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China Says all Cryptocurrency Usage and Transactions Are Illegal
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Author: Maria Andretti

China has effectively moved to ban all cryptocurrency transactions in the country; this move by China’s central bank has led to the banning of all tokens, including bitcoin. “Virtual currency-related business activities are illegal financial activities,” the People’s Bank of China said, adding that cryptos “seriously endangers the safety of people’s assets.” The announcement has […]

13 Oct 2021
Bitcoin Drops as China Improves Ways to Crack Down on All Cryptocurrencies.
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Author: Maria Andretti

The ever-popular Bitcoin continues to tumble. This is linked by the touch talk by China authorities on prosecuting those who are caught trading Bitcoin.  The price of Bitcoin fell by about 5% to the current value of $42,496, according to the report given by Coin Metrics. Also, Ether, the second-largest crypto, dropped by 7% to […]

12 Oct 2021
Lessons From Beijing’s Education Crackdown For Startups
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Author: Michael Stern

Investors in Beijing, China, are beginning to feel the crackdown in the fallout industry, After-school tutoring. And just before China authorities began cracking down on summer school, several investment firms such as SoftBank had begun putting in billions of dollars in Chinese companies. A lot of these firms were traded in the U.S. Investors had […]

4 Oct 2021
Bitcoin Mining Generates More Electronic Wastes Than European Country
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Author: Maria Andretti

A new study included in the December 2021 edition of Resources, Conservation and Recycling, a journal curating the waste reduction pursuits of our world, states that Bitcoin mining generates more than 30,700 tonnes of electronic waste annually. According to the researchers, each Bitcoin transaction generates over 9.5oz of waste which is over 50% more than […]

26 Sep 2021
Traders In Nigeria Verges into Innovative Bypass of Country’s Crypto Ban
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Author: Jeffrey Taylor

On Thursday, the Nigeria-based cryptocurrency platform, Luno, announced that it has approved a solution to enable Nigerians to withdraw and deposit crypto and tokens into their bank accounts directly. This is positive news considering the fact that the country’s crypto activities were almost entirely halted by a national ban on the use of crypto in […]

21 Sep 2021
Mayor Raises Funds to Give Free Bitcoin to Residents of His City
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Author: Michael Stern

Residents of Cool Valley will forever remember their current mayor if he gets to pull the funds for his proposed gift of $1000 worth of Bitcoin. His idea is for his residents to keep the coins till the value is about $500,000 per coin, so they don’t ‘regret’ selling. Cool Valley is a small city […]

26 Aug 2021
There is Increasing Support For The Fed to Announce Tapering Bonds For September Purchases.
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Author: Maria Andretti

The recent frequent shifts in economic data created opportunities for the Federal Reserve to announce the decision to taper assets purchase in September. This will further lead to a decrease in buying a month later.  Speaking with public officials has shown increasing support for a faster timeline than the timeline the markets have expected. Part […]

23 Aug 2021
Terra and Solana Hit All-Time Highs as Last Week’s Attack Takes No Toll on The Market.
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Author: Jeffrey Taylor

The prices for Solana and Terra SOL and LUNA tokens have gotten to an all-time high as the capitalization for the two cryptos reached $2 trillion since May. The price increase is significant since the token prices represent two projects built for the decentralized finance sectors DeFi – indicating that investors were confident about the […]

22 Aug 2021
Despite consumer sentiment index letdown, stocks eke out a record close.
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Author: Maria Andretti

There was a slight change to Stocks on Friday afternoon as the prices were set to increase, narrowly surpassing their record high; investors tried to understand the large economic data from the earning results. The S&P 500 and Dow were among those that set the intraday highs from Thursday’s record, which made it post profits […]

19 Aug 2021