Bitcoin Ended 2019 Near $7,200 After a 92% Rebound
CoinMarketCap’s December 31 snapshot put bitcoin at $7,193.60, about 92% above its December 31, 2018 mark but sharply below the year’s June peak.
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365 source-dated archive files document the cryptocurrency record for 2019. Each article displays its historical event date and separate actual publication time.
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IOTA Restores Mainnet Confirmations With Emergency IRI Patch
Version 1.8.3 repaired a ledger-calculation edge case that stopped IOTA’s primary node software from accepting milestones and confirming value transfers.
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Bithumb Prepared to Fight an 80.3 Billion Won Tax Assessment
The South Korean exchange’s planned challenge exposed how tax authorities were applying existing withholding rules before lawmakers had enacted a cryptocurrency-specific framework.
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Bitcoin held near $7,300 as Kraken volume thinned
A broad but uneven crypto-asset bounce unfolded as Kraken’s exchange-wide turnover fell 41.7% from its December 27 session.
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Bank of Korea Put a CBDC Task Force on Its 2020 Agenda
South Korea’s central bank committed to a dedicated research team and additional specialists while stopping short of deciding to issue a digital won.
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Bitcoin’s 4% Intraday Range Ended Almost Flat on December 26
Coinbase BTC-USD closed only 0.028% above its UTC open despite trading between $7,140.00 and $7,432.10, while volume rebounded from a light December 25 baseline.
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YouTube Acknowledged Cryptocurrency Video Removals on December 25
The platform said it was investigating as cryptocurrency creators documented removals and strikes without a published policy explanation.
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YouTube removal wave hits cryptocurrency creators
Cryptocurrency educators reported deleted videos and channel strikes as YouTube’s opaque enforcement exposed the industry’s dependence on a centralized distribution platform.
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Bakkt Named Mike Blandina CEO and Adam White President
ICE divided responsibility for Bakkt’s payments ambitions and institutional bitcoin markets after founding chief Kelly Loeffler left for the U.S. Senate.
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Bitcoin Rebounded as Weekend Crypto Trading Revived
Bitcoin gained on December 22, 2019 while Kraken’s exchange-wide turnover more than doubled from the preceding session, although the available record established no clear catalyst.
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Bitcoin Held Near $7,200 as Weekend Trading Thinned
Kraken reported bitcoin at $7,178 on December 21, 2019 as exchange-wide turnover fell 59.5% from the preceding session and the SEC’s latest bitcoin-fund review remained unresolved.
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Ripple raised $200 million in a Tetragon-led Series C round
The equity financing gave Ripple fresh institutional backing for its cross-border-payments business, while the reported $10 billion valuation did not confer the same value on XRP.
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European Commission Opened the Debate on an EU-Wide Crypto Rulebook
The Commission began testing how a common European framework could cover tokens, exchanges, custodians and stablecoins that existing financial law did not clearly reach.
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SEC ordered Blockchain of Things to register its token and open investor claims
The settlement paired a $250,000 penalty with registration, periodic reporting and a repayment process after an approximately $13 million token offering.
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Fidelity Announced a UK Digital-Asset Arm for European Institutions
The new entity extended Fidelity’s institutional bitcoin custody and trade-execution strategy beyond the United States, although the announcement did not establish client adoption or blanket regulatory approval.
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AICPA Issued a Crypto Accounting Practice Aid Built on Intangible-Asset Rules
The nonauthoritative guide explained why many directly held crypto assets fell under indefinite-lived intangible-asset accounting, producing an asymmetric treatment of losses and gains.
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Bitcoin’s December 15 Mark More Than Doubled in One Year
Exchange and market snapshots showed bitcoin roughly 121% to 124% above its year-earlier level, even as declining Kraken turnover and weaker seven-day performance tempered the recovery.
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Tezos Held a Top-10 Crypto Rank as Staking Access Expanded
XTZ remained a rare seven-day gainer on December 14, 2019, even as bitcoin and most large cryptoassets fell during the session.
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English High Court Treated Bitcoin as Property in Ransom Recovery Case
A Commercial Court judge granted an interim proprietary injunction over 96 bitcoin on December 13, 2019, giving an English-law claimant a route to preserve traceable cryptoassets without deciding final ownership.
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Basel Committee outlined a conservative bank treatment for crypto assets
The global banking standard setter proposed an illustrative framework that would deduct high-risk crypto holdings from core capital and deny them liquidity or collateral recognition.
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New York Proposed Faster Coin Listings for BitLicense Firms
The state regulator considered an approved-asset list and supervised self-certification while retaining authority to block or reverse listings.
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Court opened cross-border discovery in SEC’s Telegram token case
A federal judge authorized a request for evidence from a United Kingdom witness as regulators examined Telegram’s $1.7 billion Gram offering.
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Bakkt Opens Bitcoin Options and Cash-Settled Futures
The ICE-backed platform expanded its regulated derivatives complex with U.S. options tied to physically delivered futures and a separate Singapore contract settled in cash.
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South Korea Put Cryptocurrency Gains on Its 2020 Tax Agenda
The finance ministry began developing a statutory framework for taxing virtual-asset income, but it had not selected a tax category, rate or valuation method on December 8, 2019.
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Ethereum activated Istanbul at block 9,069,000
The coordinated hard fork changed Ethereum’s gas schedule, added protocol capabilities and underscored the operational demands of upgrading a live smart-contract network.
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CFTC Data Showed Bitcoin Futures Open Interest Contracting
CME Bitcoin futures open interest fell 16.1% in the weekly regulatory snapshot as leveraged funds remained net short and smaller traders held the offsetting net-long position.
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Figure Closed $103 Million Round for Blockchain-Based Lending Expansion
The financing valued Figure at $1.2 billion and backed an attempt to move consumer-loan origination, financing and sales onto the Provenance blockchain.
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Banque de France Set Wholesale CBDC Experiments in Motion
France’s central bank committed to a first-quarter project call focused on using digital central-bank money to settle tokenized financial assets.
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WisdomTree Brings a Physically Backed Bitcoin ETP to SIX
The established exchange-traded-product issuer listed its first cryptocurrency instrument in Switzerland, extending regulated Bitcoin exposure through traditional market infrastructure.
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Bitfinex Announced Bitcoin Transfers Over the Lightning Network
The exchange said Lightning deposits and withdrawals would begin December 3, giving Bitcoin’s developing payment layer its first integration with a major trading venue.