Total circulation will be 21,000,000 coins. It’ll be distributed to network nodes when they make blocks, with the amount cut in half every 4 years. 

first 4 years: 10,500,000 coins 

next 4 years: 5,250,000 coins

 next 4 years: 2,625,000 coins 

next 4 years: 1,312,500 coins etc’

Satoshi Nakamoto 

Visa Inc. has launched a network called Visa B2B Connect based on blockchain architecture to facilitate secure and transparent transactions for businesses across the globe.

The business-to-business (B2B) payments space offers a vast market for Visa as businesses are recognizing the advantages of digitizing payments, which involve more data, control and automation. According to Deloitte, B2B digital payments are forecast to reach $23.1 trillion in 2020, as most of the companies transact purchases online and pay their receivables through digital channels.

As of this writing Bitcoin has made a large cup and handle formation breakout from around 7266,

with the overall downtrend significantly broken much earlier in the 5 year chart.

Technically speaking Bitcoin, from this point ,has No next level of resistance till 7940

then 9740 where we could see this chart pattern happen again and again.

"How much paper currency is out there...it's about $200 hundred trillion dollars out in the world, and there is only about $200 billion dollars of crypto currency, so that is 100,000 percent from here. So that could give bitcoin a price of $8 million dollars, so $1 million dollars is even a discount to where bitcoin could eventually go. When it gets there, who knows," Altucher explained in an interview on Thursday.

James Altucher is an American hedge fund manager, entrepreneur, bestselling author, venture capitalist and podcaster. He has founded or cofounded more than 20 companies. He has published 20 books, and he is a contributor to publications including The Financial Times and The Huffington Post

Education: Carnegie Mellon University, Cornell University

The 80% correction has occurred and the downtrend of that correction has been broken. No resistance to upside 

angle and momentum appear to be in the chart so the violent moves upward make sense

(cup and handle formations all the way back up)    

Retracing the past peaks on the way down from 20,000.(cup)

Violent upside breakouts after handle draw downs.(handle breakout up).

A massive unwinding of long BTC/USD positions (profit taking) was seen in the 120 minutes to 04:00 UTC, according to data tweeted by bot powered twitter handle @ Whale calls. Further, some are saying online that a major sell order from one party may have triggered the downward move.

That said, investors should watch out for a bounce from the 30-day MA, as that would imply an end of the correction. The average had reversed pullbacks in March and April.

At press time, the 30-day MA is located at $5,986 and is seen moving above $6,000 over the next couple of days.

The 100-day MA has crossed the 200-day MA from below (see above left). The latest bullish crossover comes two weeks after the confirmation of a golden crossover of the 50- and 200-day MAs.

The last bull cross of the 100- and 200-day MAs (above right), confirmed on July 26, 2015, remained valid for 33 months, during which the price rallied 8,000 percent to a record high of $20,000.

With the next mining reward halving due in May 2020, the doors seem open for BTC rise further over the long-term.

The short-term outlook is also bullish. The 30-day MA is trending north with the price creating bullish higher highs and higher lows. BTC, therefore, looks set to extend the rally to the next resistance level at $7,400.

A pullback, however, may precede the next leg higher or the gains above $7,000 may not be sustainable in the short-term, as the 14-day relative strength index (RSI) is reporting extreme overbought conditions.

Also, it’s worth noting that BTC suffered a temporary price pullback from $290 to $220 in the four weeks following the bull cross in July 2015 before picking a strong bid.

That said, with the long-term technicals biased bullish, the historically strong support of the 30-day MA, currently at $5,463, could again reverse deeper price pullbacks, if any.

Even so, investors may take heart as a similar crossover in July 2015 was followed by a 2.5-year bull run.

As of writing, BTC is changing hands at $6,800, representing a 7 percent gain on a 24-hour basis.

A now completed Uber I.P.O. leaves a lot of silicon valley money to be spread around noting what was made on the deal

just as the opening number was inked.

 There seems to be no stopping the bitcoin (BTC) freight train.

Bitcoin has printed a 5.5-month high of $5,714 today, reinforcing the bullish view put forward by the cryptocurrency’s recent bounce from the 30-day moving average and April’s bullish close above the 21-month exponential moving average.

BTC appears on track to test the psychological resistance of $6,000 soon.

 Bitewei, or MicroBT as the firm brands itself in English, launched the WhatsMiner M20S

in April with a hashing power as high as 70TH/s while consuming as little as 48 watts of power per hash.

Bitcoin’s MACD line and signal line completed a bullish cross in early February suggesting a reversal to the predominant downtrend may be in order. Since then, the histogram, representing the space between the two lines, has gradually increased to where it stands now at 102.38 – its highest value since January of 2018.

Further, the histogram failing to set lower lows during its plunge from $6,000 to roughly $3,000 is another form of bullish divergence that points to weakening bearish momentum.

It’s worth noting the MACD did make a bullish cross accompanied by a positive histogram value in September of last year before the fall to $3,000, but the lack of separation between the MACD and signal line was evident and an indication the crossover was weak or invalid.

This time around, the follow-through after the crossover is much more substantial.​​

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bitcoin.

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