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First Mover: Nine (Bullish) Bitcoin Predictions for Final Months of (Awful) 2020
Oct 1, 2020 at 13:18 UTCUpdated Oct 1, 2020 at 13:44 UTC
Even after bitcoin’s outperformance over the first nine months, analysts remain bullish on bitcoin. (Metropolitan Art Museum, modified by CoinDesk)
First Mover: Nine…
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Israeli Draft Bill Would Nix Hefty Capital Gains Taxes on Bitcoin
Israeli bitcoiners take note: a handful of Knesset members are seeking to ease Israel’s hefty taxation of cryptocurrencies.Four Knesset members from the nationalist Yisrael Beiteinu party on Tuesday introduced a draft bill that would…
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Market Wrap: Bitcoin Hits $10.7K; Options Market Likes Sub-$360 Ether
Bitcoin had a small rally Thursday. Meanwhile, the ether options market is giving some investors protection from decentralized finance downsides.Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $10,653 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m. EDT). Gaining 3.3% over the…
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Startup Aleo Wants to Help You Use the Internet Without Sacrificing Data Privacy
Privacy tech company Aleo has launched a data privacy-oriented blockchain and developer kit to make writing zero-knowledge proofs in web applications easy and scalable.The startup is releasing its first round of software tools to let…
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Leading Auction House Christie’s Listing Bitcoin Art for the First Time
The world’s largest auction house, Christie’s, will be presenting Bitcoin artwork for the first time. Block 21 of “Portraits of a Mind,” an art project showcasing the original Bitcoin code by Satoshi Nakamoto, will include a painting and a!--/noptimize-->!--noptimize-->…
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Andreessen Horowitz Gets FTC OK for Unspecified Coinbase Transaction
Andreessen Horowitz’s (a16z) late-stage venture fund has received a green light from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for a transaction involving Coinbase. It is unclear at press time whether the approval is for the fund’s previously…
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Did Corporate Insiders Perfectly Predict the Market Top?
In August, the volume of personally owned stock sold by corporate executives reached its highest level since 2015, followed by a 10% decline in the S&P500 in September. August saw the largest volume of insider selling since 2015,…
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First Crypto Exchange With No Trading Fees to Launch in Middle East
A new cryptocurrency trading platform is gearing up to offer zero-fee trades to users in six countries in the Gulf Region. Announced on Thursday, the platform Fasset Exchange (FEX) has started sign-ups for its private beta and is…
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New Israeli Bill Proposes to Consider Bitcoin as a Currency and Not an Asset
A newly-proposed bill with the legislative branch of the Israeli government Knesset submitted several changes to Bitcoin’s taxation. Instead of viewing BTC as an asset and subjecting sales to capital gains tax of 25%, the new legislation…
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ConsenSys-Incubated Startup Releases In-Browser Atomic Swap Wallet for DeFi
On Thursday, ConsenSys-incubated startup Liquality released a new wallet that lets you atomically swap digital assets directly from your browser.The Liquality Atomic Swap Wallet can act as a trustless alternative to current methods of…
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