as the Tether and NEO cryptocurrencies. According to Stefanko, the apps have been
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• Simplifying Cryptocurrency, Blockchain and Their Real Estate Applications - RisMedia.com (press release)

  18-11-2018 19:01 via rismedia.com
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  Simplifying Cryptocurrency, Blockchain and Their Real Estate Applications
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  Sensational headlines and a heavy lean on technological language can make today's resources on bitcoin and blockchain difficult to understand—and, difficult to recognize how they can be applicable to real estate. The “Blockchain, Bitcoin & Robots in ...and more »
  
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• KPMG: Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are Not Store of Value [Yet]

  18-11-2018 18:26
  It will take a long time for cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin to attain the status of a store-of-value asset, said KPMG in its latest crypto study. The Big Four firm’s “Institutionalization of Cryptoassets” report asserted that assets like bitcoin could neither be used as a medium of exchange nor a store of value, mainly because of
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• In 2017 Bitcoin Went From $5.5k to $19k in 33 Days, Not Impossible in 2019

  18-11-2018 18:00 via newsbtc.com
  Mainstream media, renowned economists and other crypto critics have killed Bitcoin more than 300 times since its launch. But the digital currency always come back from the dead.
  Every bitcoin crash from the past has witnessed a surge in crypto-doomsday theories. As a relatively new market, BTC charts do not behave like any conventional asset out there. They demonstrate wild price fluctuations that are adequately scary for weak-hearted traders. Even then, every serious BTC fall eventually turns i
  
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• HiveEx and Ivy combine to launch Australian cryptocurrency service - The Sydney Morning Herald

  18-11-2018 17:34 via smh.com.au
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  HiveEx and Ivy combine to launch Australian cryptocurrency service
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  Sydney: The time-saving, cost-cutting, ultra-secure promise of bitcoin and its cryptocurrency peers is some way off given low rates of adoption, but a new service ...
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• Arizona Bitcoin Fraudster Gets Year and a Half in Jail

  18-11-2018 17:01
  Kim stole money from his employer and from his friends.
  
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• Bitcoin Opinion: A Cycle Coming To An End

  18-11-2018 16:47
  If you follow cryptocurrencies for a while you start finding weird and interesting patterns, scattered around a variety of technical data. It may not seem like much, but sometimes looking away from price into other statistics can give you a refreshing view on the market. Bearish trends can tell us more about the future, you
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• NVIDIA CEO and CFO Talk Gaming's Cryptocurrency Hangover and More on Q3 Earnings Call - Motley Fool

  18-11-2018 16:30 via fool.com
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  NVIDIA CEO and CFO Talk Gaming's Cryptocurrency Hangover and More on Q3 Earnings Call
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  NVIDIA Corp. (NASDAQ:NVDA) reported fiscal third-quarter 2019 results after the market closed on Thursday, Nov. 15. The graphics processing unit (GPU) specialist's revenue increased 21% to $3.18 billion, GAAP earnings per share jumped 48% to $1.97, ...
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• Unlicensed EU Brokers Lose Payment Option, eToro’s Stablecoin: Best of the Week

  18-11-2018 15:54
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• Crypto Week In Review: Bitcoin ETP Launches In Switzerland, KuCoin Scores $20M

  18-11-2018 15:54 via newsbtc.com
  Unfortunately, as cryptocurrencies capitulated throughout the week, losing upwards of 15-20% of their value, so did the news cycle. However, it isn’t all doom and gloom, as there were still a handful of developments indicating that the crypto and blockchain industry is far from dead in the water.
  Amun Launches Bitcoin, Ether, XRP ETP In Switzerland
  After hinting at the product for two months, over the past seven days, it has been divulged that Amun, a London-based fintech firm, will be lis
  
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• Cryptocurrency Price Analysis for the week November 12 to November 18 - Coingape

  18-11-2018 15:25 via coingape.com
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  Cryptocurrency Price Analysis for the week November 12 to November 18
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  Bitcoin Cash Fork Chaos that brought the markets down,; XRP is now ahead of Ethereum at second place by market cap,; Opposite view from the regulators as IMF says Govts Should Set Up Own Cryptocurrencies while the European Commercial Bank calls ...
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• Christie’s Records $318 Million Art Sale on a Blockchain

  18-11-2018 15:15
  A new milestone in blockchain adoption has been set with the successful recording of a record-breaking art sale on a blockchain. On November 13, the Barney A. Ebsworth Collection sale at the famous Christie’s auction house in New York raised a total of $317,801,250, in the process becoming the most valuable art auction to ever … Continued
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• Gem Launches Crypto Portfolio Management App

  18-11-2018 15:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  US-based crypto startup BitVault, Inc., doing business as  Gem, has announced the launch of its consumer crypto portfolio app that lets users track all their crypto accounts in one single app. The app, initially announced in April, syncs with all major platforms and provides key metrics of how users’ investments are doing. The company said […]
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• Thailand’s Main Opposition Party Holds Primary Election on Blockchain

  18-11-2018 14:20
  Thailand’s Democrat Party, the country’s main opposition party has become the first major political party in the world to carry out primary elections entirely on a blockchain. Using a live e-voting system powered by the Zcoin blockchain, the party successfully conducted its primaries which involved more than 120,000 voters between November 1 and November 9. … Continued
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• Analyst: Bitcoin Will Likely Reach Bottom in Q2 of 2019, Bearish Short-Term

  18-11-2018 14:15
  According to Willy Woo, a prominent cryptocurrency analyst and researcher, Bitcoin is expected to bottom out in the second quarter of 2019. Throughout the past three months, since August, Bitcoin has remained in a tight range from $6,200 to $6,800, unable to break out of major resistance levels above the $6,800 mark apart from one
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• Ripple Surges 8% as Crypto Market Adds $4 Billion, Can Bitcoin Recover?

  18-11-2018 14:11
  Over the last 24 hours, Ripple (XRP) has surged by more than 8 percent to $0.51, as the valuation of the crypto market increased by $4 billion from $181 billion to $185 billion. On November 15, the valuation of the crypto market fell by $27 billion from $210 billion and a recovery to the $200
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• Huobi Exchange’s Plans for Russia Go Well Beyond Crypto Trading

  18-11-2018 13:00
  Huobi exchange, which just opened an office in Moscow, wants to lend money and rent space to Russian miners, shape the country's regulations and train local blockchain talent.
  
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• Deloitte Blockchain Chief: Bad Crypto Headlines Making Clients ‘Nervous’

  18-11-2018 12:30
  Hype around ICOs and altcoins “hasn’t helped us,” says Linda Pawczuk, leader of Deloitte Consulting’s financial services industry blockchain group.
  
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• Airfox Ordered to Pay Back Investors of 2017 ICO

  18-11-2018 12:26
  Also hit was Paragon, the under-performing Cannabis token.
  
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• Singaporean Crypto Exchange KuCoin Raises $20 Million Series A

  18-11-2018 12:03
  Singaporean crypto trading platform KuCoin has announced the successful conclusion of a $20 million Series A funding round led by IDG Capital, Matrix Partners and Neo Global Capital. According to a statement released on November 14, the investment in KuCoin, which already boats some 5 million registered users is intended to enable the platform to … Continued
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• World’s First Crypto ETP Gets Green light in Switzerland

  18-11-2018 10:37
  The SIX Swiss Exchange has given the go-ahead to an exchange-traded product tracking multiple cryptocurrencies, according to a Financial Times report. The Swiss regulators have raced ahead of the U.S., by agreeing to greenlight the Amun Crypto Exchange Traded Product (ETP). Based on the reports, the Amun Crypto ETP,, will have half of its assets invested
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• Cryptocurrency ETF Gets Swiss Licence, Trading in Zurich

  18-11-2018 10:20
  Amun AG will trade shares of an index based on five cryptocurrencies on the SIX Swiss Exchange.
  
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• Cryptocurrency Market Update: Swiss Crypto ETP Approval Elevates ... - newsBTC

  18-11-2018 10:09 via newsbtc.com
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  Cryptocurrency Market Update: Swiss Crypto ETP Approval Elevates ...
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  FOMO Moments Markets recovering a little on Sunday; XRP moving up, Stellar and Monero not far behind. A Sunday bounce has pulled cryptocurrency markets ...and more »
  
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• Cryptocurrency Market Update: Swiss Crypto ETP Approval Elevates XRP, Stellar Tops EOS

  18-11-2018 10:00 via newsbtc.com
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  Markets recovering a little on Sunday; XRP moving up, Stellar and Monero not far behind.
  A Sunday bounce has pulled cryptocurrency markets back from the abyss … for now. Following one of the largest falls this year during the week markets are recovering a little today as total capitalization creeps back up over $185 billion.
  Bitcoin has made it back to $5,600 with a small gain of 1.3% on the day. Since its 2018 low of $5,350 on Thursday Bitcoin has regained 4.7%, however, sin
  
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• LTC/USD Price Analysis: Institutionalization of Litecoin, Atomic Swaps, Lightning Network Positive for Bulls

  18-11-2018 09:33 via newsbtc.com
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  Its one-step at a time and Litecoin pace is slow but steady. Even as prices drop to record lows printing at a time when Tushar Jain took to twitter thrashing Litecoin, the Founding Director of the Litecoin foundation and the owner of Litecoin.com has a different view of what the seventh most valuable coin represents. For one he really thinks Litecoin is a unique ecosystem, an independent network that has no business competing with Bitcoin but rather complement it. Regardless
  
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• Aussie Crypto Startup Power Ledger Brings P2P Energy Trading to Largest US Market

  18-11-2018 08:50
  News today sees notable blockchain project Power Ledger launching its peer-to-peer trading product for renewable energy. Power Ledger will launch with American PowerNet at their home base in Pennsylvania. Power Ledger Power Ledger is a blockchain-based solution for renewable and cost-effective energy. (Power Ledger also has their own cryptocurrency – POWR token.) According to their
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• Bitcoin Price Weekly Analysis: Sell Rallies In BTC/USD Near $5,880

  18-11-2018 07:30 via newsbtc.com
  Key PointsBitcoin price declined heavily and traded close to the $5,200 support level against the US Dollar.
  There is a short term consolidation pattern formed with resistance at $5,550 on the 4-hours chart of the BTC/USD pair (data feed from Kraken).
  The pair could correct higher towards $5,750 or $5,880, but upsides are likely to be contained.Bitcoin price settled below key supports against the US Dollar. BTC/USD may recover in the short term, but sellers remain in control around $5,880.
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• Ethereum Price Weekly Analysis: ETH/USD Facing Uphill Task Near $194

  18-11-2018 05:28 via newsbtc.com
  Key HighlightsETH price is forming a decent support above the $165 level against the US Dollar.
  There is a major bearish trend line in place with resistance at $193 on the 4-hours chart of ETH/USD (data feed via Kraken).
  The pair may slowly correct higher towards the $188, $192 and $194 resistance levels.Ethereum price is trading in a range versus the US Dollar and Bitcoin. ETH/USD could trade higher towards the $192-194 resistance area in the near term.
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• XRP/USD Price Analysis: CNBC Host Recommend Buying Ripple

  18-11-2018 03:05 via newsbtc.com
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  Like in any war, victims are usually the vulnerable. In the crypto space, the hash war between different factions within Bitcoin cash network saw ordinary investors’ record massive losses in several hours of madness. Surprisingly, in the midst of double digit losses in Bitcoin and most altcoins, XRP registered minor losses, rapidly recovering and closing three percent lower in the last week.All out war! Hash rate now same and SV almost same number of blocks. Both sides b
  
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• BTC/USD Price Analysis: ECB Official Says Bitcoin a Clever Idea as Prices Steady

  18-11-2018 03:00 via newsbtc.com
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  While speaking at the Economics of Payments IX to mark a decade after the fall of the Lehman Brothers—an investment bank and a casualty of the Great Financial Crisis, Benoît Cœuré, the European Central Bank executive board member and the chair of the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures at the Bank for International Settlements has acknowledged that Bitcoin is a clever idea as part of his speech covering the rising awareness of cryptocurre
  
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• Lawyer: Phase Two of SEC’s Enforcement is Slow, Painful Grind For Crypto

  18-11-2018 02:30
  According to Kobre & Kim government enforcement defense and securities litigation attorney Jake Chervinsky, the second phase of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s enforcement on crypto is a painful and slow grind for the sector. Earlier this week, the US SEC cracked down on Paragon and AirFox, two initial coin offering (ICO) projects
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• Monero: Unsung Crypto Developer Wins Prestigious Award

  18-11-2018 01:15
  Professor Joseph Liu received an award at the end of October 2018 from the Australian Computer Society (ACS) recognising his recent achievements with the title “ICT Researcher of the Year.” Liu is the creator and development leader of the ring signature algorithm — a crucial technology used in Monero — which he initially conceived of
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• Crypto’s Too Expensive? Binance Sent $600 Million in Bitcoin for Just $7

  18-11-2018 00:20
  Crypto exchange Binance has been moving bitcoin funds to cold storage the past couple of days, and, of course, such large transfers don’t go unnoticed. Two transactions destined for Binance’s cold wallet come to the fore and demonstrate both the power and irony of the blockchain. A transaction in block 550211 was a transfer of just
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