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Bitcoin (BTC) may dip below its 200-week moving average price but will stay above $8,200, one of the industry’s most respected analysts has said.In a series of tweets on Feb. 10, PlanB, creator of the stock-to-flow Bitcoin price forecasting tool, also predicts BTC/USD would trade “above $10,000” by May. PlanB:
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The U.S. housing market’s good days could come to an end thanks to coronavirus. Chinese investors have played a key role in propping up the market. They could take away billions of dollars worth of demand thanks to the epidemic. A low mortgage rate environment and the lack of inventories have been tailwinds
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QAN, the first quantum-resistant smart contract platform, is set to launch as the first initial exchange offering (IEO) on Bitbay, as announced on BitcoinTalk. The European exchange is offering participants the opportunity to buy QARK tokens using fiat currencies. The sale will commence on January 20 and take place in
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Japan's top financial regulator plans to reduce the risk to cryptocurrency margin traders by cutting the permitted leverage to two times the deposit. The Financial Services Agency will impose the new rule in a revision to the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act expected in spring, Japan Times sources said in
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The United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has previously allowed several crypto derivatives products to enter the market. In that context, the CME Group, which offers Bitcoin futures, plans to launch options on BTC futures on January 13, 2020.While responding to the growing interest in cryptos and customer demand
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Bitcoin could be set for a major breakout as escalating tensions between the US and Iran drive investors to safe-haven assets, with cryptocurrency and gold values surging. Tensions in the Middle East reached a critical point on Thursday after US President Donald Trump ordered a drone strike on a vehicle convoy
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Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has confirmed it will offer euro (EUR) trading against six cryptocurrencies in the platform’s latest fiat expansion.In a blog post on Jan. 3, Binance confirmed trading for EUR pairs would begin at 8am the same day. Users will be able to trade EUR against Bitcoin (BTC),
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Bitcoin (BTC) weekly trading volumes on peer-to-peer (P2P) trading platform LocalBitcoins in Venezuela and Argentina have hit new all-time highs in their respective national currencies.Cryptocurrency data website CoinDance shows that LocalBitcoins trading volume in local fiat currency in Argentina and Venezuela have hit new record highs.According to the website’s
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This post is part of CoinDesk's 2019 Year in Review, a collection of 100 op-eds, interviews and takes on the state of blockchain and the world. Lou Kerner is an advisory board member at Blockchain Coinvestors, co-founder of CryptoOracle, and partner at Chameleon as well as Flight Ventures.MakerDAO started minting
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Bitcoin is on track to end 2019 on a positive note and significantly outperform traditional assets like gold and stocks. The number one cryptocurrency is currently trading at $7,125, representing a 93 percent gain on a year-to-date basis, according to CoinDesk's Bitcoin Price Index. Prices rose from $3,700 to $13,880 in
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