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• Bitcoin Opinion: Why Context is Important When Talking about the ‘Crypto Bubble’

  01-12-2018 23:17
  The fact that the bitcoin price has been crashing for the past month has led some people to have some hilarious reactions. From rage-quitting crypto-trading and investing to astonishing doomsday predictions, it’s really fun to sit back and watch all madness. However, I feel like it’s also my duty to step in and calm things
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• Asus Wants to Let Gamers to Mine Crypto with Idle GPU Power

  01-12-2018 22:15
  Tech giant Asus is now making it possible for gamers to use the excess processing power of their graphics cards to earn some profit from crypto mining. In an announcement made on Thursday, the Taiwan-based tech company stated that it has entered into a partnership with a mining app provider known as Quantumcloud. Under this
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• The SEC Launches a FinTech Hub

  01-12-2018 22:00 via crypto-news.net
  As part of its ongoing drive to try and bring clarity to the blockchain economy, The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has launched a specialist financial technology division in order to directly engage with cryptocurrency start-ups and companies building on top of blockchain technology.
  Central Access Point 
  As the SEC continues to pay more attention to start-ups working with blockchain technology, the Commission has launched a new portal through wich it can communicate directly
  
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• Why the Bitcoin Price Could Take a Very Long Time to Reach All-Time High Again

  01-12-2018 21:07
  Throughout the past eleven months, the Bitcoin price has dropped from $19,500 to $3,000, by nearly 85 percent. The dominant cryptocurrency fell by 85 percent on average in its four past major corrections, so a similar drop from its all-time high was expected by many investors. But, according to Bitcoin and technology researcher Boris Hristov,
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• Bitcoin, and Cryptocurrency in General, Had a Terrible November - Gizmodo

  01-12-2018 20:46 via gizmodo.com
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  Bitcoin, and Cryptocurrency in General, Had a Terrible November
  Gizmodo
  Bitcoin, as well as smaller cryptocurrencies like XRP and ether, had a terrible November that saw $70 billion in value wiped off the market, CNBC reported on Friday. Bitcoin closed at $3,878, well below $6,000, which proponents had long insisted was ...
  Bitcoin price: is the cryptocurrency 'stronger' following November declines?The Week UK
  Deadly November: Killed Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency MarketCoinnounce (press re
  
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• German Firm Xolaris Launches Two Bitcoin Mining Investment Funds

  01-12-2018 20:05
  German investment firm Xolaris has launched a European private-equity fund focused on bitcoin mining. Xolaris expects to raise $34 million to $57 million for the four-year project, the company announced in a press release. “Professional investors kept asking us to create a regulated product in the area of ​​cryptocurrencies,” said Stefan Klaile, the CEO of Xolaris.
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• Laugh Your Stockings Off with the FIRST Crypto Christmas Album, Out Now

  01-12-2018 19:14
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• Chain Open Research (COR Index) Opens Access to a Full Suite of Cryptocurrency Market Analytics

  01-12-2018 18:52
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• Op-Ed: Ohio’s Crypto Play Proves Bitcoin is Becoming a Currency

  01-12-2018 18:35
  Well, here’s something we didn’t expect this early in the century. Ohio’s state government is now accepting Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash via its payment portal, serviced by BitPay. As CCN reported: “Ohio will become the first state in the US to officially accept tax payments in bitcoin, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Beginning
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• Crypto Market Adds $7 Billion as Bitcoin and Ethereum Rebound by 5%

  01-12-2018 16:24
  In the past 24 hours, the cryptocurrency market added $7 billion to its valuation as Bitcoin and Ethereum rebounded by around five percent. Bitcoin (BTC) successfully defended a relatively weak support level at $4,000 with strength and Ethereum (ETH) prevented a further drop below the $110 level. However, based on the level of the momentum
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• Vitalik Buterin: Blockchain Utilities To Be More “Purely Digital”

  01-12-2018 14:23
  Vitalik Buterin was at Devcon4 recently and gave an interview to Quartz in which he said a few things about Ethereum in general. For one, he feels that a “world computer” is still a valid way to describe the Ethereum project – “a shared computing environment that anybody can build and run stuff on is
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• November Has Been Bitcoin’s Worst Month for Seven Years

  01-12-2018 13:00 via newsbtc.com
  Bitcoin has just emerged from its worst month in terms of price declines for seven years. The big daddy of crypto has shed almost 40% in this one month alone as it pulled the entire crypto market down to new yearly lows.
  Bitcoin Dumps Over a Third of its Value in a Month
  Starting out at over $6,500 on November 1st Bitcoin plummeted around 35% to end the month at around $4,280 yesterday according to figures from Coinmarketcap. Naturally different indexes will have slightly different prices and ta
  
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• How Silvergate Became the Leading Bank for Crypto Startups

  01-12-2018 13:00
  Silvergate Bank CEO Alan Lane shared his approach to serving the cryptocurrency industry with bankers at the Block FS conference.
  
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• Crypto Anarchists Are Building Tools to Resist the State in Eastern Europe

  01-12-2018 12:15
  A new centre for "crypto-anarchy" based in Slovakia is pushing for a return to what they believe are the technology's core political tenets.
  
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• YGGDRASH Announces the Establishment of YGGDRASH Incubation Center and Sharing Cryptocurrency Exchange, DEXRADE

  01-12-2018 11:28
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• Crypto Giant OKEx Deslists Several Trading Pairs

  01-12-2018 10:48
  Today brought news of OKEx exchange delisting several additional trading pairs. This is the third time OKEx has delisted a group of assets. OKEx Delisting In an announcement today on their website support page, OKEx stated the delisting of thirty-eight different cryptocurrency trading pairs. OKEx directed the announcement toward its customers, explaining the delisting of multiple
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• Cryptocurrency Market Update: $10 Billion Dumped as The Dead Cat Bounces - newsBTC

  01-12-2018 10:00 via newsbtc.com
  Cryptocurrency Market Update: $10 Billion Dumped as The Dead Cat Bounces  newsBTCAs predicted crypto markets have dumped again after a few days of solid gains and the dead cat has bounced. Over $10 billion has flooded out wiping out all ...
  
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• Cryptocurrency Market Update: $10 Billion Dumped as The Dead Cat Bounces

  01-12-2018 10:00 via newsbtc.com
  FOMO Moments
  Crypto markets predictably dumping this weekend, Bitcoin SV, Cardano and Neo getting hurt.
  As predicted crypto markets have dumped again after a few days of solid gains and the dead cat has bounced. Over $10 billion has flooded out wiping out all progress made this week. Total market capitalization is back below $130 billion and heading south again.
  Bitcoin led the lemmings once again when it plunged almost 9% from $4,300 to a low of $3,940 a few hours ago. BTC has since recovered t
  
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• Tron Price Analysis: TRX/USD Bear Breakout Pattern, Liquidation at 1.5 Cents

  01-12-2018 09:38 via newsbtc.com
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  The Tron network describes itself as a protocol that is laying down the infrastructure for a truly decentralized internet. Like other smart contracting and dApp development platforms, it relies on blockchain. What’s more, the team behind this network is keen on expanding and on-boarding as many developers as possible.
  Read: Tom Lee: Crypto Is Bent Not Broken, Plenty of Room to GrowFor those who don't believe, #TRON has continuously kept their promise on deliverance.–
  
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• Altcoins Price Analysis: Dan Larimer Project Hopping Ruffling for EOS Investors

  01-12-2018 08:48 via newsbtc.com
  Overly, market participants are apprehensive and after 11 months of straight losses, traders are cautious to commit until clear bull signals print. Stellar Lumens look likely to expand thanks to rejection of lower lows below 15 cents. Meanwhile, the uncertainty around EOSIO and Dan could fuel losses towards $1.5. At the same time, Monero support from Ledger Nano S might buoy prices slowing down losses.
  Let’s have a look at these charts:
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• BTC/USD Price Analysis: “I want People to Think Binance as a Verb” says CZ

  01-12-2018 08:21 via newsbtc.com
  After severe draw downs that has so far clipped investor confidence, the founder of Binance Changpeng Zhao is confident of what next year holds. Of course much has been talked about entry of institutional investors and facilitators—read Fidelity, NASDAQ and others. Though next year might be the year of adoption–and that is the main reason why Binance is expanding, there should be increasing demand in lower time frames. At the moment, that is not happening.
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• Korean Firm Aims to Make Blockchain Faster

  01-12-2018 07:00
  According to local news outlet Joongnag Daily, a blockchain company based in Korea believes that it has found what it takes to revolutionize blockchain technology and bring even quicker pace to the way that transactions are being carried out. SymVerse, a blockchain firm that was established earlier this year, hosted an event and held a demonstration
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• What Is Bitcoin? Crypto Featured as Category on Jeopardy

  01-12-2018 04:00 via newsbtc.com
  During last night’s airing of the popular TV game show Jeopardy, cryptocurrency was featured among the categories contestants could choose from.I’ll Take Cryptocurrency for $1,000, Alex
  On Thursday night’s episode of the iconic TV game show hosted by Alex Trebek, Jeopardy, cryptocurrency was one of the six categories contestants could select from.In Jeopardy, chosen categories reveal an answer to a query and the contestants must phrase their response in the form of a question.T
  
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• Bitcoin Price Ends November With Worst Monthly Decline in 7 Years

  01-12-2018 01:17
  The price of bitcoin is on its way to recording its worst monthly performance since August of 2011.
  
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• DJ Khaled and Floyd Mayweather settle over cryptocurrency promotions, SEC says - KTRK-TV

  01-12-2018 00:45 via abc13.com
  DJ Khaled and Floyd Mayweather settle over cryptocurrency promotions, SEC says  KTRK-TVFederal regulators said boxer Floyd Mayweather and music producer DJ Khaled are paying a total $750000 to settle charges they failed to disclose payments ...
  
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• Daily Crypto Roundup 11/30/2018

  01-12-2018 00:30
  Today in crypto heard rumors of Satoshi’s return, saw capitulation talk, Bitcoin ETF pitches/appeals, an Intel patent for Bitcoin mining, and further negativity from mainstream influencers. Read up on the details.
  Satoshi Nakamoto’s Profile Updated 2018!
  Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto is famous for his anonymity and general disappearance. However, an update to Nakamoto’s P2P account just surfaced.
  Someone posted the word “nour”, complete with quotation marks.
  
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• No Bitcoin ETF Before Important Changes to BTC Markets: SEC Chairman

  01-12-2018 00:23
  SEC Chairman Jay Clayton has claimed that bitcoin exchanges lack sufficient transparency and monitoring for the market to see approved Bitcoin Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs). According to CNBC, at the Consensus Invest Conference in New York City recently, Clayton said: What investors expect is that trading in the commodity that underlies that ETF makes sense
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