Over the past few months, we have seen multiple cryptocurrency developers explore opportunities in the world of atomic swaps. Rather than using centralized exchange platforms, an atomic swap allows people to intermittently exchange cryptocurrencies in a decentralized manner. BarterDEX is one of several decentralized interfaces which aims to support atomic swaps in the future. More importantly, […]
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Featured Former presidential candidate Ron Paul recently urged legalization of all competing currencies, crypto and otherwise, during a televised phone interview. He discussed his views on prices going forward, particularly of gold versus the dollar, and warned about government involvement with regard to the world’s most popular cryptocurrency, bitcoin. Also read: Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission Forbids Bitcoin […]
Continue readingAuthored by Chris Whalen via The Institutional Risk Analyst, During our travels over the past two weeks, we tried to keep up with the financial press, particularly the growing sense of unease felt by many observers with the relentless rise of valuations for equities and other asset classes engineered by the Fed and major central […]
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Every major cryptocurrency goes through periods during which weak hands sell assets and a lot of misinformation is distributed. We still see it with Bitcoin to this very day, as a lot of people have no idea what this cryptocurrency entails exactly. In the case of NEO, it seems a lot of people have only now […]
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Is it the bears turn now? Chinese bonds and stocks were ugly overnight as the calm of the congress came to an end… Small Caps were slammed today – worst day since August. Nasdaq managed to scramble back to green in the last few mins, but failed to hold it… Small Caps […]
Continue readingA highly anticipated update to the Ethereum network could be happening before schedule according to developers. The Casper update may be rolled out as early as the next hard-fork, Constantinople instead of previous plans for it to come with Serenity, the last development phase, in 2018. The hard forks are underlying changes to protocol creating […]
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Authored by Michael Kern via CryptoInsider, Established in the early 1970s, the petrodollar has secured the United States’ influence over the oil trade for over 40 years, but recently, it is clear that this monopoly is slowly beginning to fall apart – in some part due to the influence of Bitcoin and other emerging cryptocurrencies. […]
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Key Highlights Ripple price after a correction from the $0.2180 high against the US Dollar started trading in a range. There is a short-term channel forming with support at $0.1960 on the hourly chart of the XRP/USD pair (data source from Kraken). The price remains supported on the downside as long as there is no […]
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DASH/USD DASH continues to bounce around during the Friday session, using the $280 area as support. I think there is even more support below at the $270 region, so therefore it’s likely that we will find buyers given enough time. The market then will go looking towards the $300 level. However, the US dollar has […]
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Featured Bill Miller, former chairman of Legg Mason Value Trust mutual fund, and current chairman of Miller Value Partners LLC, has revealed that bitcoin holdings comprise approximately 30% of the assets in Miller Value Partner’s MVP 1 hedge fund. Also Read: Wall Street Hedge Funds Rush to Cryptocurrencies, 90 Bitcoin-Like This Year Alone The Share […]
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