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CoinMarketCap Crypto App Is Live, Offering A Lot Of Added Features

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4 months ago

April 17, 2019

Stefan

The cryptocurrency data provider and generator CoinMarketCap is in the latest cryptocurrency news for launching its first CoinMarketCap crypto app in Android and iOS versions. The leading crypto data provider has decided to make a leap forward and arrive to the mobile marketplace, providing insightful data about all cryptocurrencies in an easy way.

Notable, the new apps for iOS and Android offer features that are not yet available on the CoinMarketCap website and ones that are quite advanced. For instance, the coming altcoin news show that the CoinMarketCap crypto app now lets you track Bitcoin and altcoins, see candlestick charts as well as side-by-side cryptocurrency comparisons as well as price alerts and user accounts.

Officially announced on Tuesday, the news about the app went live on many best cryptocurrency news sites. As the head of marketing at CoinMarketCap named Carylyne Chan stated:

“We believe that our users will like the new style and the features we’ve added to these apps, and we’ll continue to update the app regularly based on the feedback we receive.”

The new CoinMarketCap crypto app will prompt users to sign up for an account on the app in order to save their portfolios and/or watchlists. The company also said that it plans to allow app accounts to be directly synced with the website at some point in the future.

Meanwhile, the app also features a section for crypto “gainers” and “losers” as well as industry news. All of the data, as the firm unveiled, is made available through the API product which the firm uses – and was launched last August.

Aside from the CoinMarketCap crypto app, the company made the cryptocurrency news section lately for launching two benchmark indices that cover the top 200 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization. One of them was with Bitcoin (BTC) in it and the other without – shared on financial data feeds from Nasdaq Global Index Data Service (GIDS), Bloomberg Terminal, Thomson Reuters Eikon (Refinitiv) and Germany’s Börse Stuttgart, as well as on its own platform.

The app is already launched for iOS (since May 2018) but is getting a revamp now, along with the Android CoinMarketCap crypto app. All of the work is developed from the blockchain analytics startup Flipside.

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Binance Removes US Resident Ban: Launching In “A Month Or Two”

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10 hours ago

August 18, 2019

Stefan

The Binance CEO is all over the latest cryptocurrency news recently for cofirming that the American branch of the exchange will open within "a month or two." Now that Binance removes US resident ban, they are ready to announce new big things on the platform. In an interview with the outlet Cheddar on Thursday, the CEO of Binance Changpeng Zhao spoke about the planned US regulated exchange and noted that “there are a lot of things in flux, but I would say [we'll launch] in a month or two.” However, as many best cryptocurrency news sites reported in June, Binance has already communicated to their customers that US residents will be prohibited from using the platform starting September 12. This announcement sparked a lot of concerns as it would leave US traders unable to use the services by Binance. Now, however, Binance removes US resident ban and the Terms of Use (which were last revised on August 15) suggested that the exchange has softened its stance on the issue - all while removing any mention of prohibition of use for US residents. The document reads:

“3. Prohibition of use By accessing and using the Services, you represent and warrant that you are not on any trade or economic sanctions lists, such as the UN Security Council Sanctions list, designated as a “Specially Designated National” by OFAC (Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Treasury Department) or placed on the U.S. Commerce Department’s “Denied Persons List”. Binance maintains the right to select its markets and jurisdictions to operate and may restrict or deny the Services in certain countries at its discretion.”

When comparing the wording to the one uploaded in June, it is clear that Binance removes US resident ban. The previous text read that "Binance is unable to provide services to any U.S. person," - which is why the difference is obvious.

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China’s Digital Fiat Currency Is Not A Real Cryptocurrency

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1 day ago

August 17, 2019

Stefan

As the latest cryptocurrency news this month hinted, China may be about to launch a fiat digital currency with which the country will probably compete with Bitcoin. However, the expert analysts found that China's digital fiat is not actually a real cryptocurrency and will only resemble one on the surface. Aside from this, the coin won't use a blockchain, too. Even though it is inspired to some degree by Bitcoin and the like, the effort will be explicitly framed as a strategy in order to beat them back. The altcoin news show that China's digital fiat currency came with a project that was thrust into the spotlight last weekend, when a senior official from the People's Bank of China (PBoC) said at a closed-door conference that the country and its central bank digital currency (CBDC) is ready to launch.

“Since last year, the staff at the Digital Currency Research Lab have been working 996 to develop the system. We can say the CBDC is now ready to launch at one’s call," was his speech, later shared by many best cryptocurrency news sites.

The CBDC with this aims to replace MO, meaning cash in circulation through a two-tier system. The central bank will issue the digital yuan only to commercial banks, who will further issue it to the public. Meanwhile the PBoC and its Digital Currency Research Lab are the ones standing behind China's digital fiat currency - along with more than 50 patent applications which are all either invented or co-invented by Yao Qian. One patent application reads:

“The emergence of digital currency is an inevitable trend. So far, privately issued digital currency bears the features of anonymity and volatility. Central banks must take their impacts on the payments, monetary systems and financial stability seriously. As such, it’s inevitable for central banks to push for digitized fiat currencies to optimize their circulation.”

However, physical cash is still arguably the only form of fiat money inside China that can remain anonymous. We can see that China's digital fiat currency is not close to cryptocurrency - and the only third-party methods which are compared to bank wire can be offered by companies like Alibaba or WeChat - both requiring real-name verification authenticated by users' IDs as well as additional banking information.

“Existing M0 (banknotes and coins) are subject to counterfeit and money laundering risks. … The [CBDC] system should follow the existing rules about anti-money laundering and anti-terrorism financing imposed on cash, and should report to the PBoC on large amounts and suspicious transactions,” Mu emphasized in a speech.

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Market With Mixed Signals As Ether And Bitcoin Record Minor Gains

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1 day ago

August 17, 2019

Stefan

At press time, we can see that Bitcoin is trading at $10,430 which represents an increase of more than 4% on the day. The altcoin news, on the other hand, show that the price of Ether (ETH) has also recovered and is staying away from the red zone. This marks a market with mixed signals as both Bitcoin and altcoins are struggling to gain solid momentum. In fact, BTC needs to climb by about 15% in order to retake the $12,000 barrier which was surpassed by it multiple times earlier this month. The latest cryptocurrency news show that anticipated BTC futures platform Bakkt announced that it has been approved for launch - namely by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and New York State Department of Financial Services (NYSE) - and it will apparently roll out on September 23. In a market with mixed signals like the one we are seeing, the number two cryptocurrency which is Ether (ETH) has turned around to trade slightly in the green today. As we can see in the coming altcoin news, ETH is trading over $185 and showing a minor increase on the day. The decline for Ethereum has still been shocking as the cryptocurrency slid down from $218 to $185 and fell by approximately 15% to hit the current price. Ripple's XRP token is also in the market with mixed signals. It is trading at $0.262 and trending down by more than 0.24% on the day. Just like the rest of the coins, XRP has been slumping over the course of the past week. Unlike BTC and ETH, XRP has not managed to get back into the green as of press time. Alongside BTC and ETH, there are other top 20 cryptos in the green today which include the names of EOS, Tether (USDT), Bitcoin SV (BSV), Binance Coin (BNB), Monero (XMR), Dash (DASH), Tezos (XTZ) and Stellar (XLM). The total market capitalization right now is over $270 billion in a market with mixed signals. Bitcoin's uplift could sustain, analysts say. But in a volatile position like this, a bearish trend is also apparent - which could be beneficial for altcoins, especially when it comes to lowering Bitcoin's dominance which is now at 69.2%.

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XRP Will Defy The Altcoin Apocalypse: Ripple Chart Analysis

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2 days ago

August 16, 2019

Stefan

XRP will defy the odds of the altcoin apocalypse since the price of the altcoin reached its 2019 high near the $0.50 as we can read from the charts in today altcoin news. XRP is now trading at $0.26 and at least one analyst believes that the altcoin is primed for a major recovery. According to the chief market analyst at ThinkMarkets Naeem Aslam, the cryptocurrency is way oversold and there is some tremendous value at its current level. According to the weekly charts, Aslam noted that the XRP price is below the 200-week moving average while its Relative Strength index as falling below 37. These indicators demonstrate that there have been some bear activities which are running out of steam now. The bullish call comes at a time when there is some growing talk of the altcoin apocalypse as it was demonstrated by Bitcoin’s rapidly-climbing market share. Back in March, the Bitcoin dominance was hovering about 50 percent and in the five month sicne then, it has ballooned to at about 69 percent which was the highest level in more than two-and-a-half years. The level of Bitcoin Dominance has reached the expanse of some other cryptocurrencies and in March, Ripple’s market share was about 10 percent but is now standing at about 4 percent. This is a huge decline from the dominance level over 15 percent in January. The charts show that XRP will defy the odds of the altcoin apocalypse and the charts are screaming ‘’BUY’’ for Ripple as some analyst urge. Cole Walton who is the head Trader at Kanos Capital Management and the co-founder of Plouton Mining noted that the increasingly competitive crypto landscape as a reason to be careful to tread when considering a XRP investment. As we can read in the latest cryptocurrency news:

"Although many of the technicals like RSI, and position relative to moving averages looks like XRP is severely oversold and could bounce, traders should be cautious because the token has been falling out of favor with many crypto market participants, and there are many competing projects with similar characteristics and arguably a much better value proposition that have come to market."