300 Banks in Germany Charge Negative Interest Rates Including Deutsche Bank, Commerzbank, ING
A new report reveals that more than 300 banks in Germany are now charging some customers negative interest rates. Some are big global banks, including Deutsche Bank, Commerzbank, and ING. 300 Banks Pass on the Burden of Negative Interest Rates to Customers Banks in Germany have been increasingly passing on the burden of negative interest rates to their clients after the European Central Bank (ECB) adopted a negative interest rate...
Calling Tops and Bottoms: 2020’s Most Popular Bitcoin Traders and Analysts
Bitcoin and cryptocurrency trading is quite popular these days. With the price upswings and volatility in 2020, crypto traders have made and lost a lot of money. In the last few years, a number of digital currency enthusiasts have been attracted to professional traders and analysts routinely publishing technical analysis (TA) online. Crypto asset trading has exploded this year and there’s a great number of sophisticated traders...
Hash Watch: The Highly Anticipated Bitcoin Cash Fork Is Now Complete
The Bitcoin Cash community has been patiently waiting for weeks for the November 15, 2020 upgrade and the day is finally here. Every six months the Bitcoin Cash network upgrades, but this time around, a conflict sparked over Bitcoin ABC’s Infrastructure Funding Plan (IFP). During the course of the day, the following editorial will be monitoring the Bitcoin Cash upgrade in real-time so our readers can be kept up to date. **Last update...
La Liga Nominates Namecheap, eBay, Telegram and Shopify for ‘Piracy Watchlist’
Every year copyright holder groups get the chance to share their list of “notorious” piracy actors to the US Trade Representative. These recommendations serve as the basis for USTR’s annual report, which is a diplomatic tool to pressure companies and countries to take action. In recent years this list has slowly expanded to include not only pirate sites and counterfeit markets, but also third-party intermediaries. Focus on...
BREIN Cracks Down on ‘Open Directory’ Piracy – But What is It?
Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN aims to tackle all kinds of piracy, wherever and however it takes place online. From popular P2P technologies such as BitTorrent through to streaming portals and the well-established protocols of Usenet, BREIN can be found working in the background to prevent people from distributing and obtaining content without permission. This week, however, the company revealed it has been targeting one of the oldest...
