Month: December 2019

From an informational standpoint, the crypto market is noisy and full of unexpected events. In terms of sentiment analysis, that combination of factors is a nightmare. Instead of narrowly focusing on sentiment analysis, we should probably develop a more holistic approach. A sentiment-market impact indicator would be a combination of polarity (negative, positive, neutral), emotion
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At VideoCoin, our utility token VID plays an incredibly useful function in securing and powering the network, ensuring the most qualified network operators are serving customer needs. The VID token does not act as a payment mechanism. Instead, it’s a reputational staking mechanism for building the global infrastructure that runs the worker nodes on the
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Horizontal photo close up of male businessman hand holding pen putting signature on official … [+] document contract paper binding agreement concept banner for website header design with copy space for text Getty Though no one likes to think about this possibility, sometimes even the most dedicated buyers get cold feet. When that happens, it’s
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Reports of a trade deal and an election that seems to cement Brexit don’t remove the uncertainties that have worried the Federal Reserve. Boris Johnson’s big win would suggest his plan for Brexit, with Britain leaving the EU by the end of January, will be implemented, but “the U.K. could now face a hard exit
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For us, it’s a foundational component of the technological change taking place. I always joke, we never have anyone come into our office and say ‘Hey, we’re building a Microsoft Excel Company.’ If you think about automation of micro-transactions or high frequency transactions between a bunch of connected devices, there’s no way current way to
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After driving down collateralization rates, the second priority for DeFi is greater diversity of synthetic assets. Look at MakerDAO: MakerDAO produces dai, a synthetic dollar-pegged stablecoin, with no actual dollars being held anywhere in the system. All requires is an ETH/USD price feed. If we just swap out that price feed for ETH/gold instead, suddenly
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Scammers, fraudsters, insider traders, Ponzi schemers, stock spoofers — the Securities and Exchange Commission has seen it all. I spent a day at SEC headquarters with the regulators Chairman Jay Clayton and the co-directors of the Division of Enforcement, Stephanie Avakian and Steven Peikin. The highlight was a visit to the Forensics Lab, a copper-lined
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The skyline in the distance beyond Lake Washington and Interstate 90 crossing the lake shot from a … [+] helicopter at an altitude of about 400 feet. Getty If you’re deciding on where to buy a house, you shouldn’t just consider city and state. Important things like property taxes and school districts operate on a
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Dick Bove, a five-decade financial-industry analyst for the brokerage firm Odeon Capital, said in a phone interview that Volcker likely would have opposed bitcoin and other digital assets built by independent developers. According to Bove, Volcker believed “central banks should have control of the financial system in a given nation, and it should have control
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According to CEO Alex Melikhov, Equilibrium’s EOSDT is now backed by smart contracts that pay out consumers if the dollar-pegged token crashes through its collateralized floor. Much like how America’s FDIC insures consumers’ traditional bank deposits against a run, Melikhov says these smart contracts inject certainty, and stability, in the face of “black swans.”
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I spent a day at the Security and Exchange Commission’s headquarters with SEC Chairman Jay Clayton and the co-directors of the Division of Enforcement, Stephanie Avakian and Steven Peikin. The highlight was a visit to the Forensics Lab, a copper-lined room where the SEC extracts data from cell phones and computers that are part of
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Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin Healthfield House in London’s Highgate asks $52 million KNIGHT FRANK/SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY On the eve of a general election in the United Kingdom that will almost certainly impact the direction of Brexit as well as London’s property trends (which had been on the decline), a home
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Jerome Powell, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, speaks during a news conference following a Federal Open Market Committee meeting in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, June 19, 2019. Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images This is a breaking news story. Please check back for updates. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said on Wednesday that
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