Crypto Twitter members breathed a collective sigh of relief today after some reassurance from the man himself. Square Crypto, whose Twitter account is seemingly manned by bitcoin bull Jack Dorsey, revealed that the Twitter account of the late Hal Finney isn’t going anywhere. It started with a tweet by bitcoin rewards app Lolli, which asked Dorsey and Twitter what would happen to the @halfin handle in light of the social media platform’s pursuit to shutter inactive accounts. Hal Finney was a...
Read More »China Int’l Vending Machines and Self-service Facilities Fair 2020 (VMF 2020)
Place/Date: China Import and Export Fair Complex, Guangzhou, China - November 27th, 2019 at 10:17 pm UTC · 2 min read Contact: Claire Yang, Source: Guangdong Grandeur International Exhibition Group In recent years, China’s vending machines have grown at 30% CAGR. It is predicted that by 2020, there will be 138 million vending machines in China, yearly selling up to 100 Billion Yuan of fast-moving consumer goods according to a report by Forward. Meanwhile, China has become the biggest...
Read More »PayPal’s Dan Schulman: It Wasn’t Regulation That Stopped Us from Working with Libra
As we all know, PayPal has been very supportive – for the most part – of Libra, Facebook’s new cryptocurrency project, but the company was also among the first to exit the Libra Association. PayPal has remained relatively quiet regarding the details of its exit, but now chief executive Dan Schulman is sharing his thoughts on Libra and explains why his company refused to engage any further in the project’s progression.Schulman: It Wasn’t Regulation that Spooked UsLibra is arguably one of the...
Read More »Intensely Bearish BTC Futures Market Predicts Gloomy 2020 for Bitcoin Price
Bitcoin options traders on a major bitcoin futures market are expecting the bitcoin price to keep cooling through June 2020.If their market consensus projections hold true, bitcoin’s price won’t be getting a boost from May 2020’s halving.On the bright side, bitcoin futures are pricing in a 4% probability of a new all time high price above $20,000 in June.Bitcoin futures traders are bundling up for a long crypto winter. According to Skew Analytics data, bitcoin futures markets project a less...
Read More »2019 China Smart Homes & Buildings Expo (SHB 2019)
Place/Date: Poly World Trade Center Expo, Guangzhou, China - November 27th, 2019 at 9:40 pm UTC · 2 min read Contact: Lanches, Source: Guangdong Grandeur International Exhibition Group China’s smart home products users have spiraled to 60 million from 2017 to 2018, and by 2020 China’s smart home market will reach RMB 582 billion, as reported by ASKCI Consulting. In the past few years, a lot of China’s renowned high-tech companies have been investing in smart home development. With the...
Read More »Bitcoin Price Rebounds 11% From Low amid ‘Textbook’ Inverse Head & Shoulders Pattern
Bitcoin price touches intraday high of $7,668 Wednesday. Earlier in the day, BTC/USD bottomed at $6,847.72, a six-month low. Cryptocurrency markets recover north of $200 billion. Bitcoin’s price reclaimed the $7,500 handle on Wednesday after plunging to its lowest level in over six months. BTC/USD Stages Relief Rally Wednesday’s roller coaster session saw bitcoin’s price breach $6,900 for the first time in over six months. The largest cryptocurrency would eventually find...
Read More »Grounder Coin Will Allow Colonized Planets to Engage in Transactions
A new type of cryptocurrency called Grounder Coin is looking to be the first digital currency that can be used in space.Grounder Coin: Bringing the Planets Together?This raises a lot of questions. Have scientists discovered aliens that Earth people are now looking to do business with, and we think a universal form of crypto that will allow people and those aliens to pay for goods and services is the answer?Well, not exactly. As time progresses, more time has been put into colonizing other...
Read More »Is the Bearish Behavior Plaguing Bitcoin About to End?
Okay. The bad news is that bitcoin is about to post its worst month this year. The good news is that the bearish behavior that’s been plaguing it as of late could finally be coming to an end.Bitcoin: Will the Negativity Come to an End?According to one source, all the technical signals suggest that the currency is about to turn itself around, and many enthusiasts say this news couldn’t have come soon enough. The month of November has been arguably the worst of 2019 for the world’s leading...
Read More »Institutional Investors Are Pouring Into Bitcoin Derivatives
Institutional investors are pouring into bitcoin. Trading volume across top U.S.-regulated BTC futures markets is skyrocketing. Retail investors are losing interest in the pioneer cryptocurrency. The massive downturn that the cryptocurrency market experienced over the last week sent retail investors into “extreme fear,” according to the Crypto Fear and Greed Index (CFGI). Even Mark Dow, a former U.S. Treasury and International Monetary Fund economist, boasted on Twitter that bitcoin was...
Read More »Private Equity Firm Silver Lake Acquires 10% Stake in Manchester City Football Club at $500M
Manchester City, the champions of the English Premier League have struck a big deal recently. The owner of Manchester City has agreed to liquidate just over 10% of the stake in Manchester City to a private equity firm Silver Lake.City Football Group (CFG), the holding company of Manchester City is currently valued at $4.8 billion, and the deal has been concluded for a price of $500 million. As per the Financial Times report, CFG is an Abu Dhabi-controlled organization that owns Manchester...
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