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In Race for 2030 Currency Supremacy, the Dollar Is Its Own Worst Enemy

Dec 31, 2019 at 17:00 UTC"The Funding Bill" by Eastman Johnson, 1881, via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtThe U.S. dollar’s century-long reign of the world economy faces a threat over the coming decade – as China’s renminbi strives to become its successor, as some prominent central bankers call for a more sustainable global monetary regime…

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Inside the Osaka Conference Where Crypto Got Serious About FATF’s ‘Travel Rule’

Dec 31, 2019 at 16:20 UTCUpdated Dec 31, 2019 at 16:31 UTCInside the Osaka Conference Where Crypto Got Serious About FATF’s ‘Travel Rule’This post is part of CoinDesk's 2019 Year in Review, a collection of 100 op-eds, interviews and takes on the state of blockchain and the world. Leah Callon-Butler is the director of Emfarsis,…

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Tezos Price Analysis: Lonely Top 10 Crypto In Green – Can XTZ Overcome $1.30?

Tezos slipped by a further 10% this week but managed to find strong support at $1.30. Against Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency has rebounded after meeting support slightly beneath 0.00018 BTC. Today, XTZ is the only positive-performing cryptocurrency from the top projects. Key Support & Resistance Levels XTZ/USD Support: $1.29, $1.20, $1.15. Resistance: $1.42, $1.64, $1.74, $1.80..…

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Bitcoin Loves Weekends: Saturday Was The Best ROI Day Throughout 2019

With only a few hours left to the start of 2020, a recent market report from Santiment, a platform for accessing cryptocurrency data and insight, revealed that Saturdays proved to be the best days for Bitcoin in 2019 with Fridays being the worst. According to Santiment, they created a backtesting solution to calculate the daily…

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Bitcoin 2020 — Blockchain’s New Year Resolutions

Most of us believe in the “New Year — New Me” rhetoric”: I'm going to lose weight, quit smoking, eat healthy, stop being lazy, spend more time with family and whatnot. Yet, losing weight usually only turns into losing motivation instead.But then, it doesn't really make sense to laugh at our absurdities, as we humans…

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XRP Price Lost 66% Against BTC in 2019 — Will the Pain End in 2020?

Bitcoin (BTC) price has seen a significant increase in 2019 (by more than 100%), while altcoins are actually down significantly from the beginning of the year. Moreover, most altcoin/BTC pairs have been hitting new lows, and many of the coins are still trending downwards, looking for potential support.Crypto market daily performance. Source: Coin360One of these coins…

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Ethereum Network Overcame Intentional Attack Affecting Parity Nodes

The Ethereum (ETH) network was apparently the target of a coordinated attack, according to several analysts.Following reports that some Parity Ethereum nodes lost sync with the network, on Dec. 31, core blockchain infrastructure company Parity Technology said it believed there was an attack underway and subsequently released network upgrades to protect against it. According to cryptocurrency…

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Bitcoin Failed To Breach Through Resistance, Now Facing $7000 At The Last Hours of 2019 (Price Analysis & Overview)

Just a quick update to yesterday’s extended Bitcoin update: Shortly after reaching the significant resistance of the month-old descending trend-line, as of yesterday, Bitcoin got rejected and rapidly lost momentum. Failing to hold the $7400 and breach the December descending trend-line (marked light green on the following daily chart), had sent Bitcoin below the next…

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Turkish Bank’s Blockchain Platform for Digital Gold Transfers Goes Live

Turkey's Istanbul Clearing, Settlement and Custody Bank (Takasbank) announced that its blockchain-based, physical gold-backed transfer system is now live.Turkish Takasbank launched BiGA Digital Gold to provide banks with a blockchain-based system for the issuance, repayment and transfer of digitized gold, according to an announcement on Dec. 30. The BiGA system — first announced in September 2019…

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What Is a Cryptocurrency? We Need Clearer Definitions

Dec 31, 2019 at 09:14 UTCThis post is part of CoinDesk's 2019 Year in Review, a collection of 100 op-eds, interviews and takes on the state of blockchain and the world. Dr Gina C Pieters is an Assistant Instructional Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago, and a Research Fellow at…