Governments are making drastic interventions to save equities markets but will policies like the Fed’s new unlimited quantitative easing program eventually do more harm than good? As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to unfold with dire consequences across the globe, desperate measures to keep the economy afloat continue to be taken by world governments. Currently the…
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Trader and YouTuber Tone Vays said the U.S. Fed’s new digital dollar is nothing different than the current system. Markets trader and YouTuber, Tone Vays, says the United States’ digital dollar proposal is no different than the current system, except for its ties to the country’s federal reserve. “There is nothing technologically new here, whatsoever,”…
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Charles Hoskinson says Wikipedia won’t let Cardano have its own page despite it being “the most cited of all of the peer reviewed coins”. On March 24, Cardano (ADA) founder, Charles Hoskinson, streamed a YouTube video titled “On Wikipedia,” in which he berated Wikipedia for applying arbitrary commercial censorship against Cardano. Wikipedia’s censorship of Bitcoin…
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Apart from the obvious health and economic impacts, the coronavirus also presents a major opportunity for cybercriminals. As staff across sectors and university students shift to working and studying from home, large organisations are at increased risk of being targeted. With defences down, companies should go the extra mile to protect their business networks and…
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Bitcoin mining’s difficulty will decrease tomorrow, and it may be an ominous sign for the coin’s price. On March 25, Bitcoin (BTC) mining difficulty will decrease. The last time a downward adjustment took place, Bitcoin price plummeted more than 50% percent. Bitcoin difficulty Bitcoin’s difficulty is designed to adjust every 2016 blocks — or approximately…
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Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news. Crime news Media outlets in South Korea have been investigating the cryptocurrency holdings of Cho Joo-bin, the suspect thought to be behind the notorious “Telegram Nth Room” – a Read more…
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What effects does the global pandemic have on our lives, and what could help us to survive? A global pandemic has changed the world. I write this on lockdown, unable to leave my home. A global pandemic has stripped the entire state of California and over 1.5 billion people globally from our rights and freedoms…
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VR platform Somnium Space sold 110 ETH worth of digital land during the first seven days of a 10-week offering. Somnium Space sold 110 Ethereum (ETH) worth of virtual land plots during the first seven days of its multi-week affair. “During the first week of Road to SLO we have sold a total of 25…
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Source: a screenshot, Instagram/bitbay Central and Eastern Europe-focused cryptocurrency exchange BitBay says that bitcoin (BTC) trading volumes have hit record levels in the past two weeks. In the past fortnight, the platform’s volume of the BTC-Polish złoty (PLN) pair hit a peak of BTC 11,233 (USD 75 million) in 24 hours on March 13, a…
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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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