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There are roughly 15 known entities sponsoring Bitcoin Core developers in 2020, and the Wyoming-based startup CardCoins just became one of the smallest industry players to join the pack.

CardCoins has helped over 10,000 unique users convert gift cards into bitcoin, according to a spokesperson, with "millions of dollars of volume last year. That healthy-yet-modest traction, which increased slightly since the recession hit, is dwarfed by incumbent crypto exchanges and custody providers.

Out of the most well-capitalized crypto companies, BitMEX, Bitfinex, OKCoin and Xapo are the few that help support developers working full time on bitcoins fundamental software. This is the trunk and roots of the crypto industry.

The nonprofit hub sponsoring the most Bitcoin Core contributors to date, Chaincode Labs, was forced to postpone its annual summer residency due to the coronavirus crisis. Adam Jonas, head of special projects at Chaincode Labs, said the nonprofit currently sponsors seven developers and intends to continue educational residency programs later this year.

Bitcoin advocates have historically criticized exchanges such as Coinbase for not contributing more to these independent, open source developers.

Sometimes it can be easy to lose sight of the fact this multibillion-dollar industry, with companies like Binance that employ hundreds of people, relies on software maintained by just a few dozen people and occasional volunteers. The CardCoins spokesperson said there arent many people to pick from, with regards to prolific contributors who arent already on the above-mentioned payrolls.

So in March, as the Great Lockdown derailed summer plans to train more developers, CardCoins partnered with the fintech company Payvant to split a one-year grant for the Ukrainian contributor Hennadii Stepanov, who goes by Hebasto.

As business owners and bitcoiners ourselves, were grateful to the folks that work on the low-level, nitty-gritty stuff, CardCoins said in a statement. We don't see a world in which we work with a successful bitcoin company and that company doesn't also give back to the community."

Thanks to this grant, Stepanov said, he quit his job at a local university and can now focus on bitcoin full time. He quickly went from discovering bitcoin in 2017 to making a small contribution in 2018, an issue he found when setting up his own node. Now hes among the worlds most prolific contributors.

Decentralizing should be on all levels, including contributions, Hebasto said. I saw how the bitcoin developer community embraced me as a first-time contributor. They share knowledge. I like those people. I like to learn from them.

Although CardCoins has seen a modest incline in the past few months, this move wasnt inspired by extra cash to spend. Instead, the startup co-sponsored the grant because keeping bitcoin decentralized is fundamental to the firms business model.

Peer review is the cornerstone of Bitcoin Core and keeping bitcoin safe, generally, the spokesperson said. He [Stepanov] is making sure that Bitcoin Core will run on many different platforms in a safe way.

Most CardCoins users convert gift cards into bitcoin in under an hour using a phone number and a few pictures of the receipt and card details. This allows the startup to serve underbanked clients attracted to bitcoins censorship-resistant properties.

Weve made enormous investments in compliance and our programs and procedures have been overseen by a former federal prosecutor, CardCoins said of the mission to serve this user group without regulatory arbitrage. Those customers are vital to the lifeblood of bitcoin.

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Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Ripple bears took control this Thursday to correct this Wednesdays bullish action. The price action of the coins look like this:

Alternative.mes fear and greed index has kept steady around 40, and the current market sentiment is still in the fear region. This indicates that there is still some upside potential for Bitcoin.

ETH/BTC has gone up from 0.0239 to 0.0241 but has failed to keep pace with the green Ichimoku cloud. Bulls must gather enough momentum to break past the 0.0243, the SMA 50 and 0.0248. On the downside, there are healthy support levels at 0.0239 and 0.0235. The MACD shows increasing bearish momentum, while the Elliott Oscillator has had six straight red sessions.

BTC/USD is currently consolidating in a flag formation below the $9,000 level. The price is sitting just below the upper curve of the 20-day Bollinger Band. On the upside, the price faces strong resistance levels at $9,161.75 and $9444.58. This means that the price can go up to the $9,000-level before encountering resistance. On the downside, there are two healthy support levels at $8,616.20 and $8,191.90. The RSI indicator is hovering at the edge of the overbought zone, showing that the asset is a bit overpriced and may face short-term bearish correction.

The daily ETH/USD chart is consolidating below the $215-level within the triangle formation. The price faces three strong resistance levels at the upward trending line, $224,78 and $232. On the downside, healthy support levels lie at $206.50 and $198. The RSI is hovering right next to the overbought zone, while the Elliott Oscillator has had eight straight green levels.

XRP/USD fell from $0.2178 to $0.217 in the early hours of Saturday. This Friday, the price encountered resistance at the 20-day Bollinger Band upper curve and fell down. The widening of the jaw shows increasing price volatility. If the bulls gain back momentum, theyll need to overcome resistance at the $0.225 line and the SMA 200. Following that, the next resistance level of note lies at $0.2377. On the downside, there are two healthy supports at $0.2125 and $0.203. The Elliott Oscillator has had eight straight green sessions, while the MACD shows increasing bullish momentum.

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The Lightning network might be key to the future of bitcoin, but it still has a long way to go in terms of user experience.

To tackle this issue, the standard known as Lnurl is quietly gaining ground. Without much fanfare, it's been adopted in some of the most popular Lightning wallets including Zap, Phoenix, Breez, Blue Wallet and Wallet of Satoshi, as well as dozens of other apps.

Sending or receiving Lightning payments can often require a bit of set-up and a number of steps. Lnurl aims to simplify many common actions so that they instead require just a click or a QR scan.

Lightning payments are an experimental payment method that could greatly improve the Bitcoin network, making payments faster, cheaper, and more scalable. But so far, the user experience (UX) is even more confusing than Bitcoin's, which, with its private keys that cannot be lost and jumbled addresses, is weird enough for the average Joe as it is.

That's why developer and Bitcoin Lightning Wallet creator Anton Kumaigorodski decided to create a standard that would improve Lightning's UX, hiding a bit more of the underlying complexity from users.

"I've noticed some clearly visible UX issues specific to Lightning Network wallets, all of them are solvable but require some kind of standard for wallets to converge on. Lnurl aims to be such a standard," Kumaigorodski said.

The advantages include making it much easier to request "inbound liquidity," meaning the user needs to make sure enough bitcoin is in the right spot in the network in order to receive payments, which is one of the more common and troubling UX problems for users. It also cuts out a couple of steps when sending money in a few common scenarios.

Receiving funds

This is a lot of information that someone needs to know before using Lightning, making it a pain to use, especially compared to more intuitive mainstream alternatives such as Venmo or PayPal.

For example, to use Lightning, a user needs to put some of the bitcoin into the second-layer network by opening a "channel" with someone else. Say Alice deposits one bitcoin on her side. If Bob, her counterparty, has no money on his side, then she doesn't have "inbound capacity."

This means she can send payments but can't accept them.

To fix this, Alice would need to open a channel with someone who has bitcoins on their side.

This is an obvious roadblock for easy payments over the network. Many new users open a channel, then run into the problem that they can't accept payments and aren't sure what to do.

A number of services such as Lightning Loop and Bitrefill's Thor have launched to help users retrieve inbound capacity.

With Lnurl (specifically, the part of the standard called Lnurl-channel) the process is greatly simplified, making these services a bit more automatic. A user just clicks a link to pay a little bit of money to retrieve more inbound capacity.

"You could scan a QR code and request an incoming channel from a service," Lightning and Bitcoin Core contributor Tim Akinbo said.

The Breez wallet, for instance, adopted ln-channel in its point-of-sale app so merchants can top up their inbound capacity by scanning a QR code or clicking a link.

"No IT know-how is required," Breez CEO Roy Sheinfeld said.

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Another piece of the specification, Lnurl-withdraw, also makes it easier to move funds around.

Say you earn some bitcoin in a Lightning app (a "lapp" in Bitcoin lingo). Maybe you win a few cents worth when playing the game Bitcoin Bounce, or someone tips you on Twitter via Tippin. The pocket change you receive will initially be stored in the app.

However, say Alice wants to move her money from a game to her wallet so it's under her control or so she can spend it elsewhere (such as to automatically dispense food to chickens over the internet and watch them eat it over webcam). Without Lnurl, sending the funds to her wallet takes several steps.

First, she needs to create an invoice in her wallet. Then she copies the long, jumbled string of letters and numbers generated to identify where the funds are to be sent. She switches over to the game, clicks on the withdrawal page, pastes in the invoice and clicks send.

Lnurl potentially reduces this process to a simple scan in the app from which she's moving funds away.

"One of the improvements include the ability to simply scan a QR code and withdraw funds from a service directly to your wallet, without the pesky workflow of generating an invoice and then submitting it," Akinbo said.

It's worth noting that so far this standard only works in the wallets and apps that support it. The more wallets that use this standard, the better, Kumaigorodski said. Every service that adopts it will ease the process for users, doing a small part toward making the Lightning network easier to use for mere mortals.

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Cryptoassets are not relenting in the fight to start the month of May on a positive note. The cryptocurrency market is mainly in the green led by NEO (4.8%), IOTA (4.36%), Ripple (3.82%), and Ethereum (3.52%). Bitcoin is lagging recovery after testing $8,400 support following a reversal from April highs at $9,500. The granddaddy of digital assets is trading at $8,774 after adding 1.73% to its value.

According to Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum, issuance of ETH 2.0 will be reduced by a large margin. Buterin was speaking in a podcast interview with POV Crypto referred to as Internet of Money. He also touched on the features that distinguish Ethereum from Bitcoin as well as the reasons why the network is moving to a Proof of Stake algorithm.

One of the reasons why were doing Proof of Stake is because we want to greatly reduce the issuance. So in the specs for ETH 2.0 I think we have put out a calculation that the theoretical maximum issuance would be something like 2 million a year if literally everyone participates.

The ongoing testnet is recording the issuance of about 100,000 ETH per year compared to 4.7 million a year in the current Ethereum network. On the other hand, ETH 2.0 is expected to have the issuance of between 100,000 ETH and 2 million every year.

The research at Fundstrat, a global research boutique in a note to clients predicted that Bitcoin will rally to $17,000 in six months. The prediction comes after Bitcoin crossed above the key 200-day moving average in April. As long as the price remains above this moving average, BTC/USDD uptrend will remain intact.

The co-founder of the firm, Tom Lee was bullish earlier in the year when Bitcoin was trading above $10,000. He predicted that BTC will rally to $40,000 in 2020. However, the rally was intruptedby the COVID-19 pandemic. The cross above the 200-day SMA means that Bitcoin has a second shot at the rally.

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This week has been one of the best so far this year for BTC prices. Since the same time last weekend, it has surged by 17%, outperforming traditional stocks and commodities yet again.

Observers and analysts have noted that Bitcoins yearly moving average is back up from its 2018 slump, and is approaching its previous all-time high.

This does not mean that prices are approaching ATH, but the accumulation of the averages over the year is.

BTC yearly MA [@YassineARK]Speaking of moving averages, this weeks rally has resulted in BTC crossing the long-term 200-day moving average. The last time this happened with such a large daily candle was in mid-January when BTC surged from $8,900 to top out at $10,400.

The 200 and 50-day moving averages have served as support and resistance levels throughout Bitcoins life cycle, and trading above both is generally very bullish.

The weekly chart is also looking positive at the moment with seven green candles in a row. The last time this happened was in March 2019, just before the big rally to $14,000. BTC is also trading above both the 200 and 50-week moving averages which is extremely healthy.

The next major resistance zone is around $9,700, but Bitcoin really needs to top its previous high of $10,500 for a real bull run to be registered. Forming a lower-high at the moment could result in further downsides and the resumption of the downtrend.

This weeks rally has also had the effect of increasing Bitcoins dominance as it outperforms its altcoin brethren.

BTC dominance has been on a downward trend since September 2019, and it has remained below 70% for most of this year.

BTC dominance has increased two percent this week to 66.5% according to the charts. This means that it has gained at the expense of altcoins which have all lost long-term ground, despite enjoying gains in price this week.

Altcoin traders have been looking at the charts noting that a climb in BTC market share is bad for altcoins as they have weakened in terms of satoshi values. Altcoin Sherpa [@AltcoinSherpa] has correlated these BTC dominance gains with the seasons, adding;

BTC.D has risen hard in the summers the last few years, crippling altcoins during this time. June is a good time to exit all altcoins IMO.

Bitcoins halving appears to be driving momentum at the moment and is only ten days away now.

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Bitcoin-friendly electronics giant Samsung is teaming up with digital currency payment platform Swipe to add a cryptocurrency payment feature to its Samsung Pay wallet.

Users of the Samsung payment app can now settle their transactions using cryptocurrencies by adding the Swipe Visa debit card into their Samsung Pay wallet. The collaboration allows cardholders to fund their Swipe card with crypto and use it for payments anywhere Visa is accepted. Users can pay through their smartphones, smartwatches, or any other device that runs Samsung Pay at over 50 million locations across the globe.

Swipe chief executive Joselito Lizarondo says that the partnership helps prioritize the needs of their customers in a time of a global pandemic.

This integration and relationship with Samsung will open cryptocurrency adoption and make transactions with our Visa card in Euros converted by crypto seamless. Given the current COVID-19 situation, and people steering away from physical products like cash and in some instances cards, a digital solution really helps put our clients needs first.

The move highlights Samsungs continued effort to integrate cryptocurrencies into its ecosystem. Recently, the electronics giant added Tron in the Samsung Galaxy Store allowing users in the US and UK to download decentralized applications on their phones.

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From trading OIL Futures to democratising algorithmic trading, FTX has got it all.Key Takeaways

FTX, a Hong Kong-based crypto derivatives exchange, has introduced several new features after its best month yet in terms of the trading volume.

In April, FTX launched FTX Pro App, Volatility Tokens, Oil Futures, and several new additions to its spot market. The exchange also launched the FTX Quant Zone, a tool that enables traders to build and share trading strategies.

The rise of the FTX exchange has been making headlines all throughout 2020, with the company continuing to scale both its features list and its volume with each passing month.

While April has been a significant month for the exchange according to its Monthly Digest report, theres room for further growth in May.

Aside from a new and improved native FTX Pro mobile app, which is set to be released both on iOS and Android, the exchange also released several new products.

Half Tokens (HALF) are versions of FTXs tokens that use 50% leverage, with ETHHALF being 50% ETH and 50% USD. The tokens rebalance at the end of each day to return their target leverage.

BVOL/iBVOL Tokens represent a broad set of long or short positions on the FTX MOVE contracts, which represent close to perfect volatility in Bitcoins price.

Last month, FTX added Oil Futures to their ever-growing list of products, with OIL tokens behaving like futures that expire to the spot price of WTI oil +$100.

Multiple other spot markets have also been added over the last month. This includes USDT pairs for over 75% of spot markets, as well as Chainlink and Tron spot, perpetual futures, and quarterly futures markets.

Custom logins enable users to configure special account permissions that allow others to access their accounts, while an improved toggle feature makes switching between sub-accounts faster and easier.

However, one of the most important additions to the company is the Quant Zone, a tool that allows users to build and share their own trading strategies.

FTX described it as algorithmic trading brought down to the level of Lego building blocks and said it was one of the most underrated aspects of FTX.

Quant Zone allows anyone to build crypto trading strategies without programming knowledge.

In the following weeks, users will be able to allow subscribers access to the trading algorithms theyve built in FTXs Quant Zone and get paid in FTT, the exchanges native token.

Professional traders will also be able to make trades for their subscribers and earn commissions in FTT. It is not dissimilar from eToros social trader tool.

In its report, the company said that its spot volume has increased by over 10x in April.

While many have criticized the exchange for the unpredictability and volatility of their trading products, its the pace of development and innovation that has pushed FTXs volume through the roof

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A necessary correction that is the best definition of what happened on April 30, which saw a setback after cryptocurrencies went too far, too fast. Nevertheless, holding onto most gains shows that the trend remains positive. Stock traders are all too familiar with wild movements at the end of the month, as money managers adjust their portfolios.

And now, May has begun and potentially promises a resumption of the upside. The vast amounts of money sloshing around financial markets courtesy of central banks and especially the US Federal Reserve may push traders toward digital assets.

How are the top three cryptos positioned? Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Ripple all need to surpass technical hurdles to unleash the upside.

This is what theCrypto Confluence Detector shows in its latest update:

Bitcoinis facing resistance around $8,840, which is the convergence of the Simple Moving Average 100-15m, the Fibonacci 38.2% one-day, the SMA 10-4h, and the Bollinger Band 15min-Upper.

The upside target is $9,480, which is the meeting point of the previous day's high and the Bollinger Band 4h-Upper.

BTC/USDenjoys strong support at $8,703, which is the confluence of the Fibonacci 23.6% one-day, the BB 15min-Lower, the SMA 50-1h, the SMA 200-15m, and the Fibonacci 23.6% one-month.

Further down, another cushion awaits at $8,248, which is where the SMA 100-1h and the Fibonacci 38.2% one-month converge.

Ethereumis struggling around the $211 area, a dense cluster of lines including the SMA 100-15m, the BB 15min-Middle, the Fibonacci 161.8% one-week, the SMA 5-1h, and the Fibonacci 38.2% one-day.

The upside target for Vitalik Buterin's brainchild is $227, which is where the Pivot Point one-week Resistance 3 and the previous daily high hit the price.

ETH/USD has some support at $204, which is the confluence of the SMA 100-1h and the Fibonacci 23.6% one-month.

Strong support awaits at $187, which is a juncture of lines including the PP one-day S2, the 100-day SMA, and the BB 4h-Lower.

Rippleis battling $0.22, a dense cluster including the SMA 5-15m, the SMA 10-15m, the Fibonacci 23.6% one-month, and many more.

Looking up, the $0.2296 serves as the first target it is the convergence of the 200-day SMA and the PP one-day R1.

The high target for XRP is $0.2432, which is where the Pivot Point monthly Resistance 1 meets the price.

Strong support awaits at $0.21, which is where the previous day's trough converges with the SMA 5-one-day and the Fibonacci 38.2% one-month.

The are many support lines on the way down, and the strongest one is at $0.1940, where the Bollinger Band one-day Middle and the Fibonacci 61.8% one-meet up.

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Traders are ecstatic as the cryptocurrency markets finally recover from the recent crash of March 12 amid the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. At that time, Bitcoin (BTC) and the altcoins shredded all the profits they have amassed since the start of the year, leaving many in bearish sentiment.

However, with the current surge, the price levels in the market have returned to the same ones in February, when Bitcoin traded above $9,200. BTC is leading the bull run, posting massive gains of up to 10.34% against the USD in the last 24 hours. At the time of writing, Bitcoin is trading in the $9,000 area.

As Bitcoins increasing in its USD value, so is its dominance, which currently stands at 65.7%, suggesting that altcoins are losing grounds. Indeed, alternative cryptocurrencies are all bleeding against Bitcoin as the entire market is painted red.

While almost all altcoins are posting massive gains against the USD, they are being crushed against BTC as Bitcoin dominance continues to surge higher. In the top 100 altcoin markets, only two cryptocurrencies are trading at profits against Bitcoin in todays trading session.

Siacoin (SC) and Streamr DATAcoin (DATA) are the only two major altcoins in the market that surpassed Bitcoins RIO today. In the USD market, the bull run saw both coins trading higher at 28.96% and 48.89%, respectively. In the BTC market, SC is posting gains of 11.33% while DATA is 29.14% green.

Being the only altcoins trading at profits against Bitcoin in the market is a great feat for both Siacoin and Streamr projects.

While Siacoin offers an open-source, low-cost solution for cloud storage for users across a decentralized network of peers, Streamr is an open-source infrastructure for real-time data based on the Ethereum blockchain.

The Sia project recently announced the launch of a blockchain infrastructure designed for the Italian Banking Association (ABI). Founded in 1919, the ABI will use Sias blockchain infrastructure to enable its Spunta Banca DLT application.

Collaborating with one of Italys oldest banking associations is, no doubt, a milestone for Sia as it gives the project more exposure. By May 2020, around 55 Italian banks are expected to adopt the new SIAchain-based management process for reconciling reciprocal accounts among banks in the country.

Streamr, on the other hand, had its native currency DATAcoin (DATA) added to the worlds largest crypto exchange, Binance, for two new trading pairs. Binance announced that it had added support for DATA/USDT and DATA/BUSD trading pairs on its platform. The exchange launched an airdrop worth 3 million DATAcoin tokens ($150,000) to celebrate the addition of the new pairs.

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U.K based fraud detection firm, Cifas, warns investors on the skyrocketing cases of fraud involving Bitcoin payments and donations. The firm states the current program by the World Health Organization (WHO) to donate BTC directly to its wallet is one of the websites facing the highest cases of Bitcoin fraud.

According to the report, there has been an increasing case of phishing and Bitcoin-related fraud as the world adjusts to the CoronaVirus pandemic. The epidemic has seen a number of donation websites come up in a bid to fight the spread of the virus but fraudsters have taken up this opportunity to scam users off their money.

Cifas claims the WHO emailing and texting service have been cloned by fraudsters to ask for donations from unknowing citizens. Bitcoin scams boosted on the WHO plea, some asking users to send their donation to a BTC address not registered to WHOs COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund.

Furthermore, fraudsters send users a WHO-like email using the address ([emailprotected]) to make the scam look more realistic. The detection firm asked users not to send any donations to suspicious-looking addresses but only to donate on the official WHO pages.

Notwithstanding, phishing scams have also graduated to target institutions and companies using Her Majestys Revenue and Customs (HMRC) job retention scheme to scam people. In a statement released earlier in the week, HMRC urges everyone to be vigilant during this period. The statement further reads,

Companies to beware of unsolicited emails, texts or phone calls that are requesting financial details or other sensitive information and claim to come from the HMRC or similar authorities.

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U.K based fraud detection firm, Cifas, warns investors on the skyrocketing cases of fraud involving Bitcoin payments and donations. The firm states the current program by the World Health Organization (WHO) to donate BTC directly to its wallet is one of the websites facing the highest cases of Bitcoin fraud.

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