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• Coinbase Sought Neutrino After Losing Control Over Customer Data Being Sold

  03-03-2019 23:58
  Coinbase’s controversial acquisition of Neutrino was motivated by a desire to ditch its existing tech partners because they ”were actually selling client data to outside sources,” the head of sales at Coinbase said on Saturday. In an interview with Cheddar, Coinbase’s Christine Sandler explained the rationale for buying Neutrino— a blockchain intelligence firm whose founders used to build hacking tools to sell to the police. We are aware of the backgrounds of some o
  
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• Q4 US Economic Growth Beat Even Donald Trump’s Expectations

  03-03-2019 23:30
  The US economy grew at a faster clip than even Donald Trump’s presidential administration had expected, according to the latest Commerce Department report which was delayed by the government shutdown. While significantly lower than Q3’s annualized rate of growth of 3.4%, the Q4 result of 2.6% is 0.4% higher than expected and above average when compared to other years in this period of economic expansion. GDP Exceeded Trump’s 2018 Target But Slowed in Q4 While slowing towar
  
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• Environmentalist Shreds Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal: ‘This Would Mean Removing All Water Vapor’

  03-03-2019 23:20
  According to a recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the human race has just 12 years to curb carbon emissions before climate change becomes an irreversible, catastrophic event. The Republican Party usually denies the existence of climate problems. But their rivals in the Democratic Party claim to understand it. However, they have done very little when it comes to offering a solution. The last time Democrats did anything substantial was in 2o09 when they pushed a bill
  
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• Not Just McAfee: The Long History of the $1 Million Bitcoin Price Target

  03-03-2019 22:25
  There’s just something about that $1 million mark that causes crypto bulls to froth at the mouth. The VP of blockchain and digital currencies for IBM, Jesse Lund, is one of the most recent industry experts to proclaim that the bitcoin price could hit seven figures. In an interview with Finder, he made this prediction: “I see Bitcoin at a million dollars, maybe $5,000 by the end of the year but a way higher trajectory… that means there’s over $20 trillion of liquidity in
  
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• Long-Term Cryptocurrency Analysis: Bears Still Firmly in Control - Hacked

  03-03-2019 22:00
  Long-Term Cryptocurrency Analysis: Bears Still Firmly in Control  HackedAlthough we saw plenty of calls for a final bottom in the cryptocurrency segment following the damaging late-2018 sell-off, even today, there is no evidence of a ...
  
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• Bitcoin Could Collapse To $800 If Late-2018’s Plunge Is Mirrored, Warns Crypto Analyst

  03-03-2019 22:00 via newsbtc.com
  Another day, another foreboding piece of analysis. A leading analyst claims that as Bitcoin (BTC) has yet to break out of its current range, there’s a growing potential that the cryptocurrency could fractal, and undergo a drop that looks much like that seen in November of yesteryear.
  Bitcoin Could Fall Again To New Lows
  Financial Survivalism, an up-and-coming analyst centered around Bitcoin, recently took to Twitter to issue a harrowing comment. He noted that the longer than BTC fails to s
  
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• Exclusive: MyCrypto CEO Weighs in on Rising Toxicity in Ethereum Community

  03-03-2019 20:48
  CCN spoke to the CEO of MyCrypto, Taylor Monahan, about the recent departure of Ethereum community leader Afri Schoedon. Schoedon played a crucial role in the development of Parity wallet but has now sworn off Ethereum development after a meme made him the subject of targeted harassment. Polkadot is an Ethereum scaling solution. Schoedon trolled the Ethereum community when he tweeted that Polkadot already does what Ethereum 2.0 wants to do. The backlash was swift, severe, and a bit ridiculous. S
  
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• If History Repeats Itself, Bitcoin (BTC) Market Cap Could Surge to Over $7 Trillion During Next Bull Run

  03-03-2019 20:30 via newsbtc.com
  Following last week’s increased levels of volatility, Bitcoin (BTC) is now nearing the end of a relatively involatile weekend, and it has further established that it is currently caught in a tight trading range between $3,800 and $3,900.
  Although the persisting bear market has led the sentiment of crypto investors to near rock bottom, one analyst is now pointing out that if history repeats itself, Bitcoin may surge as high as $300,000 during the next bull run.
  Analyst: Next Bitcoin Bull Ru
  
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• $46 Billion Flows into Chinese Stock Market, Should Launch Dow Higher

  03-03-2019 19:47
    Following MSCI’s decision to increase the weight of Chinese onshore shares in its widely-cited emerging market index, over $46 billion is set to pour into the stock market of China, a move that could kick the ongoing Dow Jones recovery into an even higher gear. The SSE Composite, which tracks all stocks traded at the Shanghai Stock Exchange, has spiked from 2,464.36 points to 2,994 points since January 3, by more than 21 percent within a 2-month span. It’s Mostly About the Tra
  
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• Top 5 Crypto Performers Overview: Binance Coin, Bitcoin SV, Ripple, Dash, Litecoin

  03-03-2019 19:36 via cointelegraph.com
  Against the backdrop of numerous positive headlines, February was the first month to see Bitcoin’s price grow since July of 2018. Are cryptocurrencies bottoming out?
  
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• Bloomberg: Crypto Companies Still Run Into Trouble Opening Bank Accounts

  03-03-2019 19:12 via cointelegraph.com
  Trouble opening bank accounts is common in the cryptocurrency industry, Bloomberg reports
  
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• 5 Essential Tips for Preparing Your Cryptocurrency Taxes - CCN

  03-03-2019 18:57
  5 Essential Tips for Preparing Your Cryptocurrency Taxes  CCNPaying taxes on Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies is becoming a priority for individuals in the US after the IRS announced on July 2nd, 2018 that one of their ...
  
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• 5 Essential Tips for Preparing Your Cryptocurrency Taxes

  03-03-2019 18:57
  Paying taxes on Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies is becoming a priority for individuals in the US after the IRS announced on July 2nd, 2018 that one of their core campaigns and focuses for the year is the taxation of virtual currencies. Because cryptocurrencies are treated as property in the eyes of the law, they are subject to capital gains and losses rules just like stocks, bonds, real estate, and other forms of property. The challenge with cryptocurrency in regards to taxes is that the data
  
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• Hodler’s Digest, Feb. 25–March 3: Top Stories, Price Movements, Quotes and FUD of the Week

  03-03-2019 18:44 via cointelegraph.com
  This week in the Hodler’s Digest, Jamie Dimon thinks JPM Coin could see consumer use, while Samsung’s new smartphone will indeed have crypto support
  
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• Erik Zhang on NEO 3.0: Could NEO be the Number One Blockchain by 2020?

  03-03-2019 18:41 via newsbtc.com
  After a rousing introduction to NEO DevCon 2019 by platform co-founder Da Hongfei on the evolution towards a smart economy, Erik Zhang joined the 500-or-so-strong audience via video link to talk about how NEO aims to build out its vision of the future. His presentation focused on proposed techniques to improve the overall efficiency of the NEO platform.
  The purpose of the new protocol upgrade, touched upon by Hongfei and elaborated by Zhang, is to scale sufficiently to allow for the building of
  
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• Are Teslas Death Traps? Failing Brakes and Violent Fires Spark Major Fears

  03-03-2019 18:19
  Telsa faces another barrage of scrutiny over its safety. Tesla and media outrage go hand in hand these days. It is usually because of something that Elon Musk has tweeted about the SEC, but occasionally it is because a Tesla vehicle is involved in a crash. As reported by Zero Hedge, yet another of Musk’s line of luxury electric cars has had a serious accident. With a history of major fires alongside accusations of “auto-pilot” failure, fatal Tesla crashes get an obscene amount
  
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• Want to Insult a Black Person? Call Them a Prop; Cohen Hearing Brought Out the Worst

  03-03-2019 17:49
  Former Donald Trump attorney Michael Cohen had been on the Democrats’ most disliked list. That was when he supported President Trump unconditionally. Now, even though he’s a convicted perjurer, he’s in the good graces of his haters. So great were the allegations he was ready to make against Trump that he became the star witness at the Democrat-led House Oversight Committee hearing Wednesday. I watched this hearing in dismay. Seeing so many lawmakers lap up as if it were the gos
  
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• Here’s Why Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey & Co. Are ‘Stacking’ Bitcoin

  03-03-2019 17:40 via newsbtc.com
  Like many other Internet communities, the crypto space has trends. Over recent weeks, the Trust Chain event, along with the “Delete Coinbase” campaign, have trended on what has been dubbed Crypto Twitter. Most recently, however, #stackingsats (Stacking Satoshis) has begun to garner traction in the halls of the school of Bitcoin.
  Twitter’s Jack Dorsey Accumulating Bitcoin
  Each and every week, industry participants the world over have posted their weekly purchases of BTC (us
  
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• Most Top Cryptos See Minor Losses as Bitcoin Hovers Over $3,850

  03-03-2019 17:11 via cointelegraph.com
  Bitcoin is hovering over the $3,850 mark as the top 20 cryptocurrencies report minor losses
  
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• Scammers, Satoshi and Tesla Miners: Elon Musk’s Complex Relationship With Crypto

  03-03-2019 16:23 via cointelegraph.com
  What does Elon Musk think about crypto? Read how his relationship with crypto has evolved since 2014, from Twitter scams to comments about Bitcoin’s “brilliant structure”
  
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• QuadrigaCX Reportedly Stored ETH on Kraken, Bitfinex and Poloniex, Research Finds

  03-03-2019 16:15 via cointelegraph.com
  A significant quantity of Ethereum has been probably stored by QuadrigaCX in other cryptocurrency exchanges, a new report finds
  
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• Regulations needed after cryptocurrency CEO takes passwords to his grave - The Conversation - Canada

  03-03-2019 16:10
  Regulations needed after cryptocurrency CEO takes passwords to his grave  The Conversation - CanadaThe CEO of a Canadian cryptocurrency company died recently, and took his passwords with him, leaving his clients high and dry. The debacle illustrates again ...
  
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• Magical Crypto Conference makes Blockchain Week great again

  03-03-2019 16:10
  Magical Crypto Conference might just turn out to be the hottest event of Blockchain Week 2019. What started as a joke that the four anthropomorphic animals told during the June 2018 episode of the Magical Crypto Friends show, has now turned into an impressive gathering of software developers, Bitcoin entrepreneurs, and fun Crypto Twitter personalities. While Consensus seems to shift towards the fintech sector and the blockchain industry, Magical Crypto Conference brings back the magic (no pun in
  
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• Regarding Facebook’s cryptocurrency - TechCrunch

  03-03-2019 15:00
  Regarding Facebook’s cryptocurrency  TechCrunchIf Bloomberg and the New York Times are to be believed, later this year Facebook will introduce a cryptocurrency which will allow WhatsApp users to send ...
  
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• Bitcoin Price Plunge to $1,000 is Possible, Say Traders; Could it Happen?

  03-03-2019 14:59
  Since January, for over two months, Bitcoin has remained in a relatively tight price range from $3,200 to $4,000, unable to break out of key resistance levels above $4,200. Similarly, from September to November, in an identical time frame, Bitcoin maintained low volatility in the $6,100 to $6,700 range. The last time the dominant cryptocurrency showed an extended period of stability, it dropped from the $6,000 region to $3,122, by nearly half. Some traders have suggested that BTC could become vu
  
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• Ethereum Co-Founder Vitalik Buterin: ETH Is a Solution to Bitcoin’s Limited Functionality

  03-03-2019 13:20 via cointelegraph.com
  Ethereum is an attempt to solve Bitcoin’s limited functionality, according to Ethereum’s co-founder Vitalik Buterin
  
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• #DeleteCoinbase: Exchange Users Respond to Acquisition of a Firm Run by Former Spyware Developers

  03-03-2019 13:05 via cointelegraph.com
  Coinbase had acquired Neutrino, a startup run by former spyware developers. The community has responded with a #DeleteCoinbase campaign, but some clients are unable to deactivate their accounts due to technical problems
  
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• Ripple XRP Says The Revolution Will Be Televised – What Revolution?

  03-03-2019 12:43
  Ripple’s regular movement of funds from its escrow wallet to a hot wallet is always noted by crypto whale watchers, such as Whale Alert, which tracks large movements of coins. Ripple conducts a transfer at the beginning of every month and usually returns a large portion of XRP back to escrow. They are authorized by smart contract to use the whole amount if necessary, but prices have been kind to them in recent years. Here’s a tweet from Whale Alert this morning: 841 #BTC (3,265,958 U
  
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• Bitcoin Price Spiked 11% in February But Could Tank & Hit New Lows

  03-03-2019 12:19
  The bitcoin price posted its first monthly gain in February after a dismal seven-month drought. However, technical analysis suggests the original cryptocurrency could crater to new lows because a downtrend appears to be forming. Bitcoin Price Spiked 11% In February Mati Greenspan is a senior market analyst at Tel Aviv-based crypto trading platform eToro. He told Bloomberg that February’s 11% spike in the bitcoin price is encouraging, but it isn’t out of the woods yet. Greenspan noted
  
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• Unconfirmed: Goldman Sachs-Backed Crypto Payments Startup Circle Seeks $250M in Funding

  03-03-2019 12:13 via cointelegraph.com
  Circle, a Goldman Sachs-backed cryptocurrency exchange, is reportedly trying to raise $250 million of funding in a combination of equity and debt
  
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• The Right Way to Do Blockchain Consortiums

  03-03-2019 12:00
  Deloitte's Randy Wilson looks at the challenges for blockchain consortia, and offers advice on how to overcome them.
  
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• Ethereum Foundation Director Sets New Vision for Blockchain Non-Profit

  03-03-2019 11:00
  The Ethereum Foundation may shift its role toward propelling – as opposed to creating – a larger, more decentralized ethereum ecosystem.
  
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• As the Blockchain Hype Dies, Why Should We Care About Practical TestNets?

  03-03-2019 10:40
  The blockchain era has largely been defined by grandiose promises and ambitions, but little to show for it. For most companies, even those that successfully complete ICOs, we usually hear loud guarantees of life-changing and revolutionary technology. In the end, however, these “game-changers” end in the same place most others do, the dustbin of history. Reports of a vast majority of blockchain projects fizzing out or simply vanishing have become common, and those applications still a
  
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• Payglobal Provides Cryptocurrency to Fiat Transfers With Existing Bank Cards - Bitcoin News

  03-03-2019 10:31
  Payglobal Provides Cryptocurrency to Fiat Transfers With Existing Bank Cards  Bitcoin NewsWhile there's been a lot of news of cryptocurrency debit cards closing shop over the last two years, a company called Payglobal offers cryptocurrency to fiat ...
  
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• The Socialist Politics of Envy: What the World Can Learn from Nigeria’s Unfolding Disaster

  03-03-2019 08:55
  Africa’s most populated country and the world’s 26th largest economy is heading for a meltdown as a direct result of envy politics. It was an election between a multimillionaire pro-business candidate seen as part of the establishment and a self-proclaimed hero of the masses who railed against corrupt elites and promised to fight for the little guy. While this may seem to be the story of pretty much every election nowadays since the shock victory of Donald Trump in 2016, the results
  
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• Tech Firm Plans to Transform Advertising on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter Via Blockchain

  03-03-2019 08:29 via cointelegraph.com
  Successful tech firm taps crypto as the solution to the advertising industry's woes. Its DApp compensates publishers only when the campaign’s goals have been satisfied #SPONSORED
  
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• Crypto Market Wrap: The Tedium Continues, When Can We Expect a Breakout?

  03-03-2019 08:00 via newsbtc.com
  Crypto markets sleeping on Sunday; Zero movement on the majors, Litecoin getting a lift, Binance Coin still buoyant.
  Market Wrap
  The crypto market tedium continues as the weekend rolls into Sunday. There has been no movement whatsoever for most cryptocurrencies over the past 24 hours and pretty much the past seven days. Total market capitalization is still cemented at $130 billion.
  Bitcoin hasn’t even made it to its resistance at $3,900 which could be a sign that steam is running out and a
  
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• Ripple Price Weekly Analysis: XRP Likely Preparing For Next Upside Break

  03-03-2019 07:48 via newsbtc.com
  Ripple price tested the $0.3400 resistance area on a few occasions against the US dollar.
  The price failed to break the $0.3380-0.3400 resistance and declined below $0.3200.
  There is a crucial contracting triangle formed with resistance at $0.3140 on the 4-hours chart of the XRP/USD pair (data source from Kraken).
  The pair could dip to test the $0.3050 support area before it could break to the upside above $0.3150.Ripple price seems to be preparing for the next bullish break against the US Doll
  
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• Bitcoin Price Weekly Analysis: Cautiously Bullish BTC, $3,900 Presents Resistance

  03-03-2019 07:00 via newsbtc.com
  Bitcoin price corrected lower sharply after trading towards the $4,200 resistance against the US Dollar.
  The price declined below the $3,860 support area and tested the $3,620 support zone.
  There is a short term ascending channel or bear flag formed with resistance at $3,900 on the 4-hours chart of the BTC/USD pair (data feed from Kraken).
  The pair could slowly move higher as long as it is above the $3,760 and $3,720 supports.Bitcoin price started consolidating losses below $3,860 against the U
  
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• Amazon Alarms Dow Jones Antiques as Elon Musk Shuts Superficial Tesla ‘Stores’

  03-03-2019 06:30
  There has been a sizeable amount of interest in the US regarding the health of giant retailers amid a mass of store closings. Included in this talk has been what effect this might have on US stock markets. In the Dow Jones, Nike leads the way as a top retail pick, having posted 17% gains this year while concerns have grown for stores like Walmart who face a possible assault from delivery behemoth Amazon. The closure epidemic has even touched Elon Musk and the pioneering Nasdaq listed company Tel
  
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• Ethereum Price Weekly Analysis: ETH Could Suffer Losses Before Fresh Increase

  03-03-2019 05:48 via newsbtc.com
  ETH price traded below the key $139-140 resistance area for many sessions against the US Dollar.
  The price is trading with a bearish bias and there could be a few downward spikes towards $125.
  There is a key contracting triangle in place with resistance at $136 on the 4-hours chart of ETH/USD (data feed via Kraken).
  The pair could trade higher, but as long as it is below $140, it is likely to dip towards $125 or $124.Ethereum price is struggling to gain bullish momentum versus the US Dollar and
  
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• Binance: JP Morgan’s Crypto Unlikely To Pose Immediate Threat To SWIFT Or XRP

  03-03-2019 01:00 via newsbtc.com
  Mere weeks ago, JP Morgan Chase, one of the world’s largest financial institutions, shocked the crypto space. For those who missed the memo, the Wall Street mainstay unveiled plans to launch its own digital asset, based on the Ethereum-esque Quorum private ledger.
  Due to its premise, JPM Coin, as the cryptocurrency has been dubbed, was deemed to be a competitor to the offerings that SWIFT and Ripple (and XRP by extension) continually tout. But, Binance has overtly claimed that this might n
  
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• Why Bernie Sanders Should Absolutely Never Take Hillary Clinton’s Advice

  03-03-2019 00:38
  She attempted – and failed – to become president in 2008 and 2016. What advice could she possibly offer? In an interview with “The View” on ABC News Friday, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders said he would not meet with former secretary of state Hillary Clinton for advice, as other 2020 Democratic presidential hopefuls have done. Meghan McCain, the daughter of the late Senator John McCain and an avowed conservative, posed the question to Bernie about whether he’d take C
  
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• Sony & Fujitsu Are Fighting Fraudulent Educational Certifications with Blockchain Technology

  03-03-2019 00:00 via crypto-news.net
  Over the last year, several universities throughout the world shared their plans to store student diplomas and other certifications on the blockchain network. The argument behind this decision is based on the growing
  number of fraudulent diplomas for higher education circulating on the market.
  Blockchain-based storage of certifications drastically reduces fraud attempts,
  thus ensuring that employers, educational institutions and other entities can
  verify whether the documents are authentic.
  Forg
  
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