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• Microsoft Knocks out IBM for Enterprise Blockchain Crown: Report

  20-11-2018 23:49
  Microsoft’s Blockchain-as-a-Service (Baas) platform has taken the top spot in a ranking compiled by market foresight advisory firm ABI Research. Per the report , Microsoft managed to beat competitors in the ranking owing to the advantage it has on the actual implementation front where a wide range of platform services are offered. It also helped
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• Bitcoin Cash SV’s ‘Blockchain Reorg’ Likely an Accidental Split, Not an Attack

  20-11-2018 23:30
  Bitcoin Cash SV's block reorganization yesterday may have been the result of a stress test, rather than an attack.
  
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• Bitcoin Price Claws Back to $4,500 But Further Losses May Lie Ahead

  20-11-2018 23:15
  The bitcoin price on Tuesday nursed extensive losses of over 12 percent against the US dollar, stabbing through $5,000 as it did. BTC/USD Intraday Analysis The BTC/USD index is currently trading at the 4513-fiat price level after a minor jump from its intraday low at 4035-fiat. The knee-jerk reaction after a massive sell-off does not confirm
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• Israeli Startup Launches Crypto Funds Amid Institutional Push

  20-11-2018 23:00 via newsbtc.com
  Since the value of Bitcoin began to recede in early-2018, investors from across the globe have sought to find a silver lining to latch onto.
  However, with initial coin offerings (ICOs) seeing less than adequate amounts of interest, security tokens failing to pick up steam, and corporations remaining hesitant to adopt blockchain-based technologies, investors have only found hope in institutional involvement.
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• Three Blockchain Finalists in Branson’s Extreme Tech Challenge

  20-11-2018 22:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Billionaire and tech personality Richard Branson’s Extreme Tech Challenge 2019 contest has been narrowed down to ten teams and three of them use the blockchain. The 2018 winner of the event was Power Ledger, a blockchain company focused on green energy solutions. The ten teams will be narrowed down to three at the Consumer Electronics […]
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• Daily Crypto Roundup 11/20/2018

  20-11-2018 22:35
  Bakkt platform sees delays, regulatory prevalence, new mining products, Jimmy Song argues against Craig Wright being Satoshi, and Bitcoin’s bear market comparable to that of 2013, all while the entire market dumps further. Catch up on today’s headlines.
  ICE’s Bakkt Delays Bitcoin Futures Launch
  Today saw an announcement that Intercontinental Exchange has decided to move its Bitcoin futures exchange release date into January.
  December 12th was a much-anticipated date f
  
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• North Dakota Regulator Issues Cease and Desist Order Against Union Bank ICO Fraud

  20-11-2018 22:00 via newsbtc.com
  The North Dakota Securities Department, responsible for the enforcement of the securities laws in the U.S. state, has issued a cease and desist order against Union Bank Payment Coin (UBPC) for allegedly promoting a fraudulent initial coin offering (ICO).
  The financial watchdog accuses the firm of being a copycat of Liechtenstein-based Union Bank AG, which is a pioneer in the cryptocurrency space.
  Union Bank Payment Coin ‘Spoofs’ Legitimate Union Bank AG Crypto Project
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• Not Just Bitcoin: FAANG Stocks are Down $1 Trillion from Yearly Highs

  20-11-2018 21:51
  As the crypto market reels from a weeklong downturn that has forced the bitcoin price to its lowest point in almost 14 months, it appears that traditional markets do not intend to welcome investors back with open arms. Markets Erase Year-to-Date Gains Following yet another decline on Tuesday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500,
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• Binance to Integrate KYC Software Via US Firm

  20-11-2018 21:22
  The cryptocurrency exchange will now keep a record of its customers' identities.
  
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• DoJ Bitcoin Manipulation Probe Homes in on Tether and Bitfinex

  20-11-2018 21:00 via newsbtc.com
  Tether Burns Half a Billion USDT Coins in an Act of RedemptionAn ongoing criminal probe into potential Bitcoin price manipulation conducted by the U.S. Department of Justice has begun to take a closer look at how Tether and crypto exchange Bitfinex may have played a role in Bitcoin’s parabolic rise in late December.
  Bitcoin Manipulation Probe Sets Sights on Tether, Bitfinex
  Back in May of this year, the United States Justice Department (DoJ) in collaboration with the Commodity Futures Trad
  
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• Bitcoin Cash: Craig Wright’s BSV Suffers Multi-Block Reorg, Wins ‘Drama per Second’ Battle

  20-11-2018 20:50
  Whether “under attack” or otherwise, Bitcoin Cash SV (BSV), which at present has more than 4,000 unconfirmed transactions, has been experiencing a great deal of turbulence since last week’s hard fork. More importantly: around block 557301, multiple sources identified a block reorganization within the BSV blockchain. Our Bitcoin SV node experienced a 2 block re-org
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• Popular Investor Sergejs Kovalonoks talks about his methodical investment habits

  20-11-2018 20:18 via crypto-news.net
  Sergejs (@BalanceAM) from Latvia is a Popular Investor who likes to keep his Risk Score low. He has been with eToro since late 2017, and if you check out his stats, you’ll see he says he has 8 years of trading experience. His strategy involves rotating his portfolio at the end of each quarter, and he often uses short positions as a diversification tool. We asked him a few questions about his trading habits on eToro:
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  65% of retail investor accounts lose mon
  
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• Capitulation? This Bitcoin Sell-Off Still Isn’t as Extreme as 2015’s

  20-11-2018 20:16
  The cryptocurrency market has lost nearly 30 percent of its total value in the past 7-days alone, leaving many to wonder if an end to the bear market is in sight.
  
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• ICE Delays Launch of First Bitcoin Physical Contract to 2019

  20-11-2018 20:13
  ICE’s bitcoin future, barring any delays from regulators, was initially scheduled to go live in December.
  
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• Doubling Down: Tom Lee Won’t Abandon $15,000 Year-End Bitcoin Price Forecast

  20-11-2018 19:51
  Fundstrat co-founder Tom Lee stands by his reduced year-end bitcoin price target of $15,000, saying continued fallout from a market slump in tech stocks is putting pressure on cryptocurrencies. Lee’s new prediction is a dramatic drop from the bullish $25,000 price target he had set in early-2018, when the crypto market seemed poised for a
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• Bitcoin Sets Yearly Low Below $4,400, Recovers Slightly as Altcoins Continue to Drop

  20-11-2018 19:30 via newsbtc.com
  After yesterday’s widespread market carnage, Bitcoin has continued to drop and is showing little sign of a pending recovery. Bitcoin’s latest drop to fresh 2018 lows has dragged altcoins even further down, and market sentiment is sitting at a yearly low as investors lose hope.
  At the time of writing, Bitcoin (BTC) is trading down 7% at its current price of $4,780, but has recovered slightly from its intraday lows of under $4,400. Bitcoin has been falling ever since it failed to decis
  
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• DOVU Partners with TokenMarket for the First UK Tokenised Crowdfunding Campaign

  20-11-2018 19:18
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• Crypto Payments Processor BitPay to Support Paxos Stablecoin

  20-11-2018 18:59
  BitPay is integrating the Paxos Standard stablecoin into its services, allowing merchants to utilize the token to settle transactions.
  
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• Mt Pelerin Set to Redefine Modern Banking

  20-11-2018 18:35
  This is a sponsored story. CCN urges readers to conduct their own research with due diligence into the company, product or service mentioned in the content below. Last month, Geneva-based Mt Pelerin Group SA, a Swiss-registered company, became the first to incorporate its share into a token legally – solving the written form for the transferability
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• Ember Fund, the Crypto Hedge Fund for Everyone Announces Partnerships with Industry Veterans

  20-11-2018 18:28
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• Newsflash: NYSE Owner Delays Bakkt Bitcoin Futures Launch to 2019

  20-11-2018 18:25
  It looks like the crypto markets may not get a December boost from Wall Street after all. Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the owner of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), on Tuesday announced that it would delay the launch of its much-anticipated bitcoin futures product until at least Jan. 24, 2019. That product, the Bakkt Bitcoin
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• Meet Chatex, the Most User Friendly P2P Crypto Exchange for Messengers

  20-11-2018 18:19
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• ICE’s Bakkt Delays Bitcoin Futures Launch

  20-11-2018 18:12
  Bakkt has delayed the launch of its bitcoin futures launch to January 2019.
  
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• Huobi Plays Party Line in China, Creates Communist Committee

  20-11-2018 18:00 via newsbtc.com
  What do Bitcoin and communism have in common? Huobi.
  The world’s third largest digital assets exchange has set up a Communist Party committee via its $2.9 million-subsidiary, Beijing Lianhuo Information Service, reported the South China Morning Post.
  The decision comes under the garb of a political charter given by the Chinese Communist Party to local enterprises. According to it, any company having at least three party members as employees will establish a particular branch to p
  
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• AMLT Token by Coinfirm is Now Available at BitBay.net!

  20-11-2018 17:55
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• UK Could Ban Some Crypto Derivatives, Says Financial Watchdog Exec

  20-11-2018 17:50
  The U.K.'s Financial Conduct Authority is considering a ban on some cryptocurrency-based derivatives, a senior executive has said.
  
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• Coinmine One home crypto miner looks promising for 2019

  20-11-2018 17:50
  The Coinmine One crypto miner, an all-in-one mining and staking box backed by Coinbase Ventures, is being called an “at home” cryptocurrency mining solution. That designation, provided to us by mainstream media outlets, is a rather misguided name since mining and staking crypto “at home” has always been possible, but not necessarily easy or profitable.The box itself looks like an Xbox gaming system, or a Playstation, and will eventually fit nicely in that empty space on y
  
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• Bullish Call: Blockstream Chief Finds $500,000 Bitcoin Price Plausible

  20-11-2018 17:33
  Adam Back, who is at the helm of blockchain startup Blockstream, believes there are better days ahead for bitcoin investors, suggesting a flippening between BTC and gold could be in the cards. Back says it is “plausible” for the BTC price to reach somewhere between $250,000 and half-a-million dollars in the coming years. He offered the
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• BANKEX Provides Its Technology Solutions for CoreDAX – NEOFRAME’S New Digital Asset Exchange

  20-11-2018 17:28
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• AppCoins Announces a Partnership with Unity, the In-App Crypto Payments Standard to Bring In-App Purchases to Half of All Games

  20-11-2018 17:18
  This is a submitted sponsored story. CCN urges readers to conduct their own research with due diligence into the company, product or service mentioned in the content below. Appcoins, a crypto standard that is starting to be adopted by Android top App Stores, recently partnered with Unity, the company developing the game engine of the same
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• Bitcoin’s Price On Pace to Post Worst Month Yet in 2018

  20-11-2018 17:10
  Bitcoin's sell-off has accelerated and put the cryptocurrency on pace to record its worst monthly performance of the year.
  
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• Bitcoin Price Now On Pace to Post Worst Month in 2018

  20-11-2018 17:10
  Bitcoin's sell-off has accelerated and put the cryptocurrency on pace to record its worst monthly performance of the year.
  
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• Jimmy Song proves Faketoshi’s signature is (unsurprisingly) fake

  20-11-2018 16:50
  The BCH hash wars have left very little room for reasonable fact-based debates. As it turns out, the two combating factions, ABC and SV really like to make use of appeal to authority. It’s a little logical fallacy which fools short-sighted investors – otherwise why would anyone bother to use it?
  On one side, we have those who own most of the Bitcoin Cash infrastructure and repeat every five minutes that they want to bring more financial freedom to the world. The other camp is led by
  
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• Decentralised Exchange Switcheo First Application to Bridge NEO and Ethereum

  20-11-2018 16:33
  Switcheo was the first application launched on NEO.
  
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• Crypto Investors Who Bought Bitcoin at $1,000 are Now Starting to Sell

  20-11-2018 16:14
  According to Michael Moro, the CEO of a major over-the-counter (OTC) crypto trading firm, investors that bought Bitcoin in early 2017 are now starting to sell. Speaking to The Block, Genesis Global Trading CEO Michael Moro, who provides institutional investors access to block size liquidity to purchase or sell cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Bitcoin
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• Report: US Officials Are Probing Tether Role in Bitcoin Market Manipulation

  20-11-2018 16:10
  The U.S. DOJ is reportedly probing Tether and Bitfinex over whether they artificially boosted bitcoin's price using the USDT stablecoin.
  
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• SEC led crypto-related lawsuits are on the rise

  20-11-2018 15:50
  According to legal analytics firm Lex Machina, cryptocurrency related lawsuits are up over 300 percent this year, with over 45 legal cases opened in the first half of the year. The report also highlights the ongoing crackdown from the SEC on initial coin offerings, with the regulatory agency accounting for up to 30 percent of this year’s legal battles.
  In November alone, the SEC targeted EtherDelta, a decentralized trading platform for Ethereum tokens, as well as two crypto-companies, 
  
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• OKEx Blasts ‘Defamatory’ Allegations Amid BCH Futures Settlement Furor

  20-11-2018 15:30
  OKEx has pushed back against allegations made by a trading firm over its forced settlement of bitcoin cash futures contracts last week.
  
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• US Justice Department Probes Tether for Bitcoin Price Manipulation: Report

  20-11-2018 15:14
  The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has reportedly opened a probe into whether Tether, the eponymous issuer of the USD-pegged cryptocurrency stablecoin tether (USDT), has engaged in illegal market manipulation to prop up the bitcoin price. Justice Department Investigates Tether for Crypto Manipulation Citing three people familiar with the matter, Bloomberg reports that federal prosecutors
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• 3 Reasons Privacy Coins Are Unlikely to Overtake Bitcoin

  20-11-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When people give reasons for various altcoins’ inability to overtake bitcoin as the dominant digital asset in the world, the conversation sometimes doesn’t move far past the network effects surrounding the world’s most dominant crypto asset. However, there are other reasons, sometimes related to bitcoin’s strong network effects, to look at when discussing specific categories […]
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• BitMEX Report on EOS: It’s Not Really a Blockchain

  20-11-2018 14:52
  The research concludes that EOS needs a radical redesign if it wants to usurp Ethereum.
  
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• Nobody Panic! Bitcoin Plummet Prompts Reassurance From Crypto Pundits

  20-11-2018 14:30 via newsbtc.com
  Bitcoin has dropped close to 30% in November and is hinting more losses. But many prominent crypto figures believe the digital currency will recover one way or another.
  CNBC Crypto Trader Ran Neu-Ner said that the crypto market is at most bearish not in a full-fledged panic mode. He predicted that bottom was near which could allow people to reestablish their long positions in Bitcoin and other top crypto-assets.Up until now even though we have been in a bear market we haven’t seen panic or
  
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• Is Spain’s Rebel Province Catalonia Introducing Blockchain Voting?

  20-11-2018 14:11
  October 1, 2017. A clandestine referendum election is held against the Spanish government’s orders across schools and polling stations throughout Catalonia. It was a day of defiance with an overwhelming “yes” vote to sever ties with the rest of the mainland. It was also one marked with bloodshed, voter intimidation, and riots. The main perpetrators,
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• Reviewing Whirl: The New ‘Karma-Driven’ Way of Crowdfunding While Encouraging Charity

  20-11-2018 13:39 via newsbtc.com
  The saying ‘what goes around comes around’ is perhaps the best description of the ‘Whirl’ project. ‘Whirl’ is a consumer crowdfunding solution that aims to finance dreams and obligations while introducing a revolutionary incentive system to encourage giving. It is socially driven and rooted in traditional crowdfunding where people come together to pool resources towards the direst projects.
  The platform can be used to finance anything, within reason; from scie
  
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• Sole Survivors; Fintech Cryptos Ripple (XRP) and Stellar (XLM) Defy Market Massacre

  20-11-2018 13:30 via newsbtc.com
  Another day heralds more doom and gloom for the majority of cryptocurrencies, including the top ones. Markets have been hammered over 15% on the day losing in excess of $20 billion since yesterday but not all digital currencies are suffering the same level of pain.
  A Case For Stellar Lumens
  Both Ethereum and Bitcoin Cash have had their market caps slashed and have consequently fallen down the rankings. BCH so much so, that Stellar has taken fourth place just days after knocking EOS off fifth. Th
  
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• Russian ICO That Impersonated Bank Hit With Cease-and-Desist

  20-11-2018 13:15
  North Dakota has issued a cease-and-desist against a Russia-based ICO for copying a bank's website to promote "potentially fraudulent securities."
  
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• Bitcoin Price Hits New Yearly Low at $4,280; Market Needs Quick Rebound

  20-11-2018 13:13
  Over the past 24 hours, the price of Bitcoin fell from $4,900 to $4,280, by more than 12.5 percent amidst an unforeseen short-term price drop. On fiat-to-crypto exchanges like Coinbase and Kraken, which demonstrate a more accurate representation of the Bitcoin price given the premium on the Tether-to-BTC pair, the price of BTC dropped below
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• Infighting and Regulatory Pressure Pushing Crypto Market Back to 2017

  20-11-2018 13:08
  Will cryptocurrency recover? Who will be left standing when the dust settles?
  
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• Analyst: Too Early to Write Off Bitcoin, SEC Had Negligible Effect on Crypto Markets

  20-11-2018 12:30 via newsbtc.com
  As Bitcoin (BTC) fell further on Monday, finding itself under $5,000 in a first for 2018, industry savants quickly took to crypto’s side, in spite of the growing bearish sentiment. Surprisingly, a crypto-friendly partner at Washington, D.C.-based Anderson Kill, a centralized law organization, rushed to Bitcoin’s aid faster than many could utter “HODL.”
  SEC’s ICO Verdict Isn’t Bearish, Far From In Fact
  The Anderson Kill partner in question is Stephen Palley, wh
  
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• Ethereum Predecessor Leverages PoA Protocol to Deploy Over 180 Transactions Per Second

  20-11-2018 12:18
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