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Over 3,000,000 Email Addresses Associated With CoinMarketCap Accounts Leaked on Hacking Forums: Report Millions of email addresses with accounts on prominent crypto price-tracking platform CoinMarketCap are being traded on hacking forums, according to a data breach-monitoring site. Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) says that 3,117,548 email addresses associated with CoinMarketCap accounts have been circulating hacking forums since October 12th.

MEXC Wins Title Of Best Exchange In Asia At The Crypto Expo Dubai Conference MEXC Global was crowned the best cryptocurrency exchange platform in Asia at the Crypto Expo Dubai 2021. MEXC dedicates this accolade to all its loyal customers and supporters, without whom an audience for it would be non-existent. Some of the prominent players in the blockchain industry graced the rare event, including 50 crypto-based companies, and over 60 CEOs and founders from more than 30 countries. The event hosted more than 3,000 traders, with MEXC as a gold partner.

Pacaso Is Helping People Buy Houses with Crypto Pacaso – a leading real estate firm – has announced it will begin accepting cryptocurrency payments from users looking to purchase or invest in a second home. Pacaso Is Allowing Crypto Payments for Second HomesThe property in question cannot be a first-time buy. The company wants to ensure the customers in question have a little experience in the real estate market before they commit to a cryptocurrency-based purchase. That said, Pacaso realizes that digital currencies are becoming more mainstream, and investors are looking to potentially cash in on these assets by obtaining properties to build their wealth. The company has joined hands with Bit Pay, a crypto payment processing platform, to ensure transactions are correct and completed in due time. The currencies that customers can pay with include bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, bitcoin cash, Dogecoin, and several stable currencies.

Billionaire VC Peter Thiel Discusses Satoshi’s Identity — Says Bitcoin Is the ‘Most Honest Market We Have’ According to reports, tech billionaire Peter Thiel — the co-founder of Paypal and Palantir — spoke about bitcoin at an event hosted in Miami. At the time, bitcoin had just surpassed its all-time price high and Thiel said “you’re supposed to just buy bitcoin” and added, “I feel like I’ve been underinvested in it.” Peter Thiel Postulates Meeting Satoshi Nakamoto on a Beach in AnguillaThe tech investor Peter Thiel is a fan of bitcoin (BTC) and has explained this on a few occasions in the past. In mid-May, Palantir Technologies, the American big data software firm, revealed that the company would accept bitcoin for services and was also considering keeping the crypto asset on its balance sheet.Bloomberg reported that the billionaire venture capitalist said bitcoin is an “already known” secret, speaking at a conference in Miami. In addition to this statement, Thiel reportedly said that he felt “underinvested” in bitcoin.Furthermore, Thiel also discussed an early encounter with the founders of E-Gold Ltd., the defunct digital gold company. Thiel talked about a theory he has that he may have met Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin, the day he met with the E-Gold team.“My sort of theory on Satoshi’s identity was that Satoshi was on that beach in Anguilla,” Thiel is quoted as saying. “I met them on the beach in Anguilla in February of 2000. We were beginning the revolution against the central banks on the beach in Anguilla. We were going to make Paypal interoperable with E-Gold and blow up all the central banks.”Thiel said there were around 200 people at that initial meeting. “Bitcoin was the answer to E-Gold, and Satoshi learned that you had to be anonymous and you had to not have a company,” Thiel said. “Even a company, even a corporate form was too governmentally linked,” the tech billionaire said. Peter Thiel: ‘The Fact That Bitcoin Is at $60,000 Is an Extremely Hopeful Sign’

Ethereum on the Brink of Catching Fire, According to Analyst Justin Bennett – Here’s His Target and Timeline Widely followed crypto analyst Justin Bennett thinks Ethereum (ETH) is gearing up for another major rally that could launch the crypto asset by nearly 400%. In a series of tweets, Bennett explains how Ethereum could rally to $20,000 by January 2022 if Bitcoin (BTC) allows for the right market conditions.  “If $BTC breaks $65,000 without a significant pullback first, $ETH probably matches it with a close above the May trend line. Would put ETH on track for $20,000 in January.

Secretum: The Much Needed Solution To Today’s Messaging Applications Secretum, the world’s first and only decentralized, encrypted messaging and OTC trading app powered by Solana blockchain, has set itself as the best messaging app promising to revolutionize the industry. Secretum is the first decentralized, encrypted messaging app that offers users an intuitive, easy, and direct messaging platform. Secretum is built upon a three-layer architecture – Blockchain, application, and nodes.

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ProShares Bitcoin ETF To Go Live Tomorrow, Marking Major Milestone For Crypto World After a myriad of rejections by the SEC over the past years, it has now been officially confirmed that the first-ever Bitcoin ETF in the United States is set to make its debut this week. ProShares’ ETF To Start Trading On NYSEThis week marks a landmark event in the crypto industry as the first long-awaited Bitcoin ETF in the U.S. will debut on the New York Stock Exchange on October 19. ProShares will launch the Bitcoin Futures ETF known as ProShares Bitcoin Strategy ETF under the ticker BITO. The fund is linked to BTC futures that are traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME). The ETF will finally start trading after a 75-day review period by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) captained by Gary Gensler and will provide investors with a new way to purchase the benchmark cryptocurrency on the stock market.

Eric Rosengren: A Digital Dollar Could Be Great for the U.S. Eric Rosengren – the former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston – stated in an interview that he is quite fond of the idea of a digital dollar. He thinks the United States would benefit greatly from using such a tool, and he’s convinced it will not get in the way of bitcoin’s path towards greatness. Eric Rosengren Thinks a Digital Dollar Could Work for the CountryIf only China could have such an attitude. One of the big reasons, analysts speculate, why China has ultimately eliminated both bitcoin and its crypto mining industry over the past few months is because the country does not want any competition for the digital yuan, which is the virtual form of its national currency. The asset was introduced in late 2019 and has already gone through several stages of testing, including being worked into the payment systems of various American companies such as Subway. In addition, a select group of individuals have been chosen to use the digital yuan for payments. Surely, the digital yuan could have operated alongside bitcoin and other digital assets, but China clearly felt otherwise. It has since forced all its crypto miners to move elsewhere and has declared all bitcoin and digital currency transactions illegal.

The Catalyst Required For Bitcoin To Finally Reach $100,000 Is Here Multiple reports corroborate that the SEC could approve a Bitcoin Futures Exchange-Traded Fund next week and the regulator is reportedly no longer opposed to these products. These reports – of course among other factors, are currently breeding huge positive price changes for Bitcoin. They are solidifying the claims by the BTC price stock-to-flow model, whose creator, a pseudo-anonymous bitcoin analyst called PlanB, and British cryptographer Adam Back opined that Bitcoin would attain a $100,000 price by year-end. Anthony Pompliano, not basing his prediction on ETFs just like these two do not, also says Bitcoin could attain that price mark this year.

New York and Texas Are Competing for New Crypto Miners There are still many miners having to leave China after the country declared bitcoin illegal. It looks like New York and Texas are now competing as they work to bring many of these miners to their turf. New York and Texas Go Head to HeadIn addition to New York and Texas, Kentucky and Georgia are also attracting their fair share of new miners. These regions are known for offering very inexpensive electricity in certain areas, and those looking to extract new coins are eager to take advantage and mine all they can for as little as possible. At the top of the list is the Big Apple. Just shy of 20 percent of bitcoin’s hash rate is in New York, while Kentucky falls into second place with 18.7 percent. Third is Georgia, with approximately 17.3 percent, and Texas comes in fourth place with 14 percent. Despite these stats, Texas – according to Foundry USA – ranks as the biggest mining pool in the United States and the fifth largest in the world.

Bitcoin Miners Are Changing The Energy Industry: Here Is How They Are Doing It Bitcoin has had far-reaching consequences, almost single-handedly changing the world’s financial landscape. The asset class has the energy industry in its sights and is set to bring a wave of innovation through mining. Mining Bitcoins On Oil FieldsBitcoin maximalist Anthony Pompliano in a tweet to his 1.1 million followers drew attention to the innovative way Bitcoin was changing the energy industry. They achieve this by mining bitcoin on oil fields and making practical use of natural gas that is often flared. Bitcoin miners are taking advantage of the opportunity to prevent energy waste and giving value to a commodity that has no real use. “There was 419 billion cubic feet of natural gas burned off last year from flaring or venting, according to the Energy Information Administration. No one used it for anything. This total waste is a massive opportunity for bitcoin miners,” says Pompliano. However, in recent times, Bitcoin miners are taking advantage of this source of energy, “creating a market for wasted gas to reduce flaring and cut emissions.”

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Litecoin (LTC) Price Analysis: $200 Presents Key Resistance Litecoin price is recovering higher above $170 against the US Dollar, similar to bitcoin. LTC price could continue higher if it clears $185 and $188. Litecoin Price AnalysisThis week, there was a fresh increase in bitcoin, ethereum, ripple, and litecoin against the US Dollar. Earlier, LTC failed to clear the $185 resistance and corrected lower. There was a break below the $172 support, but dips were limited. The price formed a support base above $165 and started a fresh increase. There was a break above the $172 resistance zone. It cleared the 50% Fib retracement level of the main decline from the $185 swing high to $166 low.

US Inflation Expectations Highest Since 2013, Gas Prices Skyrocket, Supply Chains Buckle Americans are still concerned about dealing with inflation, as the cost of goods and services has continued to rise significantly in a short period of time. The Federal Reserve has published the latest Survey of Consumer Expectations report and U.S. households believe inflation will be up 5.3% one year from now. In addition to the dreary economic outlook, gas prices across the U.S. have skyrocketed up more than $1 from a year ago. New York Fed’s Survey of Consumer Expectations Continues to Look GloomyAfter 2020’s massive monetary expansion, in order to help the economy combat the coronavirus outbreak and help facilitate the lockdown orders that subsequently followed, inflation has crept into the wallets of every American.Month after month, the Federal Reserve has published the central bank’s Survey of Consumer Expectations (SCE) reports, and every month, inflation expectations jump higher. Once again, the latest Fed SCE report published on Tuesday indicates that Americans are still expecting higher inflation and low purchasing power a year from now.The inflation expectations have surged to all-time highs and are the highest levels since 2013, with an expectation of 5.3% one year from now. Furthermore, the New York Fed (the branch that publishes the SCE report), once again mentions the coronavirus.“Median inflation uncertainty – or the uncertainty expressed regarding future inflation outcomes – was unchanged at the short-term horizon and decreased at the medium-term horizon,” the Fed survey highlights. “Both measures are still well above the levels observed before the outbreak of Covid-19.” The recently published Fed SCE report leverages a rotating panel of 1,300 households. IMF Warns Central Banks Like the Fed to Tighten Monetary Easing PolicyIn addition to the SCE report, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has noted, in the world organizations’ quarterly update on global economic conditions, that central banks may need to tighten monetary easing policy. The IMF emphasized countries like the U.S. and the U.K. where “inflation risks are skewed to the upside.” IMF warns of need to be ‘very, very vigilant’ over rising inflation risk

Dreams Quest To Launch IDO $DREAMS IDO launches on Red Kite and GameFi, DuckStarter Singapore, 9th OCT – Dreams Quest, a blockchain-based NFT gaming platform, announces the launch of their anticipated IDO campaign scheduled on Red Kite (Polka Foundry), GameFi, and DuckStarter. The launch gives an opportunity to access the Dreams Quest ecosystem by purchasing $DREAMS tokens. The ecosystem will be gradually unveiled with a variety of mini-games, leading up to the launch set for 2022.

This Pro-Crypto U.S. Senate Candidate Holds Over $1M In Bitcoin Blake Masters, a Republican who is hoping to unseat incumbent Arizona Senator Mark Kelly during the 2022 election, is a bitcoin millionaire, according to the latest filed financials. Blake Masters’ Crypto InvestmentsIn its early years, bitcoin was dismissed by institutional investors as a worthless digital asset that attracts criminals. This has, however, changed significantly in recent years. Owing to the top crypto’s outstanding performance compared to other asset classes, bitcoin now bears the hallmark of institutional acceptance. While the rush of smart money and mainstream financial institutions to bitcoin is a very bullish signal, Congressional adoption is a completely different ball game. Blake Masters, who is a top aide to billionaire entrepreneur Peter Thiel revealed his crypto portfolio in a recent filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Per the filing, Masters currently owns bitcoin worth more than $1 million. He has also allocated his portfolio to other cryptocurrencies including Ethereum (ETH), Litecoin (LTC), Dogecoin (DOGE), Tezos (XTZ), among others.  This means that Masters is one of the most deeply crypto-invested congressional candidates. Apart from crypto, Masters has also invested in precious metals like gold and silver.

Moneygram Partners With Stellar Development Foundation to Allow Users to Make Remittances With USD Coin Moneygram, one of the leaders in the cross-border payments and remittances market, has partnered with the Stellar Development Foundation to use the Stellar blockchain for settlements. The company will use the native version of USD coin (USDC), a popular stablecoin, to simplify and accelerate the process of sending remittances. This also means that Moneygram will act as a fiat on and off-ramp service for USD coin users. Moneygram to Use Crypto for RemittancesMoneygram, a Dallas, Texas-based payments and remittances company, has announced a partnership with the Stellar Development Foundation, the development and growth arm for the Stellar blockchain, to make use of its capabilities for settling payments and facilitating remittances. The company will use the native version of USDC on the Stellar blockchain to move funds in a more easy and effective way. However, neither Moneygram nor Circle are banks. United Texas Bank will serve as a settlement bank between Circle and MoneyGram, acting as a link between the two institutions. Moneygram now becomes an off-ramp for users of USD coin as a way of getting fiat funds, and vice-versa, adding value to the USDC ecosystem. Moneygram was one of the first remittances companies to integrate blockchain when it announced a partnership with Ripple. However, this partnership dissolved after the SEC announced it was pursuing legal actions against the company in December, 2020. Simpler, Faster, and CheaperThe new system to be implemented by the company is expected to allow for almost instantaneous settlement times with low fees thanks to the use of the Stellar blockchain, and no implied volatility due to the use of stablecoins. About the importance of these instruments, Alex Holmes, CEO of Moneygram stated: As crypto and digital currencies rise in prominence, we’re especially optimistic about the potential of stablecoins as a method to streamline cross-border payments… we are extremely well-positioned to continue to be the leader in building bridges to connect digital currencies with local fiat currencies. According to Circle, this partnership will contribute to lowering the costs associated with remittances. This is one of the UN’s proposed Sustainable Development Goals, which aims to lower remittance costs from 7% to 3% of the funds sent. It will be interesting to see if cryptocurrencies can help achieve this objective in the short term.

Tron (TRX) Price Analysis: Breakout Zone Near $0.1020 TRON price remained well bid above $0.0850 against the US Dollar, similar to bitcoin. TRX price is rising, but it must clear $0.1020 for more upsides. Tron Price AnalysisAfter a major decline, tron price found support near the $0.0825 level against the US Dollar. TRX price started a steady increase and it was able to clear the $0.0900 resistance zone. There was a break above a key bearish trend line with resistance near $0.0900 on the 4-hours chart. The pair was able to settle above the $0.0900 level and the 55 simple moving average (4-hours). It even surpassed the 23.6% Fib retracement level of the key decline from the $0.1228 swing high to $0.0825 low.

A New World Built Up By NFTs The metaverse was a big deal when it was first proposed. In Neal Stephenson’s 1992 sci-fi novel, Snow Crash, the metaverse is a virtual copy of the real world that people can interact with by wearing special “data goggles.” Back then, the idea of the metaverse seemed quaintly optimistic. Nearly 30 years ago, it was hard to imagine how our online social interactions would become more extensive and diverse than in real life. And perhaps even more importantly—how they would be monetized.