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• Fidelity could open bitcoin custody as early as March

  30-01-2019 23:36
  In one of the first bouts of positive news this year, mainstream investment giant Fidelity will look toward March to start up bitcoin custody activities.
  Recent developments
  Bloomberg’s recent report cited three anonymous in-the-know sources for the intel. Fidelity will support bitcoin storage initially, with ethereum custody on the horizon following the BTC service launch.
  According to Fidelity’s statement yesterday, as quoted in Bloomberg’s report,
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• Canaccord Says These 8 Pot Stocks Deserve a Look Thanks to the US Farm Bill

  30-01-2019 23:27
  Pot stock analysts believe that the CBD industry is about to explode. The reason? The $867 billion Farm Bill, signed into law by US President Donald Trump on December 20, officially excluded all cannabis products with 0.3% or less THC from the Controlled Substances Act. (THC is the psychoactive element in marijuana that gets users “high.”) CBD has medicinal uses and is already legal in many states, as is its psychoactive component. As a result, farmers anywhere in the United States c
  
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• Genesis Vision Activates Integration with RoboForex

  30-01-2019 23:17
  Genesis Vision managers are now able to trade using the company’s “pro standard” account type.
  
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• We Asked 66 Startups Just How Bad This Crypto Winter Has Been

  30-01-2019 23:15
  While the bear market has sparked layoffs at some firms, a survey conducted by CoinDesk found that many companies find the slowdown to be "a blessing."
  
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• Bitcoin Price: Technicals Say ‘Sell!’ Despite Wider Crypto Market Recovery

  30-01-2019 23:11
  The cryptocurrency market experienced a minor-to-moderate recovery on Wednesday, but that doesn’t mean the mood has turned bullish. The Bitcoin price’s technical factors still favor selling, even as the asset pushes back toward $3,500. In the altcoin markets, Bitcoin SV has continued its long-running slide from glory over the past few days of trading. At present, a single BSV coin is worth less than 1 Dash. Bitcoin Price Flashing ‘Strong Sell?’ Bitcoin earned a sell ratin
  
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• South Korean Fintech Firm Launches ‘First’ Won-Backed Stablecoin

  30-01-2019 23:10 via cointelegraph.com
  South Korean fintech firm BxB has launched a 1:1 won-backed stablecoin
  
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• Ripple (XRP) Surges Amidst Widespread Crypto Market Recovery

  30-01-2019 23:00 via newsbtc.com
  Earlier this week, the crypto markets experienced a bloodbath that was the direct result of Bitcoin failing to hold above its support level that existed around $3,550. Bitcoin’s ensuing drop led most cryptocurrencies to plunge 10% or more, from which many of them have since recovered. Ripple (XRP) is currently leading the markets, but most other cryptos have also seen decent gains today.
  Today’s upwards price surge may signal that the markets are going to start a fresh upwards trend
  
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• Curated blockchain and cryptocurrency news – week 4’19

  30-01-2019 23:00 via crypto-news.net
  Cboe exchange withdraws VanEck-SolidX ETF proposal prematurely, IMF consulting Malta on how to continue and what to fix, South Korean exchanges joining hands to prevent scammer and hacker success, Maduro’s gold stuck in the UK due to US sanctions (Kraken CEO has something to say about that), Kik messenger likely to bravely go to court against the SEC’s accusations of them being a security,India embracing blockchain (but not in the way that we would like them to), and Iran finally ann
  
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• Dow Stomps to 435 Point Gain, Here’s What Drove Wednesday’s Monster Rally

  30-01-2019 22:48
  The Dow Jones Industrial average barreled above 25,000 for the first time in two months Wednesday, posting a 435 point gain in a massive one day rally, and charting a market breakout attempt against major resistance. Dow Barrels Past 25,000 The rally follows a Tuesday of mixed results in U.S. equities markets with the NASDAQ and S&P 500 in the red for the day (by troubling 0.81 percent and 0.15 percent declines, respectively) and the Dow only barely in the green with a 51-point (or 0.21 perc
  
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• Chinese government invests in cryptocurrency - Micky News

  30-01-2019 22:29 via micky.com.au
  Chinese government invests in cryptocurrency  Micky NewsCryptocurrency project THEKEY says it has received funding from a bank and government in China.
  
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• Report: Alipay and WeChat Pay Require Huobi to Remove Payment Methods from OTC Desk

  30-01-2019 22:25 via cointelegraph.com
  Chinese payment giants Alipay and WeChat Pay have reportedly requested Huobi to remove their services from its OTC trading desk
  
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• TD Ameritrade: Discount Bitcoin Has Piqued Investor Interest in Crypto Futures

  30-01-2019 22:00
  In a late December video that was just posted on YouTube this week, TD Ameritrade Manager of Trading Strategy Shawn Cruz told Nasdaq TradeTalks that TDA clients had regained interest in Bitcoin following its dive below $4,000. TD Ameritrade Says Clients are Growing More Interested in Trading Bitcoin Cruz said: I’d say that whole space is really in its infancy right now. It makes sense you’re going to see a lot of volatility there. It’s really driven by sentiment.There’s a
  
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• Analyst: Bitcoin (BTC) Likely to Climb Back Above $3,500 After Finding Support at $3,400

  30-01-2019 22:00 via newsbtc.com
  Earlier this week, Bitcoin (BTC) failed to uphold its previously established support level around $3,550, which led to a sharp drop to $3,400. Although at the time of this drop many analysts expected BTC’s main region of support to exist around its 2018 lows at approximately $3,200, the cryptocurrency was able to find support at $3,400.
  Because Bitcoin has established $3,400 as a level of support for an extended period of time, it may soon be able to climb back above $3,500, which could le
  
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• IOTA Recovers All Stolen Funds From 2018’s $11 Million Hack

  30-01-2019 21:53
  Last week, a UK national was arrested under suspicion of stealing €10 million ($11.34 million) in IOTA tokens.
  
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• Cryptocurrency Money Laundering: Alarming New Trends - BankInfoSecurity.com

  30-01-2019 21:16 via bankinfosecurity.com
  Cryptocurrency Money Laundering: Alarming New Trends  BankInfoSecurity.comDespite the value of cryptocurrency plummeting since 2017, cybercriminals and rogue nations are still using it to launder funds. One new scheme is "crypto ...
  
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• Bitcoin and Crypto Has Introduced Millennials to Investing in Markets, Despite Fears

  30-01-2019 21:00 via newsbtc.com
  The digital asset strategist and director at VanEck subsidiary MV Index Solutions believes that Bitcoin and other crypto have introduced investing in markets to a “new generation of investors.”
  While the executive didn’t explicitly call out millennials in his comments, data shows that millennials have gravitated more to crypto markets while showing a strong reluctance toward traditional markets such as stocks and real estate. However, the education and exposure Bitcoin and cryp
  
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• Will Fidelity’s Impending Bitcoin Custody Launch Turn the Crypto Market Bullish?

  30-01-2019 20:57
  The bitcoin price on Wednesday recovered as much as 2.45 percent after reports indicated that Fidelity would launch its crypto custody service as soon as March. Fidelity Crypto Launch Brings out the Bulls At 18:00 UTC, the bitcoin-US dollar exchange rate (BTC/USD) was trading at $3,443 on crypto exchange Coinbase, down 0.6 percent from its intraday high at $3,459. Earlier today, the market had opened at a lower rate at $3,337 during the Asian session, while trending lower inside a descending cha
  
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• Will Apple Put Steve Jobs’ Legacy at Risk if it Tailors Products for the Chinese Market?

  30-01-2019 20:12
  Apple co-founder Steve Jobs cultivated a streamlined strategy that focused on a few products suited for all its markets. The iPhone maker may, however, have to change in order to regain the growth momentum it has lost in China. Currently, analysts and ex-employees hold the view that Apple’s streamlined strategy has failed the tech giant in China, The Wall Street Journal reports. This is because the approach has left the company unable to adapt to the local user habits and preferences. Sale
  
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• Ripple Hires General Counsel from Lending Giant CIT Group

  30-01-2019 20:00
  Ripple has hired banking veteran Stuart Alderoty as its new general counsel, filling a position that had been vacant for several months.
  
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• Bitcoin Price Analysis: BTC at $4,500 Not an Impossibility

  30-01-2019 20:00 via newsbtc.com
  Bitcoin Price up 1.8 percent, double-bar bull reversal pattern prints
  Fidelity Investment custodial services set for March
  Transactional volumes expected to rise in days aheadThree months after announcing their interest in crypto, Fidelity Investment will set out and roll out Bitcoin custody in three months. No doubt this will easy crypto trading as BTC is usually the base pair as BTC/USD rise from $3,500.
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• Untraceable Payments and Unlinkable Transactions: Startup Offers “New Generation” Coin

  30-01-2019 19:54 via cointelegraph.com
  A company has created an “untraceable anonymous coin.” The team says the p2p network makes all the users' transactions unlinkable to a particular user or real-world identity #SPONSORED
  
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• Fintech Unicorn Stripe Reaps $22 Billion Valuation a Year after Bitcoin Breakup

  30-01-2019 19:50
  It doesn’t look like digital payments firm Stripe is having any second thoughts about its bitcoin breakup. Tiger Global Invests$100 Million in Stripe A year after sending the flagship cryptocurrency a Dear John letter, the Silicon Valley fintech darling has reportedly achieved a staggering $22.5 billion valuation following a $100 million investment from Tiger Global Management. That’s a nearly 13 percent increase from the firm’s previous $20 billion valuation, which Stripe rece
  
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• Why a 2nd US Government Shutdown Would be Even More Disastrous Than the Last One

  30-01-2019 19:24
  Moody’s Investors Service warned Tuesday that the U.S. economy could suffer even worse damage from another government shutdown only three weeks after the record-breaking, month-long shutdown that concluded last week. The partial federal government shutdown that left 800,000 federal workers furloughed (or working without pay on essential government functions) concluded temporarily after President Donald Trump and congressional leaders agreed to fund the government for three weeks while nego
  
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• Bitcoin, Ripple, Ethereum, EOS, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, Tron, Stellar, Bitcoin SV, Cardano: Price Analysis, Jan. 30

  30-01-2019 19:04 via cointelegraph.com
  The entry of major players such as investment firm Fidelity and the governments of UAE and Saudi Arabia instills confidence in the crypto market. How did the charts react?
  
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• Tron Price Analysis: TRX May Be a Security, CEO Fuels Rumors

  30-01-2019 19:00 via newsbtc.com
  Tron prices bullish, up four percent from last week’s close
  Thomas Schultz of ChaChing wallet warned to “stay away” from Tron
  Transaction volumes low, price bullishHours after BTT ICO, Thomas Schultz now claims he has been warned by an “SEC Insider” to wade clear off Tron. Unless verified, this will be another attempt of FUD in an otherwise robust asset. Our TRX/USD trade plan is valid as long as TRX prices trend above 2.5 cents.
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• Top Russian Official Urges Parliament to Discuss Draft Crypto Bill Without Further Delays

  30-01-2019 18:53 via cointelegraph.com
  The chairman of Russian parliament’s upper house says that a one-year delay is unacceptable for the legislation on the digital economy
  
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• Ducking Bitcoin Taxes Will Not Help Industry Grow: Bittax Interview

  30-01-2019 18:38 via newsbtc.com
  Early Bitcoin believers ventured into the digital currency industry because of its autonomy and anonymity. But the anti-establishment attitude cannot help the sector grow, according to Bittax.
  The Israel-based crypto tax specialist said that most people would not pay taxes off their crypto-based capital gains. However, if a majority of the crypto industry becomes a tax defaulter, governments will put more roadblocks before its mass adoption plans. Or Lokay Cohen, the vice president at Bittax, ex
  
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• Cowboys on the Block: Inside Wyoming’s Race for Crypto Prominence

  30-01-2019 18:30 via cointelegraph.com
  Here’s what fuels Wyoming’s crypto revolution
  
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• Bringing DAOs to life: Updates on Aragon

  30-01-2019 18:30
  Aragon held its first conference in Berlin. As a platform deploying and managing Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, or DAOs, Aragon had a remarkable crowdsale in 2017, hitting its cap within 30 minutes of going live. Despite that early success, their DAO creation platform did not hit Ethereum’s main network until late 2018. This article covers the main announcements presented at the AraCon conference, followed by a quick history of Aragon’s development and quest to decentralize
  
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• Bloomberg: Amid Bear Market, Crypto Venture Fund Strategy Wins out Over Hedge Fund Model

  30-01-2019 18:17 via cointelegraph.com
  Amid the 2018 bear market, the launch of new crypto venture funds reportedly exceeded that of new hedge funds for the first time
  
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• Cryptocurrency Lending Firm Genesis Global Trading Processed Over $1.1 Billion in 2018 - Cointelegraph

  30-01-2019 18:10 via cointelegraph.com
  Cryptocurrency Lending Firm Genesis Global Trading Processed Over $1.1 Billion in 2018  CointelegraphNews. Cryptocurrency lending company Genesis Global Trading processed $1.114 billion in borrows and lends last year, according to the recently released ...
  
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• Cryptocurrency Lending Firm Genesis Global Trading Processed Over $1.1 Billion in 2018

  30-01-2019 18:06 via cointelegraph.com
  Over $1.1 billion in borrows and lends have been processed by cryptocurrency lending company Genesis Global Trading last year
  
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• Cryptocurrency Lending Firm Genesis Capital Processed Over $1.1 Billion in 2018

  30-01-2019 18:06 via cointelegraph.com
  Over $1.1 billion in borrows and lends have been processed by cryptocurrency lending company Genesis Capital last year
  
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• Abra CEO: Crypto Firms’ Route to Remittances at Scale Will Be Complex but Successful

  30-01-2019 18:01 via cointelegraph.com
  Abra CEO Bill Barhydt has outlined why he thinks consumer cross-border payments and remittance services continue to be something of an uphill battle for many crypto firms
  
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• 5 Things Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Investors Should Beware of in 2019 - Hacked

  30-01-2019 18:01 via hacked.com
  5 Things Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Investors Should Beware of in 2019  HackedJust over ten years on from its inception, the cryptocurrency and blockchain space is still in the nascent stages of its development. However, that should not be ...
  
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• The Next Big Ethereum Conference Will Run Almost Entirely on Blockchains

  30-01-2019 18:00
  Everything from applications to attend ETHDenver to the processes for submitting, judging and voting on projects will be supported in some way through blockchain platforms.
  
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• Ripple Price Analysis: XRP Benefiting From SWIFT–Corda Trial

  30-01-2019 18:00 via newsbtc.com
  Ripple price surge 10 percent
  SWIFT GPI Link proof of concept with R3’s Corda
  Transactional volumes picking up, spikes above averagesSBI Holdings may be behind an audacious plan of integrating SWIFT GPI with RippleNet via R3’s Corda Settler. The latter use XRP, and if that is the case, our previous XRP/USD trade assertions will be valid. With a 10 percent spike, it is likely that XRP could retest 80 cents.
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• Dow Surges 316 Points, Why Apple’s Earnings are Leading the Charge

  30-01-2019 17:48
  The U.S. stock market catapulted higher on Wednesday, as investors rallied behind a series of upbeat earnings reports from some of Wall Street’s biggest companies. Flush of Green for Dow Index All of Wall Street’s major indexes reported strong gains on Wednesday, building off a positive pre-market session for Dow futures. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is up 316 points, or 1.3%, to 24,896.79. The broad S&P 500 Index gained 0.8% to 2,660.67. Ten of 11 primary sectors reported ga
  
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• Wikimedia Foundation Partners With Payments Provider BitPay to Accept BTC, BCH Donations

  30-01-2019 17:46 via cointelegraph.com
  The Wikimedia Foundation will now use BitPay for cryptocurrency payment processing in order to accept donations in BTC and BCH
  
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• London-based Project Uses Microsoft Architecture to Make Blockchain Easier for Developers

  30-01-2019 17:38 via cointelegraph.com
  A blockchain solution platform is believed to be the first to offer smart contracts that execute .NET code on-chain. The company is aiming to “make blockchain easy” by providing blockchain solutions in Microsoft .NET Core architecture #SPONSORED
  
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• WTF: Is Venezuela Paying Off Russian Debt with 20 Tons of Central Bank Gold Reserves?

  30-01-2019 17:24
  To much of the rest of the world, Venezuela remains a mystery. It’s hard to understand how a country with the largest oil reserves on the planet can’t afford to feed its people. But then, Venezuela also has a government that devalues its national currency by 95% from one day to the next. And pays its pensioners in Petro. So perhaps it’s not entirely unimaginable that Maduro is using national gold reserves to cancel its Russian debt. Or is it? The answer to that question, like s
  
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• The responsible crypto trader of 2019

  30-01-2019 17:00
  Skeptics around the world believe that cryptocurrencies are the biggest bubbles to ever exist. But who cares? We’ve been following the charts for a decade, enjoying the ups and downs – the reds and greens – and witnessing people predict the fall of cryptocurrencies over and over again.
  Bitcoin alone died 90 times in 2018. But what happened when we woke up on the first day of 2019? Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies were alive and kicking and we’re still trading.
  The year
  
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• Why the R3-SWIFT Partnership is Cranking the Gears of the Ripple (XRP) Rumor Mill

  30-01-2019 16:49
  SWIFT, the 11,000-member global payments network, has announced a partnership with enterprise blockchain consortium R3, and the news is already being felt in the cryptocurrency market where the rusty gears of the ripple (XRP) rumor mill have begun to turn at a rapid pace. SWIFT Goes Blockchain with R3 Trial According to the announcement, SWIFT and R3 have developed a proof of concept that links SWIFT’s GIP payments network with R3’s Corda platform to monitor payment flows, settle gpi
  
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• Singapore: Regulator Warns of Online Scam Claiming Gov’t Adoption of Crypto

  30-01-2019 16:43 via cointelegraph.com
  Singapore's central bank has warned the public against an alleged scam claiming that crypto is officially adopted in the country
  
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• TrueDigital Expands Contributors to Its Crypto Price Indices

  30-01-2019 16:41
  TrueDigital’s product provides real-time ‎information for cryptocurrency traders through a ‎reference rate and price index.‎
  
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• Gaza's Ruling Group Hamas Seeks Funding in Bitcoin to Combat Financial Isolation

  30-01-2019 16:26 via cointelegraph.com
  The militant arm of Hamas — the de facto ruling authority of the Gaza Strip in Palestine — has appealed to its supporters to send it funds using Bitcoin (BTC)
  
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• Uranus Announces to Construct World Largest Developer Community

  30-01-2019 16:23
  This is a paid-for submitted press release. CCN does not endorse, nor is responsible for any material included below and isn’t responsible for any damages or losses connected with any products or services mentioned in the press release. CCN urges readers to conduct their own research with due diligence into the company, product or service mentioned in the press release. On the 25th January 2019, the Uranus team completed its four nations meetup tour in Singapore, Tokyo, Japan, Seoul,
  
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• Japan: Major Messenger LINE Partners with Financial Giant to Create Blockchain Alliance

  30-01-2019 16:21 via cointelegraph.com
  Japanese financial giant Nomura Holdings has signed an MoU with major messenger LINE to create a financial alliance focused on blockchain
  
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• Hackers Just Stole Another $180K in Ether From Cryptopia Exchange

  30-01-2019 16:15
  Hackers still have control over cryptocurrency exchange Cryptopia and have removed more funds, says blockchain data firm Elementus.
  
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• How Fidelity’s Bitcoin Custody Launch in Q1 2019 Crucially Shows Institutional Demand Still Exists

  30-01-2019 16:12
  On January 30, Bloomberg reported that Fidelity, the world’s fourth-largest asset manager, is set to launch its Bitcoin custody service by the end of the first quarter of 2019. Three sources who asked to remain anonymous reportedly said that the plans are still private but the firm plans to introduce Bitcoin storage first, followed by Ethereum (ETH) custody. Why Fidelity Pushing Forward With Bitcoin Custody is Meaningful As one of the biggest mutual fund operators in the U.S., Fidelity wor
  
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