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Fri, 20 Sep 2019, 06:10 PM
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US Congress’ upcoming hearing with SEC to focus on cryptocurrencies and Libra

Coinbase considers listing 17 new digital assets including Kadena and Telegram

Leading cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has announced that it is considering adding support for a range of new assets. The exchange said that while it has largely explored listing assets that are already live and...

Crypto Technicals: ETH/USD consolidates previous session's gains, bias bullish above 200-DMA

ETH/USD chart - Trading View Exchange - Coinbase Support: 206.28 (200-DMA); Resistance: 228.27 (100-DMA) Technical Analysis: Bias Bullish ETH/USD is trading 1.92% lower on the day at 216.62 at 09:50...

Crypto Technicals: BTC/USD retraces from 3-week lows, resumes range trade, bias neutral

BTC/USD chart - Trading View Exchange - Coinbase Support: 9600 (trendline); Resistance: 10508 (50-DMA) Technical Analysis: Bias neutral to slightly bearish BTC/USD pared losses on Thursdays trade, retraced...

Beowulf Blockchain Helps Improve the Lives of Farmers through Strategic Partnership with Vietnam’s First Tablet Manufacturer

Beowulf Blockchain, a comprehensive B2B communications platform, has signed a strategic partnership with Vietnamese hardware company Xelex to jointly deploy blockchain-based agricultural tablets for farmers in order to...

Square Crypto taps former Google, Facebook and Lightning Labs execs for inaugural developer team

Square Crypto, a bitcoin-focused unit of payments company Square, has made three new hires. In a series of tweets, Square Crypto announced the appointment of Facebook and BitGo alum Arik Sosman, Lightning Labs alum...

Bank of America joins blockchain-based trade finance network Marco Polo

Bank of America, the eighth largest bank in the world by total assets, has joined blockchain-based trade finance network Marco Polo. Launched in 2017, Marco Polo leverages R3s Corda and the TradeIX distributed trade...

Crypto trader Genesis acquires Qu Capital to bolster trading technology

Cryptocurrency trader and lender Genesis Trading has made its first-ever acquisition, the company said in a press release. As per the announcement, Genesis has acquired the assets of Qu Capital, a New York-based...

Patrick Byrne sells off his $100M Overstock stake to buy cryptocurrencies, blames 'deep state' and SEC

After abruptly stepping down as Overstock.coms CEO, Patrick Byrne has dumped all his equity holdings in the company over the past week to purchase cryptocurrency and precious metals. As per his website DeepCapture.com,...

Early ethereum supporter Steven Nerayoff faces $12M cryptocurrency extortion charges

The U.S. law enforcement has reportedly arrested Steven Nerayoff, an early supporter of the ethereum project and Overstocks tZeros former paid advisor, along with Alchemist associate Michael Hlady for extortion. The U.S....

IBM, Citibank, Ubisoft signed up as corporate partners of Singapore's blockchain accelerator Tribe

IBM, Citibank, and video game giant Ubisoft have penned a partnership with Singapore-based blockchain accelerator Tribe Accelerator. According to a report by The Straits Times, the companies have joined as corporate...

Business

Pakistan's Faysal Bank becomes the country's first bank to adopt Ripple's xCurrent technology Fri, 20 Sep 2019, 03:42 am UTC

Pakistans Faysal Bank Limited has unveiled its partnership with crypto-based firm Ripple, in a bid to become the first Pakistani bank to implement Ripples xCurrent technology. Faysal Bank confirmed via Twitter on Sept....

All 7-Eleven stores in the Philippines now sell bitcoin, thanks to the new partnership of Abra, ECPay

Arab Bank Switzerland partners with Taurus to offer cryptocurrency services to its wealthy clients

PUBLISH’s native token ‘NEWS’ listed on CoinMarketCap

Technology

Digital Currency and Blockchain Weekly Round-Up – September 20th, 2019 Fri, 20 Sep 2019, 12:28 pm UTC

US Congress upcoming hearing with SEC to focus on cryptocurrencies and Libra The U.S. House Financial Services Committee is going to hold a hearing next week in which it will seek answers from five Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) commissioners on cryptocurrencies and Facebooks Libra, among other topics, CoinDesk...

Azerbaijan's State Customs Committee seeks to exchange information with global counterparts via blockchain

North Korea reportedly in early stages of developing bitcoin-like national cryptocurrency

UAE’s Ministry of Health and Prevention rolls out blockchain-based system

Investing

Crypto Technicals: LTC/USD Technical Analysis Summary Fri, 20 Sep 2019, 14:00 pm UTC

LTC/USD chart - Trading View Exchange - Coinbase Major Support Levels: S1: 72.32 (21-EMA) S2: 69.47 (61.8% Fib) S3: 63.87 (Sept 6 low) Major Resistance Levels: R1: 78.11 (55-EMA) R2: 81.86 (23.6% Fib) R3:...

Crypto Technicals: Major Cryptocurrency Daily Technical Outlook

Crypto Technicals: Major Cryptocurrency Support Resistance Levels

Crypto Technicals: XTZ/USD struggles at 200-DMA resistance (1.1209), break above to see further gains

Insights

Chinese financial institutions increasingly adopting big data, blockchain and AI: Moody’s Thu, 19 Sep 2019, 11:56 am UTC

China is adopting cutting-edge technologies, such as big data, blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI), to improve its structured finance market, Moodys said in a new report. As per the report, the adoption of...

FxWirePro Poll: Ethereum seen to rise but not recoup 2018’s drastic losses

Blockchain industry welcomes Mastercard-R3 collaboration, but skeptical about the future of private networks

United Kingdom leads with most number of registered cryptocurrency exchanges: Study

Bitcoin (BTC) $10,147.30 (+0.91%)
Ethereum (ETH) $216.58 (-1.81%)
XRP (XRP) $0.289800 (-4.34%)
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) $313.72 (-1.12%)
Litecoin (LTC) $74.38 (-3.10%)
Bitcoin (BTC) $10,147.30 (+0.91%)

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