Yesterday, the flagship cryptocurrency rate dropped below $ 11,000, today the rate has dropped to $ 9,800. None of the top 20 altcoins shows growth. Some market analysts predicted a 40 percent correction in the BTC market after the cryptocurrency reached a maximum of $ 13,900. Apparently, their assumptions may be true, since Bitcoin continues to lose in price. So, yesterday, popular trader Josh Ranger noted that $ 9,715 is a 30 percent correction for BTC. He also added that the four-digit figure does not mean that things are bad with BTC, in the long term, the bullish trend continues.…
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Launch of Bakkt cryptocurrency platform for institutional investors 5 (100%) 1 Libra's cryptocurrency project from Facebook has become one of the most important events of 2019, but even the launch of Bakkt, a platform for cryptocurrency-based asset trading for institutional investors, can overshadow it. The first asset of Bakkt will be Bitcoin futures, which the company will begin to test among its users on July 22 . The main difference of Bakkt from existing sites is that the startup wants to offer a full-fledged infrastructure for the work of institutional investors, which, as stated, will meet the strict standards of…
In Russia there will be no criminal liability for cryptocurrency mining, thanks and on that! 5 (100%) 2 In the near future, the possibility of lawful use of cryptocurrency as a means of payment for goods and services, as well as criminal liability for mining of cryptocurrency will not be provided for in Russia. This writes the RNS with reference to the statement of Deputy Finance Minister Alexei Moiseyev. “Turnover from the point of view of using cryptocurrency to calculate and pay for goods, works and services, of course, will be banned in Russia, it seems to me, always. I…
Ledger Nano X – a review of the new hardware cryptograph with Bluetooth 5 (100%) 1 Not so long ago, Ledger Nano X, the purse of the new generation of Ledger, came out. There were a lot of supply disruptions, but now this problem has been fixed and it is available for purchase. This is a Bluetooth-enabled cryptocurrency wallet that combines the most advanced security features and ease of use, while securely storing your private keys. Consider the possibility of a new wallet. Bluetooth Ledger Nano X supports Bluetooth technology, which allows you to securely carry out transactions on the…
protocol Cryptocurrency Beam – a confidential blockchain on the MimbleWimble protocol 5 (99.13%) 23 Beam is a startup created in March 2018 by cryptocurrency professionals. After 10 months on January 3, 2019, the team launched the same-named Beam coin, a scalable, confidential cryptocurrency based on the MimbleWimble protocol. What is MimbleWimble? MimbleWimble is a protocol based on elliptic curve cryptography, which in 2016 was created by the developer under the pseudonym Tom Elvis Jedusor. Both the name and the pseudonym are references to the Harry Potter series of books. There, MimbleWimble is a spell that made it impossible to speak…
Life-compatible crypt: which cryptocurrencies will be relevant in 2019-2020 5 (100%) 1 A lot of cryptocurrencies – more than 1500. And new ones constantly appear. According to VTsIOM, 74% of Russians are familiar with the word “bitcoin”. At the same time, only 2% of them acquired digital currency. Real use as a means of payment in comparison with fiatnymi currencies – a miser. What is the problem? Let us examine three main problems of cryptocurrency: decentralization, confidentiality and controllability, and more precisely the possibility of reporting to regulators. And let's see which currencies have the characteristics necessary for use in…
The creators of the crypto-wallet PlusToken, by assumptions, disappeared with user funds worth $ 3 billion. To date, this exit scam is the largest among all financial pyramids in China related to cryptocurrency. Users of the crypto-wallet PlusToken continue to report on the open spaces of all possible social networks that they can not withdraw their funds from the accounts of the 27th of June. The cost of the native PlustToken token, PlusCoin (PLUS), remains unchanged ($ 139,237) from June 29th. Investors suspect that the creators still hid with their funds, and their overall order of ¥ 20 billion, or…
The American rating agency Weiss Ratings assigned Litecoin a B rating (“excellent”), taking into account the significant investment attractiveness and the degree of mass adoption of cryptocurrency. On the other hand, such a factor as the ratio of risk and return was estimated slightly lower than the rest of the Litecoin parameters, having been rated B-. The screenshot below shows that the overall rating of LTC is lower than that of Bitcoin and […]
According to the observations of DataLight analysts, in relation to the 2017 highs, the volume of Bitcoin trading increased one and a half times. It is noteworthy that at the end of 2017 there was a culmination of the previous phase of the bull market, while digital gold was trading even higher than the current relatively high levels. The experts also found that at present the average size of the transaction commission has reached $ 5, which corresponds to […]
Top 7 news cryptocurrency industry, for the week from 24 to 30 June 2019 5 (100%) 1 Concluding the last week of June and the first half of the year, we recall the new annual maximum of Bitcoin, an unexpected statement about cryptocurrency made by the Chinese authorities, approval of the launch of delivery bitcoin futures in the USA, the launch of the updated Binance platform with the launch of margin trading and other key events. Bitcoin exchange rate volatility – formation of a support level On Wednesday, June 26, the first cryptocurrency updated the annual maximum, coming close to…