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Bitcoin is losing its price

Bitcoin’s price reached its six-month low

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Bitcoin reached the cheapest point in six months, sinking about 10% and continuing last week’s slide past the weekend on matters about repressions on crypto transactions by China. The leading coin dropped as much as 11% from Friday’s close and was selling below $6600 as of 1:50 p.m. in Hong...

Opera browser adds BTC payments

Opera browser adds BTC payments to Android version

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Opera company announced that Bitcoin e-commerce and TRON integration were added to the browser’s Android version. The freshly added features will let Android users make direct payments from the implemented wallet and efficiently use the decentralized application on the Tron blockchain. As...

BTC price falls as futures exchange makes its trading debut

BTC price falls as futures exchange makes its trading debut

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On this Monday, 23 September. Intercontinental exchanges debuted selling the first Bitcoin futures contracts. This event was expected to start a brand-new episode in the coin’s turbulent history and the leading coin was supposed to grow in price. But this never happened. As of 11 AM in New York,...

As deliverable futures start trading BTC is growing in price

As deliverable futures start trading BTC is growing in price

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Bitcoin is expected to increase in cost. Today is going to be the debut of trading the futures contracts that are proposed by Intercontinental Exchange Inc. which may affect the delivery of the digital currency, a new episode in Bitcoin’s turbulent history. As to industry analysts, the initial...

The narrow trading range of Bitcoin is a sign of raising

The narrow trading range of Bitcoin is a sign of raising

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Bitcoin raised over $10000 this week and technical measures provided by various analysts are showing some positive signs. Now the leading cryptocurrency is within its 50- and 100-day moving averages and this indicates in it in a narrow range. A key level is $10714 and breaking above this number...

Bitcoin trading and payments are now tax-free in Portugal

Bitcoin trading and payments are now tax-free in Portugal

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As it was reported on August 27, the tax authority of Portugal has affirmed that and crypto trading and crypto payments won’t be taxed in their country. According to information published by Portuguese Jornal de Negócios on August 26, the authority has approved that cryptocurrency activities and...

Bitcoin mining revenue reached the top of $14 billion

Bitcoin mining revenue reached the top of $14 billion

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Bitcoin mining profits approach its all-time high - $14 billion, according to information provided by Coin Metrics. Even when the BTC mining hash speed has been rising and this was making mining less valuable, miners of the leading coin are still receiving more than ever. It lasted eight years...

Court Instructs Craig Wright to fork over $4 billion

Court Instructs Craig Wright to fork over $4 billion

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A judge ruled that the person who pretends he developed Bitcoin introduced false reports and lied in a legal dispute with the estate of his ex-partner, adding that Craig Wright has to surrender over $4 billion of the cryptocurrency. U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart in West Palm Beach, Florida,...

BTC bullied into a tighter trading area with a cap at $11800

BTC bullied into a tighter trading area with a cap at $11800

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The trading range of Bitcoin is becoming tighter as speculators seek positions on the correct side of a potential break-out. The optimistic ones are crowding into trades when it’s crossing above $10000, while negative thinkers are quitting when it approaches $12000, according to an analysis of...

Bitcoin seems to find support after bouncing off $10000

Bitcoin seems to find support after bouncing off $10000

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Bitcoin had hard times, it was bouncing around $10000 level for about two weeks and now it seems that the coin has finally found support. The leading cryptocurrency decreased in price and dropped below the lower limit of its GTI Vera Band indicator, which is measuring down and up trends,...

Jeff Garzik is sceptical of the latest Satoshi Nakamoto

Jeff Garzik is sceptical of the latest Satoshi Nakamoto

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Jeff Garzik, a Bitcoin pioneer, had a correspondence with a Satoshi Nakamoto, before the founder of Bitcoin disappeared years ago. Garzik doubts Satoshi has appeared again. When an internet posting Sunday claimed to come from Satoshi and promised to reveal his or her true identity on Tuesday,...

Bitcoin has the biggest weekly decline since November

Bitcoin has the biggest weekly decline since November

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This week was the most damaging in 2019 for Bitcoin. Actually, it’s not the best period for the rest of the coins too. The world’s leading cryptocurrency lost about 15% this week and now the price of BTC is around $10,145. This's the greatest 5-day slide of the coin since November 2018. Matt...

Bitcoin price

Bitcoin price reached a three-week high

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Today, August 5, the price of BTC jumped to the levels above $11,600, the last time observed in the second half of July. As you can see, the pulse growth was accompanied by a surge in trading volumes. “According to the old tradition,” Bitcoin pulled along with the rest of the market. ...

Cryptocurrency platform Bitwala raised €13 million

Cryptocurrency platform Bitwala raised €13 million

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The Japanese corporation Sony, through its venture division Sony Financial Ventures and the investment firm NKB Group, led a round of financing of Series A for €13 million (about $14.5 million) of the Bitcoin-banking platform Bitwala. According to representatives of the company based in Berlin,...

Brazil: public transport in Bitcoins

Brazil: the payment of public transport in Bitcoins

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Residents of Fortaleza (the major Brazilian city) will soon have the opportunity to pay Bitcoins for their trips on public transport. It is reported by The Block, with reference to local media. In particular, the cooperative of autonomous passenger carriers of the State of Ceará, whose capital is...

Craig Wright in the court

Тears, mate, charity and accusations: self-proclaimed Bitcoin's creator Craig Wright in the court

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On June 28, a court hearing was held in Florida on the sensational case of Kleiman vs Wright, during which nChain senior researcher Craig Wright first appeared under oath. The main purpose of the meeting was to hear the explanations of the self-proclaimed Bitcoin creator regarding why he did not...

Bitcoin correlation with cryptocoins

Binance: Bitcoin correlation with other cryptocurrencies has significantly decreased

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Binance's research division published a quarterly report, in which it estimated the correlation of digital assets among themselves. Thus, according to it, the correlation between Bitcoin and the rest of the market has significantly decreased in comparison with the figures for the first quarter of...

FATF tightens bitcoin industry

FATF decided to tighten control over the bitcoin industry

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The Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF) decided to tighten the regulation of the cryptocurrency industry, in particular, to oblige the bitcoin exchanges and other crypto service providers (VASPs) to comply with AML and CFT (countering the financing of terrorism) procedures...

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