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Bitcoin’s Hedging Performance in the Wake of the Coronavirus Outbreak

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Time Stamp: April 4, 2020 5:46 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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The recent coronavirus outbreak has far-reaching consequences beyond the spread of the disease and efforts to quarantine it. Recently, we’ve experienced one of the most severe stock market crashes in modern times: On March 9, 2020, the Dow Jones Industrial Average recorded a drop of -7.8%, which happened to be its worst single-day loss ever. However, on Thursday, March 12, 2020, the Dow then recorded the fifth-largest drop in modern history based on percentage points by a staggering amount of almost 10%. Unfortunately, the losses did not stop there. Four

April Fools, Celebrity Scams, & Manipulated Markets: Bad Crypto News of the Week

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Time Stamp: April 4, 2020 3:56 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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Bitcoin seems to be settling happily above $6,000 and is currently just north of $6,500 again. Let’s hope we’ve seen the last of those $5,000 movements and we’re ready for a steady climb back to double figures before the halving in mid-May. It’s getting closer.In the meantime, the Federal Reserve now appears to have merged into the federal government. An opinion piece in Bloomberg has described how an alphabet soup of financial programs intended to help the economy through the current crisis is allowing the government to buy up securities

Ripple’s Co-founder Chris Larsen Fully Recovers From Coronavirus Infection

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Chris Larsen, the co-founder and executive chairman of Ripple has become the latest COVID-19 Survivor, as he announced Thursday that he has fully recovered from the infectious Coronavirus.  With over a million people currently infected with the virus and more than 53,292 dead, Larsen said he is indeed grateful for his recovery.  Sharing his experience on Twitter, the Ripple executive expressed his gratitude to everyone on the frontlines who took it upon themselves to keep him and other COVID-19 victims safe.  He further encouraged those who have recovered from the

Bitcoin in the Aftermath of COVID-19: Two Possible Scenarios

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Time Stamp: April 2, 2020 12:01 PM - Modified On: August 29, 2021 - Published By:
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Futurist and author, Daniel Jeffries, shared with Cointelegraph his view on the future scenarios awaiting Bitcoin in the aftermath of COVID-19. Two possible outcomes In one particularly dark scenario,  the global economy will plunge into a severe recession and countries will turn to authoritarianism in order to survive. In such a scenario, world governments will impose capital control measures, curbing citizens’ financial freedoms. Authorities will then crack down on cryptocurrency to prevent people from circumventing their restrictions. Jeffries does not believe that Bitcoin would be able to survive in such a scenario. He

Gold Is ‘Toilet Paper’ for the Rich, Bitcoin for the Poor — Max Keiser

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People are going to buy Bitcoin (BTC) in droves — because there will be no gold for sale due to coronavirus, Max Keiser predicts.In a recent edition of his Keiser Report news program on March 31, Keiser said that the coronavirus pandemic will push billionaires into gold as a safe haven. Keiser: people will “flock en masse” to BTCOnce supplies are bought up and stockpiled, the only alternative left is Bitcoin.He summarized:“I predict — and this is not only the ultimate use case but the ultimate irony — that once people

U.S. Crypto ATM Network Helps to Promote Social Distancing

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Time Stamp: April 1, 2020 5:30 PM - Modified On: August 29, 2021 - Published By:
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Bitcoin Depot, the largest Bitcoin ATM operator in the world, has begun powering down some of its machines in an effort to halt further spread of COVID-19.As much of the world sits in quarantine, Bitcoin Depot has chosen to temporarily shut off crypto ATMs which specifically reside in high traffic areas. The company is undertaking this push as a way to encourage social distancing.“As we monitor the ongoing situation, the number of locations temporarily taken offline will likely increase,” Bitcoin Depot’s director of product, Alona Lubovnaya, told Cointelegraph in an

Tether CTO Praises Company’s Own Coin, Takes A Shot At Others

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Time Stamp: April 1, 2020 7:23 AM - Modified On: August 29, 2021 - Published By:
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Earlier this month, at the CryptoCompare Digital Asset Summit that was held in London, the CTO of Tether, Paolo Ardoino, gave a public statement about the future of DeFi. According to Arduino, the DeFi industry as a whole is facing a risk to its entire system, due to the fact that it only leverages the value from the cryptocurrency industry.Low-Brow TacticsIn a move that sounds suspiciously like an attempt to slander one of Tether’s rival stablecoins, the Dai, he talked about the volatility of the crypto industry as a whole.

Bitcoin Codebase Preserved for 1,000 Years in Archive Under Arctic Ice

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A snapshot of the Bitcoin codebase will be encoded onto film reels and stored for a thousand years under the arctic ice in Svalbard, Norway. The move is part of the GitHub Archive Program, with a mission to preserve open-source software, for future generations to learn about the culture of today.GitHub has partnered with institutions such as the Software Heritage Foundation, Arctic World Archive, and Oxford University’s Bodleian Library to ensure the long-term preservation of code, which could otherwise be abandoned, forgotten or lost.With the ephemeral nature of much of