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As the benchmark cryptocurrency continues hovering around $8,700, analysts are now keeping their eyes on a few levels that are key for determining the state of its 2020 uptrend.

IBM's public cloud is secure enough to attract crypto custodians.

"The most transformative option for improving payments is a peer-to-peer arrangement that links payers and payees directly and minimises the number of intermediaries," said the BIS chief Agustín Carstens.

Multiparty computation, or MPC, allows different parties with their own private inputs to conduct a joint computation on their inputs.

Lieutenant Governor and the British Queen's personal representative Adam Wood is set to headline the first annual Crypto Valley Summit on the Isle of Man next month.

Bitcoin was fighting to keep support at a key level on Feb. 27 as markets worldwide continued to suffer from fears over coronavirus.

After a futile attempt to kick off another uptrend yesterday, the crypto market has seen an intense selloff that has stemmed from Bitcoin's move down to $9,500, which has subsequently led most major altcoins to plummet lower.

Dubliner Clifton Collins, who was recently imprisoned for drug trafficking, claims that robbers took the keys to the $56 million in Bitcoin Irish High Court had ruled should be confiscated.

Yesterday, investors witnessed one of Bitcoin's largest-ever hourly price declines, with the benchmark cryptocurrency plummeting from highs of $10,200 to lows of $9,200, which is where BTC was able to find some intense buying pressure that helped climb to its current price of $9,600.

South Korean technology giant Samsung recently unveiled its latest smartphone series, the Galaxy S20, at the Unpacked 2020 event in San Francisco.