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Bitcoin Cash Price Down Ahead of a Major Upgrade

Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is scheduled for an update on the network’s consensus rules today to make the network more secure. In the meantime, the price of the 4th coin by total market capitalization is dropping. The Bitcoin Cash network will undergo a planned protocol upgrade as per the roadmap on November 15th at around 12:00…
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BAT Price Jumps 7% on Brave 1.0 Launch News

Source: Twitter, @brave Basic Attention Token (BAT), ranked 29th by market capitalization, is green throughout following the news of Brave launching version 1.0 of its privacy-focused browser. BAT, the native token of Brave, the first decentralized browser based on blockchain technology that lets users earn tokens as they browse, is seeing a lot of green…
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IRS Clarifies its Confusing ‘Airdrop’ Cryptocurrency Tax Policy

America’s top tax authority, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), has somewhat provided clarification about its recent cryptocurrency tax guidelines. However, their final decision regarding taxing promotional airdrops is yet to be made. Critics pointed out a range of potential problems with the latest guidelines, issued in October. Perhaps most glaring among these issues  Read more…
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‘Altcoin Hype Has Largely Died Off’ – Kraken CEO

Jesse Powell, CEO of major U.S. cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, believes that the hype surrounding altcoins in the Cryptoverse is at its dying breath. “Altcoin hype has largely died off,” said Powell in a recent interview with Ivan on Tech, a popular YouTuber. He explained his view by saying that a vast majority of the altcoins,…
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Tron Prices Rise as CEO Justin Sun Admits He Invested in Poloniex

Justin Sun. Source: Twitter, @justinsuntron Tron (TRX) prices are up on the news that the company’s CEO Justin Sun is indeed an investor in the Poloniex exchange, which started accepting limit orders for TRX/BTC, TRX/USDT and TRX/USDC yesterday. Hour-by-hour Tron rates were still in the green at 6:10 AM UTC, with 24-hour prices above the…
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Crypto Market Sentiment Slightly Down; BTC and TRX Hold Their Spots

Looking at the 7-day moving average, the combined Sentscore for the top 10 coins by market capitalization dropped somewhat since last Monday, from 5.68/10 to 5.5, according to Omenics, a crypto market sentiment analysis service. Nonetheless, Bitcoin (BTC) and Tron (TRX) maintain their positions within the positive zone for now, as the only two coins…
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Crypto Listing & Delisting Announcements: Week 45

Source: iStock/~UserGI15632523 Here is our weekly collection of digital asset listing and delisting, trading pair-related announcements by cryptocurrency exchanges that we found last week and today. Have we missed something? Do you have information about new listings and/or delistings? Let us know here. ______________________________ Binance Listings: ARPA Coin (ARPA) Added new trading pairs:  Read more…
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This is Why Smaller Networks Overtake NEO by Dapp Activity

Da Hongfei, Founder of Neo. Source: Twitter, @NEO_Blockchain NEO blockchain, regularly titled as “Chinese Ethereum,” appears to be underperforming in the realm of dapps (decentralized apps) – even smaller networks have more dapps and their users. However, it seems that NEO is currently not focusing on dapps. After pumping along with other “Chinese” coins recently,…
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XRP Price Among the Worst Performers Today

While Tezos (XTZ) became the best-performing coin among the top 100 by market capitalization yesterday, still being among the top five in that category, Ripple (XRP) found itself among the worst performing major coins today. Though the week was quite busy for Ripple, the recent news doesn’t seem to have had a positive influence on…
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This is Why Dogecoin is Better than ‘Altcoins-Degenerators’

Source: Instagram, dogecoin_official While large majority of the altcoins are being on a straight-down path, a coin that was made as a joke and seemingly has had no recent major development is proving store of value (SoV) properties. Popular crypto researcher and analyst Willy Woo posted both on Twitter and website his opinion on the…
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