Brave surpassed yet another milestone this year, reaching the number of 8 million monthly active users. The news was followed with a surge in the price of their native Basic Attention Token (BAT). The price is up by c. 10% since the news was announced on October 16h. At pixel time (09:35 UTC), the thirtieth…
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Recently, there was a minor upside correction in bitcoin price above the USD 8,000 level. However, BTC/USD failed to gain momentum above the USD 8,100 level and struggled to test the USD 8,200 resistance. As a result, there was a fresh decline below USD 8,000 and USD 7,900. Similarly, ethereum, EOS, bitcoin cash, litecoin, ripple,…
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Facebook’s blockchain chief David Marcus has warned Washington that stopping the launch of Libra will open the door for China to steal a key advantage in the world of digital currencies. Marcus stated, per Bloomberg, “The future in five years, if we don’t have a good answer, is basically China re-wiring [much of the world]…
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An interesting development can be noticed in what’s mostly a red market. Six coins among the top 50 coins by market capitalization have seen a double-digit rise in the last three months, and neither of them is from the top 10 category, or even the top 20 for that matter. The last quarter is quite…
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Changpeng Zhao. While major cryptocurrency exchange Binance made a total of USD 1 billion in profits, also thanks to the new revenue streams, the CEO of the company said he’s ‘confused’ about the price of their native token, Binance Coin (BNB). In an attempt to increase the value of the coin, the company every quarter…
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Central banks and financial authorities in some of the world’s leading economies are increasingly turning their attention to cryptocurrencies and digital fiats. Bloomberg reports that the American Federal Reserve is “dragging its feet” on digital fiat-related matters, with a “real-time” payment system “five to six years off.” The news agency quotes Tobias Read more »Pay/Trade/Buy…
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Nicolás Maduro. Source: Twitter, @NicolasMaduro Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro has announced that the central government will hand out a total of USD 543,700 worth of the state-run, oil-backed Petro cryptocurrency to each of the country’s 23 states on a bi-monthly basis. In a televised address, Maduro stated that he would oversee the handout of 1…
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Brad Garlinghouse. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube, Bloomberg This October alone, Ripple, a California-based crypto startup focusing on payment technologies, made three crypto wallet related steps that might help its native token, XRP to reach a wider audience. The most recent announcement, revealed today, says that Ripple’s developer initiative, Xpring, made a strategic investment into…
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Telegram’s much-anticipated TON network launch and the release of its Gram token could be delayed for “six months to a year,” investors in the project have been told. Per Forbes Russia, two unnamed investors in the USD 1.7 billion project have told the media outlet that Telegram has already admitted it will push back the…
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Crypto Briefs is your daily bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – keeping you up-to-date with under the radar crypto news from around the world. Cryptocurrency exchange news Binance partnered with the Swiss-based issuer of crypto Exchange-Traded Products (ETP), Amun, in order to launch Binance Coin (BNB) ETP. Trading of the Amun BNB Read…
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