Cryptocurrency Highlights, News, Use Cases And Other Reckonings : #293 (2019-02-12)

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Why Uber’s Largest Investor Just Plowed Almost $1 Billion into Autonomous Vehicle Startup Nuro: Josiah Wilmoth


SoftBank has a lot of faith in a startup called Nuro that wants to use autonomous vehicles to disrupt the grocery delivery space. Nuro just banked almost $1 billion from the multinational holding conglomerate to make that happen. Major Uber Shareholder Throws…

Venezuela’s Socialist Establishment Bares its Ugly Fangs with Parasitic Crypto Tax: David Hundeyin


After years of hiding behind the fig leaf of socialism and revolutionary anti-imperialist rhetoric, the embattled Venezuelan government of Nicolas Maduro has shown its true colours with a new 15 percent tax on cryptocurrency transactions that may be best desc…

Will Tencent’s Massive Investment Help $3 Billion Reddit Take Down Facebook & Google’s Ad Duopoly?: Josiah Wilmoth


American social news aggregation site Reddit has raised $300 million in a Series D funding round at a market valuation of $3 billion. The capital injection was led by Chinese multinational conglomerate Tencent Holdings who invested $150 million into the socia…

Could Tesla CEO Elon Musk be Next in Line for Bitcoin’s Lightning Torch?: P. H. Madore


From Twitter founder Jack Dorsey to crypto billionaires, the Lightning Network torch is still a thing on social media. It most recently found its way into the hands of Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao. Zhao, like many in the Bitcoin community, would like to see Tes…

$370 Billion Asset Manger Janus Says US Stock Market is Careening Toward Recession: Joseph Young


According to George Maris, the co-head of equities of Americas at Janus Henderson, an asset manager with $370 billion in AUM, a recession in the U.S. clearly remains a near-term risk, which could fully reverse the bullish trend of the U.S. stock market. “It’s…

Why This Technical Analyst Says the Bitcoin Price Rally isn’t Over Yet: Yashu Gola


The bitcoin price on Monday showed no significant movements after posting an impressive rally early Friday. That doesn’t mean the flagship cryptocurrency’s rally is over, however. As of the time of writing, the bitcoin-to-dollar exchange rate (BTC/USD) was tr…

TD Ameritrade Says US Stock Market Stability is Luring Investors, But Here’s Why the Dow Might Not Bounce Back: Joseph Young


Throughout the past two weeks, analysts have generally attributed the recovery of Dow Jones to technical factors, expressing skepticism toward the sustainability of the U.S. stock market rally. This week, Shawn Cruz, a trader strategy manager at $30 billion b…

Why Snap Stock Soared an Unbelievable 30% in Just 5 Days: P. H. Madore


Snap stock has jumped 30% over the past week, from under $7 to over $9. Here in cryptoland, everybody’s mind is on big Bitcoin and the other top cryptos. However, if you pulled your money out of something like XRP five days ago and put it into Snapchat, you’d…

Twitter’s Jack Dorsey Explains Why He Believes No Cryptocurrency Will Ever Beat Bitcoin: Greg Thomson


Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey continued his love-letter to Bitcoin on a recent episode of the Stephan Livera podcast, where he proclaimed that while there may be interesting ideas emerging from other coins in the crypto space, they can all eventually be integrated …

Way to the Moon: MyEtherWallet Reinvents Its Platform with Changelly Onboard: Press Release


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Dow Erases Big Gains as Clock Ticks on Government Shutdown, US-China Trade Negotiations: Sam Bourgi


The U.S. stock market traded mixed-to-lower on Monday, as the Dow and other major indexes gave back gains amid high-stakes trade negotiations between the United States and China. DOW SWINGS LOWER The Dow Jones Industrial Average opened 136 points higher on Mo…

Bitcoin Trading in Venezuela Just Hit an All-Time High Despite a 40% Price Premium: Joseph Young


According to the data provided by LocalBitcoins, a peer-to-peer cryptocurrency trading platform, the weekly volume of Bitcoin in Venezuela achieved a new all-time high. Measured in Bitcoin, the weekly volume of the BTC-to-Venezuelan bolivar (VES) pair increas…

A Bitcoin Bashing Nobel Economist Expects a Global Recession; Will Crypto Prove Him Wrong?: Mark Emem


Noted bitcoin basher and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman has warned that the global economy could be headed for a recession this year, according to CNBC. Per Krugman, the recession could occur towards the end of this year or in 2020: I think that t…

Fasttoken Publishes State Channels Codes: Press Release


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Want to Avoid Taxes for Life? Have 4 Children, Says Hungary’s Anti-Immigration PM: Christina Comben


Having kids is hardly a walk in the park. Oftentimes it feels as if the only incentive in the incessant additional child caring workload is the occasional smile, cuddle, or unexpected kiss. Well, not in Hungary. Outspoken anti-immigration Prime Minister Vikto…

Dow Jumps 100 Points as Trump White House Whipsaws on Trade War: Josiah Wilmoth


The Dow rallied more than 100 points on Monday after the Trump White House whipsawed on the ongoing US-China trade war, providing the US stock market with a jolt of optimism that the two countries would arrive at a deal within the near future. Bitcoin, meanwh…

Crypto Mom Admits the U.S. SEC is ‘Impulsive in Running Away’ from Bitcoin: Christina Comben


In a recent speech at the University of Missouri School of Law, U.S. Commissioner Hester Peirce (‘Crypto Mom’) admitted the SEC has a tendency to flee from anything to do with digital currencies. We rightfully fault investors for jumping blindly at anything l…

Binance Coin Spiked 75% in 1 Month While Crypto Market Snoozed; What’s Driving its Rally?: Joseph Young


Since January 14, the price of Binance Coin (BNB) has increased from $5.54 to $9.7, by more than 75 percent against the U.S. dollar. In the same time frame, the valuation of the crypto market dropped slightly by $3 billion from $124 billion to $121 billion. B…

Swiss Franc Plummets – Here’s What Caused the Haven Currency’s Mini ‘Flash Crash’: Mark Emem


On Monday during the Tokyo session the Swiss franc (CHF) was aggressively sold. The USD/CHF pair for instance touched the 1.0106 level. This was a high that the pair last reached in November last year. On the other hand the Euro/Swiss Franc (EUR/CHF) pair tou…

NiceHash to Smaller Cryptocurrency Miners : If You Can’t Beat 51% Attackers Who Lease Our Hash Power, Join Them: Wes Messamore


‣Reddit user says a single wallet on NiceHash controls 51%+ of the hashrate of Dash ‣NiceHash responds: Lease more hash power from us to shore up against a 51% attack ‣You could also shore up with used ASIC miners for a bargain discount these days ‣NiceHash c…

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