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The GTI Global Strength Technical Indicator for Bitcoin is suggesting that Bitcoin’s price could be stabilizing and could even be heading towards a short-term rally, Bloomberg reported on January 22, 2019. Bitcoin’s Price Approaches Oversold Despite the overwhelmingly negative predictions made about the cryptocurrency market, it seems that the new year has some much-needed stabilization to the troubled sector. According…

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ING and R3 announced on January 22, 2019, that they have entered into a five-year deal that gives ING rights to the use of R3’s Corda platform across their business operations. Corda Goes Global According to a January 22, 2019 statement, ING, a Dutch Bank, and R3 have entered into a partnership that will see ING haunch access to R3’s…

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 On January 22, 2019, it was announced that the Millennium Exchange matching engine used by the London Stock Exchange would be deployed for the first time on a cryptocurrency exchange, namely AAX, an upcoming Hong Kong-based exchange. Matching the New World A January 22, 2019 press release announced that AAX, a soon-to-be-launched digital asset exchange, will be making use of…

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There are many cryptocurrency traders, investors, and enthusiasts that might have grown tired of Bitcoin price predictions, given the fact that the markets are so volatile. For example, Tom Lee of Fundstrat Advisors, who has frequently appeared on popular media platforms such as Bloomberg and CNBC, gave various incorrect predictions about the price of Bitcoin before ultimately abandoning the prediction…

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B2C2, a leading cryptocurrency over-the-counter (OTC) liquidity provider for digital assets exchanges and financial institutions, has announced its streaming pricing feature aimed at enabling OTC traders to carry out “point-and-click” trading execution, according to a Business Wire press release on January 21, 2019.   OTC Traders’ Orders Executed in Real Time In its bid to eliminate all forms of delays…

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Despite being less than seven months old, Block.one’s EOSIO blockchain protocol is already a favorite among enterprises and developers as there are currently more than 250 projects being built on the network, the company announced in a blog post on January 21, 2019. Developers Flock to EOS Following Latest Update The EOSIO blockchain protocol published by Block.one is on its…

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On January 22, 2019, Livio Weng Xiaoqi, the chief executive of Huobi Global, insisted that the company is still profitable despite the bear run and event layoffs, as new projects are launched. Beating the Bear Run Within the last year, there have been significant changes in the global cryptocurrency market and not all of them good. Last year, crypto firms…

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Beam, a newly launched privacy oriented cryptocurrency, experienced a bug that caused a sudden, but brief stoppage in its blockchain, the company announced in a Tweet on January 21, 2019. Technical Difficulties Cause a Halt in Beam’s Blockchain (Source: Steemit) One of two recently released implementations of the Mimblewimble privacy protocol, the Beam Mimblewimble blockchain, experienced technical difficulties that caused…

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CoinZest,  a South Korean cryptocurrency exchange has been left with no choice but to roll back all transactions on its servers after it mistakenly airdropped bitcoin and altcoins amounting to $5.3 million to its clients, instead of the intended We Game tokens (WGT), according to local news source, CoindeskKorea on January 19, 2019. CoinZest Systems Go Haywire Per sources close…

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