CryptoCurrency News: NEM Foundation: Stolen Coincheck Funds Not Sent to Exchanges

The 58 billion yen worth of XEM tokens are on the move, according to the NEM Foundation, but no attempt to sell them on exchanges has been made.

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CryptoCurrency News: SEC, CFTC Chiefs Set for Senate Crypto Hearing Next Week

The heads of the SEC and the SEC are set to testify on cryptocurrencies before Congress next week.

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CryptoCurrency News: KodakCoin Token Sale Delayed By 'Several Weeks'

Photo company Kodak announced it was delaying its token sale by "several weeks" on Wednesday, the day it was originally supposed to launch.

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CryptoCurrency News: Square Adds Bitcoin Buying for More Cash App Users

Digital payments company Square has rolled bitcoin payments out to most of its Cash App users.

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[FOREX NEWS] Yellen’s last stand – Live coverage

The Federal Reserve makes its first decision for 2018 which will be the last one for outgoing Fed Chair Janet Yellen. No rate hike is expected in this meeting which does not consist of a press conference nor new forecasts. The FOMC does not like to rock the boat, but markets can always overreact to [...]

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CryptoCurrency News: Bitcoin Tax Payments Bill Advances in Arizona

Lawmakers in Arizona have advanced a proposal that would allow residents in the state to pay their taxes in bitcoin.

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CryptoCurrency News: Italy's Economy Minister Blasts Crypto Market Bad Behavior

Italian Economy Minister Pier Carlo Padoan warned on Wednesday that cryptocurrencies are dangerous, but that blockchain technology is not to blame.

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CryptoCurrency News: Venezuela's President Announces 'Petro' Token Pre-Sale

The president of Venezuela has said the pre-sale of the country's proposed oil-backed cryptocurrency will launch next month.

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CryptoCurrency News: US Court Freezes BitConnect Assets as Lawsuits Mount

A temporary restraining order freezing BitConnect's assets has been granted in the U.S. after a second lawsuit was filed against the exchange Monday.

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CryptoCurrency News: Bull Breakout? LSK Jumps 60 Percent on Exchange Listing

The price of the cryptocurrency LSK saw a boom Wednesday on news it will list on a major exchange and see a rebranding soon.

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[FOREX TIP] NZDUSD Price Action Analysis – 31st Jan 2018

NZDUSD has been on a consolidation after being very Bullish on the H4 chart. The pair seems to be waiting to find its route. However, today’s price action has been Bullish as far as intraday charts are concerned. Today’s two consecutive H4 candles have been Bullish. Moreover, one of them made a breakout at a significant level of intraday resistance. Thus, the pair might offer us a long entry later today. Let us have a look at the H1 NZDUSD chart.

NZDUSD Price Action Analysis – 31st Jan 2018

Have a look at the level of 0.73540. This was a higher high of the last swing high. This level has been broken by an H4 candle today. The price has been Bullish after the breakout. If the price comes back to the breakout level and produces an H1 Bullish Engulfing Candle right at the level of 0.73540, then buying the pair would get us some green pips. Let us have a look at the summary of the trade…

• Buy Limit Order: 0.73540
• Stop loss: 0.73280
• Take Profit: 0.74300
• Validity: 72 hours
• Whenever possible, move the stop loss to the entry price and whenever you want, you can take profit anytime as long as you feel comfortable

The USD has some high impact news events to face today. Especially the FOMC statement is one big news event, which has to be counted by the traders. I would recommend that the traders should come out with their intraday entries at least 30 minutes before the news event takes place. The FOMC statement is to take place at GMT 20.00. This means intraday positions should be taken out at GMT 19.30. Trade safe.

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CryptoCurrency News: Crypto Exchange Bittrex Outlines Token Listing Criteria

Cryptocurrency exchange Bittrex has exclusively shared with CoinDesk its list of criteria for listing and delisting tokens on its platform.

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CryptoCurrency News: State Retirement Funds in Tennessee Could Face Bitcoin Restriction

Tennessee lawmakers have put forward a new bill that would bar state government retirement funds from investing in cryptocurrencies.

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CryptoCurrency News: Davos Elites Still Don't Get Blockchain

"It's not useful for anything," Krugman and his cohort claim. The problem of this blinkered mindset is that it fails to recognize the cost of trust.

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CryptoCurrency News: Bitcoin Back Above $10K But Gains Could Be Short-Lived

Bitcoin is back above the $10,000 mark, but may soon head back below $9,800, the technical charts indicate.

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CryptoCurrency News: Line Pay App to Launch Cryptocurrency Services

Japanese messaging app provider Line Corporation has announced the launch of a new company that will provide in-app cryptocurrency services.

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CryptoCurrency News: Samsung Is Now Building Bitcoin Mining Chips, Report Says

Samsung is manufacturing bitcoin mining chips in partnership with an unidentified Chinese firm, according to an Asian news report.

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CryptoCurrency News: South Korea Won't Ban Crypto Trading, Says Minister

South Korea does not intend to "ban or suppress" cryptocurrency trading, the country's finance minister said today.

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CryptoCurrency News: The New "It" Blockchain Projects Investors Want to Fund

With ICO burnout coming, investors at the Blockchain Connect conference last week discussed what projects really pique their interest.

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CryptoCurrency News: South Korea: Cryptos Mixed up in $600 Million Illegal Forex Trade

The South Korea government is investigating the use of cryptocurrency in illegal foreign currency exchange, according to a statement.

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CryptoCurrency News: Hawaiian Bills Would Capture Crypto Under Money Transmission Law

Hawaiian lawmakers are aiming to address cryptocurrency, this time by update money transmission law in the state.

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CryptoCurrency News: Facebook Is Banning Advertisements for Bitcoin, ICOs

Social media giant Facebook has unveiled a new policy that bans advertisements involving bitcoin and initial coin offerings, among others. 

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CryptoCurrency News: Report: CFTC Sends Subpoenas to Bitfinex, Tether

The CFTC has subpoenaed Bitfinex and Tether, according to a new report from Bloomberg.

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CryptoCurrency News: Bitcoin's Price Falls Below $10K Amid Wider Crypto Drop

The price of bitcoin is down nearly 10 percent today, having slipped to close to $10,000 amid wider weakness in the cryptocurrency market.

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CryptoCurrency News: BitConnect Hit With Second Lawsuit Over Ponzi Allegations

Kentucky citizen Brian Page filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of each of BitConnect's former investors, alleging the company ran a Ponzi scheme.

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CryptoCurrency News: NEM Faces Bear Market as 3-Day Slide Continues

Down for the third consecutive day, NEM's native cryptocurrency XEM is close to seeing a revival of the bear market, technical charts indicate.

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CryptoCurrency News: Another Blockchain ETF Has Launched

Innovation Shares announced that it will launch a NextGen Protocol ETF that uses AI to identify and invest in blockchain innovators.

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CryptoCurrency News: SEC Files Fraud Suit Against Crypto Bank ICO

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is charging cryptocurrency banking firm AriseBank over alleged fraud and violations of securities rules.

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CryptoCurrency News: 'Bitcoin Could Alter the World,' Says Former US Senator

Former New Hampshire governor and three-term senator Judd Gregg has said he believes bitcoin could alter how the world views currency.

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CryptoCurrency News: Intel's Hyperledger Blockchain Sawtooth Is Ready for Business

Intel's Sawtooth blockchain software has become the second codebase to graduate from incubation by the Hyperledger blockchain consortium.

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CryptoCurrency News: $10K Exposed? Bitcoin Bulls Fail to Defend Price Floor

Bitcoin is looking at $10,000 after the bulls failed to defend a key level in the early Asian hours, price chart analysis suggests.

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[FOREX NEWS] First it was Apple X, then the new healthcare giant – is the bear market here?

Stock markets have been on the up and up, setting new records and getting the appraisal from US President Donald Trump. The most recent rally in markets is accompanied to the synchronized global growth and has also seen a “risk on” environment which saw funds flowing out of the US dollar, contributing to the downfall. Yet [...]

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CryptoCurrency News: Hong Kong Seeks to Educate the Public on Cryptocurrency and ICOs

Hong Kong authorities have launched a public education campaign on the risks associated with ICO and cryptocurrency investment.

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CryptoCurrency News: German Regulator Orders Crypto Exchange to Halt Brokerage Business

A German financial watchdog has ordered Crypto.exchange GmbH to immediately stop offering financial commission services.

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[FOREX TIP] AUDJPY Price Action Analysis – 30th Jan 2018

AUDJPY had a long consolidation on the H4 chart. Today the pair produced a huge H4 Bearish candle and the price came out from the consolidation. This means if we get an H4 inside bar and an H1 Bearish Engulfing Candle, then selling the pair would get us some green pips. Let us have a look at the H1 AUDJPY chart.

AUDJPY Price Action Analysis – 30th Jan 2018

Have a look at those huge H1 Bearish candles. One of them made a breakout at 87.870. Apparently, this has been an H4 breakout as well. Now, this resistance level has to be held by an H4 candle. If the current H4 candle is held and we get an H1 Bearish Engulfing Candle at the level of 87.870, then the price would reach the level of 87.200 without having that many pauses. Let us have a look at the summary of the trade.

• Sell Limit Order: 87.870
• Stop Loss: 88.250
• Take Profit: 87.200
• Validity: 72 hours
• Whenever possible, move the stop loss to the entry price and whenever you want, you can take profit anytime as long as you feel comfortable

None of the currency of this pair has any high impact news event today. This means the pair would not have any uncertain volatility today. This is another reason that the technical traders would be more interested to trade on this pair. Moreover, the breakout H4 candle looks very solid. So far, all the equations suggest that the pair might offer an entry as far as the H1 chart is concerned. Now, all we have to wait for is the corrective H4 candle. Let us wait and see whether we get that to go short on the pair today.

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CryptoCurrency News: Investment Fund Moves to Capitalize on Ethereum Ecosystem

Ethereum Capital aims to raise $50 million to purchase controlling shares of ethereum-based startups and tokens.

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CryptoCurrency News: This Token Promises Not to Spam You on Social Media

Singapore-based marketing company Jet8 has proved the value of cool teens in Asia, and with this ICO, it goes global.

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CryptoCurrency News: SBI Ripple Asia Forms Consortium to Bring DLT to Securities

The joint venture between investment giant SBI and Ripple is forming a group to research the use of distributed ledgers in securities products.

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[FOREX NEWS] Euro-zone Q4 GDP rises 0.6% as expected – EUR/USD looks strong

Robust growth continues in Europe: 0.6% q/q as expected. This comes on top of 0.7% in Q3. Year over year, the 19-country currency bloc saw a growth rate of 2.7%. The data for Q3 was revised to the upside, adding to the oomph. This is the first estimate that does include Germany, the largest economy. [...]

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CryptoCurrency News: JP Morgan Blockchain Spin-Off Raises $2.25 Million

Smart contract startup Kadena has raised $2.25 million in a pre-A financing private-placement SAFT round for its new blockchain project.

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[FOREX NEWS] EUR/USD: Spain and France look good – EUR/USD to recover?

The Spanish economy grew by 0.7% as expected. Year over year, there is a minor miss: 3.1% instead of 3.2% expected, but this is still quite an impressive growth from the fourth-largest economy in the euro-zone. EUR/USD still suffers from the ongoing greenback comeback and trades around 1.2340. It is important to note that other [...]

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[FOREX NEWS] GBP/USD dips under 1.40 amid growing Brexit chatter

The pound remains under pressure. GBP/USD is already over 300 pips below the peak of 1.4345 that was seen last week. Sterling was the big winner last week, taking full advantage of the US dollar weakness, and now it is one of the biggest losers. Update: the pressure mounted and GBP/USD fell below the round [...]

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CryptoCurrency News: Google's DoubleClick Ads Used to Distribute Crypto Mining Malware

Security firm TrendMicro stated in a new report that Google's DoubleClick ad services were used to distribute cryptocurrency mining malware.

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CryptoCurrency News: WEF Trials Blockchain in Bid to Boost Air Travel Security

The World Economic Forum is working with the Canadian and Dutch governments to pilot a digital identity project that focuses in part on blockchain.

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CryptoCurrency News: Crypto Hedge Fund Polychain Says No IPO in the Works

Cryptocurrency hedge fund Polychain Capital has pushed back against a report that it is seeking to raise hundreds of millions of dollars in an IPO.

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[FOREX NEWS] EUR/USD suffers from taper talk, USD recovery – it may be temporary

Last week was all about US dollar weakness and a not-so-serious jawboning from the ECB. EUR/USD took advantage of the US dollar weakness. It then extended its gains as Draghi’s words about the exchange rate weren’t strong. In addition, he offered absolutely no news about the next steps of the ECB beyond the current QE [...]

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CryptoCurrency News: Ripple Vets Raising Money for Crypto Hedge Fund

Two former employees of distributed ledger startup Ripple are raising money for a new cryptocurrency hedge fund, public records show.

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CryptoCurrency News: Philippines SEC Plans to Regulate Cryptocurrencies, ICOs

The Philippines’ Securities and Exchange Commission has said that it is developing rules around crypto trading to curb the risk of fraud.

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CryptoCurrency News: UK Crypto Trader Forced to Hand Over Bitcoin at Gunpoint

A British man who runs a cryptocurrency trading firm was yesterday forced at gunpoint to hand over an unknown quantity of bitcoin.

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CryptoCurrency News: Ethereum Is Quietly Closing In on Record Price Highs

Ethereum's ether token could revisit record highs very soon, courtesy of last week's bullish price action.

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