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President Donald Trump hinted that investors should buy stocks yesterday, claiming the market looks “very good!” Last time Trump urged investors to buy, the S&P 500 rallied 35%. Obama did the same in 2009, right before the biggest bull run in history. American presidents have an uncanny ability to
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Digital lead for Calibra Ben Maurer gave a presentation on Facebook's Move programming language at the Stanford Blockchain Conference on Feb. 19. Move was created by Facebook to provide a safe and programmable foundation for the Libra blockchain. Maurer explained that Move will make it easier and more secure
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Dubliner Clifton Collins, who was recently imprisoned for drug trafficking, claims that robbers took the keys to the $56 million in Bitcoin (BTC) Irish High Court had ruled should be confiscated.After obtaining more than 6,000 BTC by 2017, Collins decided to insure himself against hackers by distributing the cryptocurrency
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Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse’s mission is to demolish bankers’ fear of cryptocurrencies and get them on board with the new asset class.During a recent interview with CNN, Garlinghouse explained that “once regulators understand you're not circumventing regulatory frameworks they get very comfortable very quickly.”Garlinghouse said that someone at the
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A U.S. federal judge says the SEC shouldn't get hung up on "labels" in determining whether messaging platform Telegram conducted an illegal securities offering.In his first public remarks on the case, Judge P. Kevin Castel of the U.S District Court for the Southern District of New York began Wednesday's hearing
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Bitcoin’s explosive price rally this year has earned it a new fan in CelticGold, AG.The Frankfurt-based precious metals exchange in a note advised commodity investors to purchase the world’s leading cryptocurrency. It said they should at least allocate 1-5 percent of their precious metals portfolio to Bitcoin, citing its two-year
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Bitcoin (BTC) can “very easily” hit $50,000 during 2020, the CEO of one cryptocurrency industry business has told mainstream media. In an interview with Bloomberg in Berlin on Jan. 3, Antoni Trenchev, head of Bitcoin lending platform Nexo.io, said Bitcoin price growth since its inception was almost unlike anything ever
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The history of the cryptocurrency project can be traced to the 1970s. One key factor was the fear of future surveillance. Both surveillance and the possibility to more directly manipulate transaction data. I wrote about Paul Armor, a computer scientist who worked on and off in the Department of Defense, and
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Giving testimony on the oversight of his agency before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on Tuesday, Clayton honed in on its regulation of the crypto and blockchain space, saying the SEC has been dedicating "a significant amount of attention and resources on digital assets." Source
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United States regulators believe they have adopted a “measured yet proactive approach” to cryptocurrency regulation which aids both retail and institutional investors.That was the formal view of Jay Clayton, chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), who updated lawmakers on official policy on Dec. 10.Clayton: SEC fosters
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