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If the company’s jobs site is any indication, Twitter has been openly hiring for security positions in the months leading up to this week’s notorious hack.According to the company’s job search, Twitter posted several key job descriptions pertaining to company security two months ago. The company was (and still seems
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Though XRP and Stellar (XLM) were created for very similar purposes, today their price tendencies differ significantly.Ripple’s XRP and Stellar (XLM) are two projects developed and co-founded by the same person Jed McCaleb, however, their prices movements are very different today. At the time of writing, XRP was trading around
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Two months after the network’s halving event, it’s harder than ever to mine bitcoin. Bitcoin mining difficulty, a measure of how hard it is to compete for block rewards on the network, just set a new record high of 17.35 trillion around 12:00 UTC on Monday. This marks a 9.89% jump
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The economic events seen throughout 2020 have helped Bitcoin secure its position as both a currency and a store of value.To thwart the effects of immense economic turbulence resulting from the ongoing pandemic, central banks across the globe have been printing money at an unprecedented pace.This has placed many fiat
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The biggest pension fund in the world lost $164.7 billion in the first quarter of 2020. This is equivalent to the entire market capitalization for Bitcoin (BTC).Bitcoin didn’t do any betterJapan's Government Pension Investment Fund, or GPIF, decreased in value by almost 11% to 150.63 trillion yen or $1.4 trillion.
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Peer-to-peer Bitcoin (BTC) trading has seen rapid growth in recent months, with the African continent now the second-strongest region in the world for P2P volume behind the U.S.Africa was the sole region to produce an increase in seven-day P2P trade this past week — with sub-saharan African trade posting its
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Bitcoin chalked out minor price gains on Sunday, ending its longest run of daily losses for half a year. The leading cryptocurrency by market value jumped 1.2%, having suffered losses in each of the preceding five days, according to CryptoX’s Bitcoin Price Index. Prices last took a beating for five
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Bitcoin has just posted its biggest mining difficulty increase in nearly 2.5 years. At around 17:00 UTC on Tuesday, the network adjusted its difficulty level – a measure of how hard it is for miners to compete for block rewards on the blockchain – to 15.78 trillion. The 14.95% rise is the biggest
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It’s been a volatile past few weeks for Bitcoin.Last week, the cryptocurrency traded within a $2,000 range, rallying as high as $10,400 before plunging to $8,600 in a massive liquidation event that wiped out over $100 million worth of positions.On a smaller scale, Bitcoin has seen rapid $100-300 swings multiple
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[sociallocker id="55298"] Bitcoin’s latest move above $10,000 looks to have nullified a significant amount of selling pressure building in the market. The biggest cryptocurrency by market cap saw a bull breakout late on Monday, with the spot rise jumping from $9,440 to a 3.5-month high of $10,357, according to CryptoX’s Bitcoin
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