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Coin Race: Top Winners & Losers of March and 1st Quarter of 2020

Though the month of March, the last of the year’s first quarter, started promising, it witnessed a major plunge of the market. The number one coin by market capitalization, bitcoin (BTC), took a swift dive to the USD 4,000 level and despite it recovered around 50% of its losses it dropped for the third quarter…
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Litecoin Under Pressure Again as “Death Cross” Appears in Chart

Source: iStock/Albert_Karimov Litecoin (LTC) is again facing pressure from traders who wonder if the price will be able to pick up the momentum necessary to recover the losses from the major market crash on March 12. As of press time on Wednesday (10:22 UTC), litecoin was down almost 1% over the past 24 hours, trading…
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Mine Crypto Using Brain Waves? Microsoft Thinks You Can

Microsoft, via its subsidiary Microsoft Technology Licensing (MTL), has made a bold crypto move by securing a patent for a mining system that uses human body activity as proof-of-work in the creation of crypto tokens. The patent was granted by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) on March 26, roughly nine months after the tech…
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Crypto Listing and Delisting Announcements: Week 13

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: STP Network (STPT) Delistings: FTX  Read more »Pay, Trade, Buy Bitcoin…
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XRP Lags Behind Market Despite Strong Weekly Gains

XRP, the cryptocurrency affiliated with US-based fintech company Ripple, is among just a handful of digital assets that are trading in the red or are unchanged over the past 24 hours, with the broader crypto market recording strong gains during early Monday trading. Heavy selling Sunday night added pressure on XRP, and contributed to the…
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Cardano Price Fails to Respond as New Scaling Solution Reintroduced

Source: Adobe/Skórzewiak The price of cardano (ADA) remained largely unchanged along with the broader crypto market on Thursday morning (UTC time), despite the unveiling of a new scaling solution that is to be implemented on the Cardano blockchain. Earlier today (10:30 UTC), ADA traded up by a mere 0.34% over the past 24 hours to…
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Monero, Zcash, Dash Outperform Bitcoin Year-to-Date

As privacy becomes a new battlefield in the fight against the coronavirus, and new centralized digital fiat initiatives are starting to appear, how have the most popular privacy coins performed after the March 12-13 market crash? Among the privacy coins that have seen optimistic trading in recent days are monero (XMR), dash (DASH), and zcash…
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Telegram Loses Latest Round With the SEC; Kik Begins the Next Round

Instant messaging giant Telegram and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have just finished another round in their court fight, with the judge declaring the SEC the winner. Meanwhile, Kik continued its battle against the SEC, denying the accusations the regulator raised against it. Both cases could offer a glimpse into the future of…
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China May Ramp up Digital Currency Progress to ‘Fend off Risk’ from US

The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted China’s economy, but not its digital currency plans. And amid reports that the country is nearing a major breakthrough in its plans to launch a digital fiat, one of the project’s key figures is urging caution lest American rivals steal a march on the Middle Kingdom. In a research paper…
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S Korean Province to Fight COVID-19 Recession with Stablecoin Handout

Suwon, the capital of Gyeonggi Province. South Korea was one of the first nations after China to be hit with a major coronavirus outbreak. But as the health crisis slowly abates in the East Asian nation, government authorities are now looking at ways to deal with COVID-19’s economic fallout. But rather than turning to “money…
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