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Supply and demand, mass adoption, and utility are usually noted as the main drivers of cryptocurrency prices. However, the value of cryptos like Bitcoin also tends to spike or dump significantly after groundbreaking news.
Traditionally, January was a difficult month for Bitcoin. But this year BTC price climbed significantly within the first month. Can it be viewed as an effect of the Bitcoin halving that will take place in May?
While the number of cryptocurrencies is constantly growing, let’s have a look at the top 5 cryptos that deserve your attention in 2020.
It looks like Block.one and the SEC have figured out some kind of a deal as the launch of the beta version of Voice is scheduled on 14 February 2020.
Bitcoin emoji is now on Twitter. This is the first time that any platform has approved this symbol as an emoji. However, the BTC sign was approved as a Unicode symbol in 2017.
The number of use cases for XRP is growing. Now the goLance platform will utilize the ODL solution provided by Ripple to pay its users.
Tom Lee and other experts predict Bitcoin halving as the reason for a huge price rise, while the opposite camp claims miners may drag it down.
The usage of XRP within RippleNet for cross-border payments is continuously growing. It is one of the factors that can ensure a more liquid and stable market.
Bitfinex presents a 5x leverage for trading of its XAUT gold-backed stablecoin against the U.S. dollar, Tether and Bitcoin.
Verasity has a lot of plans for this year. Let’s have a look at some issues that will be in the center of its attention in 2020.
A recent hearing in the U.S. Congress included the discussion of fiat currencies, payment methods and cryptocurrencies. In this context, XRP and the efforts made by Ripple in the sphere of payments were directly mentioned.
The newly announced Hyperledger Fabric 2.0 is said to be a new generation framework that has a number of important updates in comparison with the previous version.
Mercedes-Benz is launching a blockchain-powered pilot that is aimed at monitoring carbon emissions in the cobalt supply chain. This initiative is to be realized in cooperation with startup Circulor.
XRP is still in an odd spot: nobody knows for sure whether or not the asset is a commodity or security or even neither. Some people, like Ben Askren, believe that it is just a scam.