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Today January 3, 2020, marks the completion of 11 years since Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto created the Genesis Block on the Bitcoin network. Also called ‘Block 0’, the Genesis Block was the first-ever block available on the Bitcoin blockchain.Six days later on January 9, 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto released the first Bitcoin software client. Thus, the crypto community often celebrates January 9 as the birthday of Bitcoin when Block 1 was mined.Although the usual block time on the Bitcoin...

Alex Copenhagen decided to come back to his YT channel dedicated to crypto and bring a new life to it. He will be posting new videos about business, self-development, lifehacks, interviews with entrepreneurs and more. He said that losing $500,000 in 2019 taught him important life lessons.Alex is sharing his story in a short video, sending out the hope that his data will be valuable for lots of crypto-related folks. Copenhagen got into cryptocurrency space in around 2013 when Bitcoin was worth...

Justin Sun, the founder of Tron (TRX) cryptocurrency and the CEO of the BitTorrent platform has announced a new acquisition for the platform. On Sunday, December 29, Sun announced that he has a special announcement on January 1, 2020, for the BitTorrent family.New acquisition for $BTT and @BitTorrent in three days. Stay tuned and welcome new members to #BitTorrent family! #BTT— Justin Sun (@justinsuntron) December 29, 2019Besides, Justin Sun has also mentioned that the new acquisition will...

Even though we can say that Bitcoin was one of the assets that grew almost 100% this year, it seems that Euro Pacific Capital CEO Peter Schiff doesn’t agree.In his tweet, Schiff pointed out that that Bitcoin is the only asset class that is not rallying at the moment.Bitcoin is not disappointing those who claim its true value is that it’s a non-correlated asset. Every asset class in the world is rallying into the end of the year except Bitcoin. Not sure what value this actually adds, but at...

Novogratz is a fan of making Twitter predictions. This time, he thinks that Donald Trump will lose the Presidential elections. His competitor, according to Novogratz, will have 10 million votes more. One of the subscribers made a bet that this will not happen, placing 1 ETH and Novogratz accepted the deal.However, when it comes to Tom Hanks, Novogratz thinks that no other actors can dive into the Process as precisely as he can. Regarding “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood”, he thinks that...

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...

Nowadays we hear a lot about startups trying to capitalize on the fintech opportunity. One did such a thing now in Mexico by closing on a new sum of funding. What began as a $7.4 million Series A last January now has now grown to $26.4 million in a recent extension of Mexican challenger bank Albo.Led by the U.S.-based Valar Ventures this event can be marked as one of the largest early rounds for a Mexican startup. It seems Albo got its investment from Paypal co-founder Peter Thiel, in the...

Upvest has successfully raised €7 million (about $7.8 million) in a recently concluded Series A funding round. The startup is based in Germany and is focused on tokenizing financial assets on a blockchain for companies who need to.According to a report from The Block, the startup plans to use the funds it just raised to accommodate the expansion of its blockchain API (application programming interface) so that the platform can do more tokenization for more kinds of companies including private...

There are several investment opportunities popular all over the world and as time goes on, trends seem to always change. For many years, the stock market has been the most popular and also one of the most lucrative especially in the U.S. as records show that the S&P 500 has gained more than 180% in the last ten years. However, another investment channel that doesn’t seem to be talked about much but pulls in mouth-watering rewards, is the art market.A recent Citi report which was put...

There are many ways in which cryptocurrency trading resembles the traditional ones, but there are just as many differences, as well. That’s why it’s possible to use regular definitions, but they need to be appropriately adjusted and related according to the specifics of cryptocurrencies.Price gaps, for example, are something seen quite regularly within traditional markets, and we can already see them becoming a factor to consider when it comes to Bitcoin price analysis as well.What Are Price...