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Get the weekly summary of cryptocurrency market trends, news, and forecasts! This Week’s Summary The Crypto Market ends the week at a total market capitalization of $242 billion. Bitcoin ends the week with a 20% drop after reaching $10,000 mid-week Ethereum loses almost 12% to trade below $200 once again. XRP price briefly goes over the 0.20 barrier only to drop below it on the weekend Most of the top-20 altcoins are bleeding massively following BTC’s sudden drop. The COVID-19’s…

Regulations in the cryptocurrency space have been a major point of focus. In February this year, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin noted that cryptocurrency regulations will soon arrive in the United States. Some people consider cryptocurrency regulations as a hindrance to innovation and adoption. However, the cryptocurrency space is at higher risk due to the absence of clear regulation. Due to unclear regulations, numerous cryptocurrency exchanges have moved their base to other countries. Recently, Jason Williams of Morgan Creek Digital featured…

Some perpetrators targeted a multinational financial institution based in Spain, Banco Santander. It is an online heist that involved the sum of $900,000. However, it was forestalled following the seizure of the money by local over-the-counter (OTC) cryptocurrency exchanges. After the heist, they quickly tried the conversion of the stolen funds into Bitcoin. The local press, known as the Bitcoin Portal, said due to the huge sum of money involved, this prompted several of the bank accounts of the exchanges…

Digital currency companies are responding to anti-money laundering requirements of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). The latest response to the requirements involved the development of a new messaging standard. The new messaging standard is known as IVSM101. Two months to the end of 2018, the FATF was able to adopt changes to its recommendations to explicitly clarify that they apply to financial activities involving virtual assets (VA). This led to the expansion of the scope of the recommendations to apply to…

Bitcoin emerged in 2008 and two years later in 2010, a website declared it dead. Interestingly, Bitcoin continues to grow such that it is now incurring a bull run as it is moving towards $10k price level. However, the website that declared it dead at the time is no more. The leading cryptocurrency has been proving its critics wrong based on its success over the last decade. Critics say many things about Bitcoin; some say it is a scam, Ponzi…

The performance of Ethereum has been remarkably below that of Bitcoin recently. At the moment, Bitcoin is trading close to its multi-month highs while Ethereum remains remarkably under its level seven days ago. Due to this weakness relative to Bitcoin, it is revealing certain moderate breakdown signals. Nevertheless, the bulls were firm in defending Ethereum’s key support close to $198. Currently, according to Analysts, Ethereum may be primed for a rally to its recent highs of over $230. This is…

Two persons (Tal Valariola and Itay Barak) of Digital Platinum Limited (a marketing firm based in Israel) and another individual (Daniel Fingerhut) of All In Publishing (a marketing firm based in the U.S.) have been charged with options fraud and Commodity Trading Advisor fraud. Tal Valariola is the vice president of Digital Platinum while Itay Barak is the co-founder. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) charged the three individuals together because they allegedly worked together to swindle unsuspicious persons of money close to…

Exiled Bitmain co-founder has moved to reinstate his position after recently gaining partial legal victory  This resulted in a physical brawl with current CFO Luyao Liu, leading to the intervention of local police The senior management tensions at Bitmain are hurting the mining giant ahead of 3rd Bitcoin halving On May 8, 2020, the ousted co-founder of Bitmain, Micree Ketuan Zhan, was reportedly surrounded by a group of 50-odd guys led by the company's former legal representative and CFO Luyao…

The General Protocols startup has been able to raise over $1 million in a seed funding round. It is now working on the development of its Decentralized Finance (DeFi) on Bitcoin Cash (BCH). This funding round enables the team based in Singapore to come up with their flagship product AnyHedge on Bitcoin Cash. As an open source derivatives tool, Anyhedge allows the creation of new markets with smart contracts when embedded by exchanges and OTC desks. The investors that provided…