Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has named Helen Hai, who is the goodwill ambassador of a UN agency, as the head of its new charitable foundation. Her appointment comes a day after Binance CEO and founder Changpeng Zhao pledged $1 million to help flood victims in Japan. Helen Hai tweeted, "A true pleasure to head Binance Blockchain Charity Foundation, the first to use Blockchain for Social Good more...
The digital currency dropped to as little as $5,785.43 by 16:00 UTC (12:00 p.m. EST), according to the CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index (BPI). At this point, Bitcoin was down roughly 5.3% over the last 24 hours and was trading at its lowest since November 2017, additional BPI figures show. Bitcoin has been suffering a gradual, downward trend for the last several months, losing roughly more than two-thirds of its value since hitting an all-time ...
Lloyd Blankfein, chief executive officer of the investment banking giant Goldman Sachs, said he is not into cryptocurrencies and was at a loss to explain why they should be successful as an asset class. In an interview at the Economic Club of New York, Blankfein said, "But if it [cryptocurrency] did work, I will be able to explain in hindsight why it did." more...
BLOCKCHAIN is an open distributed ledger that records transactions in blocks that are secured cryptographically. This is the underlying technology of Bitcoin. This digital decentralized ledger records transactions permanently, meaning they cannot be changed in future. BLOCKCHAINs keep growing as new transactions are added to the network. more...
Bitcoin: Retail trader data shows 76.0% of traders are net-long with the ratio of traders long to short at 3.17 to 1. The percentage of traders net-long is now its highest since Apr 26 when Bitcoin traded near 9183.39. The number of traders net-long is 1.3% higher than yesterday and 1.1% higher from last week, while the number of traders net-short is 10.0% lower than yesterday and 9.0% lower from last week. We typically take a contrarian ...
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