As the Dow Jones scrambles to move past last week’s roller-coaster, scrutinize the Fed minutes for proof of a dovish rebellion. | Source: ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP By CCN Markets: The Dow Jones looked dead and buried last week after a devastating 800 point decline, but an end-of-week recovery left the stock market on relatively...Read More
Economist and crypto analyst Alex Krüger believes that $20,000 won’t be the all-time high (ATH) bitcoin price for much longer. Expect Bitcoin Price to Hit $50,000 In a Twitter thread published on Saturday (August 17, 2019), Krüger outlined his argument for the bitcoin price going as high as $50,000 by 2021 at the latest. According...Read More
Bitcoin may have limited supply, but demand will not be unlimited. Once bitcoin is revealed to be worthless, demand will dry up. | Source: Shutterstock By CCN Markets: As the resident “Bitcoin Skeptic” here at CCN, it’s my job to provide some level – headed arguments about why you should be extremely careful about buying...Read More
Cuba used to be host to an inexplicable phenomenon called SNET, a network made by people for the people. Soon SNET will be no more. | Source: Shutterstock By CCN Markets: Cuban authorities have stated that the government will be taking over the country’s largest private network, SNET. Its users are unhappy and fearful for...Read More
Video game streaming is all the rage, but there are two simple reasons services like Google Stadia and Microsoft xCloud will fail. | Source: Casey Rodgers / Invision for Xbox / AP By CCN Markets: In the last 12 months, major technology companies have rushed to dive into video game streaming. Microsoft’s Project xCloud is...Read More
Roham Gharegozlou is the CEO of Dapper Labs, the company behind the viral blockchain game CryptoKitties. Brian Flynn works on the Dapper Labs product team. Introducing as many people as possible to the benefits of decentralization is a cause almost everyone in this industry shares. The issue is that, in making the technology more accessible,...Read More
There was a strong drop in bitcoin price below the $10,500 support against the US Dollar.The price is currently correcting losses, but it remains below key hurdles near $10,500.There is a bearish continuation pattern forming with support near $10,080 on the 4-hours chart of the BTC/USD pair (data feed from Kraken).The pair is likely to...Read More
As part of its preparation for the upcoming Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) meeting, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), a federal law enforcement agency, intends to trial distributed ledger technology (DLT) in intellectual property rights (IPR) enforcement by the end of August 2019, reports Yahoo Finance on August 16, 2019. CBP Taps...Read More
There are many reasons why the Philippines is becoming increasingly crypto-friendly. Not only has its central bank registered more crypto exchanges recently, but the Securities and Exchange Commission has also been actively finalizing crypto guidelines. The country has an active crypto community, and one of its largest banks has engaged in multiple crypto projects. Also...Read More
A Facebook partner is spying on its own traumtized content moderators, giving us even more reasons to distrust Mark Zuckerberg’s company. | Source: AFP PHOTO / Brendan Smialowski Facebook released a video last year apologizing for its data misuse that likely swayed the 2016 election. It ends by saying “if this place does what it...Read More
Bitcoin (BTC) has incurred a significant amount of volatility as of late which was perpetuated yesterday by news regarding the release of Bakkt’s physically settles Bitcoin futures product, which many investors view as a bullish development for the entire markets.In addition to this, growing interest from China may help Bitcoin’s price climb higher in the...Read More
In a bid to remind 18,000 retirees under Self Managed Super Funds (SMSFs) of their legal duty to invest their retirement savings cautiously, the Australian Tax Office (ATO) has begun sending stern letters to some of these individuals whom have chosen to spend over 90 percent of their retirement savings in a single asset class...Read More
The national tax authority of New Zealand, the Inland Revenue Department (IRD), has recently published binding rulings and guidance for salaries and bonuses paid in crypto, made under s 91D of the country’s Tax Administration Act of 1994. This ruling applies only to salary and wage earners and not to self-employed individuals, and only for services...Read More
Ethereum-based layer-two blockchain scaling platform nahmii has onboarded the Norwegian Block Exchange (NBX) as the first member of its governing association, according to a press release shared with Cointelegraph on Aug. 16. Created by Hubii, nahmii is designed to solve the transaction speed issue on the Ethereum network, which can reportedly manage only 15 transactions...Read More
Netflix seems to be getting increasingly desperate with its choices for original programming. Do we really need an Elvis Spy series? | Source: (i) AP Photo, file (ii) Shutterstock; Edited by CCN By CCN Markets: Netflix is facing increasingly intense competition from multiple other streaming services. Whereas Netflix once seemed to be creating high-quality, intelligent,...Read More
South Korea’s “Bit-Island” Jeju announced the Blockchain Hub City Development Research Service on Aug. 13. An island with blockchain ambitions Local news outlet JejuDomin reported on Aug. 14 that Jeju announced the Blockchain Hub City Development Research Service on Aug. 13. Furthermore, the author of the report stated that cloud services provider Tilon will carry...Read More
The second trailer for DOOM: Annihilation just dropped, and this cringeworthy movie looks like a low-budget student film project. | Source: Universal 1440 Entertainment/YouTube By CCN Markets: Did you know there’s a movie adaptation of the classic video game DOOM on its way? You probably didn’t. We don’t blame you for it, and we apologize...Read More
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance will compensate the white hat hacker who compromised Binance Jersey’s Internet domain name and Twitter account. Binance Jersey Twitter and domain compromised In a post published on Aug. 16, crypto exchange Binance Jersey announced that a white hat hacker was able to gain access to the @BinanceJE Twitter account (the official Binance...Read More
The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Cointelegraph. Every investment and trading move involves risk. You should conduct your own research when making a decision. Market data is provided by the HitBTC exchange. The global amount of debt with negative yields ballooned up...Read More
Changpeng Zhao (CZ), CEO of Binance cryptocurrency exchange has revealed that Binance U.S., a regulated bitcoin and altcoins trading venue specially tailored to customers in the United States, will go live before the end of November 2019, reports Cheddar on August 15, 2019. Changpeng Zhao Reveals Binance U.S. Launch Date Per sources close to the matter,...Read More
Bitcoin price tested the $9,800 support and bounced back against the US Dollar.The price is currently struggling to gain momentum above $10,400 and $10,500.There is a key contracting triangle forming with resistance near $10,550 on the hourly chart of the BTC/USD pair (data feed from Kraken).The price is likely to slowly rise as long as...Read More
California Government Operations Agency (CalGovOps) Secretary, Marybel Batjer has selected Camille Crittenden to Chair the state’s 20-man blockchain working group which has been mandated to explore the possible use cases of distributed ledger technology (DLT) in the state and present a report of their findings to the Legislature by July 1, 2020, reports Enterprise Times...Read More
Bitcoin Price Analysis (BTC/USD) On an intraday chart, the price of BTC/USD pair has further dipped from the previous price of 10473.00 and is currently changing hands at $9917.57 that translated to an intraday dip of 5.3%. The bulls seemed to have lacked the means or strategy to pull up the market momentum. This was...Read More
On August 15, the San Francisco-based digital currency exchange Coinbase announced that it had acquired the cryptocurrency custody service Xapo’s institutional branch. The business move puts Coinbase in the limelight, making it the largest custodial service for digital assets worldwide, with more than $7 billion under custody. Also Read: Hong Kong Protest Leader Hopes to...Read More
More than half the world’s economies have inverted yield curves, which is a dire signal that a global recession may be on its way. | Source: Shutterstock By CCN Markets: Fifty-three percent of countries that offer sovereign debt currently have inverted yield curves, according to one economist. If the percentage gets much higher, there is...Read More
Over the past couple of days, investors have grown fearful regarding the possibility of a massive Chinese Ponzi scam dumping the significant amount of Bitcoin (BTC) that they hold in wallets onto the markets, which may have contributed to the recent downwards pressure experienced by the entire crypto markets.Now, new data suggests that a small...Read More
Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, reiterated his calls to “nuke Mars” to prepare it for human colonization. | Photo by Mark RALSTON / AFP By CCN Markets: Billionaire Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, reiterated his calls to “nuke Mars!” on Twitter. It’s part of Musk’s previously announced proposal...Read More
The Cardano Foundation, an organization responsible for driving adoption of Cardano (ADA), has joined forces with Konfidio, a Berlin-based blockchain venture studio, to promote the adoption of distributed ledger technology (DLT) by governments, large corporations and startups alike, according to a press release on August 15, 2019. Cardano Fostering Blockchain Adoption In a bid to...Read More
Bank of America Merrill Lynch recently surveyed fund managers and found that investors are the most bullish they’ve been on bonds since the end of 2008. But that popularity comes as long-term risks are developing for traditional asset classes. For these reasons, Morgan Creek Capital Founder & CIO, Mark Yusko thinks new types of protective...Read More
Major crypto platform Coinbase has emailed 3,420 Coinbase customers to disclose an accident with customer registration. Some registration details were apparently stored in clear text on the logs of Coinbase’s internal server, with affected customers now required to change their passwords. Coinbase announced the news in an official blog post on Aug. 16. According to...Read More
