Despite the fact that the head of Circle payment startup Jeremy Allair prefers not to make price forecasts, he is convinced that in three years the cost of the first cryptocurrency will be much higher than today's quotes. He said this in an interview with CNBC . Allair stressed that Bitcoin and Ethereum are already in an oversold condition, with the third largest cryptocurrency capitalization outperforming the market flagship in this context. [embedded content] At the same time, Allair expressed the opinion that within a few years the number of digital tokens will grow to millions, and any financial asset…
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To date, according to 99bitcoins , Bitcoin has "died" already 334 times. It is noteworthy that the author of the last “obituary” was the youngest cryptomillionaire in the world, Eric Finman, who once made a good state in cryptocurrency. As BlockchainJournal wrote earlier, in 2012, Eric Finman invested a thousand dollars donated to him by his beloved grandmother in a little-known then bitcoin, and in January 2014 he sold coins for $ 100,000. In the same year, he launched his own business, founded a tutoring service via the Internet with the video chat Botangle, hiring 20 employees – programmers, designers…
Google Trends data shows that in 2018, Bitcoin became the most popular search query in the “What is …?” Category among Internet users in the US and the UK. In the USA, bitcoin by this request, for example, bypassed “What is racketeering?” And “What is the suspension of public institutions?”, In the UK – “What is a GDPR?” And “What is a nerve agent?” Note that Bitcoin was not the only cryptocurrency-related term that ended up on top of Google Trends. So, the search query “How to buy a Ripple?” Turned out to be very popular. In the US, he…
US President Donald Trump intends to appoint Mick Mulvani, Director of the White House Administration and Budget Office, as Acting Head of the White House Office. “I am pleased to announce that Mick Mulveny, director of budget and administration, will be called the acting head of the White House office after the departure of John Kelly, who served our country well. Mick did an outstanding job as a director, I look forward to working with him in a new capacity, as we continue to make America great again! ”The US president wrote. I am pleased to note that I’m glad…
The Financial Services Agency of Japan (FSA) has proposed to merge Bitcoin and other virtual currencies into a single category called cryptoactives, reports The Japan News . According to the regulator, this is necessary for a clearer definition of the concept of virtual money and to prevent investors from misunderstanding when classifying assets and including them as legal means of payment. The report, which refers to the double interpretation of the term "virtual currency", was presented to the FSA advisory group this Friday. It is expected that in the near future the regulator will revise the relevant laws and regulations,…
The CEO of CoinFlux, the leading Bitcoin exchange in Romania, Vlad Nistor is arrested in the country at the request of the US authorities, and the company's bank accounts are frozen. This writes the local edition of Mediafax . It is reported that Nistor is accused of fraudulent activities, participation in organized criminal activities and money laundering. The question of his extradition to the United States will be considered by the Court of Appeal of Bucharest. Shortly after Nistor’s arrest, CoinFlux stopped work by publishing an official statement stating that her bank accounts were frozen, which caused user funds to…
The traditional Saturday review of recent blockchain initiatives includes applications such as insurance and supply chains for Australian beef, as well as a large-scale blockchain campaign by the United Nations International Emergency Children's Fund (UNICEF). South Korean Shinhan Bank uses blockchain to automate financial reporting Where: South Korea In which area: banking reporting Objective: to eliminate the human factor from the process of processing financial statements Who deals: Shinhan Bank Technology used: unknown Estimated implementation date: already used for interest rate swap transactions Reference: The Korea Times State Farm Insurance Company uses blockchain for insurance subrogation Where: USA In which…
Businesses, schools and locals in English-speaking countries around the world have received bomb bombs if they don’t send bitcoins to extortionists. No evidence of the actual deployment of explosives and their detonation has yet been identified, but the threats have led to a massive evacuation of the population and the opening of investigations by law enforcement agencies in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and, possibly, in other countries of the world. Police investigate potential threats and call on victims of attackers to use caution. WPS is investigating a number of bomb threats. Businesses are spread throughout the city.…
platform. The other day, the Tron project reached a new milestone – there were 2.53 million transactions recorded per day, and the daily increase in accounts was 32,293. The founder and CEO of the project, Justin Sun, noted that they achieved such high rates at the expense of the developers from the Ethereum and EOS networks who migrated to Tron. Looking at the previous and future developments of Tron, it becomes clear that the bear market did not affect the project's progress beyond the TRX market value: two decentralized exchanges that fully function (Tronscan.org and TRX.Market); 10th…
, died One of the founding fathers of the cipherpunk movement, based on the e-mail of the same name, and the author of the famous Cryptoanarchist Manifesto , who partially inspired Wei Day and Nick Sabo to create the first prototypes of Bitcoin, died earlier this week. This was reported by Lucky Green encryption, asking everyone to honor May’s memory with a glass of bourbon, if possible. Previously reported that death occurred for natural reasons. Timothy May, Eric Hughes and John Gilmore founded the cipherpunk movement in 1992. And the following year, an article about “crypto-rebels” was published in Wired,…