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Facebook Libra, Other Cryptos Must Comply With US Rules: Treasury Official. Facebook’s Libra must achieve the highest standards of U.S. regulatory compliance prior to any launch, a U.S. Treasury official has said. Speaking to reporters in Geneva, Switzerland, Sigal Mandelker, under secretary of the Treasury for terrorism and financial intelligence, said not only Facebook Libra, […]

Interbank payments network provider, the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (SWIFT), has dismissed cryptocurrencies as being “useless and unstable. SWIFT about Cryptocurrency” An FXStreet report published on Sept. 10 cites unnamed SWIFT about Cryptocurrency representatives at a London briefing earlier this week, who reportedly claimed that: “They go down in value like a yoyo, […]

Little-Known Exchange Claims It Will Be First to Sell Telegram’s TON Tokens. When Telegram launches its long-awaited blockchain sometime this month or next, the go-to marketplace for the new gram tokens could be a fledgling exchange with fewer than 4,000 users. At least, that’s what Blackmoon Crypto is hoping. But the Cayman Islands-registered exchange will […]

Bitcoin Shooting to $20,000 This Year With 5-10 Altcoins Worth Attention, Predicts ShapeShift CEO Erik Voorhees Bitcoin continues to move sideways just above $10,000, as traders try to predict which way it will break next ShapeShift Predicts Bitcoin $20k. But the CEO of crypto exchange startup ShapeShift isn’t sweating the day-to-day price action. Erik Voorhees […]

Bitmain has launched 2 new models under its renowned series namely Antminer T17e and Antminer S17e soon after they were officially announced on September 6. And reports now reveal that both Bitmain mining rigs are sold out as soon as they were listed. The sale of next Bitmain Mining Rigs batches of same models will […]

Bitcoin turned heads when it hit an all-time high price of $20,000 in December 2017. Folks who were already invested in it since the genesis became overnight millionaires and billionaires. Lots became self-proclaimed bitcoin traders and investors. Even then, quite a lot have remained ignorant about a few facts. For newcomers to Bitcoin and ‘veteran […]

Bitcoin’s Scaling Problems Forced Facebook to Launch Libra If it wasn’t for Bitcoin there would be no Libra. That much is self-evident since Satoshi’s creation laid the groundwork for every crypto asset that’s followed. The extent to which Bitcoin was responsible for spawning Facebook’s currency has now been made brutally clear in an interview with […]

Will banks inevitably control the cryptocurrency market? Central and commercial banks are the top dogs of the world’s largest market by trading volume—the $5-trillion-a-day foreign exchange (FX) market. Will Banks Manipulate Cryptocurrency? A closer look at the balance of power in this global industry reveals how banks could manipulate, and even dominate, cryptocurrency in an […]

EOS, Ethereum, and Litecoin Lead Massive Dump to $9,500 Yesterday’s Bitcoin carnage saw over $20 billion in USD value wiped out from the total crypto market capitalization. The Bitcoin Price Dump affected nearly all crypto assets, including Ethereum, EOS, and Litecoin – even Bitcoin, which has maintained support despite altcoins collapsing around it. But new […]