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When it comes to bitcoin, most analysts seem split right down the middle, with some like Warren Buffett telling us to avoid it all costs, and hedge fund manager Mark Yusko telling us to buy it at all costs. Yusko: BTC Is an Important AssetIn a recent interview with CNBC, the CEO of Morgan Creek Capital told his listeners to “buy it” when it came to bitcoin and said that we should not be thinking about the recent price drops. He said that while all assets will fluctuate, bitcoin is still in...

Libra Association Managing Director Bertrand Perez said on Friday that the Facebook’s cryptocurrency Libra, that should be launched by a Geneva-based association next year, is not intended to replace existing currencies. He said:“We are not in the area of implementing any monetary policy with the (Libra) Reserve.”This confirms what Libra’s CEO David Marcus was speaking back in July at the hearings when he kept stressing that Libra is not an investment and it doesn’t want to conquer the...

Photo: PixabayGood news for Telegram users: the company has developed a wallet for Gram, the native cryptocurrency of the TON Blockchain created by Telegram.Currently, the wallet is available in the alpha version of the Telegram messenger for iOS and functions in the TON testnet. According to the developers, its design is still in progress, and after everything is finished, the wallet will be available in the mainnet as well.Meanwhile, the date of the launch on the mainnet is unknown....

Hey Krypto Fans, willkommen zur Bitcoin-Informant Show Nr. 716. Heute geht’s um folgende Themen: Adaption falsch verstanden: Deshalb lassen die Bakkt Futures den Markt kalt & Venezuelas Zentralbank soll über Einlagen in Bitcoin und Ethereum verfügen 1.) Adaption falsch verstanden: Deshalb lassen die Bakkt Futures den Markt kalthttps://www.btc-echo.de/adaption-falsch-verstanden-deshalb-lassen-die-bakkt-futures-den-markt-kalt/ 2.) Venezuelas Zentralbank soll über...

A rather inspiring presentation from the head of Facebook’s Libra David Marcus seems to have inspired someone else as well and neither more nor less – Coinbase CEO himself. Yes, you’ve heard it right, Brian Armstrong came out as a real supporter of this, still developing stablecoin.The thing is that Libra is often represented as a project that carries labels such as “alienating”, “controversial” or even “poisonous”. Even though it still hasn’t come out at the light of the day, it has already...

Tom Lee of Fundstrat fame is back in the news, and he’s being very serious when he says the S&P needs to experience a breakout if bitcoin is going to gain its momentum back. Tom Lee: If BTC Is to Do Well, the S&P Must Do WellLee has commented about this in the past. He’s convinced that BTC and the S&P share some very strong ties, and when one drops, the other is sure to follow. As of late, there appears to be a hint of truth to what he’s saying in that as the stock market has...

Photo: ShutterstockBy Dmitriy Gurkovskiy, Chief Analyst at RoboForex.BTC/USD tech analysisThe capitalization of the crypto market has fallen by $35 billion overnightThe BTC hashrate has returned to its standard values after a slumpFrench shops are beginning to accept the Bitcoin for paymentOn W1, the Bitcoin has completed the correction in the shape of a Triangle: the strong declining impulse has broken through the former support while the present dynamics is acquiring the shape of a classic...

Everybody is aware of the scandals that undermined trust in the social networking giant Facebook. According to Mark Zuckerberg, the company didn’t pay proper attention to protecting privacy, that’s why the company had to deal with the consequences of data leak and the spread of fake news. To fix this, Facebook’s CEO is all set to make everything, including Libra, right.Speaking in an interview with Asia-based news outlet Nikkei, Mark Zuckerberg said:“In the last few years, there are a lot of...

Photo: The Amazon blogAmazon yesterday unveiled quite a lot of new updates to the Echo and a few new addons as well. A few new commands to Alexa were also featured and the new option of having a celebrity voice came on as well.Amazon outdid themselves this time with more versions of Echo than you’d expect. Another interesting feature is the echo show which functions as more like a glowing orb which changes colors according to the beat of any music playing in the background. This among other...

While there are hundreds of scams, some large and some small ones – a few grand ones have shaken the very collective psyche of the crypto community. Remember BitConnect that ran a scam lending program and cheated thousands of its customers?The company and its founders are still fighting multiple lawsuits. Or Pincoin and iFan, the Vietnamese project that raised more than $650 million and then went bust? How about OneCoin that turned out to be a Ponzi scheme with authorities recovering more...