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Bitcoin appreciated by nearly $1,700 in the last 40 hours while most financial markets around the world continue to tumble. Bitcoin price rebounds strongly The flagship cryptocurrency stole the spotlight after surging over 30 percent. Bitcoin went from trading at a low of $5,260 to hit a high of $6,930. The sudden price move appears […]

The Bitcoin price spiked to $6,900 on the day, rising to as high as $6,946 on BitMEX. The last BTC rally to over $10,000 started from a strong rebound from the $6,900 level. Upon rising to $6,900, the Bitcoin price saw an immediate rejection to the mid-$6,000 region, and some technical analysts anticipate a minor […]

Tech regulatory company Coinfirm has announced that it will begin providing RSK and RIF protocols with an anti-money laundering compliance solution. According to a press release shared with CryptoSlate, the company partnered with IOV Labs to deliver the solutions that will enable traditional financial institutions to engage with the two Bitcoin second-layer solutions. Second layer […]

Today has been a great day for crypto investors, with the market posting some intense gains close on the heels of its recent capitulatory downturn seen exactly one week ago. This upswing has allowed Bitcoin to climb 17 percent, while Tezos and some other smaller altcoins have climbed 20 percent or more. Although this price […]

Junior United States Senator and former CEO of Bakkt Kelly Loeffler disclosed dumping millions of dollars worth of stock holdings in the days and weeks following a private senators-only briefing on the Coronavirus in late January, as reported by The Daily Beast. Loeffler, who left her post at Bakkt in December to become a junior […]

Throughout 2018 and 2019, the U.K. police forces received a total of 562 reports of blackmail for Bitcoin, research from Parliament Street think tank has shown. The information, obtained via the Freedom of Information Act (FOI), showed that blackmail was the most common attack using Bitcoin. More than 500 cases of Bitcoin blackmail registered in […]

Argentina’s natural gas ecosystem is to incorporate blockchain tech going forward, thanks to a collaboration between IOV Labs and gas distributor Gasnor. The newly-launched Gasnet will engender improvements in transparency, information management and efficiency. The blockchain pilot is powered by RSK smart contracts and RIF second-layer solutions. Gas regulator gives green light to novel pilot […]

IntoTheBlock stated that a substantial number of Ethereum holders are in losses at the moment, but multiple technical indexes estimate that they could soon move into profits as Ether prepares for an upswing. Ethereum holders are “out of the money” IntoTheBlock, a machine learning and statistics modeling firm, recently analyzed the addresses profitability in Ethereum using […]

XRP has been severely impacted by the recent market-wide downturn, with the third-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization briefly falling behind the Tether (USDT) stable coin last week when its price plummeted below $0.10. This bearish price action has shown some signs of dissipating, however, as the crypto is now in the process of exiting a […]

TF Blockchain, one of the leading blockchain and fintech conferences in the Pacific Northwest, recently announced that it postponed its conference due to the coronavirus outbreak. In a press release shared with CryptoSlate, the organizers said that instead, they will be live streaming interviews with some top names in crypto. To date, TF Blockchain has […]