Cryptocurrency Highlights, News, Use Cases And Other Reckonings : #155 (2018-12-01)

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Crypto Giant OKEx Deslists Several Trading Pairs: Benjamin Pirus


Today brought news of OKEx exchange delisting several additional trading pairs. This is the third time OKEx has delisted a group of assets. OKEx Delisting In an announcement today on their website support page, OKEx stated the delisting of thirty-eight differ…

Korean Firm Aims to Make Blockchain Faster: Jimmy Aki


According to local news outlet Joongnag Daily, a blockchain company based in Korea believes that it has found what it takes to revolutionize blockchain technology and bring even quicker pace to the way that transactions are being carried out. SymVerse, a bloc…

No Bitcoin ETF Before Important Changes to BTC Markets: SEC Chairman: P. H. Madore


SEC Chairman Jay Clayton has claimed that bitcoin exchanges lack sufficient transparency and monitoring for the market to see approved Bitcoin Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs). According to CNBC, at the Consensus Invest Conference in New York City recently, Clayt…

HBUS Launches Crypto Billboard Campaign Mocking Coinbase And Wall Street: P. H. Madore


The newer HBUS cryptocurrency exchange has taken its message to the streets with a new billboard campaign. According to a blog post by the exchange themselves, they are the first in the nation to do this, and we find nothing to the contrary. However, there ha…

500-Year Old Swiss University Makes Vitalik Buterin an Honorary Doctor: Mark Emem


The co-founder of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin, has been awarded an honorary doctorate by Switzerland’s oldest institution of higher learning, the University of Basel. According to the university’s Faculty of Business and Economics, which awarded Buterin the hon…

Bitcoin Price Nearing ‘Capitulation Moment’: IG Market Analyst: David Hundeyin


Bitcoin is not far from a critical loss of investor confidence that will lead to the market hemorrhaging vast amounts of value as nervous investors dump their holdings. This is the opinion of Chris Beauchamp, an analyst at the online trading platform IG. Spea…

eToro and Mumsnet Research Reveals over Half of Mums (55%) Want to Take Control of Their Finances: Sponsored


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Mainstream Media Coverage of Bitcoin Goes up as Price Falls: Survey: Mark Emem


Research suggests that when it comes to covering bitcoin, bad news sells. According to a study conducted by blockchain firm Clovr, the coverage of bitcoin by the mainstream media peaked at the time when the cryptocurrency fell from its all-time high at the be…

Volentix Introduces Vespucci for Comprehensive Cryptocurrency Market Analysis: Press Release


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Intel Gains Patent for Energy-Efficient Bitcoin Mining Design: P. H. Madore


Intel has been awarded patent #10,142,098, which pertains to a system they’ve designed which improves the energy efficiency of Bitcoin miners. While it takes a hardware engineer to fully understand what’s going on in their patent, relevant to the discussion i…

Introducing WAY2BIT and the Bora Blockchain Ecosystem: Press Release


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Coinbase ‘Pump’ Fails to Boost Zcash in 17% Drop from Daily Peak: Joseph Young


On November 30, Zcash (ZEC), a privacy-focused cryptocurrency, was integrated into Coinbase Pro, a U.S.-based regulated digital asset exchange operated by Coinbase. The exchange told investors that throughout the foreseeable future, withdrawals of Zcash shiel…

People Are Still Sending Funds to Iranian Bitcoin Addresses Banned by the US Government: P. H. Madore


The two addresses publicized by the US Treasury this week as belonging to associates of those behind the SamSam Ransomware attack, a lucrative operation that ran for years and affected computer systems the world over, have received a few transactions since. T…

Bitcoin Price Falls Under $4,000: Was Immediate Pullback Expected After Big Spike?: Joseph Young


On November 28, the price of Bitcoin (BTC) spiked from $3,771 to $4,355, by more than 15.4 percent. In less than 48 hours, the dominant cryptocurrency has fallen back down to $3,861, dropping below the $4,000 mark. Bitcoin recorded a 7-month high daily spike …

TokenPlus Launches Leading Arbitrage Trading Platform: Press Release


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Flawed Cryptocurrencies Will Never be a Store of Value, Claims UBS’ Chief Economist: Mark Emem


The global chief economist of Swiss financial giant UBS, Paul Donovan, has reiterated his position that cryptocurrencies have no ‘future’. Speaking to business channel CNBC, Donovan said that cryptocurrencies are flawed and will never go mainstream. According…

Court Orders Swiss Crypto Mining Firm Envion to Shut Down: Jimmy Aki


Envion AG, a crypto-based firm that aimed to combine cryptocurrency mining with green power, has been shut down by the cantonal court of Zug, Switzerland. The company was reportedly dissolved due to an alleged unauthorized Initial Coin Offering (ICO) on Novem…

Privacy-focused Cryptocurrency Zcash Launches on Coinbase Pro: Jimmy Aki


In an announcement on Thursday, Coinbase Pro has officially added support for Zcash (ZEC), a prominent privacy-centric cryptocurrency. According to the release, Coinbase Pro started receiving inbound transfers of ZEC tokens from 10 am PST on Thursday, which w…

Declining Market Means Nothing When Lambo Is on the Way: Sponsored


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