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The AVAX/USD exchange rate slips more than 16% after testing its May resistance level. 403 Total views 73 Total shares The Avalanche blockchain platform's native asset, AVAX, fell on Aug. 19 as traders decided to secure their profits from its 100% upside move.The AVAX/USD exchange rate plunged more than 16% after hitting a three-month high of…

Over 2,500 Austrian merchants can now accept cryptocurrencies as a payment method. 859 Total views 17 Total shares Crypto holders in Austria will soon be able to spend their coins at more than 2,500 points of acceptance using A1 Payment — one of the biggest mobile network operators in the country.According to an announcement made…

Since dropping from its 2019 high at $13,800, Bitcoin (BTC) has been in a rut which has led to the price retracing roughly 43% to $7,800. Traders would take a more conservative approach and describe the last two months of price action as consolidation which is typical after parabolic advances. With the 2020 Bitcoin halving…

The proposal hopes to avert a blanket ban that some warn would result in the illegal trade of cryptocurrencies Major Indian cryptocurrency exchange BuyUCoin has developed a framework to regulate cryptocurrency in India that it claims has the support of “all the Indian cryptocurrency stakeholders”. However, it is not clear yet which stakeholders helped develop the…

Former Wall Street executive and current blockchain researcher Tone Vays has expressed skepticism about the fact that crypto winter is over. Vays made his comments in an interview with Cointelegraph on June 10.Vays, a former financial analyst at United States’ banking giant JPMorgan, revealed that he does not trust the recent rally in the crypto…

After launching TRUMP futures trading last week, FTX plans to release five additional 2020 presidential election-based futures products.“What we’re about to come out with is just similar contracts for the top five Democratic candidates,” an FTX representative told Cointelegraph in an interview. 2020 Reelection futures expand offeringFTX plans to launch a Bernie Sanders (BERNIE) futures trading…

“Stablecoins are pretending to be a coin, but in fact it’s completely associated with an actual currency,” said Christine Lagarde. 346 Total views 4 Total shares Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank, said all cryptocurrencies, in which she included stablecoins and speculative assets, “are not currencies at all.”In a Sept. 1 interview with…

Political-themed memecoins completely outpaced all other memecoin categories this year and Donald Trump has just dropped another NFT collection.