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Nov 7, 2020 at 16:27 UTCUpdated Nov 7, 2020 at 16:29 UTCPresident-Elect Joe Biden's impact on the cryptocurrency space is unclear, though he will appoint federal regulators who oversee the industry.(Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons)Crypto Impact Unclear After Joe Biden Unseats Donald Trump as Next US PresidentJoe Biden’s picks to head key regulatory agencies could redefine cryptocurrency…

markets View Bitcoin’s three-day chart is showing a bullish crossover of the 5- and 10-day exponential moving averages for the first time since July. The crossover looks decisive as both EMAs are now trending north, validating the bearish-to-bullish trend change signaled by the high-volume triangle breakout seen on the 3-day chart. The cryptocurrency could test…

news Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has issued regulations for fund managers investing in “virtual assets.” In an Oct. 4 announcement, the financial market watchdog formalized a framework put out in November last year that was aimed to regulate funds that allocate more than 10 percent of their portfolio in virtual assets. The 37-page…

Jan 17, 2020 at 16:43 UTCUpdated Jan 17, 2020 at 17:07 UTCBlock.one CEO Brendan Blumer speaks at the Voice launch event, June 2019. (Photo courtesy of Block.one)In June when Block.one, the company behind the largest initial coin offering (ICO) in history, announced its Facebook-challenging social network, Voice, it promised the blockchain would run on the…

Oct 2, 2020 at 12:08 UTCUpdated Oct 2, 2020 at 12:23 UTCBitcoin outflow from BitMEX(Glassnode)Bitcoin outflows from prominent crypto derivatives exchange BitMEX are already up in the wake of charges from U.S. agencies announced Thursday.The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York both announced…

news Overstock.com’s long-awaited tZERO security token trading platform will go live by the end of next week, CEO Patrick Byrne said Friday. Byrne told CoinDesk the company is “ready to hit the button and go live today,” but was waiting a few more days to process user signups. “But by the end of the next week…

news ConsenSys Ventures, the investment arm of ethereum development studio ConsenSys, has selected 10 blockchain startups for the second cohort of its accelerator program Tachyon. Announcing the news on Monday, ConsenSys Ventures said that the selected startups for the Tachyon 2.0 program are focused on building new blockchain-based solutions across data privacy, encryption, healthcare and…

news David Marcus, Facebook’s top executive on the Libra project, said China will create a digital currency system that could be entirely out of reach for U.S. authorities. Marcus warned that Washington risks “having a whole part of the world completely blocked from U.S. sanctions and protected from U.S. sanctions and having a new digital…

Consumers are wary about using CBDCs, despite the fact that most central banks are exploring using these cryptocurrencies, according to a survey by Deutsche Bank. The COVID-19 pandemic hastened the shift towards digital payments, the report said Only 16% of those surveyed thought that central bank digital currencies would go mainstream. 00:50 First Neiro on