Juan Benet, the founder of decentralized, blockchain-based storage network Filecoin (FIL), denied recent reports that miners are protesting the platform. "I was asked about a supposed ‘Miner Strike’ — This is nonsense," tweeted Benet several hours ago. "There is no strike. Miners are proving their storage just fine. There’s been no power loss out of…
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Privacy-focused cryptocurrency monero (XMR) is the best performing coin among the top 15 tokens by market capitalization today after it launched its network update this past weekend. At pixel time (15:51 UTC), XMR, ranked 14th by market capitalization, trades at USD 127 and is up by almost 5% in day, trimming its weekly losses to…
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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. _________________________________________ Bibox Listings: COFIX (COFI) Zenfuse Trading Platform Token Read more »Pay, Trade, Buy…
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Source: a video screenshot, Youtube/IMF Central banks are still more focused on risks of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) while they’re increasingly cooperating with each other in an attempt to investigate this potentially new form of local and cross-border payments, according to statements by the panelists of an International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) online seminar today.…
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Source: Adobe/Сергей Шиманович A number of Chinese citizens who received digital yuan payouts worth USD 30 in a recent giveaway event have decided to top up their central bank digital currency (CBDC) wallets. As previously reported, the central People’s Bank of China (PBoC) distributed thousands of “red envelope” lucky draw handouts to citizens in the…
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As foreshadowed by last Monday’s 24-hour green picture, the entire week behind us turned green, with the combined moving 7-day average crypto market sentiment score (sentscore) for the top 10 coins by market capitalization reaching the positive 6 today, as shown by crypto market sentiment analysis service Omenics. A week ago, this sentscore was 5.37/10,…
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When it comes to developing central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), the international focus has been on China, Europe and North America – but it appears that one small Caribbean nation has stolen a march on both Asia and the West, with a digital currency to be issued next week already being lined up for use…
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Russia’s “cryptoruble” – its central bank digital currency (CBDC) initiative – is seemingly picking up momentum after years spent in limbo. Earlier this month, the Russian Central Bank announced that it would consider debuting a digital token, after a year ago stating that there was no need to issue a digital version of the RUB.…
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Following the much-anticipated mainnet launch, in less than 24 hours decentralized storage network Filecoin’s FIL token went up nearly 100%, while its trading volume also jumped sharply. As Cryptonews.com reported, at around UTC 15:00 yesterday, Filecoin Mainnet went live. From yesterday afternoon until 9:28 UTC this morning, FIL reached the price of nearly USD 61.…
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Earlier today, we saw a sharp bearish reaction from the USD 11,550 resistance. BTC declined over 2% and it even spiked below USD 11,350. However, the price remained well bid above USD 11,250, and it is currently (13:00 UTC) attempting an upside correction towards USD 11,420 and USD 11,450. Also, there were bearish moves in…
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