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John Kiff

This Chart Shows You the Perfect Moment to Buy Bitcoin - 0 views

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    Introducing the Bitcoin Difficulty Ribbon. When the ribbon compresses, or flips negative, these are the best time to buy in and get exposure to Bitcoin. The ribbon consists of simple moving averages on mining difficulty so we can easily see the rate of change in difficulty.
John Kiff

How to Tokenize Houses on a Blockchain - 0 views

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    Tokenizing real estate is akin to creating a REIT. A company acquires real estate and then sells it as fractional shares in an exchange. The shares change in price with the underlying assets and rents are distributed as dividends, after subtracting an amount for the company that holds and manages the assets.
John Kiff

What Does Mastercard's Biggest Acquisition Ever Have To Do With Ripple or XRP? - 0 views

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    Ripple and Mastercard are the investors in Ripple-powered global remittance startup, SendFriend. Another Ripple partner Earthport, an automated clearing house for payments received bids from Mastercard and Visa, a round won by the latter. Now, Mastercard is buying a Denmark-based payments platform Nets for EUR 2.85B.
John Kiff

China's central bank digital currency is "ready" after 5 years of development - 0 views

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    Mu Changchun, Deputy Chief in the Payment and Settlement Division of the People's Bank of China, has announced that the country will soon roll out its central bank digital currency.
John Kiff

US President Donald Trump Says He's 'Not a Fan' of Bitcoin - 0 views

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    Donald J. Trump tweeted Thursday that he is "not a fan" of cryptocurrencies, saying they were "not money" and referencing their price volatility relative to the dollar in his first public comments on crypto since becoming president of the United States
John Kiff

Telegram Vs. Facebook: The Ultimate Showdown for Crypto Supremacy - 0 views

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    Telegram might not be the hero we expected - or even the one we wanted - but it may be our last, best hope for a future that doesn't turn into a dystopian nightmare of panopticoins.
John Kiff

Cryptocurrencies And The IRS: What You Need To Know - 0 views

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    The U.S. IRS has begun to focus on cryptos in general, potentially noncompliant taxpayers, and the perceived lack of proper reporting by taxpayers.
John Kiff

Why Washington should get behind Facebook's Libra - 0 views

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    "Libra is an opportunity for the American financial industry to leapfrog Alipay and other Chinese fintech, provide much of the world with sorely needed reliable banking and simply make doing business in America less expensive. "
John Kiff

Bitcoin Gains With Gold as Traders Seek Haven Amid Yuan Turmoil - 0 views

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    The correlation between Bitcoin and gold over the past year is 0.496. In the past three months, that shot up to 0.827, according to our analysis as evidence grows that investors - rightly or wrongly - see Bitcoin as a refuge in times of turbulence.
John Kiff

National Stock Exchange Becomes World's First to List a Tokenized Security - 0 views

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    Seychelles' stock exchange has just listed a tokenized security for trading, becoming the first in the world to do so.
John Kiff

As the Western World Gets Nervous About Facebook Libra, well, We might Not Be The Targe... - 0 views

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    If the likes of Western Union or Ria Financial Services, or MoneyGram intend to make a fist of this fight and not get swept away in the Facebook tidal wave, then it's on them to do something that they probably haven't had to do in quite some time... Win over their audience.
John Kiff

Why won't Apple's credit card let people buy bitcoin? - 0 views

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    Most credit card issuers prohibit crypto purchases by defining them as a "cash advance" or "cash equivalent" possibly as a matter of safety, but also to prevent consumers from gaming the cards' reward systems.
John Kiff

Globex Signs MoU with Antigua-Barbuda to build Digital Security Issuance & Tr... - 0 views

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    GlobexUS Holdings has signed an MOU with the Antigua and Barbuda Ministry of Finance, in partnership with Julius Capital Bank, to launch an Ethereum platform-based digital securities issuance and secondary trading platform.
John Kiff

Allianz In 'Advanced Stages' Of Accepting Crypto For Payment - 0 views

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    Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty is developing a "token-based" ecosystem, utilizing blockchain, to simplify and accelerate cross-border insurance payments for its corporate customers.
John Kiff

How Ray Dalio-And A Politicized Fed-Could Catalyze A New Generation Of Bitcoin Investors - 0 views

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    "Dalio believes that in this new era of currency devaluation, cash and bonds will not be reliable stores of value. Historically, scarce real assets such as real estate, gold, commodities and-we'd point out-bitcoin are safe havens for wealth and a source of returns in these environments."
John Kiff

Is Fed vote on real-time payments a sign of a wider split? - 0 views

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    "The U.S. private sector has a long history of providing efficient payment solutions to consumers and businesses. The public sector should provide its own capacity only when the evidence of market failure is clear and alternative means to achieve public goals are not feasible," Quarles said in a statement. "In this case, I do not see a strong justification for the Federal Reserve to move into this area and crowd out innovation when viable private-sector alternatives are available."
John Kiff

Crypto custodian Prime Trust adds another layer of protection to its solution via Fireb... - 0 views

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    Cryptocurrency custody firm Prime Trust is strengthening its solution to protect digital assets it holds in custody from potential hacks and thefts. Prime Trust has partnered with Fidelity-backed crypto security firm Fireblocks for the initiative.
John Kiff

Renegade Pandas: Opportunities for Cross Border Cooperation in Regulation of Digital As... - 0 views

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    SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce says countries should develop individual regulatory frameworks for crypto assets and not rely on a global framework for all jurisdictions.
John Kiff

Fidelity Joins Blockstream's New Institutional Bitcoin Mining Service - 0 views

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    Blockstream has announced two massive data centers for enterprise class co-location services. The service is currently geared towards enterprise and institutional customers, and Fidelity Center for Applied Technology was revealed as an early customer.
John Kiff

This Bank Gave Bitcoin to Its Entire Staff. Now It's Taking Crypto Clients - 0 views

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    The handful of U.S. banks willing to serve the crypto sector includes Silvergate in California and Signature and Metropolitan Commercial in New York. Like those institutions, Quontic is a relative pipsqueak in the banking industry
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