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Bitcoin Daily: Hackers Contribute Crypto To Charities; Bitcoin Crests $12K

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A hacking organization released receipts for $10,000 in charitable contributions to two groups made through bitcoin, the BBC reported. in bitcoin ( valued at approximately $10,515 as of 7:04 P.M. In other news, the price of bitcoin broke through the $12,000 level on Tuesday (Oct. The price of bitcoin was $11,954.07

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Bitcoin Daily: Ant Financial Rolls Out OpenChain; Bitcoin Firm Purse Plans To Close

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Ant Financial rolled out a blockchain platform called OpenChain, which lets small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and developers harness its proprietary blockchain technologies, according to an announcement. The technology offers many modules to developers that they can use in different mixes to create trust in team efforts.

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What happened to the bitcoin bubble?

Chris Skinner

I was interviewed by UBS’s wealth management team a month ago, when the bitcoin bubble was in full bloom. That is the contention of Chris Skinner, Chairman of The Financial Services Club, author of thefinanser.com blog and one of Financial News’ ‘FinTech 40’ most influential people in financial technology.

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New US 'Cryptocurrency Enforcement Network' Takes Aim At Bitcoin Scammers

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Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are continuing to attract attention from authorities for all the wrong reasons. FBI Director Christopher Wray added that his agents have observed the dangers of cryptocurrency’s criminal usage firsthand, noting that a promising technology has sometimes been used to conduct illicit activities.

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Bitcoin Daily: India Pushes Blockchain Digitalization Of Trade Documents; Bitcoin IRA Debuts Saver IRA

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CargoX ’s Platform for Blockchain Document Transfer (BDT) was connected with the Port Community System (PCS) of India amid a push in the country for trade documents, including of bills of lading, to be digitized, WorldCargo News reported. The firm has reduced its standard account minimum to $3,000.

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Bitcoin Tracker: Bitcoin Black Friday

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In this week’s Bitcoin Tracker, bitcoin soars, then settles down and plans for its yearly sale abound. Switzerland gives bitcoin a hand by way of rail ticket machine sales, an Australian startup banks on the aptly named Dash and Zcash fervor fades. But as markets saw their prices fall, bitcoin’s numbers went up.

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Bitcoin Daily: Square’s Crypto Branch To Provide $100K To BTCPay Foundation

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Square Crypto has announced that it is giving the first of many grants to support open-source bitcoin projects to the BTCPay Foundation. BTCPay represents everything we love about open-source bitcoin projects. That said, we are open to emerging use cases and technologies that complement bitcoin,” according to Coin Telegraph.

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