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The deadline is here: On May 18, unregistered Dutch crypto firms could face penalties if they do not fall into line with the Netherlands’ new anti-money laundering (AML) laws, passed by the Dutch Upper House on April 21.According to the Anti-Money Laundering Directive, companies offering crypto-to-fiat or custodial services should
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Bitcoin (BTC) has only just completed its “hardening” — but fiat currency is already getting even “easier” as money after a historic move by the United States central bank.As the Federal Reserve confirmed in a press release on May 11, the bank is about to finally launch its corporate debt
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Bitcoin hasn’t done too well over the past few days.Despite the fact that the block reward halving came to pass just hours ago, the cryptocurrency is actually down since last week’s highs of $10,100, now trading at $8,500. This drop hasn’t stopped optimistic investors from expecting more upside though, with
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The Bitcoin blockchain has experienced its third block reward halving on May 11, 2020, at approximately 3:21 p.m EST, even though quite a few countdown clocks estimated that the halving would occur on May 12. Bitcoin miners now get 6.25 BTC per block rather than the 12.5 BTC they
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Bitcoin's third halving, the network's quadrennial landmark and the most anticipated event this year in the cryptocurrency industry, has finally happened.Miners racing on the network to compete for freshly minted bitcoin produced the 630,000th block at 19:23 UTC on May 11, which triggered the programmed halving event, marking another milestone
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While trading Chinese yuan through Bitcoin may technically be banned in China, that hasn’t stopped the country’s citizens from talking up a storm about cryptocurrency.This much was made clear on Sunday when Samson Mow, CSO of Blockstream, noted that according to data from Weibo (‘Chinese Twitter’), Bitcoin was a trending
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Open contracts on bitcoin options rose to record highs on Thursday as the cryptocurrency’s price rose into five figures.Data from major exchanges – Deribit, LedgerX, Bakkt, OKEx, and CME – shows that open interest on options rose above $1 billion, surpassing the previous all-time high of $70 million registered on
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The Crypto Valley experts came to a consensus that this Bitcoin block reward halving would be different from the previous two, regardless of which direction the price of Bitcoin (BTC) goes. However, it seems that, at least for now, Bitcoin price is going up constantly.The price of Bitcoin continues to
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Bitcoin (BTC) rallied Thursday on high volumes, trading above $10,000 for the first time since Feb. 24 late in the day.The bellwether cryptocurrency surged nearly 7% in 24 hours to $10,071 as of 23:47 UTC (7:47 pm EDT), with most of those gains made in the last 12 hours. The price
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Bitcoin has been on a remarkable rally over the past few weeks. The asset has mounted past resistance level after resistance level, recently crossing $9,000.Market cynics have said that BTC’s recent inability to surmount the key $9,500 resistance is indicative of a top. Though analysts are starting to agree that
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