CCN

20 May 2019

Google Dumps Huawei from Android After Trump-Led U.S Blacklist

By CCN: Huawei has been unceremoniously axed by Google after the U.S government blacklisted the Chinese tech giant earlier this week. Now, Huawei mobile phones are no longer allowed to integrate official Android updates, and will be barred from hosting Google Play mobile apps, such as YouTube and Gma...

NullTX

19 May 2019

Bitcoin Price Watch: Price Has Fallen, but Momentum Is Strong

At press time, the father of cryptocurrency is trading for just under $8,000 (about $7,973). While this is a little less than where it stood during our previous price piece (slightly over $8,000), the currency is still managing to keep up a respectable momentum. Bitcoin Is Still First in the Cry...

CCN

19 May 2019

Facebook Unexpectedly Plants Its Flag in Crypto-Friendly Switzerland

By CCN: Facebook has reportedly set up a fintech company dubbed Libra Networks in Switzerland. The move clearly correlates with the social media giant’s Project Libra. According to Reuters, the focus of the fintech is on the blockchain, payments, data analytics, and investing. Libra Networks, which...

Bitcoinist

19 May 2019

You Can Now Send and Receive Bitcoin on Whats App

Whats App users can now send and receive Bitcoin (BTC) and Litecoin (LTC) via the popular messaging platform thanks to the Lite.Im bot. The announcement is the latest attempt to simplify the cryptocurrency transaction process, bringing virtual currencies closer to the everyday person. Sending Bitc...

CCN

19 May 2019

Embattled OneCoin Denies Multi-Billion Dollar Ponzi Scheme Allegations

By CCN: OneCoin execs are sick of being called a Ponzi scheme. Allegations of ripping off churches are false too, they claim. In a lengthy letter to the Samoa Observer, the cryptocurrency-powered marketing company defended itself against what it considers to be false allegations OneCoin takes issue w...

NullTX

19 May 2019

Top Altcoins Gainers in USD and BTC Value – 2019 Week 20 Edition

As the week almost draws to a close, it is a perfect time to tally up the gains and losses sustained by some of the top markets. An interesting comparison can be made in terms of BTC and USD gains, as the result is very different. One can only hope this positive momentum carries over The p...

CCN

19 May 2019

Binance Launchpad Coins Fetch Eye-Popping Returns of 620% and 787%

By CCN: Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao in a tweet on Sunday congratulated Binance Launchpad projects for their spectacular returns. Projects that went through @binance Launchpad. Congrats! pic.twitter.com/YKIIGyHmJZ — CZ Binance (@cz_binance) May 19, 2019 Meanwhile, Binance Coin (BNB) has been climb...

Cointelegraph

19 May 2019

Hodler’s Digest, May 13–19: Top Stories, Price Movements, Quotes and FUD of the Week

This week in the Hodler’s Digest, Bitstamp gets a very large bitcoin sell order, while the U.S. SEC delays the Bitwise BTC ETF, again.

CCN

19 May 2019

BitMax.io (BTMX.com) Announces Strategic Listing Partnership with DREP

BitMax.io (BTMX.com), the industry-leading next-generation digital asset trading platform, has announced the new listing of DREP (DREP) under the trading pairs of DREP/USDT, DREP/BTC at 10:00 a.m. EDT on May 21th, 2019. DREP is a Singaporean start-up committed to building “connectors” and “toolki...

Bitcoinist

19 May 2019

Just 732,000 Bitcoin Addresses Own At Least 1 BTC

Bitcoin is piling in more than 732,000 addresses owning at least 1 BTC. Meanwhile, the top-100 BTC addresses are seeing more inflows that outflows of BTC. Bitcoin Attaining SoV Status There are currently 732,982 Bitcoin addresses that hold more than 1 BTC. Compared to the over 20 million known address...

Cointelegraph

19 May 2019

MakerDAO Token Holders Vote on Whether to Lower DAI Stability Fee by 2%

MakerDAO initiated a vote about whether to decrease the so-called stability fee for its decentralized stablecoin, DAI

CCN

19 May 2019

No ‘40% in a Day’ Altcoin Pumps Coming This Bull Market: Mike Novogratz

By CCN: If you’re on the edge of your seat for the “crazy altcoin pumps” that the market experienced in the 2017 bull run, you might be waiting a long time. Michael Novogratz, who is at the helm of crypto merchant bank Galaxy Digital, suggests that bitcoin will leave its smaller peers in the dust....

Cointelegraph

19 May 2019

Kik CEO Says Firm Spent $5+ Million on Negotiations With US SEC: Report

Startup Kik allegedly spent over $5 million on its negotiations with the U.S. SEC

CCN

19 May 2019

Bitcoin Surged 10x After 2016 Halving; Will 2020 See a Similar Result?

By CCN: In about every four years, the Bitcoin blockchain network experiences a block reward halving, a mechanism that reduces the rate in which new bitcoin is generated or mined by miners. The block reward halving has typically served as a key fundamental factor behind the dominant cryptocurrenc...

NullTX

19 May 2019

Binance Coin Price Prediction and Technical Analysis for May 19

It has been a remarkable day for all of the cryptocurrencies, tokens, and assets on the market. Bitcoin’s surprising sudden uptrend has caused a lot of shifts to take note of. Perhaps the biggest development is how the Binance Coin price successfully claimed a new all-time high for the sec...

Cointelegraph

19 May 2019

Bitcoin Approaches $8,000 Again as Top Cryptos See Strong Gains

Bitcoin approaches $8,000 again as most of the top 20 cryptocurrencies report moderate to major gains on the day

Cointelegraph

19 May 2019

Decentralized Identity: How Microsoft (and Others) Plan to Empower Users to Own and Control Personal Data

Microsoft wants you to take control of your personal data with its new blockchain project called the decentralized identity (DID) network, built on the bitcoin network.

Coindesk

19 May 2019

‘Tackling Real World Issues’: Hackers at ETH New York Build Apps Geared Towards Social Change

A New York Blockchain Week ended last Friday we spent time at an ethereum hackathon where developers came together to build blockchain tools with social impact.

CCN

19 May 2019

Bitcoin Searches Rocket to 13-Month High Amid ’60 Minutes’ Hype

By CCN: Google searches for bitcoin have climbed to a 13-month high, in tandem with its price spikes following the brutal 2018 crypto bear market. Google Trends tracks search interest for certain terms. Interestingly, the countries that are leading the Google searches are not cryptocurrency powerhous...

CCN

19 May 2019

Bitcoin Price Boom Signals Massive Dystopian Panic Over 2019 Recession: Analyst

By CCN: The sudden swell of Bitcoin’s price to $8,000 USD this year shows global recession fears are mounting. This according to Michael Hartnett, the chief investment strategist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Interestingly enough, Hartnett says global investors are investing in bitcoin not beca...

CCN

19 May 2019

Game of Thrones Has ‘Too Much Sex’ for This Hollywood A-Lister

By CCN: Oscar winner Julia Roberts is one of the people who’s never watched “Game of Thrones” and like many others, she doesn’t plan on watching the highly-anticipated season finale either. Hollywood’s darling managed to make prostitution tolerable on the silver screen when she starred in “Pretty Woma...

NullTX

19 May 2019

Someone is Trying to Create BitConnect 2.0 Once Again

It is an interesting period for cryptocurrency enthusiasts. With most markets showing a massive rebound after a few rough days, there is a general sense of excitement among community members. The bigger news this week is how BitConnect is – once again – making an alleged return in a...

CCN

19 May 2019

Tesla Stock Plunges 22% in 1 Month as Trump Trade Fallout’s Biggest Loser

By CCN: In less than one month, the share price of the Tesla stock has dropped from $273 to $211 by more than 22.7 percent following the fall out of recent trade discussions. While Tesla bulls remain optimistic about the long-term prospect of the firm, some strategists are concerned about the cash f...

Cointelegraph

19 May 2019

Inflation Bug Still a Danger to More Than Half of All Bitcoin Full Nodes

Close to 50,000 bitcoin full nodes are still vulnerable to the inflation bug

CCN

19 May 2019

Elon Musk Ports Epic Unreal Engine to Install Fornite in Your Tesla

By CCN: Worried Telsa CEO Elon Musk wasn’t packing his cars with enough feature? The tech pioneer wants you to be able to play top video game titles in his vehicles. Tesla is definitely porting over Unity and Epic’s Unreal Engine, that Fortnite and Rocket League, run on. Musk also tweeted Microsoft...

Coindesk

19 May 2019

I Underestimated Just How Many Subpoenas I Would Get

The number of subpoenas early crypto companies got from misinformed government agencies was "staggering," says Bloq's Steve Beauregard.

Bitcoinist

19 May 2019

Bitcoin Price Analysis – $8.5K Now in Sight to End Bear Market

Bitcoin price broke out of a bottom consolidation overnight, jumping 11%, reclaiming the $8k handle ahead of the weekly close. We take a look at the price action as we head towards the weekly close. Bitcoin Price: 4-Hour Chart The 4-hour chart shows that bitcoin price broke from $7,247 to $7,980...

Bitcoinist

19 May 2019

Bitcoin Back at $8K to Whole Foods Accepting BTC – Week’s Top Stories

Bitcoin had another wild week with BTC price making a strong recovery back to $8K. Let’s take a look at the past week’s top stories. Bitcoin Price Back At $8K So The Netherlands came out top in Eurovision, while Madonna could, by all accounts, have done with a bit of autotune. But who were the winners ...

CCN

19 May 2019

Facebook’s Secret Crypto Project Faces a Treacherous Self-Inflicted Problem

By CCN: The myriad privacy issues Facebook has been mired in are turning off the very people it wants to hire to help it improve its platform. These are the findings of former recruiters who shared the details with CNBC. You’d think that Facebook would have to beat off people wanting to work at the compa...

Cointelegraph

19 May 2019

Top 5 Crypto Performers: XEM, XLM, XTZ, BNB, IOTA

After this week’s strong recovery and then dip, let’s check out the markets

Coindesk

19 May 2019

My Bank Account Was Frozen for Bitcoin – And It Only Made Me Love Crypto More

The guy who coined the term "hodl" has a real bitcoin story that only made his interest in the technology stronger.

Coindesk

19 May 2019

Bitcoin and Blockchain: The Tangled History of Two Tech Buzzwords

The word "blockchain" isn't used in the bitcoin white paper, the document that started it all. So, how did the term take off as a buzzword?

CCN

19 May 2019

Meteoric Crypto Recovery: Here’s What Triggered Bitcoin Price Above $8,000

By CCN: The bitcoin price has surged by seven percent in the past several hours from $7,300 to around $8,000 in major markets including the U.S., demonstrating a strong recovery from its abrupt drop to $6,400. On May 17, as CCN reported, the bitcoin price briefly plunged to $6,400 by more than 18 perc...

Bitcoinist

19 May 2019

Crypto Markets Surge $18 Billion as Bitcoin Heads Back to $8K

The majority of BTC traders and investors were secretly hoping that Bitcoin price would correct all the way back down to $6k or lower. This would provide ample opportunity to accumulate for a bigger bull run later this year. Their hopes have been dashed this Sunday morning as Bitcoin surged again dur...

CCN

19 May 2019

Impressive! Resilient Bitcoin Price Moves Higher as Crypto Stars Align

By CCN: The bitcoin price stumbled toward the end of the week but it looks like the bulls have gotten it together. BTC is now moving higher by nearly 7% to approximately $7,800 at last check on CoinMarketCap. The price had fallen as low as approximately $7,000 on Friday, and some traders have been call...

CCN

19 May 2019

Apple’s Tim Cook Finds His Inner Tesla in Speech to Gen Z Graduates

By CCN: At a commencement speech at Tulane University in New Orleans, Apple CEO Tim Cook had some harsh words for the parents of Tulane’s class of ’19. During his speech at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome, Cook said: “In some important ways, my generation has failed you.” He added: “We have spent too m...

CCN

18 May 2019

Arnold Schwarzenegger Falls for Snapchat but Should Investors Pile In?

By CCN: Arnold Schwarzenegger, star of “The Terminator” (and nothing else lately), found himself the victim of an assault at an event in South Africa. While attending “Arnold Classic Africa” in Johannesburg, which features a wide array of sporting events and physical activities, the 71-year-old “L...

NullTX

18 May 2019

German Startup Seeks to Commercialize its Flying Taxi by 2025

Global opinions on electric flying cars and taxis are still divided. That is only normal, as this business concept raises a lot of questions which can’t be answered all that easily. Lillium, a German startup has demonstrated its electric flying taxi prototype this week. A remarkable developme...

CCN

18 May 2019

John McAfee Emerges, Reportedly Says Americans Are ‘Hated Universally’

By CCN: In a new interview with Newsweek, John McAfee surfaced to discuss living abroad and what he’s learned about the global perception of Americans. After recently going dark, he told Newsweek “we’re hated universally.” According to him, the reason most American tourists don’t pick up on this f...

Bitcoinist

18 May 2019

Bitcoin is Front Running Stock to Flow Price Model at $7300

Despite dropping by about $1,000, Bitcoin is still way ahead of even some of the most optimistic price projections and detailed price forecast models. Here is a look at how Friday’s ‘flash crash’ hasn’t derailed Bitcoin in the long term. Current Bitcoin Price Still Leads $1 Million S2F Model Tweet...

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