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    By Helen Partz     Crypto market cap tracker CoinMarketCap (CMC) will remove exchanges from its calculations if they fail to provide mandatory data by June, the firm wrote in its sixth anniversary blog post on May 1. CoinMarketCap, a major source of data about all traded digital currencies , has made a series of announcements to celebrate its sixth birthday today. As such, CMC has announced a brand new alliance called the Data Accountability & Transparency Alliance (DATA) in order to provide “greater transparency, accountability, and disclosure from projects in the crypto space.” A broad number of exchanges have already joined the new alliance, including Binance , Bittrex , OKEx , Huobi , Liquid, UpBit, IDEX, OceanEX, Gate.io, KuCoin, HitBTC and Bitfinex, with more partners expected in the future, the announcement states. As a part of its transparency initiative, CoinMarketCap will also now require all the crypto exchanges...

J.P. Morgan’s new virtual coin appears to be reigniting investors’ faith in the market Roslan Rahman/AFP/Getty Images Bitcoin is on course to breaking a six-month stretch of continual losses, as analysts predict a cryptocurrency bull run on the horizon. Since July, bitcoin prices have tumbled from a peak value of $8,160 (£6,310) to $3,480 (£2,690) at the end of January 2019, according to ranking site CoinMarketCap .  The digital coin has been gaining momentum over the past few weeks, however, with prices sitting at around $3,920 (£3,030) as of Tuesday morning.   If values remain at or above their current levels until the end of February, bitcoin will score its first positive month since values began plummeting last summer. Mati Greenspan, senior online market analyst at trading platform eToro, told  The Independent  that bitcoin’s recent gains “may well suggest that the long-awaited bull market is not far away”. But...