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Photo: ARPA OfficialARPA – the layer two privacy-preserving computation protocol – is set to square off against Carry Protocol, a data purchase platform on Ethereum, in Binance’s second round of the Community Coin Vote (CCV). Voting will begin at 4 AM 5 November (UTC) and will incorporate Binance’s new rules for the CCV that allocates a BNB rewards pool to the runner-up and reduces the BNB holding period of 9 to 7 days. ARPA winning voters will split a rewards pool of 15 million ARPA tokens,...

Today the next chapter of a long-running and closely watched lawsuit against Ripple will happen. The plaintiff, Bradley Sostack, has time until the end of this Monday to file a response to the startup’s September 20 motion to dismiss. If the case won’t be entirely dismissed, it will probably go into discovery next year.As we already reported, the main point of this dispute is the question of whether Ripple’s cryptocurrency XRP is a security or not.If it is, that means that it should have been...

Google’s parent company Alphabet has revealed that it will be purchasing popular wearables giant and smartwatch maker Fitbit, in a deal that will be closed soon. Worth $2.1 billion, many analysts agree that this deal has all the makings of a blow-up and could very seriously cement Google’s position as a strong contender in the smartwatch market, a market already largely dominated by Apple. While this is very interesting and important news, the market is starting to wonder whether or not...

The UK’s tax authority has updated its tax policy for crypto assets. Expect huge administrative headaches as all crypto transactions need to be converted into £ and recorded. The authority reiterates that Bitcoin is not money. Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HRMC) on Friday updated its tax policy related to cryptocurrency in the UK. Here’s what you need to know to stay compliant with the British taxman. The HRMC’s statement on Cryptoassets: tax for businesses only provided...

Valentin Preobrazhenskiy, CEO of LATOKEN, commented:“USPX token sparks the dream to unite people to explore an alternative planet to settle and hedge from an asteroid type of disaster. Something that dinosaurs did not manage to structure.It also gives a great opportunity to test the legal structure and business model to provide worldwide liquidity for assets previously not available to most investors. This could turn a great many people into stakeholders in the success of humanity and help...

Bitfinex, which shares co-founders with the Tether stablecoin, is once again attracting controversy over the manipulation of the Bitcoin price. Per a paper published by the University of Texas Professor John Griffin and Ohio State University’s Amin Shams, Bitcoin’s run to a record high near $20,000 in 2017 was caused by a single market whale. Bitfinex whale manipulating Bitcoin price surges Initially reported by Bloomberg, the paper, which is an update on an earlier one by the same...

The cryptocurrency market went through a parabolic price surge in late 2017 causing a stir around the financial world. Bitcoin, the largest crypto by market cap, reached its all-time high at $20,000 but according to two U.S.-based academics, this price movement was manipulated by a single whale.Cryptocurrency Price Manipulation?The topic of price manipulation in the cryptocurrency market has been around for a few years. Finance professor John M. Griffin from the University of Texas and...

Bitcoin and Ethereum are consolidating within a narrow trading range. Bitcoin may have resumed its macro-uptrend, said a renowned technical analyst. XRP prepares for a major event that could trigger an increase in demand. Last week, the total crypto market capitalization surged over 40% to reach a high of $267 billion. During this time, approximately $77 billion was injected into the market. Bitcoin jumped over 42% while Ethereum and XRP rose nearly 30%. Despite the bullish impulse,...

At press time, bitcoin is trading for just over $9,100.Bitcoin Has Had a Strange WeekTo say it’s been a wacky week for the world’s leading cryptocurrency would be something of an understatement. The currency has pulled in both bearish and bullish behavior from all angles, jumping beyond the $10,000-mark last weekend after a nasty period of trading in the mid-$7,000 range, to suddenly settling nearly $1,000 below its weekend high.The currency has incurred other little surges here and there...

The past weekend was crazy even for the most experienced crypto traders, who couldn’t remember when was the last time they saw a 42% change in the price of Bitcoin in under 24 hours took place.Since then, Bitcoin’s raging volatility had been declining as the weekdays passed, and now, precisely a week since the colossal $4,000 price surge, it looks like the next move is a matter of hours, maybe 1-2 days.At least one sign is pointing bullish – Bitcoin kept above the significant 200-days moving...