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The Bullish Digital Currency Market Will Give ETC a New Boom

Since December, there’s frenzy in the digital currency market with prices of mainstream tokens skyrocketing. Bitcoin, has its increased from ¥60,000 to ¥120,000 within a week. Next are LTC and ETH, with LTC price jumping to a new high of ¥2,000 and ETH price doubled to ¥5,000. XRP, also saw its price went two-fold. Will … Continue reading The Bullish Digital Currency Market Will Give ETC a New Boom

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Since December, there’s frenzy in the digital currency market with prices of mainstream tokens skyrocketing. Bitcoin, has its increased from ¥60,000 to ¥120,000 within a week. Next are LTC and ETH, with LTC price jumping to a new high of ¥2,000 and ETH price doubled to ¥5,000. XRP, also saw its price went two-fold.

Will the price spike of ‘tier-2’ tokens, LTC and XRP, signal the same momentum for ETC? There are signs this may apply to ETC.

In June 2016, ETC was forced to hard fork due to a significant amount of ETC stolen because of The DAO project. The fork was not recognized by the community where some said blockchain is irreversible and unchangeable. Eventually, the community split. ETC and ETH went separate ways. Despite no difference technically, ETH has not a cap on supply but ETC, starting from December 12, applied new supply policy setting out the total supply below 23 million. The continuous supply reduction will effectively contain inflation and remain the token’s inherent value.

Like the way BCH came into being, ETC is the result of a split due to different community ideas on future development including hash rate, consensus, supporter, and infrastructure. As of this article is to be published, BCH is held at $2,000 while BTC hit approximately $16,000 – an eight-fold gap. However, there are times when the price ratio of the two tokens are 1:2. Looking at ETC and ETH, despite the same code, their prices are different. ETC, now at $32, ETH, around $740, a 20x price gap. In BCH’s case, ETC’s price may hugely increase.

ETC, ETH’s only forked token, is greatly undervalued as BCH demonstrate this the best. Also, a variety of IFOs account for a certain amount of market share, which means, the price of ETC will be several times the current. Moreover, ETC is fueling IoT and exploring market opportunities. ETC, combining with IoT is a broad market which will work miracles.

Technically, ETC is safer and more reliable. ETCDEV, the token’s development team, strives to develop ETC with down-to-earth efforts. Now it is working on making ETC more stable, more flexible and mature. The mature and stable team ensures the safety of the platform and the system, and lay the foundation for price increase. So far, there is no significant safety issues of ETC but ETH occurrences happened due to systematic vulnerabilities.

There are more ETC projects taking place. For example, SputnikVM replacing EVM for acceleration and compatibility with IoT; Emerald Project, providing Dapp developers with a platform; more tools set to integrate external services into ETC. Ahead, ETC will continue to boost IoT and open more apps.

The undervaluation is temporary and a price boom shall defy the former.

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Feds moving quickly to cash in on seized bitcoin, now worth $8.4 million – Ars Technica

Ars TechnicaFeds moving quickly to cash in on seized bitcoin, now worth $8.4 millionArs TechnicaIn a court filing, prosecutors noted that due to the volatility of the Bitcoin market, both coins risk losing value. Both the BTC and the BCH have already b…


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Feds moving quickly to cash in on seized bitcoin, now worth $8.4 million
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In a court filing, prosecutors noted that due to the volatility of the Bitcoin market, both coins risk losing value. Both the BTC and the BCH have already been transferred to government-controlled wallets. The new round of seized digital currency ...

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FundYourselfNow Announces Entry into Vietnam Market with 2 Major Partnerships

Singapore – FundYourselfNow (FYN), Asia’s Leading cryptocurrency crowdfunding platform, is proud to announce 2 major partnerships in Vietnam, in preparation of the launch of FundYourselfNow Vietnamese Website which has been released today on 15th December. To learn more about FYN, please follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Medium or talk to us on Telegram! FundYourselfNow & … Continue reading FundYourselfNow Announces Entry into Vietnam Market with 2 Major Partnerships

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Singapore – FundYourselfNow (FYN), Asia’s Leading cryptocurrency crowdfunding platform, is proud to announce 2 major partnerships in Vietnam, in preparation of the launch of FundYourselfNow Vietnamese Website which has been released today on 15th December.

To learn more about FYN, please follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Medium or talk to us on Telegram!

FundYourselfNow & VinaEX

VinaEx is Vietnam leading cryptocurrency exchange where both local and international buyers can trade bitcoins/Ethereum with the Vietnamese Dong and USD. VinaEX is launched in collaboration with major banks in Vietnam.

FYN tokens will be listed in VinaEX in first quarter of 2018, with Fiat Currency Pairing (USD/VND). FYN will be the official fundraising partner for VinaEX. In the future, projects work with FYN can looking forward to listing on VinaEX. Starting Q1 2018, projects on FYN will be strongly encouraged to raise part of their funding in FYN. Project creators would be able to cash out their cryptocurrencies holdings at VinaEX for USD or VND. This is expected to greatly boost the liquidity of FYN token. With the launch of VinaEx, FYN has successfully delivered what was committed in the whitepaper of FYN ahead of schedule.

Jack Ser & Kenneth Tan, founders of FYN, will join VinaEX as directors with immediate effect. VinaEX soft launch is slated to occur by the End of December 2017

For more information on VinaEX, please go to VinaEX.com

FundYourselfNow launches in Vietnam with first project New Era Energy

FYN is excited to announce the launch of FYN Vietnam today. Vietnamese would be able to participate in both local and international token sales using ETH & Fiat Currency (VND). FYN will eventually support other major currencies like USD and Euro in the near future, to make the token sale participation process much easier for our users located all over the globe.

New Era Energy aims to be the biggest clean energy ICO at an international level, with an ambitious fundraising target of 100m globally. New Era aims to build a global green movement, where individuals, green organizations can come together to build a cleaner world. Nera is currently working with green energy producers in Vietnam such as Bamboo Capital Group, has support from the major local securities firm, green funds and advisors globally.
FYN will be the sole crowdsale advisory partner and both local and international users will participate in the crowdsale via the FYN platform. New Era Energy will be able to conduct their crowdsale on a safe, trusted and proven platform. Their private placement is starting on 15th Dec 2017 with their official ICO expected on Mar 2018.
For more information on New Era Energy, please visit newera.energy.

Contact Information

Name: Kenneth Tan

Position: Co-Founder, FundYourselfNow

Email: [email protected]

 

 

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Blockchain Technology Breaks Down Borders – Travelchain Token Sale Launches Today

One of the thing that is so often said about blockchain technology is that it is helping to create a world without borders. A world that you can interact with in a truly global sense. And with regards to money this has largely been true. If you own a given cryptocurrency, owning it in France … Continue reading Blockchain Technology Breaks Down Borders – Travelchain Token Sale Launches Today

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One of the thing that is so often said about blockchain technology is that it is helping to create a world without borders. A world that you can interact with in a truly global sense.

And with regards to money this has largely been true.

If you own a given cryptocurrency, owning it in France is not functionally different from owning it in Russia or Canada or Brazil. And there is no functional difference between a domestic transaction and an international transaction, because the idea is totally anachronistic.

Cryptocurrencies exist online and the borders are wherever the internet doesn’t exist, and that’s about it.

And the rise of this private, secure, and decentralized system has resulted in a tidal wave of innovations built off the technology.

But why has the world been so quick to adapt these new technologies?

 

Increased freedom

It may seem cliché but people don’t like to be told what to do. And they certainly don’t like being prevented from doing the things that they do want to do. Cryptocurrency being decentralized has made both of these things far harder for businesses, governments, and other interested parties. With the blockchain, the people doing the transactions are the ones that

And while this seems most immediately applicable to money (it is a currency after all), money touches every aspect of daily life. So the freeing of currency, by extension, frees up a litany of

their businesses to make the experience better and less expensive for customers.

 

Money is the root of all… good?

As money and information are freed from the constraints of government and other third parties, companies and individuals can work together on a more equal ground, using terms they agree to rather than terms they are forced to agree to. It is no up to individuals to decide exactly what they want to share, where, why and with whom.

Financial freedom is the base of just about any service that is trying to make money, the more cosntrained they are regarding how and where they can accept or send money, the more constrained they are in developing, expanding, and improving their service.

Cryptocurrency removes many of the rules and generally accepted financial practices.

As stated above, the biggest change is the borderless market.

 

A borderless market, a borderless you

In the developed world you are rarely constrained insofar as where you can travel – in theory anyway. But you are extremely constrained insofar as where you can bring your money. And, unfortunately, if you can’t bring your money somewhere that you are probably not going to be able to travel there for long.

This was the first major improvement to the life of travellers that cryptocurrency brought: with your financial life no longer constrained by borders, your travelling life is set free! Further the way blockchain works inherently protects you from being taken advantage of by the systems of corrupt governments and financial systems (whether their origin is in your home country or the one you are visiting).

 

Travelchain takes it to the next level

But travel is still not a completely liberated and decentralized market. Right now travel planning is completely dominated by Expedia and Priceline. A duopoly like this is naturally not leading to the kind of competitivity and freedom that exemplifies cryptocurrency and its ideals.

Worse, these companies collect data on you so as to understand your preferences and advertise to you, but you have extremely limited access to this data and almost zero control. They collect it, they use it, that’s the end of it.

 

Travelchain does something different. Just like how cryptocurrency put you in charge of your money, Travelchain is trying to put you in charge of your data.

And even better?

It rewards you for sharing it with companies – but only when you want to share your data!

 

The best of both worlds

No one knows better than you what kind of information about you and your travel interests is going to be best suited for helping travel companies give you the perfect offer. Travelchain put you in control and you get rewards just for sharing this data with the companies.

This not only puts you in control but also increases the competivity of travel startups and small agencies try to make it into a market that is essentially a duopoly.

 

Good for you, good for the market

Smaller and younger agencies and services that try to enter this market will immediately be at a huge disadvantage, they will start out nothing. They will have no data on customers by which they can use recommendations.

Travelchain lets you stay in control of this data so you can selectively share it with any service you want, or to unshare it with any service you don’t want. This essentially frees you from the duopoly and give you the chance to use whatever travel service you find online.

Wen you share your Travelchain profile with them, they pay you in tokens, and you get a much more targeted offer, from any travel company in the world.

This is bringing travel freedom to the next level. This is Travelchain.

 

The Travelchain token sale begins today – December 15th

The highly anticipated Travelchain token sale is beginning TODAY and will end February 15th.

The token price is currently set at $0.0151 and bonuses are available. Interested investors may review the complete Travelchain business plan: https://travelchain.io/Business-plan.pdf

Additionally, Travelchain is now officially supported by BitShares, and Christoph Hering, of their Munich office, has come on as an advisor for the project.

For general information about the project or to participate in the token sale, visit https://travelchain.io

https://medium.com/@travelchain

 

 

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Huge price gap between bitcoin futures and bitcoin is shrinking – Economic Times


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Race to launch bitcoin futures stirs angerFinancial Times
Bitcoin-futures contracts create as many risks as they mitigateThe Economist
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Bitcoin buyers should be prepared to lose all their money, top UK … – CNBC


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Survey: Most Bitcoin Investors Expect Even Fatter Returns in 2018 – CoinDesk


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Bitcoin Gold Price Technical Analysis – Can BTG/USD Stay Above $250?

Key Points Bitcoin gold price is currently under a correction and is holding the $260 support against the US Dollar. There is a major bullish trend line forming with support at $265 on the hourly chart of BTG/USD (data feed from Bitfinex). The pair must stay above the $260 and $265 support levels to bounce … Continue reading Bitcoin Gold Price Technical Analysis – Can BTG/USD Stay Above $250?

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Key Points

  • Bitcoin gold price is currently under a correction and is holding the $260 support against the US Dollar.
  • There is a major bullish trend line forming with support at $265 on the hourly chart of BTG/USD (data feed from Bitfinex).
  • The pair must stay above the $260 and $265 support levels to bounce back in the near term.

Bitcoin gold price is currently correcting lower against the US Dollar. BTG/USD must hold $260 and the 100 hourly SMA to trade back above $300.

Bitcoin Gold Price Trend

There was a minor correction wave initiated from the $347 swing high against the US Dollar. The price declined below the $320 and $300 support levels and traded close to the $250 level. There was also a push below the 50% Fib retracement level of the last wave from the $241 low to $347 high. However, the 100 hourly simple moving average, currently at $270 protected declines.

More importantly, there is a major bullish trend line forming with support at $265 on the hourly chart of BTG/USD. The trend line support is just above the 100 hourly simple moving average, which is currently at $270. Moreover, the 76.4% Fib retracement level of the last wave from the $241 low to $347 high is near $265. Therefore, a break below the $260-270 support zone won’t be easy.

Bitcoin Gold Price Technical Analysis BTG USD

As long as the price is above the $260 support, it could bounce back and move above the $300 level. Above $300, the next target for buyers could be around the last swing high of $347. On the flip side, a break below the $260 support will most likely set the tone for a test of $200.

Looking at the technical indicators:

Hourly MACD – The MACD for BTG/USD is currently reducing its bearish slope.

Hourly RSI (Relative Strength Index) – The RSI for BTG/USD is now well below the 50 level.

Major Support Level – $260

Major Resistance Level – $300

 

Charts courtesy – Trading View, Bitfinex

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