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Downturn or Not, Bitcoin Has Still Outperformed Apple Since Last January
In January of last year, the U.S. stock market went through one of the largest bull markets in recent history, with technology stocks like Alphabet and Apple achieving record high numbers. Within the past two years, the stock price of Apple (AAPL) increased from $115 to $165, by 43.7 percent. Alphabet (GOOGL), the parent company…
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Blockchain is a ‘Systemic Risk’ for Financial Industry: DTCC Exec.
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation or DTCC issues a report every year on the stability of the global financial system and has done so every year since 2013. It describes this report in these terms: “[T]he DTCC Systemic Risk Barometer Survey serves as an annual pulse check to monitor existing and emerging risks that…
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PSA: If You Mine Ethereum, You’re a Target for Crypto Hackers
Hackers have devised a new way to steal your cryptocurrencies. This time, they are running a massive scanning campaign to pick out Ethereum wallets and miners with a specific vulnerability. Per reports on ZDNet, crypto hackers are targeting Etherum wallet and mining equipment going through devices with an exposed port 8545, the standard port for…
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Bitcoin Tax Confusion Has Accountants Turning to Specialized Software
Every time you convert Bitcoin to anything, be it goods or services, other cryptocurrencies, or even tax payments, it might be a taxable event, depending on your local regulations. It’s not something a lot of cryptonaughts think about when carrying out their daily lives, but potential penalties can be steep for tax evasion. Node40 is…
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How Givv Is Using AI, Blockchain and the Power of 1.5 Billion Computers to Save the World
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Element Zero Unveils the Stablecoins 2.0 – The “Holy Grail” of Cryptocurrency
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No, the Price of Bitcoin Didn’t Drop Because of Bomb Threats
On Friday, as the Bitcoin price fell by around six percent against the U.S. dollar, several reports claimed that the dominant cryptocurrency dropped in value due to bomb threats. One report from Business Insider Australia, for instance, stated that following an email blast of bomb threats in New York, the price of the crypto asset…
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Augur House Elections Market: Alleged Reporter Says Republicans Won The Market
A person claiming to be the designated reporter for an Augur predictions market which asked the question “Which party will control the House after 2018 U.S. Midterm Election?” has posted to Reddit saying that he will be reporting that the Republicans control the house today. The market ends today, 12/10, and the Decmocrats, who won…
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Canadian Police Warn Public About Emerging Bitcoin Scams
Canadian police have warned the public about getting caught up in Bitcoin scams and to exercise some caution when investing their money in cryptocurrency. It has been an interesting year for crypto scams and controversies with some of the most famous names in the world such as Floyd Mayweather and DJ Khaled getting caught up…
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US Coinbase Customers Can Make Instant, Free Crypto-To-Cash Transfers to PayPal
Coinbase — the largest US-based cryptocurrency exchange — partnered with payments platform PayPal to enable instant, free crypto-to-cash withdrawals for US customers. This means customers can now move the crypto balances in their Coinbase accounts to their PayPal accounts immediately, at no charge. “These withdrawals are not only fast; they’re free and incur no fees,”…
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Bitcoin Bomb Threats Target Educational Institutions, Businesses and Govt. Buildings in US, Canada
Hundreds of government buildings, schools and businesses in the United States and Canada were on Thursday targets of extortionists who threatened to detonate explosives unless they were paid thousands of dollars in bitcoin. In most of the emailed bomb threats, the sender claimed that they had an associate who had planted an explosive device at…
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What Crypto Winter? It’s Perfectly Sunny for Luno with 40 New Jobs Open
News December 15, 2018 10:19 CET Bitcoin tumbled to a 15-month low today. Ethereum has all-but petered out. Heavyweights like ConsenSys are laying off staff, and many ICO startups are running out of cash before launching their products. You have to admit, things don’t look particularly good from any angle. But while crypto investors are…
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Crypto Market Risks Dip Below $100 Billion After Dropping $15 Billion in Bad Week
In the past seven days, the valuation of the crypto market has dropped from $117 billion to $102 billion, by just over $15 billion. Major cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and Ripple (XRP) performed poorly against the U.S. dollar, experiencing losses above the 10 percent mark. Out of the three most valuable crypto assets…
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WORBLI Merges Traditional Banking With Blockchain as it Announces Commencement of Token Airdrop
This is a submitted sponsored story. CCN urges readers to conduct their own research with due diligence into the company, product or service mentioned in the content below. Hailed as the next revolution, blockchain certainly has its merits. The technology is extremely adaptable, efficient, secure and low cost. However, when it comes to banking and financial…
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Digital Assets Management Platform, Membrana.io, Announces Token Sale
This is a submitted sponsored story. CCN urges readers to conduct their own research with due diligence into the company, product or service mentioned in the content below. Membrana, the blockchain platform for digital asset management, has announced the start of its highly anticipated public Token Generation Event (TGE). The event seeks to put the power…
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Russian Data Center Redstone Aims to become the Home of Crypto Miners – and Will Start Operations in June 2019
This is a submitted sponsored story. CCN urges readers to conduct their own research with due diligence into the company, product or service mentioned in the content below. Data centers and cryptocurrency mining facilities are similar in many ways. They both require a lot of areas, high tech equipment and are in constant need of supervision…
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Crypto VC Funding Deals are Falling Apart Due to Bear Market — Bad Time For Startups
According to Barry Silbert, the founder and CEO of Digital Currency Group (DCG), many venture capital funding deals in the crypto sector have fallen apart in the past few months as a result of the 12-month bear market. Silbert, who oversees the operations of one of the largest venture capital firms in crypto with investments…
Top Cryptos See Mixed Gains & Losses, Bitcoin Fights to Stay Over $3,200
In the past 24 hours Bitcoin briefly dropped under the $3.2K mark, and top cryptocurrencies reported moderated losses
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Cryptojacking Overtakes Ransomware as Top Malware in Some Countries
In certain countries, malware that uses infected hardware for unauthorized crypto mining is increasingly becoming the top cyber threat
