EBA chair speaks on extent of cryptocurrency regulation
Mar 12, 2018 08:33 am UTC| Digital Currency
The chairperson of the European Banking Authority (EBA) has said that he is yet to be convinced that cryptocurrencies should be brought under full scope of regulation. Speaking at an event last week on Designing a...
FxWirePro: BTC/USD consolidates inside Ichimoku cloud, break below confirms bearishness
Mar 12, 2018 06:58 am UTC| Digital Currency
BTC/USD is consolidating inside the cloud on Monday and is trading at 9631 levels at the time of writing (Bitstamp). On the topside, resistance is likely to be found at 9922 (50-DMA) and a break above would see the pair...
US Congress to focus on cryptocurrencies and ICOs on March 14
Mar 12, 2018 03:14 am UTC| Digital Currency
A subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives Financial Services Committee is going to hold a hearing on cryptocurrencies and initial coin offerings (ICOs) this week, CoinDesk reported. According to a notice...
Digital Currency and Blockchain Weekly Round-up – March 9th, 2018
Mar 09, 2018 11:11 am UTC| Digital Currency
Cryptocurrencies are failing: BoE Governor Mark Carney Cryptocurrencies are failing to fulfil their role as money, believes Bank of England Governor Mark Carney. Speaking at the inaugural Scottish Economics Conference,...
Coincheck cryptocurrency exchange to begin compensating hack victims from next week
Mar 09, 2018 09:32 am UTC| Digital Currency
Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck has announced its plans to compensate the victims of the January hack in which the exchange lost nearly $530 million in NEM tokens. In a detailed blog post on the events that...
FxWirePro: ETH/USD breaks below 700, bias bearish, stay short
Mar 09, 2018 08:17 am UTC| Digital Currency
ETH/USD continued downtrend on Friday and has broken below 700 levels. It is currently trading at 675 levels at press time (Kraken). On the upside, resistance is seen at 702 (1h 20-SMA) and a break above would see it...
FxWirePro: BTC/USD breaks below 9000 with breach of 200-DMA support, bias bearish, stay short
Mar 09, 2018 07:02 am UTC| Digital Currency
BTC/USD moved further south on Friday and has broken below the 200-DMA. It is currently trading at 8854 levels at press time (Bitstamp). On the topside, the pair faces resistance at 9164 (23.6% retracement of 19666 and...
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