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September brought a painful reckoning to the cryptocurrency market, ushering in a brutal bitcoin price crash that wiped thousands of dollars – and months of progress – off the asset’s hard-fought recovery. To make matters worse, bitcoin’s terrifying technical picture is leading analysts to augur even sharper losses in the coming weeks, with longtime skeptics like Peter Schiff gleefully forecasting complete meltdowns. John McAfee: Watch Game of Thrones, Not Crypto Price Charts John McAfee...

As bitcoin hits its worst price week in a long time, some analysts are backing away from their previous predictions regarding how well bitcoin could do by the end of the year. Tom Lee, for example, has recently commented that it’s a very bad time to be trading bitcoin, but others, like John McAfee, are refusing to get off the high horse.John McAfee: $1 Million for BTC Is Still PossibleHaving recently announced his run for presidential office in 2020, McAfee is no stranger to controversy. His...

Reverse Convertibles: Leonteq bietet Wetten auf den Bitcoin-Preis Leonteq hat Reverse Convertible auf Bitcoin eingeführt. Der Ideengeber im Bereich vieler Bitcoin-Innovationen will Anlegern damit eine Art Wettoption auf den Bitcoin-Preis bieten. Leonteq ist einer der Vorreiter im Bereich der strukturierten Bitcoin-Investition. Weitere Neuerungen hat das FinTech unter anderem...

Schaffhauser können künftig im Rahmen eines Pilotprojekts den Betreibungsregisterauszug via Smartphone bestellen. Sie erhalten ihn innert kürzester Zeit, ohne Zusatzkosten und für Drittparteien verifizierbar online als PDF zugestellt. Möglich macht dies die eID+ App von Procivis auf Basis der Blockchain Infrastruktur von Swisscom und der Schweizerischen Post. Swisscom und Procivis gehen zudem eine strategische Partnerschaft ein, um E-Government Dienstleistungen für die Schweiz...

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...