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Amid the escalating chaos of the anti-government protests in Hong Kong, bitcoin’s trading volume has hit an all-time high on peer to peer exchange, LocalBitcoins. Residents of Hong Kong are still staggering from what was an exceptionally violent week of protests. The outrage over the now- withdrawn extradition bill has boiled over into issues such as income disparity, and democratic prerogative. Yesterday, the protests reached a fever pitch, as police switched rubber bottles in exchange for...

California based bank and stock brokerage firm Charles Schwab said that it is finally ending its battle in the brokerage sector. They decided they are ending commissions for online trading in U.S. stocks, exchange-traded funds, and options.Just for a reminder, in the February of this year, together with Fidelity Investments, Charles Schwab completely cut its commissions it had been charging on hundreds of their exchange-traded funds. The ongoing war was all about exciting the investors since...

There is more than a lot to take in when considering the current economic and political landscape in the United States. Quite recently, an official impeachment inquiry was announced by Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, against President Donald Trump. Long before this, many people including economic analysts and businessmen alike, have been strongly of the opinion that the U.S. is on the verge of a recession and more people seem to be corroborating this. Now apart from...

Tech giant Tesla announced buying of DeepScale, a computer vision start-up that the company hopes to help in further evolving of fully driverless vehicles.This acquisition, Tesla hopes, will help the company in their focusing on delivering cars with evolved driver-assistance systems that would be optimal for owners to put them in the traffic acting as “robotaxis” on an Uber-like platform without drivers.Still, as most of the car producers, Tesla is pretty much bounded with arithmetic...

Chicago based securities rating firm Morningstar has moved ahead of the rest of the securities ratings agencies to begin rating blockchain-based debt securities which are backed by debt assets in the real-world. Being the first time, a rating agency would attempt such a move, the rating firm already has its hands in the cryptocurrency pie as it has been working on building models that provide accurate methods of rating blockchain-based securities.This move is also an indication that the firm...

ADA price started consolidating losses above the $0.0350 support area against the US Dollar.The price is facing a strong resistance near the $0.0400 and $0.0420 levels.There is a key bearish trend line forming with resistance near $0.0420 on the 4-hours chart (data feed via Kraken).The price could either start a decent recovery above $0.0420 or it might decline further below $0.0350.Cardano price is struggling to recover against the US Dollar and bitcoin. ADA price could start a decent...

Bitcoin price is currently consolidating losses above the $7,600 and $7,800 levels against the US Dollar.The price is facing a lot of hurdles near the $8,500 and $8,800 levels on the upside.There are two key bearish trend lines forming with resistance near $8,420 and $8,850 on the 4-hours chart of the BTC/USD pair (data feed from Coinbase).The pair is likely to struggle in clearing the $8,420 and $8,500 resistance levels in the near term.Bitcoin price is trading in a bearish zone below $9,000...

Facebook has been having a tough battle dealing with regulators and government agencies since the launch of its Libra cryptocurrency. In the recently leaked audio recordings obtained by The Verge, Mark Zuckerberg threatens to take the U.S. government to the courts if the Democratic Party presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren comes to power and tries to break big companies like Facebook into smaller entities.Note that breaking Big Tech is one of the major promises of Elizabeth Warren’s...

We saw a week of action throughout the entire crypto market. Bitcoin’s price plunged, painting the entire market red. Of course, altcoins also plummeted against the USD but remained relatively stable against Bitcoin. The whole market seems to be under a lot of stress, at least according to the Fear & Greed Index:Wall Street, on the other hand, continues to rise as bond markets have seen significant drops. Despite predictions of a collapse in the capital markets, key indices keep on...

BitcoinWe saw a sharp correction with a high trading volume which dragged the price down to the Fibonacci levels at 0.618 within the $7,800 range. That’s a support line and if we break past through it to $7,200 we can also get down quickly to $6,200. In terms of resistance, the trend line goes down in clear red. Breaking it will only provide short-term security. Going above $10,400 will bring confidence back. This week’s plunge felt like a “sell the news:  event but that’s not what prompted...