Author: BlockchainJournal

According to a survey conducted by Global Custodian, The TRADE Crypto and BitGo, 94% of trust capital funds said they invested in crypto assets last year. Investments were made either directly or through funds. The study, conducted in the fourth quarter of 2018, was attended by 150 endowment funds, the bulk (89%) from the United States, as well as Canada and the United Kingdom. More than half of the respondents (54%) stated that they had invested directly in individual cryptoactives, the remaining 46% got access to funds in another way. Only 7% of respondents answered that they expect a reduction…

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Interest in buying Bitcoin in search engines seems to be lagging behind the growth in cryptocurrency prices. A careful study of the trend of search queries over the past month reveals that the phrase “buy bitcoin” tends to increase only after the growth rate of the main cryptocurrency. The data from Google Trends demonstrates this : As can be seen on the graph, the interest in the phrase “buy bitcoin” reached its peak on April 3, reaching the level of 100 in Google Trends. This is the highest value for this period. On the same day, Bitcoin was trading at…

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One Twitter user noted with concern that the cost of basic necessities has increased significantly, and that such a state of “hyperinflation” usually hits those who are at the bottom of the “money pyramid”. It seems that inflation and declining living standards are becoming the norm, and the benefits of switching to bitcoins and digital assets that are capable of saving value seem more obvious. Huge inflation for usa According to a crypto enthusiast and software developer Lyle Pratt, inflation in the United States for 1997-2017. accounted for more than 55%. It is for this reason that Pratt proposes to…

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Wenzez Casares, who is on the board of PayPal, who also heads Xapo's custodial services for cryptocurrency , believes that the price of Bitcoin at $ 1 million is something we will see no later than 7 years later, but not later than a decade later. At the same time, the investor said that this would happen if “Bitcoin succeeds”: he calculated cryptocurrency number 1 growth to this value based on the correlation between the growth in the number of owners of this digital asset and its price. According to his estimates, for $ 1 million in Bitcoin, it is…

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Ripple (XRP) fell below several intraday support levels and touched a minimum of $ 0.3136 in the early Asian hours. At the time of writing, the third largest digital asset with a market value of $ 13.4 billion is trading at $ 0.3190, which is 2.5% lower than the previous day.   The XRP / USD pair is trying to return to the area above the level of $ 0.3200, but low volatility limits the potential for recovery. What is the matter? Coincheck has added Ethereum (ETH) and Ripple (XRP) to the new over-the-counter trading platform. As a rule, over-the-counter…

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Paris opened the door to investing in digital assets. Analysts continue to analyze the law that the French National Assembly passed on April 11. As the local newspaper Les Echos writes about this, the point is that the country's insurance companies now have the opportunity to issue “cryptocurrency-based insurance products”. What does this mean? As Emilien Bernard-Elzias, a lawyer at Simmons & Simmons LLP explains: “It is obvious that through participation in special professional funds (SPF) such organizations are able to directly invest in cryptocurrency.” Indeed, such investments are spelled out in the law and they suggest that funds for…

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The CEO and founder of ShapeShift, Eric Vorges, promised to remove Bitcoin SV from the cryptocurrency platform within 48 hours. We stand with @binance and CZ's sentiments. We've decided to delist Bitcoin SV #BSV from @ShapeShift_io within 48 hrs. – Erik Voorhees (@ErikVoorhees) 15 April 2019 r. “We support the position of Binance and Changpen Zhao. We decided to remove […]

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The developers of Bisq presented a new version of the decentralized exchange (v1.0). Bisq v1.0 just went live.https: //t.co/LP1h0ubVQf – Bisq (@bisq_network) 15 april 2019 p. The project repository on GitHub notes that version 1.0 is the most important milestone in the development of the Bisq platform. Thus, the new version of the software implements a decentralized autonomous organization mechanism (Bisq DAO). It allows exchange users to take directly […]

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The dynamics of Bitcoin since the beginning of the year, its April successes and a number of other factors make analysts think that 2019 will be a year of growth for Bitcoin (BTC) . "Bear Market" is over Optimist Tom Lee from Fundstrat Global Advisors says that the long bear market is now a thing of the past, market sentiment has changed significantly, and investors' appetite for Bitcoin has grown significantly. In an interview with MarketWatch, Fundstrat chief analyst said that there was a positive willingness to take risks associated with bitcoins, and that investors tend to find some “basic”…

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