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Markets

Bitcoin Drops Below Major Price Support for First Time Since May

Having found acceptance under a key long-term price support, bitcoin risks dropping to seven-month lows below $6,500.

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Markets

Bitcoin Price Hits 3-Week Low Even as Investor Bets on a Bull Move Surge

Bitcoin has dropped to three-week lows and risks a deeper slide, but longs are being placed in record numbers on Bitfinex.

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Finance

What Do Women Want? More Educational Materials Before Investing in Bitcoin

There would be more women investing in bitcoin if they had more educational materials to help them, a new report found.

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Finance

Bitcoin-Savvy Retailers to Experiment With Point-of-Sale Lightning App in 2020

Iterative Capital is working with Breez on a point-of-sale app for bitcoin lightning payments. Some retailers are already testing the beta version.

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Markets

MARKETS DAILY: Weird News Out of Canada and a Predicted Bull Run

Blockchain goes to court in China and we get expert predictions for 2020. It's CoinDesk's Markets Daily.

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Markets

A Year After Bottoming Out at $3,100, Bitcoin Is Up 127%

Bitcoin bears have dominated the second half of this year, but the cryptocurrency is still up 127% year on year.

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Finance

Can 'Dogfooding' Altcoins Find Real Users in 2020?

Dogfooding - or using your own product - is normal among crypto startups. Is it indicative of a lack of real demand?

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Markets

Bitcoin Risks Deeper Drop After Shallow Price Bounce

Bitcoin is again looking weak, having charted a lackluster bounce from two-week lows in the last 24 hours.

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Markets

Cryptocurrencies Are Still the World's Best Performing Asset Class This Year

Large-cap cryptocurrencies had a phenomenal year and remain one of the greatest investment success stories of the decade.

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Markets

Ride 'Em, Cowboy: Bitmain's Marketing Gambit Ups Its Texas-Sized Position on Bitcoin

Bitmain's new strategy of giving put options on bitcoin to buyers of its miners amounts to a "Texas hedge" – doubling down on risk, not offsetting it.

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