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Dow drops 280 points, stocks down thanks to coronavirus panic in the U.S. investors pour cash into treasuries and gold. Market analysts predict corporate and personal income fall in the next months. Favipiravir needs tests to cure coronavirus.Chinese people are fighting the virus in a closed source model and many people keep their concerns regarding the coronavirus spreading. The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls, and experts claim that stagnation is coming.COVID-19 is not as deadly as some...

The drama surrounding the alleged drug dealer who had to forfeit $57 million worth of Bitcoin continues. The Irishman has supposedly lost the private keys for all twelve accounts where he distributed all of his bitcoins. Thus, local authorities cannot access the funds.Not Your Keys, Not Your BitcoinThe Irish High Court ruled Clifton Collins to forfeit $56 million of Bitcoin assets a few days ago, as Cryptopotato reported. The Court decided that he purchased all coins with his drug profits....

Financial and monetary authorities in Japan are accelerating the process of creating their own digital currency. The Ministry of Finance, the Bank of Japan, and the Financial Services Agency have held an undisclosed number of meetings to establish a clear vision before eventually launching a central bank digital currency (CBDC).Japan Prepares For A Bank-Backed CryptocurrencyA recent local report informs about the meetings held by the BOJ, the FSA, and the MOF. Per the document, the country’s...

On February 21, the Malta Financial Service Authority made an official post about the Binance exchange office address. The cryptocurrency market received a hit.A bunch of news media was referring to Binance as to ‘Malta-based exchange’. The fact is that nobody saw that office of Binance situated in Malta. Some crypto journalists like Cryptomedication were asking people in Telegram chats for months: Where is Binance’s office? So far, cryptocurrency enthusiasts had nothing to answer.Despite the...

Facebook’s potential upcoming global cryptocurrency project, Libra, has received positive news from Shopify. The Canadian multinational e-commerce giant announced today that it would join the Libra association to create a safe and accessible payment network.Shopify To Cooperate With LibraAlmost immediately after its announcement in mid-2019, Libra became a target of regulators across the world. While they were clamping down, Facebook’s cryptocurrency project quickly lost steam. Even though...

Bitcoin has been experiencing heightened volatility over the past few weeks, and it’s likely due to the reemergence of whales according to one source.The Whales Are Back in the PictureBitcoin whales are individuals who house several million dollars-worth of cryptocurrencies in their digital wallets. Often, they possess so much in a single account that the slightest maneuver of money could potentially cause the entire industry to suffer a shift of some kind. Usually, the cryptocurrency...

Ripple’s Xpring is allocating money for three inventors or teams seeking for a solution to XRP Ledger-Ethereum interoperability.Xpring wants to develop a ‘bridge’ between Ethereum and Ripple‘s XRP without having to transfer XRP onto ERC-20 standard. Ethereum developers have joined the bad company – Ripple welcomes all of them to build a bridge between two competing economies. Ripple is looking for a new way of operating with mainstream assets, and the move towards Ethereum is obvious. Despite...

It looks like bitcoin and crypto are gearing up to be regular, hot debate topics during this year’s U.S. presidential election.Bitcoin Is Gearing Itself UpAs we all know, Andrew Yang was originally serving as the “crypto candidate” for Democrats throughout the country. Among Yang’s plans were to alleviate some of the tension in the regulatory space by making the rules surrounding crypto activity and trades less complicated and easier to understand for normal, everyday traders.Yang, however,...

The nature of the business evolution process is the process of de-monopoly and the return of sovereignty. With the promotion of the global wave of science and technology, blockchain technology has provided traditional business with its advanced technology concepts, high-speed development and a wide range of applications. The feasible plan for digital transformation is gradually becoming an important direction of business evolution.Distributed commerce is a new business system that emerged...

Sony, Facebook pulled out from the yearly computer games development conference due to coronavirus panic. The Dow and Treasuries drop, attracting investors to aim better at their future plans.On Thursday, the corporations have announced that they won’t attend San Francisco. Industry giants don’t want to participate in the Game Developers Conference during virus uncertainty. As per a scheduled conference in Boston called PAX East, it has a refusal from Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) to feature...