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Today's top 5 crypto news !
1. Bitcoin and Ether Surge 11% as Crypto Market Suddenly Adds $26 Billion Overnight :- Major digital assets recorded large gains on June 30, as the volume of the crypto market suddenly surged by several billions dollars. With bitcoin and Ether, the native cryptocurrency of the Ethereum blockchain protocol, leading the market with solid 11 percent gains, other large digital assets such as EOS, Stellar, Cardano, IOTA, and NEO also rose substantially in value. Read here
2. BITCOIN INTEREST TO DOUBLE, SAYS BANKING GIANT ING :- The price of bitcoin tends to mirror people's interest in the cryptocurrency, with the level of Google searches providing a near-perfect correlation to the virtual currency's value. This could be good news for investors, as new research suggests that interest in cryptocurrency is expected to more than double. Read here
3. JOHN MCAFEE SAYS HE HAS BEEN POISONED, AND TELLS CULPRITS: 'YOU WILL SOON UNDERSTAND THE TRUE MEANING OF WRATH' :- Cyber security pioneer John McAfee has claimed “incompetent enemies” have poisoned him, just one month after telling The Independent that he feared for his life.
The founder of the eponymous antivirus company took to Twitter on Friday, 22 June, to share photos of himself lying in a hospital bed covered in tubes.
“I apologise for my three day absence but I was unconscious for two days at the Vidant Medical Centre in North Carolina and just woke up,” McAfee tweeted.
“My enemies maged [sic] to spike something that i ingested. However, I am more difficult to kill than anyone can possibly imagine. I am back.” Read here
4. Akon to build new city in Senegal with own cryptocurrency called AKoin :-The Missouri-born producer, who is of Senegalese descent, revealed details about the place - called Akon Crypto City - on a panel called Branding Africa: Blockchain, Entrepreneurship and Empowering the Future at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.
According to Page Six, he told the panel's audience at the creative festival that his proposed cryptocurrency - AKoin - would be "the saviour of Africa in many ways" because of its security benefits. Read here
5. STEVE BANNON IS BETTING ON BITCOIN AND MAY RELEASE HIS OWN 'DEPLORABLES' CRYPTOCURRENCY :- The far right agitator told The New York Times that digital currencies could help him regain power and influence, saying, "control of the currency is control of everything."
The decentralised nature of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies fits with the libertarian politics he has spent much of his career promoting, as does its potential to undermine the established order.
"It's disruptive populism," Mr Bannon said. "It takes control back from central authorities. It's revolutionary. Read here
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