Alipay, one of the largest payment systems included in the Chinese Alibaba Group, the application is used by over 90% of smartphone owners, has banned OTC transactions using Alipay. This suggests that people in China continued to actively buy and sell the BTC even after the ban in 2017.

​​The volumes of crypto assets owned by BITMAIN (in USD). Bitcoin Cash #BCH is not lost :)

??Bill Harris, the former CEO of PayPal's largest debit electronic payment system, said in a Fast Money transfer to CNBC that BTC is a cult and it will not cost anything, it's a matter of time. Here are some of the thoughts that this indisputably clever person has expressed in order to slightly dilute the flow of positive views on the cue ball and the crypt as a whole. How many people, so many opinions, so everyone has the right to exist:

"The supporters of the first cryptocurrency have many advantages, such as instantness, scalability, efficiency, security, global recognition, but it does not have any of them." One of the reasons why many are inclined to defend Bitcoin and like to emphasize it in every way is often the difficulty in transferring money from one country to another is problematic and long, but to solve this problem, we do not need Bitcoin, all we need is a faster network. China and India have internal payment systems much more it's technological than in the US and other major countries, so they are ahead of us. Bitcoin's volatility makes it completely useless as a payment mechanism and absurd as a means of saving. Yes, Bitcoin is clearly an investment opportunity. However, there are a huge number of such opportunities in the financial sector technologies, in which I am already 25. But what we are doing is creating something better and more useful than alternatives. To be successful in the long run, you need to have competitive advantages that Bitcoin does not have. "

A well-known entrepreneur, former owner of the largest file-sharing company Megaupload (since January 2013 - the owner of a new file-sharing company Mega), Kim Dotcom calls to abandon the dollar and buy gold and crypt. He specifies that on average the US national debt increases by $ 1 trillion per year, at a rate that soon the dollar will not cost anything, and there will come an economic collapse of the United States, and with it the global financial crisis. However, if you hedge part of your assets and prepare for it, the upcoming difficult times will be easier to survive.
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Kim Dotcom

Trust me. Buy crypto and gold. Your USD will become worthless. With US economic collapse all old money currencies will crash. Times will get tough. But you’ll be fine if you hedge some of your assets in preparation for the crash. The big crash is coming 100%.

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Frank Chaparro

Nasdaq bubble burst versus bitcoin updated Via @fundstrat

?❓Canaccord, the largest investment company in Canada, in solidarity with several reputable experts, said that the approval of the ETF in 2018 is unlikely.

In the official report on Blockchain and Digital Assets: US Equity Research, Michael Graham and Scott Such, Canaccord researchers wrote: "Although the decision on the VanEck SolidX Bitcoin Trust application, which many consider the main candidate for potential approval, should be made soon, more likely the whole SEC will postpone, again and again, in which case the decision can be postponed until the beginning of 2019. "

Recall, today it became known that the decision was postponed until September 30.

Historically, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has been reluctant to approve the ETF on the basis of new assets and goods. In the case of BTC, as can be seen from the refusal of the ETF from SolidX and the Winklevoss brothers in 2017 and 2018, the SEC does not prefer to publicly disclose its decision to the final deadline, regardless of the outcome of their internal discussion.

Therefore, despite the fact that the bids for Bitcoin-ETF from VanEck-SolidX and CBOE are highly likely to be approved, the commission will not publicly disclose its decision until the final date, that is, February 2019. ⏳

Members of the ICON Foundation Board unanimously approved their first coin redemption program. They plan to buy #ICX tokens in circulation for $ 5 million. The timing of the beginning has not yet been announced.

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Key Announcements from ICON

theloop Rebranding + ICX Repurchase Program + Open Source Release Schedule

?Of course, 06.08.2018. BTC has been consolidating in a narrow range for almost two days. Obviously, the price tends to $ 6,800, which is the strongest nearest level, which, among other things, intersects with the lower border of the price channel, which is dynamic support. Purchasing activity is still minimal, volumes are very modest, so the probability of growth so far looks very unsteady.

?Most of the altcoins show very little positive dynamics. And in general, the picture does not look the best. Over the last week, about half of the coins from the top 100 have lost in price 25-30%, the other half on the average from 15 to 20%.

?The capitalization of the market continues to move in a downward trend and by this hour is $ 254.8 billion. The BTC's dominance index is at the level of 47.4%.

​​In a semi-annual review of the economic outlook, a group from the investment strategy department of Goldman Sachs said that the price of BTC is likely to decline even more.

"Our view that the Crypto-currencies will not retain their value in their current incarnation remains unchanged, and, in fact, is confirmed much earlier than we expected," said the team headed by the investment director Sharmin Mossavar-Rahmani.

​​? Tuesday, July 31, 2018. Volatility in the BTC continues to narrow. Yesterday, the price squeezed down to $ 7,860, and now the price is approaching the intersection of the upper boundary of the channel in which it was moving earlier and the horizontal level of about $ 8,000. Volumes are still very small, buying activity is minimal, so correction is more likely than growth.

?Most of the violas from the top 100 in the red zone. Only Polymath #POLY can be selected, which became the winner of the voting from Binance and was uploaded to the exchange according to the rules. Against this background, the coin, of course, grew, the course of the price was almost 50%.

?The capitalization of the market has fallen to $ 288 billion. The Bitcoin dominance index continues to grow and is already equal to 48.38%.