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The last week of 2019 didn’t really bring a lot of excitement within the cryptocurrency market. Bitcoin’s price remained trapped within a fairly narrow range between $7,100 and $7,700, while altcoins struggled to claim any new grounds. As a matter of fact, Bitcoin’s dominance stabilized well above 68%, which showed that BTC kept its market share intact, despite the lack of any price increases. Despite the fact that Christmas is over, it’s important to monitor the price going forward. It’s...

A leading Chinese marketing and management behemoth, ChinaNet, has announced that vibrant and pro-blockchain Mr. Yingguo Guo is now the new Chief Technology Official (CTO) of the company, according to a press release today.ChinaNet Hires Pro-Blockchain ExecutiveChinaNet is a NASDAQ-listed company (Nasdaq-CNET). According to the company’s website, ChinaNet is “integrated online advertising, precision marketing, and data analysis and management services platform” that is focused on providing...

The Bank of Korea (BOK) is taking another important step towards adopting the trend for central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). The bank will reportedly organize a dedicated task force to build on top of the existing CBDC research and to improve it further.Bank Of Korea’s CBDC Task ForceA local report from today shows BOK’s intentions for developing more CBDC-orientated research groups. As included in the bank’s “Monetary Policy for 2020,” the research will target innovations, such as...

The most talked-about news in the cryptocurrency community in the last few days came from the largest video giant, Youtube.Without prior notice, the giant started banning and removing crypto-related videos due to “harmful” content. Still, according to YouTube, it’s not a crypto ban, rather a ‘mistake’, and everything should be restored.Youtube’s Reasoning Behind The Crypto PurgeAs CryptoPotato reported two days ago, YouTube started marking cryptocurrency-related channels. Among the channels...

After having a gloomy Christmas, the only relief for traders today is that Bitcoin is still holding support at the $7200 region. After touching $7,700 a few days ago, BTC is currently trading above $7,200. A decline below $7,000 will, in no doubt, be stressful for traders who are already disappointed with the Christmas market outcome. The rest of the crypto market is in a mixed state, with significant altcoins posting either slight profits or loss. Ether (ETH) has lost a significant amount of...

State-backed stablecoins appear to be on the rise in the last several months, and Russia is taking the next step into launching its own. The country’s central bank has reportedly started testing digital currencies backed by real assets in a regulatory sandbox.Russia Tests Digital AssetsThe head of the Central Bank of Russia, Elvira Nabiullina, recently spoke about the bank’s plans and actions towards digital assets. She indicates that they have started testing a digital currency in a...

A few days after the first complaints from crypto influencers regarding having their YouTube videos removed, it appears that things are starting to escalate. The number of affected content creators keeps rising since then, and the community wonders on what could be the needed solution in this case.Youtube Bans Crypto ChannelsThe largest content-sharing platform in the world, YouTube, is continuing its latest actions against some cryptocurrency influencers and content creators. As Cryptopotato...

The Chief Strategy Officer of CoinShaes, as well as one of the most prominent cryptocurrency proponents, Meltem Demirors, has spoken her thoughts on the upcoming Bitcoin Halving. According to her, it might not have the uplifting effect that a lot of the people seem to expect because the Bitcoin derivatives market is growing, causing more speculation rather than actual ownership and transfer of bitcoins.Bitcoin Price Might Not Be Boosted By The HalvingBitcoin’s halving is perhaps one of the...

The general sentiment among the traditional financial markets is at extremely high levels of greed, according to the Fear and Greed Index. At the same time, the chart suggests mostly fearful feelings among the cryptocurrency market, but could those emotions be an indicator of a trend reversal?Greed Sentiment In The Stock MarketThe Fear and Greed index is a popular monitoring resource that calculates various types of data to provide investors’ current sentiments towards financial instruments....

Data shows that Bitcoin’s hashrate has just hit a new all-time high of 111 EH/s, which represents a 170.73% increase since January 1, 2019. Bitcoin Hashrate. Source: Blockchain.comHash rate measures the amount of computing power used by miners to generate new blocks every 10 minutes, keeping the Bitcoin network running at all times, a process known as mining. The increasing hashrate could suggest that the network is getting more robust and secure, as the chance for a potential attack on it...