CryptoCurrency News: CoinDesk Quarterly Review, Q1 2020

March 12 changed how investors look at crypto markets and assets, shook out some participants and left others unmoved. The CoinDesk Quarterly Review is a Q1 analysis of how the narrative has changed for crypto blue-chips like Bitcoin and Ethereum, which assets outperformed, and how the participants in crypto markets are shifting in the wake […]

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CryptoCurrency News: Power Ledger Inks Deal to Allow French Consumers to Customize Green Energy Mix

The Australian firm is breaking into the European market with a new partnership that enhances the tracking and certification of green energy.

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CryptoCurrency News: Bitcoin Tracks Stocks Up to $7.4K Before Sliding Back to $7.1K

Bitcoin trended higher along with many traditional markets Tuesday before changing direction and falling as U.S. stock trading closed.

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CryptoCurrency News: Microsoft, Celo Back Virtual Earth Day Event From Blockchain for Social Impact Coalition

Microsoft is throwing its weight behind the Blockchain for Social Impact Coalition (BSIC) incubator, a six-week hackathon focused on green energy.

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CryptoCurrency News: Blockchain Bites: China’s Commitment, Sanctions Evasion and a Look at Bitcoin’s Core

Dial-up daydreams, Zoom alternatives and how blockchain is lending a helping hand during the coronavirus crisis.

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CryptoCurrency News: ‘Ship-to-Ship’ Trade and Other Secrets of North Korea’s Illicit $1.5B Crypto Stash

Experts on North Korea say the country’s $1.5 billion cryptocurrency war chest is used to fund an illicit web of trade networks and supply chains.

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CryptoCurrency News: Ether Rises to 28-Day High Amid Positive Sentiment for Coming ‘Eth 2.0’ Upgrade

Experts say ether's recent rise in value can in part be attributed to growing confidence in the network's future.

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CryptoCurrency News: Reddit May Use Ethereum for a New Token-Based Points System

Reddit is trialing an Ethereum-based rewards system in one of its subreddits.

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CryptoCurrency News: Quantitative Tightening and 5 Key Questions for Our Changing World

As we wrap up another crazy week – 6.6 million more jobless claims, $2.3 trillion more in stimulus – NLW lays out the key themes and questions to think about over the long Easter weekend.

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CryptoCurrency News: Brazil’s New Blockchain Data Tool Cost $250K, Runs on Quorum

Brazil's central bank spent 1.3 million Brazilian reals (USD $250K) over two years building its new database for financial regulators on Quorum, replacing a slow and expensive paper-based system with a fully digitized version.

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CryptoCurrency News: How Edge Computing Can Make Us More Resilient in a Crisis

By moving computer processing away from centralized locations to local devices, edge computing is more dependable in a crisis, says VC Jalak Jobanputra.

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CryptoCurrency News: More Profit-Taking? Bitcoin Price Sags 7% Ahead of Easter Weekend

Major cryptocurrency markets fell 7 percent over the past 24 hours, with bitcoin (BTC) retreating below $7,000 to $6,807 as of press time.

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CryptoCurrency News: Money Reimagined: As Tech, Politics and COVID-19 Collide, a Global Reset Looms

How technology, geopolitics and the coronavirus crisis are transforming how we share and store value.

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CryptoCurrency News: Factom’s Two Employees Press On Despite Lead Investor’s Call to Liquidate

Factom, Inc. cut 80 percent of its 10-person staff. “The protocol is going to run whether Factom, Inc. continues or not,” said COO Jay Smith.

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CryptoCurrency News: Coronavirus Has Erased 33% of Crypto Scammers’ Revenue: Chainalysis

Research firm Chainalysis found that even though crypto scammers were seeing high numbers of transactions, this year's dramatic market tumble means their actual profit was a fraction of what it used to be.

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CryptoCurrency News: First Mover: As Fed Assets Top $6T, BitMEX Has Some Inflation-Busting Advice

The Federal Reserve has opened its lender-of-last-resort spigot and, with unemployment spiking, inflation is on the way. What are your options?

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CryptoCurrency News: New York Power Plant Greenidge Has Sold Up to 30% of Its Bitcoin Mining Hash Rate

Greenidge Generation, an upstate New York power plant that's using proprietary facility to mine bitcoin, has sold up to 30 percent of its computing power to institutional buyers.

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