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80 Bitcoin Ransom Demanded in Alleged Down Under Kidnapping of Chinese Student

A Chinese student studying in Australia is allegedly being held at ransom with the kidnappers demanding Bitcoin worth over a million Australian dollars before they can release him. According to the Southern Metropolis Daily, the father of the 20-year old student was contacted by the kidnappers on August 24th. The kidnappers demanded 80 Bitcoin within...
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Bitcoin Research Proves Crypto Is Becoming a Stock Market Hedge

More than a decade into its existence, Bitcoin is finally maturing into a full-blown stock market hedge. That’s the conclusion of new research from crypto prime dealer SFOX, which indicates that Bitcoin and other major cryptocurrencies like Ethereum have developed a negative correlation with the S&P 500. This means that as the stock market bellwether...
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Coinbase Goes to Battle With Binance, Looks to Add 8 New Cryptocurrencies

While Coinbase is still the place many Americans go for their first cryptocurrency purchase, another crypto exchange has them backpedalling. As the Malta-based exchange Binance continues its rise to the top, Coinbase is making moves to ensure they don’t become “Yahoo!” to Binance’s “Google.” The San Francisco-based platform just announced that they’re looking to add...
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BitMEXodus: Bitcoin Traders Abandon Exchange Amid CFTC Probe

July wasn’t exactly a banner month for crypto investors, but it turns out it was even worse for one of the world’s largest bitcoin trading platforms: BitMEX. BitMEX Just Had Its Worst Month Ever by One Key Metric Data curated by TokenAnalyst reveals that BitMEX, a cryptocurrency exchange that offers up to 100x leverage, suffered...
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Bitcoin Hater Peter Schiff: ‘I Made a Mistake’ Not Buying Bitcoin at $10

Ben Brown Ben is a journalist with a decade of experience covering financial markets. Based in London, UK, his writing has appeared in The Huffington Post and he was Chief Editor at Block Explorer, the world’s longest-running source of Blockchain data. Reach him at benjamin-brown.uk, Twitter at _Ben_Brown or MuckRack. Email ben @ benjamin-brown.uk. The...
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US Senator: Even If We Wanted To, We Couldn’t Ban Bitcoin

U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) admitted that it would be difficult or impossible to ban bitcoin in the United States. The Senator offered a number of positive comments on bitcoin as he chaired the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs cryptocurrency hearing yesterday. “If the United States were to decide, and I’m not...
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China Can Crush Facebook’s Libra With Its Digital Currency: Huawei CEO

The founder and CEO of Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei, Ren Zhengfei, has dismissed concerns that Facebook’s planned cryptocurrency Libra could dominate the world at the expense of China and its tech firms, Sina reports. Noting that countries have more power compared to internet firms, Zhengfei stated that China could issue its own digital currency that...
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Crypto-friendly Switzerland Outclasses U.S. as Facebook Libra’s Regulator

Switzerland crypto laws have appealed to blockchain enthusiasts for years. Facebook’s head of blockchain, David Marcus, is no exception. He released a statement announcing that he expects the new coin to be governed by Swiss law. “Because the (Libra) Association is headquartered in Geneva, it will be supervised by the Swiss Financial Markets Supervisory Authority...
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Bitcoin Whales Are the Smart Money. Don’t Be the Dumb Money

By CCN.com: Owners of “whale wallets” scooped up 450,000 BTC as the bitcoin market hit bear-market lows in late 2018. It appears whales now control 25% of all BTC. Is this good or bad for bitcoin? Whales are smart money These private, non-institutional buyers decided an 85 percent decline was a buying opportunity. The market sent...
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Newsflash: Bitcoin Price Crashes to $6,400 Triggered by Massive $35 Million Sell Order

By CCN.com: On May 17, within minutes, the bitcoin price plummeted from around $7,800 to $6,400 in a flash crash, recording an unexpected 18 percent drop. The bitcoin price briefly plunges to $6,400, recovers swiftly (source: coinmarketcap.com) The sudden decline in the bitcoin price led the valuation of the crypto market to plunge from $257...
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Nike, Telegram, Facebook, and Everyone Else Suddenly Love Blockchain

By CCN.com: Nike is launching a blockchain product. Telegram is launching a blockchain. Samsung is reportedly planning to launch its own token platform; building with Ethereum for the S10 wasn’t enough. Facebook is getting into blockchain. Google still hasn’t done much with it, but JP Morgan now uses it. The list of major corporate names...
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Breaking: NY AG Alleges Bitcoin Exchange Misused Tether to Hide $850M

By CCN.com: The office of New York Attorney General Letitia James has officially obtained a court order to request iFinex Inc, the operator of bitcoin exchange Bitfinex and Tether, to cease operations in New York. The Attorney General’s office found that Bitfinex allegedly handed over $850 million in co-mingled client and corporate funds to Crypto...
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Bitcoin Exchange Suffers Trader Backlash Months After Suspicious ‘Fire’

By CCN.com: A crypto trader provided CCN.com with documents proving that he has lost around 43 Ether all told after depositing it on BiteBTC on Christmas Eve. As we previously reported, the Bitcoin exchange claimed a fire wrecked its servers, but the exchange claimed crypto wallets were safe. Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire Nearly every...
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As the Blockchain Hype Dies, Why Should We Care About Practical TestNets?

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....
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Crypto Trading Giant Circle Wants to Raise $250 Million in Funding – But Why?

One of the world’s leading cryptocurrency startups, Circle, is seeking to raise $250 million according to sources directly involved with the initiative. Circle is the operator of the Poloniex cryptocurrency exchange, currently ranked 74 in the world by volume on Coinmarketcap. The firm acquired Poloniex for $400 million and also runs an institutional trading branch...
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Crypto Can Help Starving Artists Survive the Spotify Revolution

Music is a vital part of our daily lives. Beats pouring out of speakers, headsets, and across crowds set the tone for much of our routine. Yet, we often demand free content from artists, never thinking of the work that went into making even the simplest song. Streaming platforms like Spotify have formed a bridge...
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Bitcoin is the ‘Elephant-Sized’ Investment Warren Buffett Should Make

You could say Warren Buffett is loaded for bear. The “Oracle of Omaha” says he’d like to make permanent investments in U.S. companies with decent long term prospects, but not while the U.S. stock market is so overpriced. Maybe he should buy Bitcoin instead. Buffett Pines for ‘Elephant-Sized’ Acquisition In his 2019 annual letter to...
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