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Every year, online-provider of sports news Sporting Intelligence conducts Global Sports Salaries Survey. The survey represents the basic annual pay of teams and shows the best-paid of them. According to the latest Sporting Intelligence survey, this year Spanish Barcelona and Real Madrid and Italy’s Juventus have enjoyed the highest salaries. It is notable that Barcelona has managed to keep its top status for the second year in a row.Global Sports Salaries Survey 2019 reads:“Barcelona have...

It’s a good start to the week as Bitcoin and the majority of altcoins have turned green in the crypto market rally. In the last 24-hours, the overall cryptocurrency market added $10 billion.Simultaneously, the BTC price has surged nearly 5% moving above $7600. Bitcoin is currently leading today’s market rally with Ethereum posting under 3% gains. Last week, Bitcoin was struggling to cross $7000 and instead went all down below $6600 levels.However, it quickly managed to cover its lost ground...

Alexander Vinnik is a former BTC-e administrator and fraudster. BTC-e exchange was laundering billions since 2015 and Vinnik’s arrest happened after the U.S. court order. Some facts point that he has connections with the Mt. Gox hack and Russian special service agents.Vinnik Lost FSB Protection in Complicated CaseGreece is preparing for the extradition of Alexander Vinnik to the United States. Local cops arrested him during rest at one of the VIP private resorts. The U.S. officials and a...

One of the world’s leading crypto exchanges Coinbase is winding up the activity of Earn.com, blockchain startup it acquired in April last year. The exchange has decided this time to expand its Coinbase Earn program, and Earn.com may help in that. Earlier, the exchange promised it would completely integrate Earn.com into Coinbase’s operations while the startup’s existing business would continue. However, now Coinbase is going to close Earn.com. As the exchange has stated, it will now use...

Stellar lumen price started an upside correction from the $0.0420 support area against the US Dollar.XLM price is currently trading above $0.0450, but there are many hurdles near $0.0500.There is a significant bearish trend line forming with resistance near $0.0500 on the 4-hours chart (data feed via Kraken).The pair could restart its decline if it fails to stay above the $0.0450 support area.Stellar lumen price is slowly correcting higher against the US Dollar, while bitcoin is rallying. XLM...

Ripple price started an upside correction from the $0.1750 swing low against the US dollar.The price is trading above the $0.1900 level, but facing many hurdles near $0.2000There is a major bearish trend line forming with resistance near $0.2050 on the 4-hours chart of the XRP/USD pair (data source from Bittrex).A clear break above $0.2000 and $0.2050 is needed for upside acceleration.Ripple price is trading below key hurdles near $0.2000 against the US Dollar. XRP price could either rally...

It’s always interesting to see things get reversed. Typically, one often witnesses figures in the financial space – i.e. Warren Buffett, etc. – touting blockchain while believing that crypto is the money of criminals and do-nothings. Nic Carter, on the other hand, believes the exact opposite.Carter Is Pro Crypto, Not BlockchainAs the founder of Castle Island Ventures – a venture capital firm – Carter explained in an interview that blockchain is consistently touted as the eight wonder of the...

Facebook’s cryptocurrency project Libra is still very much up in the air, according to board member Patrick Ellis.Ellis Admits Facebook Has No Clue What It’s DoingComing about in late June of 2019, Libra has sparked controversy at every turn, and has people split right down the middle regarding how trustworthy it is and how useful it will be. The idea is that Libra will be used as a cryptocurrency through Facebook for third-world nations to purchase goods and services. Many of these regions...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is continuing to exhibit its newfound hard-as-nails attitude towards crypto and blockchain ventures, and has recently enforced a $250,000 penalty on a startup called Blockchain of Things Inc. (BCOT)The SEC Is Not to Be Taken LightlyThe SEC alleges that the company hosted an unregistered initial coin offering (ICO) back in December 2017. That ICO resulted in roughly $13 million in capital gained for BCOT. Granted the company is forced to comply with...

Tap is a one-stop-shop crypto app that includes an aggregated crypto exchange (spanning several exchanges to deliver optimum prices), safe crypto storage through insured custodianship, a payment card and all the normal alt-banking features that help tap fulfill its aim to be a truly unified crypto banking solution.The listing on Bittrex is part of a coordinated mass rollout of the Tap project. As part of this rollout, Tap released an MTO on the STP network on 19th December, the app was made...