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By Moris Beracha .-  Years ago, Artificial Intelligence (AI) left the realm of science fiction to enter our lives and, although it is still in the early stages, its rise will lead to a boom comparable to the advent of the Internet in the past. According to experts, this technological innovation “is the combination of algorithms to create machines with human-like skills”. Faced with this reality, the leader in delivering enterprise software, IFS, announced the connection of new AI-enabled and collaborative integrated systems with tailor company systems to gain the crucial intelligence of larger financial markets and industries in real time, delivering massive financial and strategic value by 2019. “Systems like IFS Enterprise Operational Intelligence (EOI) will become essential as large corporations become more entwined with world markets and the pressure to turn data investments into value increases,” said Steve Treagust IFS Global Industry Dire...

Moris Beracha .- The bitcoins and the main cryptocurrencies in the market were designed with some important security patterns, which make them quite difficult to steal. The fundamental aspects of cryptocurrencies include protecting user privacy, avoiding asset theft and avoiding harmful practices such as double spending. However, there are some failures that are sought out by hackers, which allow them to take over and empty some accounts, leaving losses, in some cases, of thousands or millions of dollars. According to the Bit2me cryptocurrency and blockchain academy, about a billion US dollars in Bitcoin have been stolen to date. They recall the thefts in Mt Gt I and II, for a total of 769,408 bitcoins; the 173,655 bitcoins seized by the FBI when closing Silk Road; the robbery known as “Pony” Botnet, which stands out due to the number of machines involved, and which amounted to a total of US $ 220,000 in various types of cryptocurrencies that curren...

  New cryptocurrencies such as Tether may be pegged to the dollar, but they have big flaws By Barry Eichengreen W hile the mania for cryptocurrencies may have peaked, new units continue to be announced, seemingly by the day. Prominent among the new arrivals are so-called “stable coins.” Bearing names such as Tether, Basis, and Sagacoin, their value is rigidly tied to the dollar, the euro, or a basket of national currencies. It’s easy to see the appeal of these units. Viable monies provide a reliable means of payment, unit of account, and store of value. But conventional cryptocurrencies, such as bitcoin, trade at wildly fluctuating prices, which means that their purchasing power – their command over goods and services – is highly unstable. Hence they are unattractive as units of account. No grocer in their right mind would price the goods on their shelves in bitcoin. No worker would want a long-term employment contract that paid them a fixed number of thos...

By Omkar Godbole With signs of bull exhaustion showing on the technical charts, bitcoin (BTC) faces a return to the psychological support of $7,000. At press time, the cryptocurrency is changing hands at $7,235 on Bitfinex – representing a 0.4 percent drop on a 24-hour basis. Prices found acceptance above $7,000 over the weekend, having cleared the resistance offered by the 50-day and 100-day moving averages (MAs) last week and rose to $7,429 yesterday – the highest level since Aug. 4. While the bull grip around BTC strengthened in the last seven days, prices failed to cut through the resistance of the trendline sloping upwards from the June 29 low and Aug. 12 low, possibly due to buyer exhaustion. This should not come as a surprise as BTC has rallied nearly 27 percent in the 2.5 weeks without notable price pullback.  As a result, BTC could feel the pull of gravity in the next 24 hours, although overall outlook remains bullish as long a...

By Moris Beracha Bitcoin has lost over 50% of its value in less than six months. Shortly before Christmas, each token was trading at over $ 19,000. Today it is worth a little over $ 8,400. Bitcoin investors predict a meteoric rise that will recommence any day now. However, Bitcoin has refused to cooperate, by staying stubbornly stuck below 10,000 for the last two months. According to Forbes, the "labor theory of value" essentially says that the price of a good or service is determined by the work required to produce it. But, other schools of economics say that the value of a good or service is whatever someone will pay for it. Moreover, if the producer values ​​the effort more highly than what the market will pay, they will stop producing it. So if prices fall, therefore, marginal producers tend to drop out. But as time goes by, more and more producers drop out until prices rise enough for the market to clear. Something similar h...

By Kate Rooney    The world's largest cryptocurrency moved back into the $7,000 range as a key exchange in South Korea, one of bitcoin's biggest markets, came back online. The digital currency hit a high of $7,100 Tuesday, up 6 percent this week after starting Monday around $6,600, according to data from CoinDesk. The cryptocurrency is still down about 50 percent since the beginning of 2018, and 64 percent from its high in December. After losing the equivalent of $30 million in a June hack, Seoul-based Bithumb was forced by its banking partner Nonghyup Bank to temporarily stop taking new customers. The world's fifth largest exchange reopened account registrations again this week, according to local media outlet Yonhap News and multiple crypto industry news sites. "All of this buying is coming from Asia," said Brian Kelly, founder and CEO of BKCM. "The biggest news in the market right now is that South Korea exchanges are coming back online." Bithumb...

Por Julio Gil-Pulgar According to some financial experts, Bitcoin transaction fees are lower. In addition, Bitcoin bypasses the unnecessary and expensive financial institutions within which credit cards depend. Therefore, experts believe that Bitcoin’s advantages will encourage merchants to replace credit cards with Bitcoin. Satoshi Nakamoto: Bitcoin Payments Are Similar to Cash Transactions High credit card fees continue to be borne by merchants and ultimately by consumers. Indeed, merchants pay billions of dollars to have issuers process card transactions. The idea of replacing credit cards with Bitcoin is gaining steam among financial experts. For example, Panos Mourdoukoutas, professor and Chair of the Department of Economics at Long Island University Post in New York, forecasts that increasing competition in the retail sector and Bitcoin’s offer of lower transaction fees could induce merchants to replace credit cards with the cryptocurrency. Indeed, mo...

By Billy Bambrough The bitcoin and cryptocurrency world has been closely watching Venezuela over recent years as the socialist country grapples with an economic crisis that has plunged people's lives into chaos. Now Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has broken new ground in his efforts to stabilize the country's economy: lopping five zeros off the bolivar, introducing new bills, a name change and linking the new bolivar’s value to the national oil-linked petro cryptocurrency. The official rate for the currency will go from around 285,000 per dollar to 6 million while the minimum wage will be raised some 3,500% in an effort to offset the devaluation shock. The historic devaluation and changes to the currency mean the new minimum wage will be 1,800 sovereign bolivars, instead of 1.8 million old bolivars. Meanwhile, bitcoin and cryptocurrency use in Venezuela has remained far above other countries, with transaction volumes climbing since the beginning of this year, accordi...

CCN In the past 24 hours, the valuation of the crypto market has dropped slightly by $2 billion, from $215 billion to $213 billion, as the Bitcoin price and Ethereum price demonstrated stability. Most major cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin Cash, Ripple, EOS, and Ethereum recorded decent gains in the range of 1 to 5 percent. Top 10 best performing cryptocurrencies, chart provided by CoinMarketCap Tokens including VeChain, Ontology, and DigixDAO, which fell by more than 20 percent against both Bitcoin and the US dollar on August 18, recovered relatively quickly, recording 15 percent gains to overcome yesterday’s losses. Tokens are Showing Massive Volatility Earlier this week, on August 17, VeChain, Ontology, DigixDAO, Nano, 0x, BAT, and other tokens recorded some of their strongest performances against Bitcoin. VeChain and Ontology in specific rose by over 70 percent against the US dollar, recording 30 to 60 percent gains against Bitcoin and Ethereum. But, on Augus...