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Amazon has released impressive earnings figures for its fourth quarter. The figures show that the company beat its expectations for what its efforts for the quarter would yield. Amazon announced that its holiday sales profit crossed $3 billion. In response, Amazon stock jumped 13%, pushing its valuation into the neighborhood of $1 trillion.Amazon Holiday Sales Quarter HighlightsAmazon reported a total profit of $3.3 billion for the holiday quarter recently concluded with a total revenue of...

Verasity, the attention-based rewards platform for content creators, finished 2019 on the right note. And 2020 is looking even better.The team has been working hard on key relationships, which culminated in its partnership with Jun Capital, a gateway to the lucrative Asian streaming market. Outside of promising professional relations, Verasity released its metrics for a fervent Q4 2019 that entailed a 20X increase in videos watched and a 10X increase in wallet registrations since the launch...

Since Bitcoin broke firmly above the $9K price line last Tuesday, we saw the coin consolidating mostly inside the range of $9300 – $9400.The beautiful thing about Bitcoin is that its volatility will ever stay. It doesn’t really matter whether Bitcoin price is trading for $10, $100, or $9000.Yesterday we saw another volatile move a-la Bitcoin: in under 30 minutes, we saw Bitcoin dropping from $9450 to $9000, only to mark a new yearly high at $9570 not so long after.The day traders who had kept...

Bitcoin cash price is showing a lot of positive signs above the $360 and $350 supports against the US Dollar.The price is currently trading just below the key $400 and $405 resistance levels.There is a rising channel forming with support near $378 on the 4-hours chart of the BCH/USD pair (data feed from Coinbase).The pair could start another surge once it clears the $400 resistance area.Bitcoin cash price is trading in a bullish zone above $360 against the US Dollar. BCH/USD is likely to...

When last year in November, a documentary series episode from Netflix called “The Next Pandemic” came out – nobody actually didn’t give it too much importance. However, only a month after – boy, how it started to be popular. The episode describes the ways how viruses are spreading and evolving into epidemic situations.The story starts with traveling across India, Egypt, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the United States and explains historical cases of pandemics like it was the Spanish flu...

Tesla stock is beating Bitcoin – and when we say “beating” we mean it. Bitcoin investors are surely not happy with this fact that Tesla is outperforming Bitcoin (except if they didn’t invest in Tesla as well). If we look at the exact figures starting from January 1, the Bitcoin price rose around 30% while Tesla went 38% up.New Record – AgainTesla stock wasn’t like this all the time. Just for the reminder, in November, when the famous Cybertruck was revealed (and smashed, but hey every PR is a...

Switzerland has always been one to open its heart to bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. In its latest maneuver of “digital love,” the ski resort Zermatt – based in Switzerland – has announced that it will now allow its residents to pay taxes in BTC.Zermatt Is Taking a Big Digital Step ForwardZermatt is a very small town, consisting of just over 5,000 souls, but that doesn’t mean it can’t make a difference in the world of digital finance. Bills for government services, work permits, and taxes can...

Blockchain research and intelligence service TokenAnalyst.io has some more bullish news for Bitcoin heading into February. BitMEX, the world’s largest Bitcoin derivatives market, has seen it fortunes turn on a dime from December to January. In December, the massive Bitcoin futures platform saw its cold wallet balance decline by approximately 1,000 BTC ($9.3 million USD on 1/30/20). But over the last month, BitMEX experienced inflows in excess of 15,000 BTC ($140 million+ USD on...

Google is starting a painful process of eliminating direct contact with key people in Wuhan, and across China. FAANG members officially closed four offices thanks to the virus. It is spreading fast, and the companies around the world understand that they have to act quickly.Numerous Companies Flee Away Because of Virus, Economic Freeze is OngoingGoogle is banned in China, but the locals are working as marketers, sales engineers and so on. They do not develop the local version of Google, they...

The last week of trading has undoubtedly been a successful one for Bitcoin and the entire cryptocurrency market. BTC’s price gained more than $1,100, charting an increase upwards of 13% in the past seven days alone. Despite the few ups and downs, the price seems to be comfortable above $9,400.Interestingly enough, Bitcoin is trading well above the 200-days moving average. According to recent research by Tom Lee’s Fundstrat Global Advisors, in 80% of all situations when BTC was above the...