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In a newsletter to clients sent on Thursday, Pantera Capital CEO Dan Morehead revealed that one in four initial coin offering (ICO) projects the firm has invested in could be considered as securities under U.S. regulations. Morehead wrote: “While we believe the vast majority of the projects in our portfolio should not be affected, approximately
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The most potential use case of bitcoin today is the store of value. But an analyst thinks otherwise. Stephen Innes, head of Asia Pacific trading at Oanda, a New York-based forex firm, believes that the world’s leading digital currency is due for another drop because it hasn’t provided the world a “significant use-case” yet. The Bitcoin … Continued
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Since early 2018, the approval of a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) has become the catalyst of the next bull run of crypto to the mind of many investors in the market. A Bitcoin ETF could certainly increase the liquidity of the dominant cryptocurrency in the U.S. market as it would allow both institutional and retail
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On November 26, the Financial Services Agency (FSA) of Japan held an internal meeting to discuss the possibility of allowing private crypto initial coin offering (ICO) projects. Nikkei exclusively reported that local financial authorities are actively exploring the legalization of ICOs for institutional investors and accredited investors, as long as they are lawfully conducted within
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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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Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has reportedly clarified how existing laws can apply to crypto securities. In addition, Thai companies planning to issue securities tokens abroad would be guilty of wrongdoing under the Digital Asset Act for avoiding regulated fundraising channels.
Also read: Indian Supreme Court Moves Crypto Hearing, Community Calls for Positive Regulations
On Thursday, the Bangkok Post reported that Tipsuda Thavaramara, deputy secretary of the Thai SEC, revealed that “the regulator will have to consider how to deal with STOs [securities token offerings] for issues such as share ownership, voting rights, and dividends.”
A Pakistani-American woman who bought bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies using fraudulently obtained credit cards before wiring the funds to ISIS has pled guilty to charges of offering financial support to a terrorist organization. According to court filings, Zoobia Shahnaz made a couple of wire transactions last year to fronts for the Islamic terror outfit ISIS
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According to David Puell, a Bitcoin and market analyst, the dominant cryptocurrency could either reach its bottom by the end of December or within the first quarter of 2019. The $ 4,300 region, which Bitcoin entered after enduring a 35 percent correction from around $ 6,600, has been established as a comfortable region for the asset. With
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With Thanksgiving now in the books and the calendar just days away from turning the page to December, most bitcoin bulls are conceding defeat in regard to their 2018 crypto market predictions. However, the new year is just around the corner, and BitPay COO Sonny Singh believes that 2019 could bring good tidings to the
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Over the past week, the price of Bitcoin has dropped by more than 35 percent, and the majority of analysts in the crypto space have shared the sentiment that the crash was triggered by the contentious hard fork of Bitcoin Cash. According to Bart Smith, the head of digital asset at trading giant Susquehanna, a
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This week, SIX Swiss Exchange, Switzerland’s principal stock exchange based in Zurich, approved the listing of a crypto exchange-traded product (ETP) with the ticker “HODL.” Like the Coinbase Index and Bitwise Hold 10, Amum ETP represents the value of five cryptocurrencies that include Bitcoin (BTC), Ripple (XRP), Litecoin (LTC), Bitcoin Cash (BCH), and Ethereum (ETH).
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It was an ugly week in the cryptocurrency market, with most digital currencies shedding more than 10% to close out the week. While it looks like Bitcoin (BTC) has found temporary support around the $ 5,400-$ 5,600 range, some analysts think that there is more pain ahead. According to Bloomberg Intelligence, Bloomberg’s research arm on the Bloomberg Terminal, these analysts believe Bitcoin […]
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The recent crackdown on two initial coin offerings (ICOs) Paragon and AirFox by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) could lead to many blockchain and crypto projects declaring bankruptcy in the coming months. As CCN reported on November 16, Paragon and AirFox were ordered to pay a $ 350,000 fine to the U.S. SEC and
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Gabor Gurbacs is confident that the approval of a bitcoin exchange traded fund (ETF) is inevitable. And he’s optimistic that the VanEck SolidX Bitcoin Strategy will be the first to deliver one to the world.
The director of Digital Asset Strategy at VanEck/MVIS, Gurbacs, as of late, has become a leading voice on the space’s ETF pursuit at a time when industry chatter on the topic has never been louder. If you haven’t found him extolling the benefits of a bitcoin ETF on Twitter, you may have come across his interviews on Anthony Pompliano’s podcast and Ran Neu-Ner’s Crypto Trader show for CNBC Africa.
After recording one of the worst sell-offs in all of 2018, the crypto market has experienced a minor corrective rally, adding $ 8 billion to its valuation. The Bitcoin (BTC) price is approaching a resistance level at $ 5,600, a minor resistance level BTC will have to surpass to potentially eye a rally to $ 5,800 and potentially
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Despite their harsh exterior, banks have been quietly preparing for a world that involves cryptocurrencies. Bank of America has most recently secured a patent for a cryptocurrency aggregation system, one in which big companies store customers’ crypto deposits in an enterprise account involving vaults and offline storage rather than taking on the risk themselves. For example, “deposit
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A bitcoin ETF could attract billions of dollars in new investments, so the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) should treat pending proposals as an opportunity to regulate the crypto market, said crypto exchange-traded fund advocate Gabor Gurbacs. Gurbacs, the director of Digital Assets Strategy at VanEck, made this claim during an interview with CNBC Africa’s
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For those of you who don’t know Holochain might be the thing that enables new technology in networked computing since the world wide web was created. A big statement for sure, but Holochain is a new, rival internet protocol which could allow users to regain their privacy online.
An American software engineer and one of the founding designers of Holochain along with Eric Harris-Braun, Arthur Brock says, “I think this is going to be a bigger game changer than we can imagine.”
What is Holochain?
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The XRP Tip Bot, which allows Reddit, Discord and Twitter users to send small amounts of XRP to other users, could soon be available in the Amazon Alexa App Store thanks to a third-party developer. Hey @haydentiff, hilarious video yesterday!:DI have something new for you. I hope you guys own an Alexa at home 🙂This will go […]
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