Welcome to your crypto-week summary. Let’s see what happened. While financial professionals say BTC will outperform S&P 500, a Manhattan condo was paid for with BTC and Buterin said that Bitcoiners may change their minds on PoS. Bakkt opened its Bakkt Warehouse to all institutions, Justin Sun confirmed that he invested in Poloniex and TRX…
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Ten years in, and crypto is still largely unregulated and uncontrolled in many parts of the world. But over the past couple of years, a growing number of countries have introduced cryptocurrency regulations, with varying degrees of permissiveness and restrictiveness. These countries include Switzerland, Japan, Lithuania, Malta, and Mexico, which in previous years have Read…
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It’s safe to say that Bitcoin (BTC) is the most talked-about cryptocurrency in the world – but in what way have the people around the world been mentioning it in the past 12 months, starting November 2018 when bitcoin price dropped to USD 4,000? To find out, we’ve looked at different search terms relating to…
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Depending on who you ask, the Lightning Network will either be the long-awaited solution to Bitcoin’s (BTC) scalability woes or a technological experiment that is bound to fail. Regardless of where your opinion lies, you can currently use the Lightning Network – despite still being in beta – to earn a small amount of bitcoin.…
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According to Kaspersky’s Cryptocurrency Report 2019, 19% of surveyed people (in 22 developed economies) have bought at least one kind of cryptoc urrency or another, and while this is an encouraging percentage for such an immature sector, it’s clear that crypto still has a long way to go if it wants to become ubiquitous. However,…
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Well, it was seven days of twists and turns, and we’re not necessarily talking about crypto prices. Tezos rallied on news from major exchanges, an analyst discussed why DOGE is doing better than most altcoins, and a report said that a single whale manipulated 2017 Bitcoin rally, though multiple industry players dismissed it. Roger Ver…
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Source: a video screenshot, Youtube, EU Science Hub – Joint Research Centre Imagine household appliances, which double as blockchain-based trading machines that lower your electricity bills. They’ve been made, they exist and have been used to provoke people’s feelings and teach them about crypto. Gigbliss is a project focusing on the energy sector, with Larissa…
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It was a fun week in the Cryptosphere. Is there any other kind though? Tron became a part of Samsung Blockchain Keystore; China’s already looking at applying blockchain technology to cross-border trade finance, and China-based coins pumped hard; as BCH network security was in question, BCH rallied too, and then rallied some more on Bitmain…
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Turkey is the world’s 20th biggest economy. It may be most well-known internationally for its authoritarian President, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, but it’s set to become increasingly important for the global cryptocurrency industry. At the moment, trading volumes in BTC/TRY (Turkish lira) are fairly small compared to other major fiat currencies, but recent news Read more…
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Making money, spending money, holding money, or just generally being around money, comes with a significant side effect, namely – taxes. The term itself evokes a desire to procrastinate, imagining hours and days of manual calculations and headache. Especially for newbies, it may seem like a gigantic bite to take. Like that’s not enough, even…
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