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Markets Update: Crypto-Prices Slide After SEC Announcement

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Cryptocurrencies are dropping in value once again on Wednesday, August 8 as most of the top digital assets are down between 9 to 18 percent over the last 24 hours. Prices started dropping yesterday after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) extended the Cboe exchange-traded fund decision. Immediately after the announcement, bitcoin core (BTC) … Read more

Markets Update: Bitcoin Bulls Charge Forward

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Cryptocurrencies are seeing some good gains over the past two days after market capitalizations lost billions last weekend. Over the last six days, the entire digital asset economy has seen an increase of around $15Bn and now averages around $268Bn on Monday, July 16. Digital currency proponents are hopeful the past six months of bearish … Read more

CFTC Subpoenas Leading Exchanges for Trading Data

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According to anonymous sources cited by The Wall Street Journal, The United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is coordinating with the U.S. Justice Department in conducting investigations into price manipulation in the spot BTC markets. The report claims that the CFTC launched a criminal probe into BTC price manipulation after several cryptocurrency exchanges rejected … Read more

2 Million Revolut Customers Get More Cryptocurrency Access

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In the heady days of 2017, Revolut Ltd promised it would continue to add cryptocurrency choices for its customer base. The future promise was made after its rollout of onboarding bitcoin core (BTC), litecoin (LTC), and ether (ETH) to eager users. Just this week, the England-based company made good by further adding bitcoin cash (BCH) … Read more

Moon Missions and Custom Wallets: Bitcoin Community Celebrates Pizza Day

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On May 22, the bitcoin community celebrated the second most important date in its calendar. No other date, save for January 3, 2009 when Satoshi mined the genesis block, is more symbolic. It was on May 22, 2010 that Laszlo Hanyecz purchased two pizzas for 10,000 BTC. Eight years on, the occasion has become part … Read more

Ethereum Futures in US One Step Closer as CME Deal is Struck

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Chicago Mercantile Exchange & Chicago Board of Trade (CME Group Inc) announced a partnership with Crypto Facilities Ltd to list the price of ether in real-time dollars. Information from major cryptocurrency exchanges Bitstamp and Kraken will be used to determine the CME CF reference rate. This could be a hint of things to come for … Read more

Bitcoin Price Watch: Currency Drops Another $100

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Bitcoin has dropped to $8,800. This is a $100 drop from yesterday’s $8,900, which in turn was a fall from the currency’s previous high of $9,300 last Tuesday. People are scratching their heads and wondering what’s going on. Bitcoin’s market cap has sunk from $158 billion to $140 billion in less than 24 hours. Analysts … Read more