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While today the crypto markets are starting to look a little alive and is seeing a somewhat green pattern, Tom Lee from Fundstrat tweeted a sort of reminder about the rule of 10 best days. He says that the majority of Bitcoin gains come in the ten best trading days. According to Lee, this only happens once a year. Moreover, he claims that when these ten best trading days are excluded, Bitcoin sees a -25% per year. More specifically, in the last bull run of 2017 Bitcoin saw an unbelievable...

There are a lot of solutions for cryptocurrency wallets: applications, desktop versions, hardware pieces. But what could be more convenient than just opening a tab in your browser? Without the need to use special software or carry equipment with yourself, obviously. And is it possible to have a web wallet, that has all the functionality the other types have, without giving up security? We tried to find this out by reviewing some popular web wallets of 2019.Lumi WalletThe registration in Lumi...

Nasdaq has officially begun taking deliberate steps to stifle as much as possible, initial public offerings (IPOs) of small Chinese companies going public in the U.S. The index, according to a Reuters report, is doing this by slapping several restrictions on these firms and frustrating their efforts for approval. Supposedly, the Nasdaq index is doing this because the majority of these firms usually end up raising most of their initial capital from Chinese backers, rather than investors in the...

In the latest development, Switzerland-based SIX Digital Exchange (SDX) has invited financial institutions from across the globe to back its Initial Digital Offering (IDO). SDX is a blockchain-based utility that is completely owned by the Swiss stock exchange SIX Group.The SIX Digital Exchange plans to launch its IDO in mid-2020. This will be just similar to a traditional IPO except for the fact that the shares will be in the form of security tokens available on the SDX platform.The...

Ripple Labs Inc, the owners, and developers of XRP, has just acquired Algrim, a crypto trading firm which has quite a bit of talent despite its small number of human resources.The six-person cryptocurrency firm which has been around for about a decade gives Ripple Labs a foothold in the crypto-friendly country of Iceland which though smaller than 500,000 people (around 340,000) has been at the center of the crypto space for many reasons one of them being access to cheap electricity.With its...

Hey Krypto Fans, willkommen zur Bitcoin-Informant Show Nr. 717. Heute geht’s um folgende Themen: BTC-ECHO startet Security Token Offering (STO) & Binance US floppt – Nur Bakkt läuft schlechter. 1.) BTC-ECHO startet Security Token Offering (STO)https://www.btc-echo.de/btc-echo-startet-security-token-offering-sto/ 2.) Binance US floppt – Nur Bakkt läuft schlechterhttps://bitcoin-kurier.de/binance-us-floppt-nur-bakkt-laeuft-schlechter/ 4.) Bitcoin Informant bei iTunes...

Even though it’s world known fact that Apple products are “made in USA” but assembled in China – it didn’t stop US President Donald Trump to impose sanctions to Chinese companies (every and each one of them) including the 34% year-on-year growth and 14% of market share company – Huawei.The year 2019 has not been a good one for Huawei. Everything started with the US accusations of Huawei spying on US corporations. Trump administration then decided to launch a “one-two punch” combo in its fight...

This week was pretty severe when talking about tariffs the US imposed on Chinese goods lifting it every day more and more. When talking about US-China trade war, it’s important to stress out that this is something that started happening already back in the 80’s. However, since Donald Trump is sitting in the White House, the situation is slowly getting out of control – but really.We can all understand that one’s statesman policy can be about buying more local products, tightening import,...

Recently it has come to light that RSK, an IOVLabs subsidiary, that calls itself the “first open-source smart contract platform secured by the Bitcoin network”, has purchased Taringa. It is important to highlight that it is the most popular Spanish-speaking social network with 30 million users. According to the recently revealed data, this platform is used by 28% of internet users. This figure is better than the results of Snapchat, Skype, and LinkedIn.RSK also has a native token RIF which...