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As Facebook continues in the effort to launch its Libra cryptocurrency, the social media giant is likely to rely more heavily on paid lobbyists and the persuasion powers of its senior executives. Mark Zuckerberg prefers closed-door approach In a leaked audiotape of a Facebook town hall released by The Verge, the co-founder and CEO of the tech colossus Mark Zuckerberg took a swipe at public hearings on Libra and instead seemed to favor one-on-one engagements with decision-makers. While...

Ethereum has seen a small decline of about 1% over the past 24 hours, bringing its price to $177.67. ETH had struggled to break above $187.84 level which caused the market to fall. Despite the recent price drop, Ethereum has started to crawl higher after increasing by around 6% over the past 7 days.Ethereum remains the second-largest cryptocurrency with a market cap of $19.27 billion.Looking at the ETH/USD 1-day chart:Since our previous ETH/USD analysis, the cryptocurrency continued to break...

Bitcoin is down by over 40% from the 2019 high of $13,880. Any other asset plunging by 20% or more would have been in a bear market. But not the king of cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin has retraced by more than 40% in previous bull runs and many market participants are comfortable holding the cryptocurrency. Trader Mayne believes bitcoin will quickly bounce back. | Source: TwitterTo prove our point, we asked experts what are their year-end target for the top cryptocurrency. We were surprised to...

Amid the escalating chaos of the anti-government protests in Hong Kong, bitcoin’s trading volume has hit an all-time high on peer to peer exchange, LocalBitcoins. Residents of Hong Kong are still staggering from what was an exceptionally violent week of protests. The outrage over the now- withdrawn extradition bill has boiled over into issues such as income disparity, and democratic prerogative. Yesterday, the protests reached a fever pitch, as police switched rubber bottles in exchange for...

The political turmoil in Hong Kong continued on October 1st, the 70th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China. The protests have continued even though previous proposals permitting extradition to mainland China were abandoned in June. Amid all this, Bitcoin’s volume on P2P trading platform LocalBitcoins surged to an all-time high in the past week.Bitcoin’s Trading Volume Reaches All-Time HighThe cryptocurrency boom of late 2017 and early 2018 delivered immense Bitcoin trading volume...

California based bank and stock brokerage firm Charles Schwab said that it is finally ending its battle in the brokerage sector. They decided they are ending commissions for online trading in U.S. stocks, exchange-traded funds, and options.Just for a reminder, in the February of this year, together with Fidelity Investments, Charles Schwab completely cut its commissions it had been charging on hundreds of their exchange-traded funds. The ongoing war was all about exciting the investors since...

Photo: Broadridge / LinkedInBroadridge Financial Solutions, a United States-based corporate services company said on Tuesday they are ready to add cryptocurrencies and exchange-traded derivatives capabilities to their offerings. With the acquisition of Shadow Financial Systems, Inc., this service provider that is a famous supplier for public companies that provides them with proxy statements, annual reports and shareholder communications solutions, such as virtual annual meetings – is...

Since its launch on June 18, 2019, Facebook’s Libra project has encountered mixed reactions. Now, four payment companies that had joined the social media giant as founding members of the Libra Association are hesitant. They have developed cold foot over whether to formally sign on to the crypto project. The issue was explained by people familiar with the matter.According to a new Bloomberg report, MasterCard, Visa, Stripe, and PayPal are allegedly stalling at officially joining the...

There is more than a lot to take in when considering the current economic and political landscape in the United States. Quite recently, an official impeachment inquiry was announced by Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, against President Donald Trump. Long before this, many people including economic analysts and businessmen alike, have been strongly of the opinion that the U.S. is on the verge of a recession and more people seem to be corroborating this. Now apart from...

Tech giant Tesla announced buying of DeepScale, a computer vision start-up that the company hopes to help in further evolving of fully driverless vehicles.This acquisition, Tesla hopes, will help the company in their focusing on delivering cars with evolved driver-assistance systems that would be optimal for owners to put them in the traffic acting as “robotaxis” on an Uber-like platform without drivers.Still, as most of the car producers, Tesla is pretty much bounded with arithmetic...