September 2019 | Page 23 of 145 | Last Cryptocurrency News Feed

Bitcoin At $8K A Reason To Worry? Nope, Network Metrics Are Just Fine Long Term

Just a couple of days ago, Bitcoin plunged to $8,000, losing $1,500 of its USD value in less than an hour. This marked a severe drop of around 14% and had quite a lot of people worried about whether the bullish trend of 2019 has reversed. A closer look at the state of the network,…

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Facebook’s Zuckerberg Appears to Put Libra Launch Date in Doubt

news Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has refused to commit to the planned 2020 launch for the Libra cryptocurrency project. Talking in interview with Nikkei on Thursday, Zuckerberg was asked about the expected date of the stablecoin’s arrival, to which he replied: “Obviously we want to move forward at some point soon [and] not have this take…

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Repo Market Meltdown Shows Bitcoin’s ‘Systemic’ Stability: Caitlin Long

Wyoming Blockchain Coalition president Caitlin Long has responded to the recent unrest in the money markets by analyzing the systemic fragility of the traditional financial sector as compared with Bitcoin (BTC).In a Medium blog post published on Sept. 25, Long made the argument that “at a systemic level, the traditional financial system is as fragile…

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Coinbase Rolls Out Stellar Lumens (XLM) Trading in New York State

Major United States-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase that it made Stellar’s Lumens (XLM) trading available also to those users who reside in New York.The exchange made the announcement in a tweet sent by its official Twitter account on Sept. 25. New York state residents can now trade, store, send and receive Stellar Lumens using both the…

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WATCH: How Blockchain Oracles Could Take Chainlink to New Highs

news Chainlink CEO Sergey Nazarov says there’s one big thing holding back corporate adoption of blockchain technology: reliable oracle services that connect blockchain systems to real-world events, and vice versa. In his mind, making blockchain-based contracts pegged to real-world events – in a reliable and secure manner – is the next “leap forward” that will…

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Bitcoin Price ‘Manipulated’ Before Futures Settlement Dates: Research

New research this week has added to suspicions that futures settlement dates end up manipulating the Bitcoin (BTC) price.Bitcoin drops 75% of the time before futures expireAccording to findings from Arcane Research reported by Norwegian crypto news outlet Kryptografen on Sept. 24, CME Group’s Bitcoin futures settlement dates, in particular, appear to negatively influence BTC…

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Zuckerberg: ‘Sensitive for Society’ Libra Crypto Has No Launch Date

Facebook is taking a much more careful approach to Libra than its previous projects, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has confirmed. Zuckerberg on Libra: Talking first, rollout secondSpeaking in an interview with Asia-based news outlet Nikkei on Sept. 26, Zuckerberg appeared to show a rare display of fear in the face of mounting regulatory scrutiny of Libra. Facebook’s digital…

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Libra Crypto Is ‘Undoubtedly’ a Wakeup Call for Central Banks, Says ECB Exec

news Facebook’s Libra could potentially solve some of the problems in the international payments market, but it might create a number of others that will require creative thinking by the regulators, says an European central banker. In comments to the German federal parliament Bundestag on Wednesday, Benoit Coeure, a member of the Executive Board of the…

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Neo Becomes .NET Foundation’s First Blockchain Member

Neo, a decentralized open source blockchain application platform, announced that it became the first-ever blockchain member of Microsoft’s .NET Foundation.In the press release published on Sept. 24, the platform stated that during the .NET Conference 2019 Neo “joined the .NET Foundation, the Microsoft-created, globally leading open-source foundation,” adding:“Based on their shared open-source heritage, NEO and…

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Cybersecurity Firm Releases WannaCryFake Bitcoin Ransomware Fix

Cybersecurity firm Emsisoft has released a solution for Bitcoin (BTC)-demanding ransomware WannaCryFake.Pay Bitcoin in return for your dataIn a Sept. 25 blog post, Emsisoft announced that they are releasing a new free fix for the WannaCryFake ransomware bug. The WannaCryFake is the next version of the WannaCry worm, a type of malicious software program that…