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A recent survey from the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) confirms the emerging trend of digital currencies backed by central banks. The publication reveals that 80% of the participants have declared that they are currently working on issuing their own cryptocurrency.CBDCs: Coming From Most BanksThe survey was compiled by BIS at the end of 2019 and contains the answers from 66 central banks around the world. Twenty-one came from advanced economies and forty-five from emerging market...

Crypto Derivative Markets are TrendyCryptocurrency derivatives were a major highlight of the cryptocurrency market in 2019. Data collected in the past year already reveals how the derivatives market outperformed the spot market and more recently, the buzz is becoming more intense as speculation suggest that this market will double the size of its counterpart spot market in the near future. More so, increased competition in derivative products has been instrumental in the growth of the...

The cryptocurrency derivatives market is on heat, with the BitMEX release of the XRP-USD quanto swap tool. The so-called ‘quanto-swap’ represents the derivative with an interest rate taken from the difference between different currencies. During the swap, one person is paying another interest. It is derived from the difference between the foreign and local assets, or between two ‘shitcoins’ (in the Bitcoin maximalist lingo, all the coins are ‘shitcoins’, while we just try to keep the...

Bitcoin cash price started a fresh decline after it failed to stay above $400 against the US Dollar.The price broke a few key supports near the $350 and $340 levels.There was a break below a major contracting triangle with support near $331 on the 4-hours chart of the BCH/USD pair (data feed from Coinbase).The pair remains at a risk of more losses below the $312 and $300 support levels in the near term.Bitcoin cash price is declining and struggling to stay above $312 against the US Dollar....

We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again… You just can’t please everybody, and when it comes to crypto and bitcoin, this applies double. Another gazillionaire – Ray Dalio – is trashing the world’s leading digital currency by market cap and claims that there are serious problems with investment strategies that revolve around it.Ray Dalio: BTC Isn’t What You Think It IsDalio is a billionaire and the founder of Bridgewater Associates. In a recent interview, he tells his listeners that...

Officials of China reported about 11 deaths and more than 500 people infected by the virus. The city where 11 million people are living, had its central market as the primary source of the virus. One of the city residents said to BBC journalists that ”the atmosphere there felt like the end of the world”.Many Chinese folks continue traveling around the country during the holidays. Also, people in Belarus, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, and Vietnam reportedly have been visiting doctors in regards to...

Prominent blockchain payments firm Ripple has published its latest quarterly XRP Markets Report for the previous quarter (Q4 2019) and there have been some significant changes in the figures. Ripple, who boasts of introducing such solutions as ODL (XRapid), Xpring, RippleNet among others, is known for publishing regular updates and views on the company’s stance on the XRP market in order to ensure transparency on the progress of the platforms as well as inform its stakeholders.According to...

The Tezos train has started to move once again after a noticeable 17% increase over the past week of trading, bringing the price of the coin up to $1.55.Against Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency found strong support at the 200-days EMA, which allowed it to rebound higher.Tezos is now the 14th largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization.Key Support & Resistance LevelsXTZ/USDSupport:  $1.50, $1.42, $1.30.Resistance: $1.64, $1.74, $1.88.XTZ/BTC:Support: 0.00017 BTC, 0.00016 BTC, 0.000149...

The New York Securities Exchange (NYSE) market shows the Wednesdays boost has resulted in a cool-down, with a visible 3% profit. IBM has its fourth-quarter sales stable from year to year, totaling $21.8 billion. However, IBM bought Red Hat on July 9, 2019. Then, promised a 60% premium bonus for the workers of Red Hat if they hurry up with developing the hybrid-cloud server software.IBM is showing a big interest in the open-source software company which is probably one of the few software...

On Wednesday, it got about that American online payments company PayPal had partnered with UnionPay International (UPI), a subsidiary of the Chinese leading payment processor UnionPay. For both companies, the deal is a good way to expand their networks and penetrate into new markets.Jim Magats, senior vice president of global payments at PayPal, commented:“At PayPal, we are proud of this landmark agreement with UnionPay International and the global impact that this creates for our joint...