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China just revealed New Details on its Digital Currency
The main details of China’s central bank digital currency, also known as the digital renminbi, have been released. The currency will be, as expected, fully centralized and will be controlled by China’s central bank but … Read More
LocalBitcoins Shuts Down Accounts in Problematic Countries
LocalBitcoins, one of the oldest cryptocurrency exchanges out there, has reportedly begun to suspend accounts of long-term users without prior notifications. Forbes reported that users across at least three regions, including Asia, Africa, and the … Read More
Tether announces the Launch of Tether Gold, a gold-backed Crypto
Tether, the company behind the biggest stablecoin in the world, has launched Tether Gold, a digital asset providing exposure to physical gold. According to the company’s announcement, XAU₮ will be available both on Ethereum and … Read More
BitPay Now Supports XRP
Blockchain payments processor BitPay has added support for XRP, which has been integrated on BitPay’s platform via Ripple’s open developer platform, Xpring. With XRP’s addition, BitPay now supports a total of seven cryptocurrencies and stablecoins … Read More
Venezuelan Team working on a Bitcoin Mesh Network based on Offline Radios
A Venezuelan team is developing Locha, a decentralized mesh network that does not rely on the Internet to conduct transactions with Bitcoin (BTC). The radio wave based system was created because Venezuela often has to … Read More
Central Banks join forces to focus on Digital Currencies
The central banks of Britain, the euro zone, Japan, Sweden and Switzerland will share experiences in a new group headed by former European Central Bank official Benoit Coeure and assisted by the Bank of International … Read More
Mondays Are the Best Days to Buy Bitcoin
Taking a deeper look at Bitcoin returns for a longer time period, Mondays offer the best average return from all the days of the week (0.54%). On the other hand, Thursday and Wednesday are the … Read More
Bitcoin SV Goes Parabolic, Flippens Bitcoin Cash
Bitcoin SV $BSV is now the fourth biggest asset by market capitalization, taking the spot of Bitcoin Cash BCH. After months of flexing, and promising something big for early 2020, BSV finally delivers – at … Read More
BTC Trading Volumes More than Doubled in a Week
The crypto market research company Arcane Research has published a report stating that the trading volume of Bitcoin (BTC) has more than doubled within the last 7 days. According to the report, the average daily … Read More
China’s central bank says it has completed ‘top-level’ design of digital currency
The People’s Bank of China (PBoC), the country’s central bank, has said that the “top-level” design of its digital currency is complete. This was reported by the Chinese news site JRJ.com. The next steps are … Read More