Litecoin is the sixth-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization and it is often considered the silver of the cryptocurrency market since Bitcoin appears to be the gold standard. The Litecoin Project is potentially one of the projects that could power the mass-market adoption of cryptocurrencies because it is a lighter, faster, and scalable variant of Bitcoin. In this...Read More
BTC rallies 4.5% on Monday after bulls emerged at key levels last week. XRP raises $200m. TRX and ETC look positive, whilst ETH holds value. BTC BTC Price Index Bitcoin is holding a key support level at $7,000 after an early week dip was followed by a stick save by the bulls and a strong...Read More
Bakkt, the Bitcoin Futures trading platform of the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), has recently appointed a new CEO as Kelly Loeffler stepped down. The former CPO of the company, Mike Blandina, will take her role, and, at the same time, the former COO, Adam White, will serve as President. New CEO and President of Bakkt Bakkt...Read More
10,000 participants are expected to join CHAIN2020 in Hong Kong on January 15, which aims to become one of the largest blockchain educational conferences. CHAIN2020 launches a series of educational conferences supporting Blockchain&FinTech initiatives in Asia and provides an opportunity for curious and intrepid individuals to engage in innovative conversations about the future of humans...Read More
“Privacy is not something that I’m merely entitled to, it’s an absolute prerequisite” ~ Marlon Brando Privacy in itself is a spectrum; the meaning differs from one person to another. There are people who are absolutely fine with being completely surveilled on, there are people who are okay with partial surveillance, and there are also...Read More
NULS Blockchain platform has become the latest victim on the success list of crypto hackers after a security breach leading to the theft of about $480,000 worth of NULS token. According to an official announcement about the situation on Twitter, NULS said that the hackers compromised the account of the NULS team, and a total...Read More
Bitcoin on Monday was trading above $7,500 as sellers showed signs of exhaustion near a crucial support area.The cryptocurrency could swell further to test $8,000-8,500 area, according to textbook technical indicators.A gap on the CME’s daily Bitcoin Futures chart hints a revisit to $7,200.Bitcoin opened this week at records as buying interests among traders renewed...Read More
Funds from the recent theft from the Upbit exchange are on the move, according to a Whale Alert tweet. A transaction of 2,000 Ethereum shows that the hacker keeps trying to obfuscate the whereabouts of the funds. Ethereum Taken from Upbit Moved to Multiple Smaller Wallets The Upbit hack at the end of November took...Read More
To earn money with Immediate Bitcoin, there is no effortless method. But useful and quality work can still earn you money in cryptocurrencies! Buy low, sell high low: The most obvious way to make money with Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies is investment or guesswork. Buy low then sell high. The trading short-term e.g. based on technical...Read More
In the latest update, Bakkt has just appointed Mike Blandina as the CEO of Bakkt, the crypto venture, majorly backed by ICE. Adam White will now serve as the President of the company. This news was revealed following the departure of founding CEO Kelly Loeffler, who was appointed to the United States Senate to fill...Read More
Ripple’s ODL corridor to Australia was tested for over a year before its CEO, Brad Garlinghouse announced the gateway will go live Via FlashFX, an Australian Exchange. However, the ODL service has been noting minimal transactions, pointing out that the corridor has not been activated yet. Meanwhile, Flash FX expanded its ODL service to the...Read More
In this roundup, we cover a wide range of regulatory developments in the crypto space. Much has transpired in the U.S., including a new crypto bill, SEC’s proposal, lawmakers seeking answers from the IRS, and the state of Michigan signing several crypto bills into law. We also cover France’s first-approved initial coin offering, a proposal...Read More
A bitcoin trader who promised massive returns by investing in his BitMEX fund, has allegedly made away with more than $380,000 in BTC in what appears to be an exit scam. Bitcoin Scammer Drops Parting Joke According to Twitter handle ‘stealthbomber21,’ a bitcoin trader with the moniker ‘hitsXBT’ has defrauded investors in his Bitmex $BTC...Read More
It’s a hack that won’t make bitcoin a popular payment method among merchants. | Source: Shutterstock.com Video shows user double-spending BTC transaction by taking advantage of RBF (Replace By Fee) and zero-conf transactions. Controversial features have been a topic of hot debate among Bitcoin developers for years. A simple four-step guide details how to easily...Read More
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) has blacklisted four FX brands, for unauthorised trading of FX and crypto. According to reports, the brands misleadingly claimed affiliation with Bdswiss Holding, which is licensed and regulated in the country. CySEC Clamps Down On Unauthorised Brokers The latest entities to be added to CySEC’s caution list are Nervic Fx...Read More
Read Part 1 of our series, Bitcoin’s 2019 in Tech: What This Year Brought Us, here. Even as we entered 2019 in a bear market, the receding bitcoin price was matched by a rising tide of excitement for and development on Bitcoin’s second layer payment protocol, the Lightning Network. Over the course of the year,...Read More
Bitcoin hasn’t done over the past few months. Since peaking near $14,000 in June of this year, the price of the leading cryptocurrency has fallen off by 50%, tumbling under the pressure of an overextended market and bulls taking profit.For some reason or another, there are analysts that expect this pain to persist, citing an...Read More
Karem Albayrak, a self-proclaimed hacker who somehow got access to 300 million iPhones, pleaded guilty to blackmailing Apple. 150 Iphone Accounts Deleted Per Minute Back in March 2017, The Hacker News and many other news media published reports of a hacker threatening to remotely wipe 300 million iPhones, unless Apple pays the ransom. The hacker...Read More
Upbit, a South Korean exchange woke up to a major hack on 27 November, resulting in the loss of $51.7 million worth of Ethereum. Ever since the hack, many exchanges came forward to freeze the movement of the stolen funds; however, that has not stopped hackers from trying to move these funds to various unidentified...Read More
Popular YouTube cryptocurrency analyst, Alessio Rastani, yesterday posted a new vlog giving an update on his ‘wildcard’ scenario for Bitcoin. Had recent BTC price drops crushed it, and if so then what comes next? What’s The Wildcard Scenario? As Bitcoinist reported at the end of July, Rastani bucked the bullish trend at the time by proposing a contrarian ‘wildcard’...Read More
Eight lawmakers have sent a letter to the IRS seeking answers to new questions stemming from the latest crypto tax guidance. They pointed out a number of major issues including unwarranted tax liabilities for crypto users who unwillingly receive forked or airdropped coins. Also read: Regulatory Roundup: Crypto ‘Inevitable’ in India, China Rankings, NY Streamlines...Read More
According to recent information, China’s e-yuan will roll out in early 2020, and it will be very cautious, initially only focusing on consumer spending. Recent reports regarding China’s upcoming cryptocurrency claim that Beijing is preparing to launch the so-called ‘e-yuan’ in early 2020. This will be the world’s first digital sovereign currency. However, the reports...Read More
After a few days of trading sideways, Bitcoin’s price appears to be headed north. It was trading at around $7,100, and it surged to over $7,650 on Bitstamp before retracing slightly to the current level of approximately $7,500. Bitcoin marks a 4.6% increase at the moment. The interesting thing is that BTC’s dominance is also...Read More
Overnight, the bitcoin price rose to as high as $7,642 and is up by more than $1,200 within five days. With the reversal, the dominant cryptocurrency crucially avoided miner capitulation and retest of an ascending channel dating back to 2015.#1: No bitcoin miner capitulation, at least for nowAs reported by NewsBTC, the capitulation of small...Read More
Staking seems to be doing rounds in the cryptocurrency industry and the CZ led platform rolled out Binance Staking back in September. The platform started off staking services for just Algorand’s ALGO and Stellar’s XLM; the platform has witnessed the addition of several other currencies ever since. More recently, Binance’s research platform shared a post...Read More
Ethereum price drops to $141 as the cryptocurrency enters a new period of volatility. The technical indicators show that ETHUSD could rebound in 2020.At the moment Ethereum hit local low at below $141 as you can see on the PrimeBit 1-day chart below. The first two days of December have been disappointing for cryptocurrency bulls...Read More
Abstract: Back in May 2019 we looked at Initial Exchange Offerings (IEOs), in this very brief report, we provide an update on the investment performance of the projects we looked at. It does not look good, all 11 projects which were trading at the time of our May 2019 piece, have seen significant declines in price....Read More
A recent poll has indicated that a large portion of the Ethereum community, on Reddit at least, is in favor of reducing block rewards and ETH issuance with the next hard fork. Another Ethereum Upgrade Nears It has been less than a month since Istanbul ushered in some interoperability, security and cost reduction improvements for...Read More
The Bitcoin breakout came just hours after our previous price analysis about the fact that BTC is stuck inside a tight range for too long (and it doesn’t like to be in that situation). Those are our words that were written yesterday: “In the micro-level, we can identify a bullish triangle on the 4-hour timeframe;...Read More
Some four days ago, a Bitcoin analyst going by “Velvet” posted the chart below. In it is depicted BTC’s price action for the past 18 months, a Fibonacci Retracement of the $3,150 to $13,800 move, two trendlines, a moving average, and a vertical date marker for December the 22nd.$BTC #BTC #BTCUSDPresented with no comment: pic.twitter.com/hRrDaqM2IQ—...Read More
