Oil-rich economies of the Middle East and North Africa are looking for ways to diversify, and the Jibrel Network (JNT) is leveraging blockchain technology to make it happen. Private financing has a new avenue for building wealth, according to the development company, with “young and tech-savvy entrepreneurs” in the region moving into new industries and investors seeking new ventures to back.

Crypto markets are back with a vengeance. Following a lukewarm Monday start, BTC jumped 6% in a single four-hour period. The rest of the market followed Bitcoin into the green, though altcoins are showing smaller gains – resulting in fresh highs for Bitcoin dominance.

Bitcoin has had a fantastic start to the new trading week and is now trading above its monthly pivot point, around the $10,650 level. More impressive still is that the Bitcoin price has completely eroded all of the losses from the bearish drop on August 28th, and is now holding above the technically important $10,280 level.

• The four-hour and daily time frame show that a bullish triangle breakout is underway
• The daily time frame highlights a huge bullish reversal building across the daily time frame

Chainlink appears to be stabilizing around major long-term support, as green shoots spread through almost the entire cryptocurrency market. Like many other popular cryptocurrencies, the LINK / USD pair has been suffering lately, having lost over thirty-five percent of its value from its August price peak.

A new trademark dispute between the Electric Coin Company (ECC) and the Zcash Foundation (ZF) could spill over into other negotiations, potentially threatening the future of a prospective development fund.

Last Wednesday, French police shut down a massive botnet that managed to install malware on over 850,000 computers. This network was partially used to distribute ransomware and carry out data theft. However, it was also used for cryptojacking, allowing the attackers to mine Monero on their victims’ computers.

As quantitative easing dampens faith in fiat, cryptocurrencies will only become more attractive. That’s one of the most startling assertions from Mark Mobius, founding partner of Mobius Capital Partners, who is in India this week to promote his new book, “Invest for Good.”

The global economy has been propped up since the end of the Great Recession by historically low interest rates. The U.S. Fed Fund Rate sat at a mere 0.25 percent for more than half of the past decade, a rate which many observers felt was too low for too long.

Earlier today, sharp-eyed observers noticed something strange happening on the BCH blockchain. More than half of Bitcoin Cash’s (BCH) hash power appears to be controlled by unknown miners, who are not part of any known pool. Although there’s no indication of anything sinister going on, that didn’t stop observers and doubters from questioning the security of Bitcoin’s largest fork.

The prospect of institutional investors makes the crypto industry go all tingly inside. Deep order books and market liquidity mean many centralized exchanges have expanded their offerings to cater to the needs and requirements of professional investors – but TROY Trade, the ‘first’ prime broker in the industry, aims to leverage decentralized exchanges for the same audience.

With interest in cryptocurrencies on the rise, many prospective investors are returning their attentions to Ripple Labs – the company best-known for strongly promoting the XRP cryptocurrency token and funding their bank-friendly technology with the billions of dollars it has reaped for them.