Cryptocurrency Highlights, News, Use Cases And Other Reckonings : #41 (2019-03-27)

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Pakistan Police Schemed with Criminal Gang in Bitcoin Ransom Kidnapping: P. H. Madore


A Pakistani crime ring that extorted a partial Bitcoin ransom has been busted. All the news of a stand-off between Pakistan and India has shrouded earlier reports of an IT professor who was kidnapped and held for 20 million rupees. Shahid Naseer was kidnapped…

Bitcoin Unlimited Loses Another Member in Anti-Bitcoin SV Protest: P. H. Madore


Occasional developer Tomislav Dugandzic has decided to leave Bitcoin Unlimited, following the exit of Bitcoin ABC lead developer Amaury Sechet and Antony Zegers. Dugandzic does so “in protest” of Bitcoin Unlimited’s friendliness with Bitcoin SV elements withi…

Alluva Partners With Refinitiv, Improves Cryptocurrency Insights And Analysis For Long-Term Institutional Investment: Press Release


Alluva, a blockchain-based product that tracks sentiment data collected from millions of crypto users across the globe to generate actionable research and data for institutional, startup, cryptocurrency, and retail investors, recently announced their partners…

Bitcoin Futures Kingpin Reveals Why Regulators Hate Crypto: Yashu Gola


Bitcoin might have taken the financial world by surprise. But regulatory squeamishness ensures that it is still far away from gaining mainstream adoption on Wall Street, according to Terry Duffy. CME’s Terry Duffy: Regulators Detest Bitcoin’s Finite Supply Th…

First Mueller, Now the Wall: Trump Slaughters Democrats at Every Turn: Nick Marinoff


They failed to bring down Brett Kavanaugh. They failed in their lies regarding the President’s collusion with Russia. Now, the Democrats have failed to stop work on the long-awaited Trump wall. The Army Corps of Engineers has been authorized to build nearly 6…

Dream Market Shuts Down: Has the DEA Claimed Another Darknet Victim?: P. H. Madore


After almost six years in operation, Dream Market is calling it quits. CCN has confirmed rumors of the shutdown. Since the original message was unsigned, there is some confusion about its derivation. Has law enforcement thoroughly co-opted the platform, and p…

Jussie Smollett Wrist Slap is an Absolute Slap in the Face to Real Victims: Tedra DeSue


The Jussie Smollett case may be over, but the Empire star’s bizarre hate crime hoax leaves an awful mess in its wake. Have a little bit of fame? Feel sorry for yourself for not having more? Hate white people? Live in the U.S.? Concoct a fake hate crime story.…

21-Year-Old Eastern European ICO Founder Asks $60,000 on eBay for Failed Crypto Project: P. H. Madore


Sponsy is a failed ICO that attempted to launch in the summer of 2018, according to the Financial Times. The proprietor of the crypto project currently has it listed on eBay for a price of $60,000 and says the firm’s biggest mistake was building a product fir…

Twitter Conspiracy Alleges AG William Barr is Ex-Trump Crony Steve Bannon: Jimmy Aki


In case you missed it, United States Attorney General William Barr declared this week that there was insufficient evidence in the report filed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller to suggest that President Trump obstructed justice in the Russia collusion investi…

Dow Rally Collapses as US-China Trade Talks Spook Wall Street: Sam Bourgi


The Dow and wider U.S. stock market rallied on Tuesday but failed to sustain intraday highs, as anxious investors shifted their focus to a fresh round of China trade negotiations. The sensitivity of the upcoming negotiations didn’t prevent the United States f…

Apple Stock Plunges after US Trade Judge Calls for Bombshell iPhone Ban: Joseph Young


On Tuesday, ITC Judge Mary Joan McNamara dropped the bombshell revelation that she is planning to recommend a ban on some China-made iPhone imports, in a ruling that caused Apple stock to crater in afternoon trading. Judge Recommends Partial iPhone Ban Judge …

Blockchain-based Entertainment Platform ‘Blue Baikal’ Opens Pre-Registration Event Connecting Producers, Influencers and Consumers: Press Release


Blue Baikal, a community service for global users who enjoy entertainment, opened-up their pre-registration event, in which registrants can join the community, recommend a friend, and become ambassadors. Blue Baikal is a blockchain based entertainment content…

Green New Deal Vote Exposes Democratic Hypocrisy on AOC-Led Insanity: Tedra DeSue


One thing Democrats are notorious for is sticking together. However, the ludicrous Green New Deal is going to expose which of them will break ranks from the ascendent Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wing of the party and air on the side of sanity. Republicans Call R…

Trump’s Fed Reserve Pick in the Middle of Collusion Controversy: Jimmy Aki


Trump’s pick for the Federal Reserve Board, Stephen Moore, is shrouded in controversy as he heads to the first round of confirmation questions from the U.S. Senate. Moore, who has been a vocal proponent of Trump’s economic vision, has alleged ties to a convic…

Expectations Are Low, Stock Market Strategist Says It’s Time to Buy: Gerelyn Terzo


Hindsight is 20/20, but one stock market watcher is willing to predict that stocks are not overbought. Canaccord Genuity Chief Market Strategist Tony Dwyer suggests that economic expectations are set too low, which gives the impression that conditions are wor…

Mueller Probe Traps Treasonous Democrats in Vicious Trump Lies: Marvin Dumont


There’s a 2,500-year-old Greek fable by Aesop which tells of a snake that ate a bird’s babies at a town’s Hall of Justice. The moral? It’s a dangerous world, and just because there’s a sign imprinted with the word “justice,” it doesn’t make it a just world. S…

The Reimann Family Thinks Donating 0.01% of Their Net Worth Makes Up For The Use of Nazi Slave Labor: David Hundeyin


More than 70 years since the fall of the Third Reich, Hitler’s legacy in Germany is all but vanquished, alive only in obscure internet forums and in the offices of investigators trying to catch the last few surviving Nazi war criminals. There is, however, an …

Crypto Bias Detector Helps You Expose Bagholding Social Media Shills: P. H. Madore


Luke Childs, an open source developer with a penchant for bitcoin, has released a browser extension that shows users the apparent crypto biases of people on Twitter. Known as “Coinflict of Interest,” the software is still in beta mode. Coinflict of Interest D…

Apple Stock a Screaming Buy, Will Surge 21% Despite ‘Underwhelming’ Apple TV+ Launch: Analysts: Ben Brown


Apple stock bled out on Monday afternoon as Tim Cook revealed his long-awaited Netflix rival, Apple TV+. Traders were immediately underwhelmed by the lack of details and the stock ended the day 1.2 percent lower. But don’t believe the hype. Wall Street analys…

Singapore Crypto Exchange DragonEx Hacked: Can the Funds Be Recovered?: Joseph Young


DragonEx, a crypto exchange based in Singapore, said on Tuesday that its platform has been hacked and an undisclosed amount of user funds was lost. In its official Telegram account, the DragonEx team said that the exchange was hacked on March 24 and it alerte…

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