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Bitcoin price has taken a bearish course, leading some analysts to call for a drop to $8,300 and a few even suggest $7,100 is where the digital asset will bottom.

The official state-run press agency of the People's Republic of China, Xinhua News Agency, cited Bitcoin in one of its latest reports as "The first successful application of blockchain technology." The move comes weeks after President Xi Jinping announced that his administration would embrace blockchain technology.

A Dutch court has ruled that Facebook must remove Bitcoin-related fraudulent investment ads following local billionaire and television producer John de Mol's lawsuit against the company, Reuters reported on Nov. 11.De Mol initiated judicial proceedings against the social media giant in June 2019, claiming that Facebook failed to respond to multiple requests to remove ads of a scam that misused his and other celebrities' images and eventually resulted in the loss of 1.7 million euros by investors.

Chinese regulator State Administration of Foreign Exchange expanded its blockchain cross-border financing pilot program.

Boxing legend and Phillipino politician Manny Pacquiao's PAC token will become available for purchase on the Singapore-based GCOX crypto exchange through an initial exchange offering on Nov. 12, according to a press release shared with Cointelegraph.

Institutional Bitcoin trading platform Bakkt has announced it has launched its custody feature for its entire client base following regulatory approval.

Following the unveiling of the company's first fully electric car, the XC40 Recharge, Volvo has come up with a new business strategy that includes introducing an electric vehicle every year through 2025."Cobalt is at the heart of electric vehicle batteries, yet supplies are limited. Companies like Volvo are ramping up their production significantly, as half of Volvo cars will be electric by 2025. Each car requires 10-20 kilograms of cobalt in their batteries," Mark Rakhmilevich, senior director of blockchain product management at Oracle, told Cointelegraph.

Intercontinental Exchange's bitcoin subsidiary announced Monday it would provide custody services for institutional clients.

Crypto exchange Bittrex will give frozen holdings back to its Iranian users, which the exchange suspended two years ago due to the requirements of United States' regulators.

The music streaming industry has come a long way since the old days of Napster and the first-ever downloadable music.

Canadian blockchain research firm Blockchain Venture Capital Inc. has officially launched a United States dollar-pegged stablecoin, the CUSD, according to a press release published on Nov. 11.The new USD-anchored stablecoin comes four months after the firm launched CADT, a stablecoin initiative pegged to Canada's national fiat currency.

Benoit Coeure, outgoing member of the executive board of the European Central Bank, is to lead a new global effort by central banks to research the benefits of fintech such as digital currencies.

Bitcoin price fell almost 5% on Monday morning, finding lows of $8,593, completely reversing the weekend recovery back above the $9,000 handle and below the lows of the prior week.

Crypto exchange Bittrex is looking to return crypto holdings to customers in sanctioned nations.

A former European Central Bank board member will chair a new arm of the Bank of International Settlements focusing on digital currencies and financial innovation.

View Bitcoin's consecutive weekly losses and multiple failures at key resistance have shifted risk in favor of a drop to around $8,550 and perhaps as low as $8,000.

Founding managing partner of HCM Capital, the private equity arm of electronics manufacturer Foxconn, Jack Lee, says China's Central Bank Digital Currency is ready and expects it to launch in two to three months.

The Interchain Foundation raised $17 million in April 2017 to shepherd the development of the Cosmos network, a system for making blockchains talk to each other.

Bitcoin mining difficulty adjusted downwards more than at any time since its 2018 price low on Nov. 8, data shows.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is contracting Canadian enterprise blockchain firm Mavennet to build a cross-border oil tracking platform.

Real estate tycoon Ben Shaoul has sold a retail condo in Manhattan's prestigious Upper East Side for $15.3 million in Bitcoin.

The Monetary Authority of Singapore, the city-state's central bank, has completed development of a blockchain-based cross border payments system that can support a range of currencies.

The official Chinese state-run Xinhua News Agency has published a report recognizing Bitcoin as "The first successful application of blockchain technology."

According to a cryptocurrency trader, the Bitcoin price may be set for an extended rally to $50,000 by mid-2020, based on its macro trend.

Since NASDAQ acquired Cinnober last year, blockchain lead Eric Wall has left the exchange business for a bitcoin investment fund, joining the Oslo, Norway-based Arcane Crypto, he told CoinDesk.

Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is launching a free, seven-week crypto startup school, scheduled to kick off in February 2020.

Bitcoin trading set new records in two of its most keenly watched South American markets last week, new data has revealed.

Singapore's central bank and state investment firm have created a prototype multi-currency blockchain-based payments network together with JPMorgan.

Bitcoin fell below $8,700 on Nov. 11 after a fresh downturn once again ended its stay above the $9,000 mark.