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European stocks fell sharply on Friday. On Wall Street, equities sank as well with the Dow Jones industrial average falling by 250 points. The coronavirus is spreading.Even though coronavirus came from Wuhan, Hubei – a China province, it seems that the country finally made its way on reducing the number of infected people. China’s National Health Commission (NHC) reported a significantly reduced number of COVID-19 cases with 99 new confirmed in the past twenty-four hours. This is, however,...

It seems that Tesla CEO Elon Musk is not afraid of the coronavirus and is not going to panic while other giant tech companies are advising their employees to work remotely.Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) CEO Elon Musk through a tweet disregarded the ongoing coronavirus panic where he called it ‘dump’. His comment seems to have been welcomed well by a huge group of his followers, where the tweet had hit 1.1M likes at the time of writing.The coronavirus panic is dumb— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 6,...

A power plant in upstate New York known as Greenidge Generation says it’s mining up to $50,000 in new bitcoins each day.Greenidge Has the PowerThe average number of new coins extracted through the plant – which has been using its own energy reserves to get the job done – has been 5.5. Greenidge Generation says it’s looking to potentially put the U.S. on the map as a serious crypto competitor to China, which at the time of writing, controls much of the world’s bitcoin mining power.The company...

Is Twitter about to lose Jack Dorsey?Dorsey Could Be Forced from TwitterIf that’s the case, bitcoin’s price could suddenly shoot sky high. The situation is that approximately $1 billion in Twitter stock has been purchased by Elliott Management, a Wall Street investing firm run by Republican Paul Singer. Singer has often referred to bitcoin in a negative light, and recently called it one of the most “brilliant scams in history.”However, Dorsey – as we all know – feels very differently. Aside...

India has removed its ban on cryptocurrencies.Crypto Can Find a Home in India AgainThe ban first emerged in 2018 by way of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). The financial institution stated that cryptocurrencies were not real money in that they did not exist in physical form. In addition, governments are usually responsible for issuing new forms of money. As crypto did not come by way of a government entity, they were invalid and unfit to be used as a means of payment.However, the ban was not...

The partnership between Ripple and Coinone is spreading quite impressively and controlling a large part of the Korean international remittance market.Ripple’s efforts at changing the face of worldwide remittance have brought the company a lot of recognition. Especially as far as cryptocurrency and blockchain technology are concerned, Ripple is easily atop most other companies looking to fuse remittance with crypto. RippleNet now boasts of hundreds of partners and the company keeps spreading...

Ripple’s partner Moneygram will work with Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services to enhance its opportunities and increase customer satisfaction.MoneyGram is working with new partners. These partners are Google and Amazon. They will reportedly use their services to make MoneyGram’s services better. Amazon’s cloud services (AWS) will make transactions faster. Google Cloud will help study customer behavior. The cost of transferring money is now cheaper due to the increase in digital services....

Facebook (FB) stock has negatively reacted to the current situation in the U.S. caused by the coronavirus outbreak and all the related risks.Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) stock has dipped 3.45% in the premarket to trade below $190 price level as the company is advising its employees from the greater Bay Area to stay at home due to fears of coronavirus spread in the locality. The instructions to cancel any work trip will affect its California headquarters and also it’s Menlo Park.This a huge blow...

Global airlines stand to lose $113 billion in sales if the coronavirus continues to spread, according to the International Air Transport Association. The airline stocks have been also seriously hit.Amid the coronavirus spread, except cruise-liner stocks that were affected the most, the second one on the hit is the airline sector.Shares of American Airlines Group Inc (NASDAQ: AAL) are continuously falling a few days in a row now. At the time of writing, the stock was falling 6.17% to $15.05 in...

The Reserve Bank of India is unhappy with the Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of crypto services and is looking to file for a review petition.Most times, authorities in a country are somewhat in sync about what they think the state of cryptocurrency should be. There are many countries that are strictly against crypto. In some other places, the fight is against decentralized digital assets, spurring the development of their own national digital currencies. China, for example, is strongly...