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Netflix has unleashed the first teaser trailer for the high-profile The Witcher series at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con. For many, it completely misses the mark and doesn’t bode well for the series penciled in for release at the end of the year. On the surface, the teaser depicts another mid-budget fantasy series with the […]
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The Dow bounded toward a positive ending to a choppy week – and a meteoric first half of the year – as Wall Street arrived at an optimistic consensus ahead of a critical G-20 meeting: No matter what, President Trump won’t let the stock market crash. Dow Climbs to Conclude Volatile Week All of Wall […]
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By CCN Markets: U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said that the G7’s Financial Action Task Force (FATF) organization will never let crypto assets “become the equivalent of secret numbered accounts.” Mnuchin was addressing a plenary session of the G7 initiative aimed at combating money laundering and terrorism financing. The U.S. Treasury Secretary was referring to secretive bank accounts commonly offered in Switzerland as well as other offshore financial hubs where the identity of the account holder is kept secret and a client is only identified by a code word. Mnuchin also disclosed that he had convened a working group comprised
By CCN Markets: TASS, a major news agency in Russia wholly owned by the federal government, has reported that Russia will not legalize Libra, merely days after its highly anticipated announcement. An excerpt from TASS’ report read: “Russia will not legalize the use of Libra cryptocurrency, which Facebook plans to introduce into circulation in 2020. This opinion was expressed by the chairman of the State Duma Committee on the Financial Market, Anatoly Aksakov, in an interview with the radio station Kommersant FM on Tuesday.” With France and the U.S. currently evaluating Libra based on existing regulatory frameworks governing the crypto sector,
According to personal finance firm Credit Karma Tax, filers who reported short-term capital losses for cryptocurrencies in the first month of 2019 jumped fivefold year-over-year. After the incredibly bearish crypto markets of 2018, data from early tax filers highlights the fact that more investors are claiming losses this tax season. However, a survey the company recorded back in November found that the number of people deciding not to file crypto taxes has increased.
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The day of reckoning has come for Huawei, as the U.S. Justice Department has unsealed a 13-count indictment against the world’s largest telecommunications equipment manager. Justice Department Charges Huawei The indictment alleges that Huawei, two affiliated companies, and its chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou committed fraud and conspiracy in connection with deals in Iran. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross stressed: These are law enforcement actions and are wholly separate from our trade negotiations with China. An indictment filed in Washington state accused the company of stealing trade secrets from T-Mobile USA Inc. and offering bonuses to employees who succeeded in getting technology from rivals, according
By CCN.com: “I do believe it will go to zero. I think it’s a great technology but I don’t believe it’s a currency. It’s not based on anything,” said Jeff Schumacher, founder of BCG Digital Ventures, of the Bitcoin price during a CNBC-hosted panel in Davos, Switzerland. 1. Bitcoin is Actually Based on a Lot of
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IBM recently unveiled its Q System One at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2019, with the company describing the quantum computer as being developed for “commercial use.” Despite numerous media outlets again decrying the imminent death of Bitcoin, IBM’s quantum system is not the game-changer that many are heralding it to be.
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IBM’s commercial launch of its new quantum computing system has fueled reports claiming that the technology may spell doom for bitcoin and cryptocurrency.
Renowned investor Gary Shilling believes Bitcoin is a black box. And he prefers to stay away from it. Speaking to Business Insider, the American financial analyst admitted that the digital currency is too opaque and complicated for him to invest in — and he will not invest in anything that he does not fully understand.
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Earlier this week, Quartz published an article titled, “Esports players are burning out in their 20s,” detailing how gaming professionals are calling it quits early after spending endless 80-hour weeks perfecting their craft. The article circulated through the internet until it eventually landed in front of billionaire businessman and investor, Mark Cuban, who took to […]
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Blockstack limited its access to funds raised last year, so it couldn’t spend faster than it gained traction. Now that’s paying off.
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The new season of the Call of Duty World League (CWL) kicked off last weekend in Las Vegas, drawing an audience of between 12,000 to 15,000 people to the Hard Rock Hotel. The event featured roughly 2,000 amateur players and 16 professional teams, facing off in 5v5 battles, matching the traditional Team Deathmatch format found […]
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Crypto will survive the current market sell-off because it’s here to stay. However, cryptocurrencies won’t replace fiat money anytime soon. That’s the assessment of Allianz chief economist Mohamed El-Erian. “Cryptocurrencies will exist. They will become more and more widespread, but they will be part of an ecosystem,” El-Erian said at the Consensus: Invest conference in New York. “They … Continued
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Thursday’s Bitcoin Cash (BCH) hard fork has left the crypto community on the edge of their seat, waiting for a clear-cut winner between Amaury Séchet’s Bitcoin ABC and Craig Wright’s nChain to emerge. While the early frontrunner looks to be BCHABC, Wright continues to assert that the ‘Hash War’ is not a sprint but instead a drawn-out affair. That being said, many […]
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The Bitcoin Cash civil war is just days away from culminating in a contentious blockchain split, and the lead developer of the faction with the minority hashrate has advised that the development community should “get a patch ready” in case they need to pursue an emergency hard fork to change the cryptocurrency’s Proof-of-Work (PoW) algorithm.
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SWIFT , the global payments network has been shooting down rumours that its platform will begin to integrate with Ripple’s suite of software solutions for cross-border payments.
SWIFT is updating its protocol standard this month and is also letting its customers know that they should upgrade to the firm’s new global payments platform called SWIFT gpi. News regarding the upgrade led to a mixture of different rumours about the SWIFT gpi that it would make the XRP powered payment solution xRapid and RippleNet available to thousands of banks on the SWIFT network.
Reggie Browne, who is a senior managing director of the ETF group at Cantor Fitzgerald, isn’t holding his breath for a bitcoin ETF. Despite the determination of crypto asset managers jumping through hoops to satisfy US regulators, Browne, who earned the nickname as “the Godfather of ETFs” from Forbes for his influence over the $ 4.7
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BlackRock — the world’s largest asset manager and ETF provider — has slowly been warming to crypto, but will not launch a bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) until the industry becomes “legitimate,” said CEO Larry Fink. “I wouldn’t say never — when it’s legitimate, yes,” Fink said at the New York Times Dealbook conference, as reported by CNBC.
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Tom Jessop, President of Fidelity Digital Asset Services says that the asset manager will take crypto to the next level by enhancing the sector and providing a secure Bitcoin custody solution so institutional investors can get a piece of the crypto pie.
In the most recent episode of her Unconfirmed podcast, Laura Shin interviewed Fidelity president of Digital Asset Services Tom Jessop. The two had a cryptocurrency and blockchain focused discussion about the company’s plans to help develop the Bitcoin 00 and cryptocurrency market to a higher level of functionality and value.
