• Bitcoin price rally tracks stocks
    Monday’s Bitcoin rally in China’s Stock market, after BTC barely avoided breaking below 9,000 on Sunday [times in UTC] (Photo: TradingView).
    Bitcoin

    Monday Bitcoin price rally tracks stocks, hides weak performance

    Bitcoin still dances to the tune of macro markets; analyst predicts BTC $190,000 if the S&P 500 cracks 4,000

    July 6, 2020 /

    A push to $9,200 fuelled by stock market optimism hides otherwise weak price performance in Bitcoin, with no end to the correlation in sight. Bitcoin faces a major test at the start of a new week’s trading, as an unlikely global stock market rally contrasts with rising uncertainty over COVID-19.

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  • You vs the guy she tells you not to worry about (via Twitter).
    You vs the guy she tells you not to worry about (via Twitter).
    People

    ‘Gym Friend’ meme war: Troll trolled after trolling troll

    Blockstream CSO and well-known troll Samson Mow managed to turn a minor meme-poster into a crypto-Twitter celebrity by getting offended. Accusations of sexism, phony DCMA takedown notices, and censorship followed

    January 7, 2020 /

    Blockstream CSO and thin-skinned troll Samson Mow's Gym Friend meme war turned a minor joke into a saga with allegations of sexism, fraud, and censorship.

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  • Chairman Mao sees you illegally trading cryptocurrency (via David Dennis, CC-BY-SA 2.0)
    Chairman Mao sees you illegally trading cryptocurrency (via David Dennis, CC-BY-SA 2.0)
    Bitcoin,  Regulation

    Was China’s digital yuan behind Binance’s Shanghai office closing?

    The November closure of a Shanghai office connected to a major crypto exchange may have presaged a broader crackdown as China prepares to launch a virtual currency

    January 3, 2020 /

    The high-profile closing of a Shanghai office used by the Binance exchange in late November appears to have been an early example of China’s latest crackdown on cryptocurrency trading.

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  • No $4.6 million lunch, but at least Justin Sun has PewDiePie
    No $4.6 million lunch, but at least Justin Sun has PewDiePie
    Alt coins,  People,  Politics

    Another smackdown for Tron’s Justin Sun

    Chinese social media site Weibo shut the hyper-marketing cryptocurrency mogul’s account, as well as one run by the CMO of cryptocurrency exchange Binance

    December 12, 2019 /

    Tron CEO Justin Sun’s exuberant marketing skills may have come back to bite him again. And Tron (TRX) coin holders are along for the ride. Sun's Weibo account was shut down on Dec. 12, according to Dovey Wan, a founding partner at venture capital firm Primitive Ventures.

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