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Another alleged bitcoin expert is striking the industry with his lavish predictions for the currency’s price. Antoni Trenchev – the head of BTC lending platform Nexo.io – says that 2020 will be the year in which bitcoin hits approximately $50,000.Antoni Trenchev: BTC Is Quite the AssetEveryone has rushed forward with their bitcoin predictions, including convicted drug runner Ross Ulbricht, Ethereum co-founder Charles Hoskinson and venture capitalist Tim Draper, and by comparison, the...

Credit cards and cryptocurrency are becoming one, and several exchanges and blockchain-based companies have sought to release their own crypto-backed credit and debit cards. The latest company to announce such a project is Block Fi, which says it will launch a new bitcoin rewards credit card later this year.Block Fi to Issue BTC Rewards Card2020 is proving to be something of a mixed period for bitcoin. While the currency started out the year at well over $7,000, it quickly dropped during...

It’s the very first week of 2020 and we are having a big-bang announcement from tech giant Samsung. The Korean tech giant has announced a ‘Lite’ version of its two flagship handset – Galaxy Note 10 and Galaxy S10.While carrying its flagship ballpark, both these handsets cater to the needs of users looking for mid-range devices. Both these new versions will restore some of the key features of the flagship models. This includes the Signature S Pen, the latest camera technology, long-lasting...

Snap Inc, the parent company of multimedia messaging app Snapchat, has acquired Ukraine-based startup AI Factory. This computer vision startup is the same company that has worked on creating Snapchat’s Cameos feature.AI Factory’s company profile shows that it provides several artificial intelligence business solutions for “image and video recognition, analysis and processing” . Thus, the Cameos feature also works on the same image and video processing technology developed by the company.The...

Infamous “Gym Friend” meme contains lessons for the bitcoin community in 2020. Campaign of frantic censorship and deflection highlights a lack of reasoned leadership at Blockstream. The cryptocurrency space needs more masculinity. The biggest lesson the bitcoin community can carry over from 2019 wasn’t learned on the blockchain, but in the gym.In early December when a meme-maker released the image below onto Twitter, everyone laughed for a minute then moved on.On the left, Samson Mow, CSO...

Most people enter the cryptocurrency market with the sole purpose of making profits by investing, trading, or hodling. This is quite understandable, and for them, prices are the most crucial factor. Furthermore, they can get into real in-depth details to notice some positive or negative changes in the last day, week, month, or even a year.One of the interesting things to consider is whether there is a correlation between the number of active addresses and the prices of different...

 AMF ( ‘Autorité des marchés financiers) is the authority for financial markets there granted ICO approval earlier this week. It gave the approval as conditional based on certain factors. The authority gave its approval based on certain conditions. These conditions tally with standard best practices the world over. It also demonstrates the need for simplistic rules for the activities within the cryptospace. The new rules are to ensure the security of the digital assets to be issued, effective...

Over the past days, the first ones of 2020, we received a reminder of the typical behavior of the Bitcoin price.As we pointed out about the trading volume, which was declining through the past week, we did get a considerable price action day (yesterday), recording the highest amount of volume of the past ten days.After breaking down the $7070 support mark, we saw a rapid drop to $6850. As stated before, the area of the next support level. This was maybe enough for Bitcoin, and together with...

As we’ve mentioned in the past, bitcoin does not – and cannot – appeal to everyone, and now we can add another angry doubter to the growing list of skeptics.Bitcoin Doesn’t Please EveryoneThe latest person to say “no” to bitcoin is Tendayi Kapfidze, a chief economist at Lending Tree. He recently referred to bitcoin in negative terms, calling it a “pyramid scheme” that invokes questionable means of making money for its investors.He stated:It’s a pyramid scheme. You only make money based on...

The bitcoin price surged $538 (+7.8%) on Coinbase overnight and into the morning, pulling back at noon Friday morning. Commentators were quick to link the sudden spike to the U.S. airstrike that killed Iranian General Qasem Soleimani. Are we beginning to see the bitcoin price factor in geopolitical risk? Not likely in this case anyway. Here’s why. The bitcoin price made a swift advance from a 16-day low at $6,853 around 9 pm Eastern Time Thursday night. It reached $7,391 on Coinbase just...