Japanese retail giant Rakuten enabled its customers in Japan to exchange Rakuten Group’s loyalty points to Bitcoin, Ether, or Bitcoin Cash. Japanese retail giant Rakuten now lets its customers convert its Rakuten Group loyalty points to major cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC). According to an official announcement on Dec. 24, this capability is immediately available for…
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2020 could be “one of the brightest years” that the digital asset industry has seen so far, finds Vision Hill,a New York-based full service digital asset management firm. They also provided a framework for how investors can think about approaching the digital asset market next year. Their report explains that this opinion is not price-related,…
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Disclaimer: The text below is a press release. ________________ Estonian blockchain startup Lympo and the South Korean biopharmaceutical giant GC Pharma (formerly known as Green Cross Corporation) join forces to create a mobile personalized care product motivating healthier diet and active lifestyle in the fight against obesity. Lympo’s counterpart for this cooperation is GC Healthcare,…
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Bitcoin has pulled back and has partially filled the CME futures “gap” at $7,230 as another dip below $7K is possible before the next big move up. Bitcoin (BTC) finally recovered from its sharp drop last week and is currently hovering around $7,300, a move of more than ten percent since the latest low of…
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Binance DEX adds option to trade ETH, with BNB/ETH trading pair. Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has added the Binance Coin/Ether (BNB/ETH) trading pair to its decentralized exchange (DEX), according to a company announcement on Dec. 24. Last week’s proposal is this week’s launch The listing follows an initial proposal posted on the Binance community website a…
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Crypto YouTubers are greeting the holidays with the sobering news that their content appears to have been censored by the platform. Crypto YouTubers are greeting the holidays with reports that their content appears to have been censored by the platform. In a tweet published on Dec. 23, Chris Dunn — a crypto YouTuber with 210,000…
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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. Adoption news Chinese internet giant and WeChat operator Tencent is reportedly putting together a digital currency research team. Chinese media outlet Ifeng News reports that Tencent issued an Read more »Pay/Trade/Buy…
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The North American Securities Administrators Association says cryptocurrency investment schemes are one of the top investor threats in 2020. Cryptocurrency investment is among the top five investor threats for 2020, according to the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA). The NASAA, the oldest international investor protection organization, has officially announced the top five products or…
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Yesterday, we saw a strong upward move in bitcoin price above the USD 7,350 and USD 7,550 resistance levels. However, BTC/USD struggled to gain momentum above USD 7,650 and it is currently (09:00 UTC) correcting lower. The price is trading below the key USD 7,350 pivot level and it is facing an increase in selling…
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Google-owned American video-sharing giant, YouTube, has been restricting or even deleting some crypto-related videos, claim several channel owners and major crypto YouTubers. The news of this quickly spread on Twitter and Reddit. One of the first to sound the alarm seems to be Ben Perrin, the marketing director at bitcoin exchange Bull Bitcoin and a…
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