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The head of Tron Foundation Justin Sun publicly announced on Wednesday that he is going to grant $1 million to the young Swedish activist Greta Thunberg’s attempts to raise global awareness of climate change.Sun’s announcement came as a response to last week’s COP25 UN climate conference in Madrid that ended with no deal on carbon markets. The negotiations are postponed until next year when countries will have to come up with more ambitious goals to cut greenhouse gas emissions, in order to...

While it may sound like a marketing gimmick or a play on words, two founders behind blockchain startup Alchemy believe that their two-year-old startup might become the “Microsoft” of blockchain technology. In a series of serendipitous events, the founders Nikil Viswanathan and Joe Lau (who are both Stanford graduates) have been able to raise about $15 million from several investors that include billionaire Charles Schwab, Reid Hoffman who is LinkedIn’s co-founder, Stanford University and...

In what has been seen by many as a travesty of sorts, major cryptocurrency equipment manufacturer Canaan Creative has seen its stock decline sharply in the past 17 out of 21 trading sessions. Sources indicate that Canaan’s stock hasn’t fared well as many would have hoped. Just to remind you, the company at its IPO was valued at $1.3 billion. The company’s stock has lost about 35% of its value this week. Since the late November shares have tumbled indicating that the company wasn’t as valuable...

Recently, Ethereum has been deliberately following Bitcoin‘s price activity, which generally shows a selling sentiment.Both BTC and ETH are currently exchanging at critical support levels, and any more shortcomings in the short term could lead to huge capitulation selling, which could lead to a drop in the cryptocurrency.Analyzing Ethereum, experts note that the basic level of support is $140 and that a break below this level is leading to a fall in ETH by more than 30% and focus may be on...

According to an official blog post published yesterday, Kraken has acquired Circle Trade – Circle’s over-the-counter (OTC) platform. The statement says that Kraken sees Circle Trade as “one of the most recognized OTC desks in crypto” and the team is very excited about the acquisition.The statement also includes further details expected from the acquisition. Firstly, the company expects that the fact that its services would now be expanded and a lot more capable will attract new trading...

In direct competition to ICE‘s Bakkt platform, cryptocurrency exchange ErisX has launched its physically-settled Bitcoin futures contracts. In an official announcement on Monday, December 17, ErisX said that it will make its futures contracts available in the U.S. as of now.The product dubbed “Futures Digital Currency Products” will start trading today onwards from 8:00 a.m. Central Time (14:00 UTC). As per CoinDesk, ErisX’s Bitcoin futures will trade alongside its existing cryptocurrency...

ADA price is under a lot of pressure below the $0.0350 level against the US Dollar.The price is down more than 10% and it traded close to the $0.0300 support.There is a major bearish trend line forming with resistance near $0.0355 on the 4-hours chart (data feed via Kraken).The price could recover in the near term as long as it is above the $0.0300 support.Cardano price is in a strong downtrend against the US Dollar and bitcoin. ADA price could correct higher, but the $0.0330 and $0.0350...

So far, the month of December 2019 reminds us of the cruel month of December 2018.Last year it was the capitulation candle to $3122 that was achieved on December 15. This year’s December isn’t disappointing the bears at all: from the monthly high that was reached on Dec 4 at $7770, down to $6530, which is the current low on Bitstamp as of writing these lines.The bearish momentum is all over, and if you were following, we had stated that here in the previous price analysis posts over the past...

Bitcoin price is declining steadily and it recently traded below the $7,000 support against the US Dollar.The price is now consolidating losses above the $6,540 support area.There is a major bearish trend line forming with resistance near $6,920 on the 4-hours chart of the BTC/USD pair (data feed from Coinbase).The pair could extend its decline below $6,500, but the $6,240 and $6,200 supports hold the key.Bitcoin price is showing signs of bearish continuation below $6,540 against the US...

Der Swiss Market Index ist als Blue-Chip-Index der bedeutendste Aktienindex der Schweiz. Aktien glänzen derzeit mit hohen Zuwachsraten. Aktien erweisen sich seit Jahren als resistent gegen alle Horrormeldungen, die den Crash und die damit zusammenhängende Panik an den Aktienmärkten voraussagen. Das Gegenteil von dem, was in den letzten Tagen des Jahres 2018 von vielen Medien, auch von Spiegel-Online, prognostiziert wurde, trat ein. Aktien...