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OCTOBER 27, 2020

Blockchain industry stocks are on the rise as bitcoin reaches new heights, Seeking Alpha reported. HIVE Blockchain Technologies, Riot Blockchain and Marathon Patent Group are on the uptick, according to the report, which was published early Tuesday (Oct. Bitcoin reached higher than the $13,600 level intraday. as of 7:19 p.m.

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JANUARY 20, 2019

Meanwhile, a study by data firm Chainalysis has found that bitcoin as a form of payment doubled in 2018 on darknet market sites. Bitcoin transaction volumes on darknet markets, where people can buy illegal goods, saw an increase over the entire year to reach an average of $2 million daily.

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DECEMBER 30, 2020

At a time when 90 percent of Americans have never owned bitcoin and nearly 70 percent say they have no plans to do so in the future, the thought of widespread adoption and usage of cryptocurrency seems to be a distant prospect for most people. Bitcoin is awesome. Ternio CEO Daniel Gouldman , however, is not one of them. “I Baby Steps

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APRIL 9, 2019

China could move to ban mining for bitcoins if a draft list of activities the country’s state planner wants to ban becomes law. As it stands, China is the biggest market for people to purchase computer hardware for cryptocurrency mining. The price of bitcoin was able to surpass $5,000 for the first time since November.

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OCTOBER 7, 2016

It’s not yet the holidays, but it’s almost Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, a fitting theme for today’s bitcoin news. And bitcoin purveyors and exchangers are eyeing an emerging eCommerce market in India that might offer the right components for traction. So, what’s going on with bitcoin in light of Diwali?

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APRIL 21, 2019

Afghanistan is looking to boost its ailing economy with bitcoin. Sediq explained that bitcoin could be used with a form of metals future, such as lithium, adding that the value of Afghanistan’s mineral reserves is estimated at more than $3 trillion. In the meantime, Afghanistan isn’t the only country looking into bitcoin.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

After that time, they purportedly stole ether, bitcoin and NEO to the tune of $20 million. In separate news, the overall count of bitcoin automated teller machines (ATMs) approached 10,000 at the beginning of September, aksjebloggen.com reported. But they have grown in popularity in markets that are not stable.

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MAY 9, 2022

The most significant problem with bank innovation is that bankers see or hear about a sexy piece of technology at a conference or at another bank and then acquire it. The new piece of technology ends up solving a known problem but, in the process, creates more problems, and risks, than it solves.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2016

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. The election came and went and, with it, brought some stock market shock.

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DECEMBER 30, 2018

The group’s main goal will be to “know, deepen and address the issue of distributed ledger technologies (DLT) and blockchain, as well as increase public and private investments in this direction.” In other news, Craig Wright, the self-proclaimed inventor of bitcoin, has had his move to dismiss a lawsuit against him denied by a U.S.

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MARCH 3, 2020

The blockchain for the Marshallese sovereign (SOV) digital currency will be developed with Algorand technology, according to an announcement. Algorand created a permissionless, open source and pure proof-of-stake blockchain technology. The supply of SOV will be set to increase at 4 percent yearly to stop inflation from occurring.

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MARCH 10, 2020

Bitcoin exceeded the $8,000 mark early Tuesday morning (March 10) before falling below the threshold at approximately 11:30 a.m. The price of bitcoin was $7,983.22 The bitcoin increases could continue in the event that equities keep becoming more balanced. Eastern time. as of 4:30 p.m.

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MARCH 26, 2019

While bitcoin price briefly hit above $4,000 last week, the crypto is now nearing overbought levels. Normally, a market tries more than once to test the depths of despair — and so far we’ve only had one clear test, which hit around the $3,100 level.”. is banned from trading because of his alleged involvement in a bitcoin scam.

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OCTOBER 3, 2017

Citing people familiar with the matter, the Wall Street Journal reported that Goldman Sachs is mulling whether to launch a new trading business that is focused on bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. If the firm moves ahead with these plans, it will be the first high-profile Wall Street company to deal directly in the bitcoin trading market.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The market capitalization of bitcoin, the leading cryptocurrency, declined to under $100 billion for the first time since October of 2017 amid a steep sell-off in digital tokens Wednesday (November 14). According to a report in CNBC citing Coinmarketcap.com, the market cap of bitcoin was at $98,194,458,586 overnight.

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JANUARY 25, 2019

Supermarkets are home to some of retail’s major and ongoing technological advances — and 2018 stands as a big year for grocery innovation. According to Bergquist, the Coinstar-Coinme bitcoin effort represents the “largest mainstream on-ramping to date” for the digital currency. Who Uses Bitcoin ATMs, Anyway? supermarket.

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JULY 30, 2020

The bitcoin exchange has seen record month-over-month peaks in user signups on its exchange as of the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in March. Paxful says it has experienced a 350 percent jump in the use of its infrastructure in Russia, Decrypt reported. In other news, Electric Coin Co. ,

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JANUARY 24, 2018

23) said a transaction between a top Russian wheat shipper and Turkey was completed in bitcoin. The transaction occurred as the global freight and logistics market explores the potential of blockchain and cryptocurrency to streamline transactions and the sharing of data across partners and throughout supply chains.

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Chris Skinner

MAY 26, 2017

I’m being asked this a lot as the value of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have increased ten-fold in the past few weeks. There’s also underperforming Chinese markets and increased demand for the cryptocurrency in a number of Asian countries, particularly Japan where bitcoin is semi-legitimised. It’s funny.

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JANUARY 3, 2019

3) that it will pay a portion of its state business taxes in Ohio in bitcoin, becoming the first major U.S. company to pay state taxes in bitcoin. Paying taxes via bitcoin is not the first milestone for the online retailer, which is morphing into a leader in blockchain technology and cryptocurrency. Ohio is the first U.S.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Is there an alternative, profound French phrase or two that can describe what investors have seen this week with bitcoin? Bitcoin is quickly headed toward fresh three-year highs after jumping up over $100 in value since last week’s tracker. 23) morning, bitcoin had broken $1,150 in value, reaching a high of $1,153.04.

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OCTOBER 9, 2019

Ransom is demanded in bitcoin, upon threat of releasing damaging information to family, friends, and co-workers. But now the hackers are asking for alternative crypto currencies to bitcoin in their ransom demands. This latest sextortion version is using a Litecoin wallet address instead of bitcoin to evade detection,” Johnson wrote.

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AUGUST 13, 2019

Bantotal , a core Latin America banking service provider that works with 60 banks in 14 countries, has partnered with Bitex to perform cross-border payments using bitcoin blockchain, according to reports. I can just send a payment from Argentina to Chile directly [using bitcoin].”.

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AUGUST 18, 2019

“As the financial services industry rapidly evolves, DFS will be at the forefront of fostering a sound, regulatory environment that continues to uphold New York as the premier place to do business, while protecting consumers and markets,” Lacewell said Friday (Aug. 16) in a press release. Both entities are affiliates of Bakkt.

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JANUARY 9, 2018

Digital payment company PayPal is not betting on bitcoin as of now. In an interview with TheStreet.com, PayPal chief executive officer Dan Schulman said that while PayPal is focused on innovating in the payment market, it’s not focused specifically on the digital currency. “I

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OCTOBER 2, 2019

Believe it or not, bitcoin is no longer the most used cryptocurrency, with data from CoinMarketCap.com revealing that the token with the highest daily and monthly trading volume is Tether. Some of the concerning potential patters of trading in the market may start to fall away.”.

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DECEMBER 18, 2018

One year after bitcoin topped $19,400, the popular cryptocurrency rallied on Monday (December 17) and broke through the $3,400 level, CNBC reported. Of the changes, eToro Senior Market Analyst Mati Greenspan said, according to the outlet, “As a relatively new concept, crypto assets are still finding their feet in terms of value.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 6, 2017

The top rival of “digital gold,” i.e. bitcoin, had a banner first quarter in 2017, with a $3.6 billion increase in market cap (just under a 500% increase, compared to bitcoin’s 11% increase for the quarter), according to data from Coindesk’s State of Blockchain report for 1Q17. Welcome to the year of Ethereum.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The malicious software attempted to utilize StFX’s collective computing power in order to create or discover bitcoin for monetary gain. In the meantime, cryptocurrency hackers attacked traffic analytics service StatCounter to steal bitcoin from users of online exchange desk Gate.io. As a result, Gate.io

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JUNE 1, 2018

Shares of Square have risen almost 50 percent, adding about $8 billion in market value, since the company launched bitcoin trading last year for its Cash App customers. Square’s founder and chief executive, Jack Dorsey, helped to enable merchants to accept bitcoin as a payment method back in 2014. percent of total U.S.

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

BitPay has announced that OneGold, a marketplace that combines the benefits of gold and silver with blockchain-based digital assets, is now accepting bitcoin and bitcoin cash. When they started OneGold, we were ready to help them accept Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash through BitPay.”.

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DECEMBER 2, 2018

Bitcoin just had its worst month in seven years, dropping nearly $2,400 in price. percent loss is bitcoin’s worst month on record since August 2011. The real question is: Has the crypto market indeed reached the bottom?” According to Coindesk , the crypto started November at an average price across exchanges of $6,341.

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OCTOBER 31, 2017

31), every Bitcoin will be worth approximately$6,125, according to reports from Bloomberg. In total, Bitcoin is worth more than $100 billion, Bloomberg reported, meaning more than half of cryptocurrency is comprised of Bitcoin. As of today (Oct. percent growth during the same period.

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MAY 20, 2019

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has delayed a decision to approve a bitcoin exchange-traded fund, asking for more comments in the meantime. But given that their issues are with the underlying bitcoin market, not sure why they just don’t deny it as opposed to stringing along the crypto faithful with false hope.”.

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JANUARY 9, 2019

On another note, China Mobile ’s Internet of Things (IoT) unit has tied blockchain technology to a water purifier, CoinDesk reported. The company seeks to fill a void in a market, where nonprofits may lack the knowledge or technology to take in cryptocurrency donations.

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OCTOBER 8, 2019

Together, Bitfinex and Tether manipulated a market that, by design, is supposed to be decentralized,” states the lawsuit. In other news, $10 billion worth of bitcoin — or almost 7 percent — is currently held in the wallets of eight major cryptocurrency exchanges. Coin Telegraph reported that Token Analyst found that almost 1.2

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Markets.com Chief Market Analyst Neil Wilson told Bloomberg, “It just shows what a massive, speculative bubble the whole crypto thing was, as many of us at the time warned. It’s a very likely a winner takes all market — bitcoin currently most likely.”. Bitcoin was priced at $6,477.77 and ether was valued at $209.55

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