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Place/Date: Lithuania - November 20th, 2019 at 7:14 pm UTC · 3 min read Contact: SatchelPay , Source: SatchelPay SatchelPay, one of the leading European electronic money institutions, has been cleared by the Bank of Lithuania to resume all suspended services. This comes after the Bank of Lithuania imposed a temporary hold on selected SatchelPay services, following concerns raised by an audit that took place last spring. SatchelPay was immediately informed of the positive decision by the...

The last couple of years have seen national governments grappling with how to regulate Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Some of them have been hostile to virtual currencies while others have been more accepting. The United States is no exception to this difficulty, but the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is one federal agency that is actually supportive of Bitcoin and blockchain. This bullish view was reinforced by CFTC Chairman Heath Tarbert when he appeared on CNBC’s “The...

Hacktivist Phineas Fisher is willing to pay money to anyone capable of carrying out his agenda.Fisher: I’m Doing This to Benefit SocietyWhile that is not his real name, Fisher is a man involved in hacktivist activities, and he’s offering a sum of roughly $100,000 in BTC funds to anyone willing to team up with him and carry out various hacks on big corporations as part of a “Hacktivist Bug Hunting Program.” Those who agree are required to leak important information to the public that large...

Ethereum has seen a small increase of 0.45% over the past 24 hours and it currently trades at $177.46. Over the past week, ETH dropped by a total of 5.58%, falling beneath the short term consolidation pattern that it was previously trading within.Ethereum remains the second-largest cryptocurrency as it holds a market cap of $19.26 billion. Looking at the ETH/USD 1-day chart:Since our last analysis, ETH dropped beneath the symmetrical triangle and fell into the current support at $176.19,...

Binance Coin saw a small price decline of around 0.48% over the past 24 hours and it currently trades at $18.34. However, the cryptocurrency is now down by about 13% over the past week and by 30% over the past 90 days, making it the weakest performing altcoin out of the top 10 projects.Binance Coin is now the eighth-largest cryptocurrency with a market cap of $2.88 billion.Since our previous analysis, BNB rolled over at the resistance provided by the 200-days EMA and started to fall. It...

The CEO of PayPal, one of the world’s largest and most established online payment processors, has revealed in an interview that he owns Bitcoin and no other cryptocurrencies. He also talked about Libra and why his company decides to withdraw from the project.PayPal’s CEO Owns BitcoinIn a recent interview with Fortune, the CEO of PayPal, Dan Schulman, shared his views on cryptocurrencies and revealed interesting insights about the work his company is doing in the field.He said that there is a...

Elliptic, a London-based provider of crypto-asset risk management solutions, recently published a report about the number of illicit transactions involving Ripple (XRP). It shows that $400 million, or 0.2% of all their transactions, are subject to illicit activities, mainly for scams and thefts.Ripple Used for Illicit ActivitiesAccording to the report published today, November 20th, $400 million of all processed transactions using Ripple’s XRP cryptocurrency have links to illegal activities....

Dmitriy Gurkovskiy, a senior analyst at foreign exchange broker RoboForex, shares his insights into the future scenarios for Bitcoin price movement as well as possible price swings of major altcoins.The Bitcoin quotations failed to secure above the resistance level, and now a decline is very probable. However, if the buyers manage to push the price above $9800, growth will also become possible. The Bitcoin Cash chart looks interesting: there is a reversal pattern forming, promising growth,...

2017 will go down in history as probably the most pivotal year in the chronicles of cryptocurrencies. It was the year that they transitioned from being an obsession of “geeks” into something that captured the interest of governments, Wall Street analysts, media, financial institutions, and the average joe on the street.Exactly two years since the so-called “crypto bubble,” this piece tracks the evolution of the crypto market from 2017 at the price peak, until today, with a focus on new...

Michael Novogratz will be launching two different bitcoin funds.Novogratz wants to bring “the wealth of America” into the crypto market.The new funds would offer cheaper services than what competitors are offering.Galaxy Digital Holding CEO Michael Novogratz is launching two bitcoin funds that target accredited and institutional investors who have been waiting on the sidelines for a cheap and secure service way to access the pioneer cryptocurrency.Bitcoin is hovering around $8,000. | Source:...