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The halving? Coronavirus and volatility? Fed action? Listeners vote on what's driving crypto growth.There’s no denying 2020 is off to a roaring start. From prices to volume to social media, sentiment is up, up, up. But what’s driving it? On this special Valentine’s Day episode, @nlw reacts to listeners' votes about
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Throughout the seven volatile years during which Circle founder Jeremy Allaire has been developing crypto products, he has consistently warned there's much work to do before the technology is ready for mass usage.Now, with governments starting to explore digital currencies, new stablecoin models emerging and big tech platforms like Facebook
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OKB, the utility token issued by the cryptocurrency exchange and trading giant OKEx has been a positive performer in the last month. A latest monthly report for the global utility token shows that OKB appreciated by 24.9% during January 2020 to be valued at 3.26 USDT from the previous value
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The coronavirus outbreak in China may impose a longer-term impact on the bitcoin network’s mining activity at a time when an estimated 65 percent of its computing power is located there.While Chinese miner manufacturers see rising demand for new equipment ahead of bitcoin’s scheduled halving in May, they estimate the
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Cryptocurrency exchange Deribit recently published an analysis explaining that cryptocurrency companies are racing to adopt financial services known from legacy finance. The post points out that all crypto companies, exchanges included, will soon offer users interest accounts, cost-effective ways to perform transactions, and tax services. Throughout his post, he explains
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Richard Rosenblum is co-founder and co-head of trading at crypto liquidity provider GSR. The opinions below are the author's and do not reflect the position of CoinDesk.Like futures, the launch of bitcoin options on major exchanges has been met with anticipation.Hopeful observers believe the CME's and Bakkt’s entry into the
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A lukewarm U.S. economy is making big banks like JPMorgan Chase struggle to produce fast loan growth - even with interest rates close to historic lows. Yet, in the white-hot cryptocurrency industry, lenders are burgeoning.The Commerce Department reported Thursday that U.S. gross domestic product rose at a 2.1 percent annual
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At the hour of composing, Bitcoin is trending up 4.5 percent at its present price level of $8,520, which marks a notable increase from recent lows of just over $8,000, which were set last week when the bears attempted to wreck the recent upside.The price of Bitcoin is currently consolidating
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By Dmitriy Gurkovskiy, Chief Analyst at RoboForex.Tech analysis of the BTCThe BTC may grow in price due to the US vs. Iran conflictIn ten years, the profitability of the BTC has been many times higher than that of Gold and S&P 500.On D1, speaking about the long-term moods of the
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Undoubtedly, the journey has not been all rosy for the world’s most celebrated cryptocurrency, Bitcoin. In fact, Bitcoin’s journey through the last decade was lined with many highs and lows – literally. That said, statistics also showed that the virtual currency grew by 9 million percent in the just-concluded decade.
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