Cryptocurrencies latest news and history organized by date that contains 1000000+ news archives. Click here to read what world was saying about cryptocurrencies. The Australian Dollar seemed relatively unfazed by local inflation data as traders look ahead to the upcoming FOMC interest rate decision. A1 Payment, a subsidiary of A1 Telekom Austria, said Monday users can now make payments using cryptocurrencies including bitcoin, ether and dash on its cashless payments app. On its website, the firm said that regardless of the cryptocurrency used, payments would be converted to euros in real time so retailers would receive payment in fiat. The addition of cryptocurrencies to A1’s… Ray Dalio believes that a “capital war” between the US and China could have devastating implications on the dollar, which could potentially impact Bitcoin.
Bitcoin News Roundup for July 28, 2020
Litecoin short-term Price Analysis: 28 July
Developers Release Validator Launchpad for Ethereum 2.0 Final Testnet
Crypto hedge fund Tetras Capital known for shorting ETH is shutting down – report
$12B Advisory Group CEO: BTC is Safe Haven Asset Amid Political Tension
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A US citizen pleads guilty for operating an illegal Bitcoin ATM.
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Digital Bank Revolut Adding Support for Stellar (XLM)
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Bitcoin Futures Hit New Highs as BTC Price Taps 11-Month Peak
IOSG Ventures Teams Up With Avalanche Blockchain Network
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JP Morgan’s Latest Gold Warning Puts Bitcoin At Risk of Dipping Below $10K
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Bitcoin Supply Profit Reaches New High As BTC Hits $11K
Mastercard Exec Accused of Money Laundering Cover-Up at Bank With Ties to Wirecard
Bakkt Reports Record Single-Day Volume for its Bitcoin Futures Market
Austrian A1 Telekom Announces Crypto Payments with Bitcoin, Ethereum and Dash
Hangzhou Encourages Enterprises to Actively Carry out the CBDC settlement Pilot
China’s TON Spin-Off Launches Testnet and Token Airdrop
Bitcoin Bears on the Prowl as BTC Options Hit All-Time High
Bitcoin and Ethereum Rise to New Yearly Highs
Ethereum Price Analysis: ETH Following Strong Uptrend Above $300
Bitcoin derivatives peak as users turn greedy
Open interest in CME bitcoin futures hits an all-time high of $724 million
Bitcoin Net Flow to Exchanges At 3-Month High
Popular Crypto Analyst Peter Brandt Says Bitcoin Pointing Towards All-Time High, XRP Could Follow
Bitcoin Price Can Hit $28K, Says Max Keiser, as BTC Crossed $11K Mark
Thailand Has Now Licensed 13 Cryptocurrency Service Providers
Bitcoin Cash Breaches 3-Month Resistance and Retains Support
Cellebrite Launches Crypto Tracer Solution to Track Illicit Transactions
Bitcoin Futures Volume Surges 186% as Price Hits $11K
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Finalized Testnet for ETH 2.0 to Launch on August 4
Max Keiser predicts bitcoin is headed for six digits after a correction near $30,000.
Cardano (ADA) price dips despite confirmation of imminent Shelley hard fork
Ellen DeGeneres’ Toxic Workplace is Finally Under Investigation
Dow Teeters After 6th-Biggest Stock Sparks Fear of ‘K-Shaped’ Recovery
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Tether (USDT) Flows to Exchanges at 8-Month High: Bitcoin FOMO Starting?
Synthetix Dissolves Foundation, Decentralizes into 3 DAOs
Crypto investment app Abra now offers interest-bearing accounts
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Swiss Exchange Lists World’s First Active Bitcoin ETP
Tron (TRX) Price Analysis: Strong Surge Likely Above $0.02
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Mati Greenspan’s Quantum Economics Partners With Major Indian Crypto Media Group CoinGape
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Ripple launches the P2P payment platform Payburner based on XRP.
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One of the Largest Bitcoin Whales on Record Just Transferred $156,000,000 in Crypto
FiCAS Launches World’s First Actively Managed Bitcoin ETP on Swiss SIX Exchange
Fireblocks Claims Exchange Program Enables Zero-Confirmation Crypto Deposits
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DeFi bonds enter the market as Mainframe acquires Sablier
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Bitcoin hacked from Bitfinex, worth $28 million, starts moving
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Deribit Reports Daily Record $539M of Bitcoin Options Traded, More Than Double Prior High
Goldman Sachs boosts gold price target, says the U.S. dollar’s reserve status is at risk
Almost 95% of Bitcoin Supply Flips Profitable as BTC Price Hits $11.4K
Bitcoin retakes $200 billion market cap in sudden uptick
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Bitcoin’s post-halving surge to $10,000 is not like the others
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Bitcoin price breaks a key resistance line, next $13,800?
Is Bitcoin Mining Legal in India? Miners Still Don’t Know
DeFi protocol Synthetix is now being governed by a trio of DAOs
Digital Intelligence Firm Cellebrite Launches Crypto Tracing Tool Powered by CipherTrace
Tel Aviv Exchange Sets Launch Date for Blockchain Securities Platform
Litecoin [LTC] Joins The Party As Coin Surges By 15% In The Last 24 Hours
A1 Telekom Austria Adds Bitcoin to Payment Service for Thousands of Retailers
Expectations for Even Further Bitcoin Gains Keep Lid on Futures Contracts Liquidations
Ethereum Price Analysis: ETH Stalls Below $320 Following Bitcoin’s Recent Gains
Flashloans Rise to $150 Million a Day
XRP needs to rally over 1,500% to reach its all-time high of $3.50
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Lufthansa Booted Out of DAX Stock Index After 32 Years
Bitcoin Retakes $11k — Further Reinforcing Analysts Take That $20,000 Is In Sight
MIT Lightning Creator Unveils First ‘Demonstration’ of Bitcoin Scaling Tech
89% of Bitcoin is profitable but miners are not taking the bait
CFTC Chair: ‘A Large Part’ of Financial System Could End Up in Blockchain Format
Bitcoin whale moves $156M as price breaches $11k level
Crypto Traders Discuss Bitcoin Price Direction After $11.4K BTC Rally
Blockchain Bites: Bitcoin’s New ETP, Ethereum’s ‘Woodstock Moment’ and Silvergate’s SEN Zen
Open Interest in Ether Futures Hits $1 Billion All-Time High
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Marathon Patent closes stock offering for $6.9M in proceeds
Soaring DeFi Usage Drives Ethereum Contract Calls to New Record
Bitcoin’s Realized Price Action Shows Full Recovery From Black Thursday Crash
Goldman Sachs Warns US Dollar Risks Losing World Reserve Currency Status, Gold and Bitcoin Soar
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Stablecoin Adoption Skyrockets in Rural South Korean Province
Bitcoin Is on the Verge of Striking $11,000
Santander’s Ripple-Powered Payments Platform Hits Half a Billion Dollars in Volume
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Augur Launches v2 Improved Ecosystem While REP Prepares to Rebound
LocalBitcoins aims to root out illicit use of its Bitcoin exchange
Synthetix is now controlled by three DAOs
Cardano’s Shelley Hard Fork is Happening Tomorrow, No Interruption Expected
Coinfloor Is Riding A Bullish Bitcoin Wave With Baby Boomers
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Dorsey & Co Were Aware of Security Issues With Twitter Users Since 2015
Bitcoin’s Latest Rally May Have Staying Power, Exchange Flows Suggest
Eth2 researchers unveil validator ‘launchpad’ ahead of next month’s Medalla testnet launch
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Injective Protocol raises $2.6 million to fund work on decentralized derivatives exchange
Community Behind Privacy-Focused Smart Contract Forges Ahead After Settlement
Swiss Exchange SIX Lists Actively Managed Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Product
Ripple’s Japanese Partner SBI Sets Up Its Token Platform on Corda Blockchain
Ethereum Futures Hit $1 Billion As Forecasts Show Positive Interest in the Decentralized Platform
Tether Exchange Inflow Reached 8-Month High as Bitcoin Rallied to $11K
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Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) Launches Blockchain Based Platform for Securities Lending
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Bit Farms Mining Firm Is Straddled with Tons of Debt
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The Housing Market Is Starting to Cool Down – and It Could Get Worse
Fed Extends Lending Measures as Market Fears Mount & Traders Party
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The future of Robinhood’s crypto products is in doubt amid recent headwinds
‘Rich Dad, Poor Dad’ Author Robert Kiyosaki Dumps Gold, Says He’s Now Loading Up On Bitcoin
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Illegal Bitcoin ATM operator in America plead guilty, to bag 30 years jail term
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AUD/USD Rate Unfazed by Australia CPI with Fed Rate Decision on Tap
The Australian Dollar initially dipped as inflation data showed the local economy had entered deflation in the second quarter of 2020.
Stalling commodity prices may weigh on regional risk assets as the GSCI commodity index struggles to break key resistance.
The Australian Dollar slid lower after quarterly inflation data showed the Australian economy had fallen into deflation in the second quarter of 2020.
Although exceeding market expectations of a 2% drop, the consumer price index (CPI) fell 1.9% in the three months through June, driven by a collapse in oil prices and supportive intervention from the government.
The quarterly trimmed mean gauge declined 0.1% resulting in a yearly increase of 1.2%, undershooting expectations of a rise of 1.4%.
This release should do little to sway the stance of the Reserve Bank of Australia as the central bank “determined that it would not increase the cash rate target until progress is made towards full employment and it is confident that inflation will be sustainably within the 2-3 percent target band”.
AUD/USD daily chart created using TradingView
The Reserve Bank of Australia’s stance on negative interest rates, rising commodity prices and successful suppression of the coronavirus outbreak locally served as major drivers of the trade-sensitive Australian Dollar’s rally to fresh yearly highs.
However, case numbers have surged in Victoria, Australia’s second most populous state, forcing Premier Daniel Andrews to reimpose ‘stage-three’ lockdown restrictions on July 7.
So far, these restrictions have failed to limit the spread of the highly infectious virus and may lead to an extension of the economically devastating restrictions, as Andrews flagged that if cases “continue to go up and up [a] six-week shutdown will not be for six weeks”.
With current restrictions estimated to cost the local government $1 billion a week and the state accounting for “about a quarter of the national economy”, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg believes the inability to ‘flatten the curve’ of infections is a “serious impediment to the nation’s recovery, not just Victoria”.
Therefore, regional investors should continue to monitor local health developments, with a potential extension of lockdown measures perhaps triggering a surge of risk aversion and weighing on the performance of the Australia dollar.
Source – Covid19Data
Furthermore, weakness seen in the Goldman Sachs Commodity Index (GSCI) could anchor regional risk assets as price struggles to break above key resistance.
Granted, an explosive surge in precious metal prices seems to have steadied the ship for local equity investors, with gold climbing to fresh record highs and silver breaking above the $26/oz mark for the first time in seven years.
However, the price of copper – known as a proxy for global growth – has notably stalled in recent days amid escalating tensions between the “Five Eyes” alliance and China which threaten to derail global trade relations.
Data Source – Bloomberg
With that in mind, traders may keep an eye on the performance of the GSCI index as it attempts to fill the March breakaway gap (346.80).
Inability to do so could result in a sharp correction lower, potentially coinciding with a rapid discounting of the commodity-sensitive Australian Dollar and ASX 200 index.
S&P GSCI index created using TradingView
Developments with China Continue to be Monitored
Looking ahead, traders should continue to monitor developments between Australia and China, its largest trading partner, as vitriolic rhetoric could escalate into targeted tariff impositions.
With Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin condemning the “wrong actions of Canada, Australia, and the UK in politicising juidicial cooperation with Hong Kong”, retaliatory escalation looks to be a likely outcome.
To that end, a breakdown in trade relations could end the Australian Dollar’s tremendous 4-month rally and potentially trigger a period of sustained risk aversion.
— Written by Daniel Moss, Analyst for DailyFX
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Source: www.dailyfx.com
Author: Daniel Moss
A1 Payment, a subsidiary of A1 Telekom Austria announced that users can now make payments using cryptocurrencies including #Bitcoin , #Ethereum and #Dash
A1 Payment, a subsidiary of A1 Telekom Austria, said Monday users can now make payments using cryptocurrencies including bitcoin, ether and dash on its cashless payments app.
On its website, the firm said that regardless of the cryptocurrency used, payments would be converted to euros in real time so retailers would receive payment in fiat.
The addition of cryptocurrencies to A1’s payment platform will enable about 2,500 merchants to accept digital currencies. The moves follows A1’s decision last year to integrate services WeChat Pay and AliPay onto its platform.
Partly controlled by the Austrian state, A1 Telekom had announced a trial of cryptocurrency payments in a pilot program last year. That announcement noted that industries with close contact with tourists and business travelers were hurt by a backlog in the acceptance of digital currencies as travelers couldn’t pay with BTC, AliPay or WeChat Pay.
According to Reuters, A1 Telekom’s revenue declined by 2.4% to 1.1 billion euros in Q2. The report also said the firm plans to cut some of its planned investments for the year, including investment in 5G.
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How The US-China Capital War a Billionaire Warns Of Could Benefit Bitcoin
Economist Ray Dalio is warning the world of a potential “capital war” brewing between the United States and China. He believes, that it could have devastating implications on the dollar, which could potentially impact Bitcoin.
In such a scenario, how does a capital war between the two feuding global superpowers benefit the first-ever cryptocurrency?
There are several ways that countries can go to war. There can be a war of words, sanction showdowns, and even outright military firepower. But there’s one not so obvious way that two countries can deal devastating financial blows to one another, that economic expert Ray Dalio is warning of.
According to the billionaire investor, the ongoing tensions between the United States and China could soon erupt into a “capital war.”
“There’s a trade war, there’s a technology war, there is a geopolitical war and there could be a capital war,” Dalio explained to Fox correspondents on an airing of Sunday Morning Futures.
Since early 2019, the two countries have been embroiled in a trade war, that resulted in hard assets like gold and Bitcoin beginning to pick up pace. Investors who saw the writing on the wall, that a major economic shakeup was coming, began loading up on safe haven assets that year.
A capital war would only escalate things further between two countries, and further fuel the uptrends that the precious metal and cryptocurrency have been on.
Dalio says that the United States is acting as its own “worst enemy,” due to the ongoing money printing and mismanaged monetary policy. Deficits are skyrocketing by the trillions this year due to the pandemic relief efforts.
He believes that if the United States and China get into a capital war where one forbids investments in the other region, it could have “big implications” for the dollar.
Dalio further claims he’s worried about the “soundness” of money currently. The dollar is no longer sound money, and the Fed pledging to print another trillion at least as part of today’s stimulus package is proof.
Bitcoin is as sound of money as it gets, hard-capped at just 21 million BTC to ever exist. Mathematical code keeps it that way, and no third-parties can intervene. It is for this very reason that Bitcoin could benefit enormously from a capital war.
If one country prevents the other from investing in a portion of the global market in an attempt to weaken the other, it could prompt a flight from the fiat of these feuding countries into a non-sovereign asset like gold or Bitcoin.
Gold has been soaring for that very reason, and Bitcoin has recently started to catch up.
BTCUSD: Bitcoin Breaks out ahead of second US stimulus reveal | Source: TradingView
Beyond the capital war, a currency war could also be brewing. The United States is late to the game in developing a digital dollar, while China is preparing to roll out a digital currency of its own.
Here too, Bitcoin as a non-sovereign asset bound to no country or central authority gives the asset benefits in a world where two economic superpowers cannot see eye to eye.
Rather than let either of these two dominate the monetary supply moving forward, Bitcoin could become the next replacement for the global reserve currency.
And any of the scenarios that Dalio warns of, could be a catalyst for such a change to take place.
