Mati Greenspan, Senior Market Analyst at FX broker eToro, has provided his daily commentary on traditional and crypto markets for May 27, 2019. The text below is an excerpt and does not contain the full analysis. Traditional Markets Today is a bank holiday in the UK and in the USA. So volumes are likely to…
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Paxful, a peer-to-peer bitcoin marketplace, has just released a series of educational workshops throughout Africa in 2019 in conjunction with the official launch of their wallet app. They have also pledged to continue aiding the growth of entrepreneurship in emerging markets by giving away bitcoin to those who attend the workshop and download the wallet…
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Cryptocurrency scams and theft are undeniably two of the largest and most serious problems in the crypto space. Security issues arise almost every month now. The latest “casualty” was Binance, through which hackers stole $40 million in digital coins. The stolen amount was equivalent to around 7,000 Bitcoins at that time. Hackers stole API tokens…
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Crypto enthusiasts are beside themselves with glee. The apparent excitement on Twitter feeds and other social media is palpable. Bitcoin continues to amaze, as it strikes out for new 2019 conquests. Tyler Winklevoss, the co-founder of the Gemini exchange, perhaps, summed it up best in his recent Tweet: Bitcoin breaking 8k this time around feels…
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The following article was written by Paxful. Before you start learning how to earn money from affiliate programs, it’s important that you understand what affiliate programs are and how they work. Affiliate programs were first made popular in 1996 by Jeff Bezos - CEO and founder of Amazon.com. Bezos popularized it by showing how effective…
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A new pacemaker has arrived in the crypto world, as the United Arab Emirates raced to the front of the pack take the first place crown in token sales for 2019. The U.S., which has been the outright leader in prior years, is sadly now in seventh place, due primarily to the regulatory clampdown that…
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Despite Crypto Winter and the icy cynicism of Crypto-Land’s worst critics, all indications are that institutional investors have not been discouraged enough by opposing rhetoric to abandon the space altogether. Quite the contrary is true, as several key indications of participation continue to expand, as if focused on a convergence sometime in the near-term future.…
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Despite China’s anathema for all things crypto, Donald Tapscott, chairman of the Blockchain Research Institute and noted author on blockchain matters, believes that, over time, Chinese officials will get over their fears and embrace cryptocurrencies. In an interview with Bloomberg, he noted: In 20 years, we’re not going to be using bitcoin in China. The…
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If there is one thing that crypto enthusiasts can agree upon, it is that valuations will soar in Crypto-Land when institutional investors begin shifting capital into the space in a significant way. To date, institutional participation in digital assets can best be described as modest, but a new research paper has revealed that endowment funds…
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John Berlau, a senior fellow at libertarian think tank Competitive Enterprise Institute, has wasted no time in blasting the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for its heavy handed treatment of all things crypto. The SEC recently released guidelines to clarify how it applies existing statutes in order to assist legal firms and promoters of Initial…
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