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The case between the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the encrypted messaging platform Telegram takes another turn. The latter has reportedly refused to hand over financial details regarding its ICO from two years ago, which was recently requested by the market regulator.Telegram Does Not Want To ShareAfter raising over a billion dollars in two token sales in 2018 for the development of its Telegram Open Network (TON) blockchain, the company attracted a lot of attention to...

Bitcoin cash price is trading above the key $192 support area against the US Dollar.The price is showing positive signs above the $200 pivot level.There is a major bullish trend line forming with support near $196 on the 4-hours chart of the BCH/USD pair (data feed from Coinbase).The pair is likely to surge if it clears the $210 and $215 resistance levels in the near term.Bitcoin cash price is facing a strong resistance near $215 against the US Dollar. BCH/USD could continue to climb unless...

Popular Ethereum browser extension and wallet service MetaMask is back on the Google Play Store after going through a weeklong ban. On January 1, 2020, MetaMask shared this good news on Twitter by thanking the entire community.MetaMask is a very popular Google Chrome browser extension that hosts a built-in crypto wallet running Ethereum-based decentralized applications (DApps). Moreover, its unique feature is that it allows Ethereum DApps to run without requiring a full Ethereum node.MetaMask...

Bitcoin price tumbles 4% to $6,900 on Thursday, the lowest since mid-December. Bitcoin is slowly bleeding while traditional assets like stocks and commodities continue to rise. Bitcoin trade volumes plummet at the start of 2020 as market participants remain on the sidelines. The price of bitcoin tumbled to fresh multi-week lows on Thursday, as the largest cryptocurrency continued to trade independently of broader market forces. The fresh dump came as central-bank liquidity fueled strong...

Ripple, the third-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, has announced that it will spend most of 2020 trying to build new partnerships with banks in Brazil and South America.Ripple Wants to Build Itself Up in South AmericaThe main goal is to make remittance payment capabilities stronger within the nation’s borders. Ripple began building up its presence in Brazil in mid-2019 and has already established relationships with several leading financial institutions including Bradesco, Santander and...

Initial coin offerings (ICOs) may be coming back to China, but this isn’t necessarily a good thing.ICOs Are Making an Unwarranted ComebackChina has issued a statement saying there’s been a “resurgence” of bitcoin, crypto and blockchain-related activities within the nation’s borders. One thing that’s allegedly been happening, according to sources, is that ICOs are making a slow but triumphant return to the country, but this isn’t warranted or promoted by regulators. They just seem to be...

Alexei Bilyuchenko – a computer programmer who was allegedly involved in the fall of the ill-fated cryptocurrency exchange Wex in 2018 – says he was tricked into handing over all the exchange’s assets and tokens to fraudsters, which set off the platform’s inherent collapse.Bilyuchenko Comes Forward with a Strange StoryAt the time of writing, it is believed that the exchange lost as much as half-a-billion in assorted crypto funds.Bilyuchenko shares ties with Alexander Vinnik, the reported...

Alex Copenhagen decided to come back to his YT channel dedicated to crypto and bring a new life to it. He will be posting new videos about business, self-development, lifehacks, interviews with entrepreneurs and more. He said that losing $500,000 in 2019 taught him important life lessons.Alex is sharing his story in a short video, sending out the hope that his data will be valuable for lots of crypto-related folks. Copenhagen got into cryptocurrency space in around 2013 when Bitcoin was worth...

Ethereum, the decentralized computing platform behind the token, has been trying to extend its network for years with a series of upgrades that may eventually transform its Proof-of-work protocol into a staking network. The improvements took longer than expected, and some analysts doubt that this difficult technical achievement can be achieved. Besides, several new entrants to the sector have put pressure on Ethereum as an increasing number of developers are moving towards newer options.The...

As we have already reported, Bitcoin (BTC) was for sure the best profitable investment in 2019. If we compare it to “more traditional assets” it still seems we are right:• Nasdaq: +33.98 percent• S&P 500: +30.80 percent• Dow Jones: +24.23 percent• Gold: +17.83 percent• Bitcoin: +96.81 percentAlso, the network hash rate once again breached previous records as well. When looking at the data from numerous monitoring resources – it is sure that the hash rate was at its highest on the first...