Google Search Can Predict Bitcoin Price Increases, Study Finds

Dec 9, 2020 at 4:00 a.m. UTCMumbai, India (Shutterstock)India’s State-Regulated Digital Payments Network Is Dominated by Google and WalmartGoogle Pay and Walmart’s PhonePe continue to dominate the digital payments sector in India built on the country’s United Payments Interface (UPI), a shared payments infrastructure initiated by the state and joined by 200 Indian banks. According to…

news Malta-based crypto exchange Binance wants to spur greater research in open-source blockchain development. To that end, the exchange unveiled Binance X on Thursday, announcing that it was funding more than 40 developers conducting research into open-source crypto software. Binance X also hopes to facilitate collaboration in the Binance ecosystem by providing resources to projects in…

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is launching a new division with the goal of making it simpler for fintech startups – including those launching initial coin offerings (ICOs) – to navigate the legal implications of their products. Announced Thursday, the Strategic Hub for Innovation and Financial Technology (FinHub) will act as a central point…

Nov 10, 2020 at 9:17 p.m. UTCUpdated Nov 10, 2020 at 9:28 p.m. UTC(Florian Berger/Unsplash)Multisignature Wallets Can Keep Your Coins Safer (If You Use Them Right)In traditional business, “key person risk” refers to when a company relies too much on one individual to succeed. Cryptocurrency businesses are prone to a very literal version of this…

Bitcoin’s Price Correlation With S&P 500 Hits Record HighsEver since its inception, bitcoin has been dubbed “digital gold,” given it is durable, fungible, divisible and scarce like the precious metal.  However, while gold has a strong track record of rallying in times of stress in the global equity markets, bitcoin is yet to build a…

The BTT token from BitTorrent, the file-sharing platform that Tron bought in 2018, more than doubled in price on Wednesday amid apparent optimism about the Tron blockchain.BTT is issued on the Tron blockchain, which just hit 200 million users. There appears to be no news catalyst for the price rise.The move comes alongside an uptick

Jul 31, 2020 at 16:39 UTCUpdated Jul 31, 2020 at 16:44 UTCCoinbase CEO Brian Armstrong (Steve Jennings/TechCrunch, used under Flickr Creative Commons license)Blockchain Bites: Dollar’s Decline, Ether’s Moneymakers and Coinbase’s ConsiderationsThe Securities and Exchange Commission appears to be interested in Binance’s eponymous blockchain, 132% of ether wallets are in profit and the Bank of Japan…

news An obscure porcelain and education firm is under investigation by a top Chinese regulator after it became one of the most sought-after blockchain stocks last week. Guangdong Great Wall Group, whose stock price skyrocketed for five consecutive days last week after Chinese president Xi Jinping praised blockchain technology, said Monday it was under investigation…

The global custody bank's tech and product teams are keen to transform securities lending into a peer-to-peer market, but not all are on board.