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President Donald Trump announced a ban on all travel from Europe Wednesday. The ban will go into effect on Friday at midnight and remain in effect for 30 days. The president did announce an exemption for travel from the United Kingdom.Announcing a rare Oval Office address from Mr. Trump, he said:“After consulting with our top government health officials I have decided to take several strong but necessary actions to protect the health of all Americans. To stop new cases from entering our...

Euro Pacific Capital CEO and chief global strategist Peter Schiff warned the coronavirus recession would be worse than the 2008 financial crisis. Furthermore, in a terrifying tweet Wednesday, the US dollar bear and gold bull diagnosed the underlying problem in both crises.He argued the coronavirus pandemic and the crashing housing market were the pins that popped debt bubbles. But this time, the debt bubble is much bigger than last time. So the crisis is likely to get much worse.“The 2008...

The constant expansion of the coronavirus continues to harm the global economic markets. Monday’s severe stock sell-off pushed the UK to cut the interest rates, a week after the US did the same.As a result, Europe stocks are in the green as of writing these lines. Wall Street’s major indexes opened Wednesday’s trading in the deep red zone – S&P 500 and NASDAQ are down 3% at the moment. At the same time, Bitcoin’s price is steady around $7800.Coronavirus Spreads: Global Markets ReactThe...

A blockchain project executive was recently diagnosed with the coronavirus. He recently attended two major blockchain conferences and encouraged people who had close contact with him to get tested, as well.Diagnosed With COVID-19 After Attending Ethereum ConferencesZhen Yu Yong (Zen) is the Co-founder of TorusLabs – a decentralized login service company. Earlier today, he noted that after falling ill, he was later diagnosed with COVID-2019 (coronavirus.)Yong recently attended two major...

The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is currently working on contacting hundreds of thousands of cryptocurrency investors in the country, reminding them about their tax obligations for trading digital currencies like Bitcoin over the last few years, Australia’s leading media reported Wednesday. Cryptocurrencies Are Digital PropertiesAccording to news.com.au, the tax regulator is in the process of contacting as many as 350,000 crypto traders over the next two months, either via email or post...

YouTube seems to be resuming the Crypto Purge with new warnings and content removals. Carl Eric Martin is the man behind The Moon, which is one of the most popular Bitcoin and crypto YouTube channels, with an enormous number of 110,000 subscribers.The Moon’s daily video stream, this time about Bitcoin’s role in the recent coronavirus financial crisis, was not ‘liked’ by YouTube as the video giant decided to delete it.YouTube claimed that it’s because of a “violation of our Community...

The recent volatility in the global markets and the cryptocurrency markets has raised most trading volumes. Bitcoin options, for instance, reached a new all-time high yesterday. The futures market also saw a massive jump in the volume, as Binance Futures breaks its all-time high record.Bitcoin Options Volume SoarsThe past several days have been quite harmful to the cryptocurrency market in terms of price action. For example, the leading digital asset by market capitalization, Bitcoin, lost...

Last week’s decision from the Supreme Court of India to lift a two-year-old ban on cryptocurrency usage already has a positive impact on the local business scene. Kraken, a leading veteran U.S.-based digital asset exchange, announced plans to invest resources in the Indian market.Kraken Recommits To The Indian MarketThe veteran San Francisco-based exchange, Kraken, is planning to invest in the newly-reopened for cryptocurrency-related business Indian market. The company recently announced its...

The Craig Wright versus Kleiman legal case is far from over as the presiding judge has recently rejected Wright’s attempt to claim multiple privileges regarding the long-awaited private keys of the Satoshi’s 1 million Bitcoins, worth around $8 billion. Craig Wright claimed in December that he would receive the keys needed to access the Bitcoin via a bonded courier on January 1, 2020. The court then gave him until February 3 to provide evidence that he has gotten access to the funds. Wright...

The coronavirus outbreak has pushed some world central banks to quarantine physical cash bills. The World Health Organization (WHO) encourages the adoption of contactless payments. As such, it raises a legitimate question – could cryptocurrencies seize this opportunity to receive a larger market share for online payments?Caution On Physical BillsThe COVID-19 (coronavirus) outbreak continues to escalate. The number of confirmed cases worldwide exceeds 110,000. The serious effects on people’s...