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. Adoption news The Bitcoin ecosystem is maturing in all aspects of its economy, in particular in deposit banking, insurance, lending and derivatives, and early forms of life insurance, Bitcoin…
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Indeed reports a major discrepancy between growth rates of job seeker and employer interest in crypto since 2015, with employer demand outpacing employees. Searches for crypto-related jobs have dropped 53%, while the share of job postings in the industry has surged 26% in 2019, new research says. On Nov. 7, Texas-based recruitment platform Indeed.com has…
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Cash App will be buying 16% of Bitcoin’s new supply after the halving if the firm’s buying appetite doesn’t decrease and the asset’s price increase. Square’s mobile payments application Cash App will be buying 16% of Bitcoin’s (BTC) new supply if the company keeps buying at the same rate after the halfing if the price…
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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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Just a single player or entity was allegedly responsible for Bitcoin’s historic price surge, according to academics… Experts call bluff. Just a single player or entity was allegedly responsible for Bitcoin’s historic price surge, as suggested by a recently updated academic paper titled “Is Bitcoin Really Un-Tethered?” Originally released in the summer of last year,…
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Cointelegraph previews U.S. SEC-hosted meetings on streamlining exemptions to registration for securities offerings. Today, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is hosting two meetings of the investor advisory committee. The second of these is scheduled to start at 1:00 PM EST and will deal with the SEC’s earlier request for comment on harmonization…
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Businesses that ignore decentralization and tokenization risk to miss a USD 3 trillion market, finds the major research and advisory company Gartner. The blockchain-related industry to generate USD 3.1 trillion in new business value worldwide by 2030, but half of it will be generated already by 2025, with applications designed for operational improvement, according to…
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Bitcoin mining has become a multibillion-dollar industry — but with 85% of Bitcoin extracted, is it still profitable? Back in the early days, when Bitcoin (BTC) was but a niche experiment for cypherpunks and basement-dwelling hobbyists, the process of its creation required little more than a budget CPU. Since that time, however, an entire industry…
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California-based blockchain startup focusing on payment technologies, Ripple, has seen its client base grow 50% this year, while some 7% use XRP for cross-border liquidity. “This year has been our strongest for Ripple yet,” Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of Ripple, said in a recent interview with a Forbes contributor. In their latest Read more »Pay/Trade/Buy Bitcoin…
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The controversial third-largest cryptocurrency XRP decisively rejected by resistance at $0.30 to continue trading near all-time lows. Ripple’s annual Swell conference has failed to induce positive price action for associated token XRP, data following the event shows. Price data from Coin360 covering XRP/USD showed selling pressure take over on Nov. 7, as the two-day conference…
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