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These factors were key to taking the steam out of Bitcoin’s ‘frenzied crypto-rally’

Volatility in the cryptocurrency world is real, there’s no doubting that. While some expected it to be a relic of the past, it came to the fore a few days ago after Bitcoin dropped below $45,000, taking the rest of the market with it. Now, different people have attributed different reasons to the aforementioned drop. A recent Twitter thread from a Singapore-based crypto-fund firm is a case in point. According to the same, the United States played a major role in driving or rather, aggravating this volatility. QCP Capital argued

Guardian Link Announces Partnership with BeyondLife.Club, Launching Amitabh Bachchan’s First-ever NFT Collection

Press Release: No-code NFT platform Guradianlink.io announces its strategic partnership with Beyondlife.Club, an exclusive platform for artists, brands, and celebrities from different fields of entertainment.  3 September 2021, Singapore — Influential Indian actor, producer, and TV host Amitabh Bachchan is all set to launch his first set of NFTs with BeyondLife.Club, powered by Guardian Link. The blockchain R&D company will partner with the exclusive brand platform BeyondLife.Club, owned by Rhiti Entertainment, Singapore to make the purchase of NFT art belonging to Amitabh’s legacy a reality for any individual.  Taking NFT

Japan’s Rakuten Wallet to resume XRP margin trading next week

While Ripple Labs and XRP continue to face scrutiny in the U.S, other countries and agencies might soon look at the latter more favorably. Rakuten Wallet, operated by one of Japan’s leading e-commerce portals, has just announced the resumption of XRP trading on its platform. Rakuten’s crypto-arm had discontinued services related to XRP in December last year following concerns arising from the SEC’s lawsuit in the U.S. At the time, the company had claimed that they were unsure if XRP’s liquidity could be secured. The entity had also raised concerns

Why this billionaire investor’s crypto-investment advice has no basis

The “Bitcoin is a bubble” theory has been touted for as long as the digital asset has existed. Despite Bitcoin providing optimum returns over the last few years, many traditional investors have failed to find value in the crypto. Billionaire investor and subprime broker John Paulson is the latest addition to this clique. In a recent interview, Paulson called crypto a bubble that will “eventually prove to be worthless.” Paulson had famously predicted and benefited from the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis in 2008 by placing a successful short position on

El Salvador’s First Official Bitcoin Commercial for Chivo Wallet Airs

The first advertisement for the bitcoin wallet of El Salvador, Chivo Wallet, has been released. The ad is effectively the first government ad of this sort.Sponsored Sponsored Released on August 31, the ad is a quick explainer of bitcoin, the Chivo wallet, and the cryptocurrency’s benefits. The wallet is set to be available from September 7. https://s32659.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Chivo.mp4Chivo Wallet ad: El Salvador President Nayib Bukele’s Twitter handle El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele announced the wallet’s release date last week, confirming that the use of bitcoin would not be mandatory. This appeased

Join Third Annual Edition of Finnovex Middle East Summit: Hybrid Experience

Exibex welcomes you to Finnovex Middle East, the Leading Summit on Financial Services Innovation and Excellence where the best minds in the Banking and Financial Services Industry converge. Sponsored Sponsored They are all set to witness the presence of 30+ industry visionaries, who would share case studies for you to learn from and exemplify exceptional organizational friction points, innovations, and accomplishments. Here is the Sponsors Roll-Call for this year’s edition:Sponsored Sponsored Powered By – RAKBANK Officially Supported By – Dubai International Financial Center (DIFC) Platinum Sponsor – SmartStream Gold Sponsors

This is driving Dubai’s cryptocurrency market to do ‘fantastically well’

Dubai and the larger UAE have long been touted as rising tech and innovation hubs, providing entry points into Asia and Middle Eastern markets. With exponential developmental growth in the past decades, Dubai is now considered one of the fastest-growing metropolitan areas in the world. It would then not be surprising for some to speculate that the country could also rise up as one of the leaders in the cryptocurrency space. In a recent interview, Bittrex Global CEO Stephen Stonberg opined that Dubai is well-poised to capitalize from the growing cryptocurrency

Why Bitcoin reaching $100,000 is ‘quite possible’

Bitcoin, the world’s largest token’s recent surge, touched the $50k mark last week. However it did witness a correction of about 1.2% within a week. At press time it was trading just near the $48k mark. Irrespective of this correction, in a recent interview with Anthony Pompliano, CEO of Blockstream, Adam Back projected that bitcoin hitting the $100,000 mark this year was “quite possible.” Meanwhile, it’s interesting to note that Adam Back was notably one of the first people to own bitcoin, and one of the first to receive an email from

Litecoin, IOTA, Dogecoin Price Analysis: 27 August

It has been a mixed trading day for the altcoin market despite Bitcoin breaking above $47k. Litecoin lost 2% of its value and was trading close to the $163.24 support line while IOTA declined by 5% and moved closer to the $0.795 price floor. Finally, Dogecoin flashed signs of consolidation with chances of a price reversal according to its technicals.  Litecoin [LTC] LTC/USD, TradingView Litecoin was trading at $169.49 after it lost 2% over the last 24 hours. The coin was trading close to the immediate support level of $163.24.

ZKSwap to incorporate NFT protocol ZKBox in V3

The NFT market has grown to over $2.5 billion in the second quarter of 2021 from $13.7 million in the first half of 2020. According to the 30-day data recorded by dappradar.com, OpenSea alone captured a volume of $1.564 billion. Users who use, mint, and trade NFTs on the Layer2 Ethereum network face the challenges of high costs and illiquidity due to their uniqueness and desirability on a blockchain with a limited capacity. ZKSwap and ZKBox’s partnership ZKBox is a Layer2 NFT platform based on the ZK-Rollups technology. The ZKSwap

US Army Leverages Blockchain Technology for Tactical-Level Data Management

At the Command, Control, Communications, Computer, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Center, US Army engineers are leveraging blockchain technology for tactical-level data management.Sponsored Sponsored The center is developing its new data management capability as part of its Information Trust program. It was also one among several prototype technologies tested during the Network Modernization Experiment (NetModX). This was held at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey in May. Removing contingencies At its core, the program is intended to provide soldiers “a mathematical, verifiable way of vetting their data, from sensor to