With only a few hours left to the start of 2020, a recent market report from Santiment, a platform for accessing cryptocurrency data and insight, revealed that Saturdays proved to be the best days for Bitcoin in 2019 with Fridays being the worst. According to Santiment, they created a backtesting solution to calculate the daily...Read More
With 2019 ending in a number of hours, here is a look at the positive performance for Bitcoin (BTC) across several network and market parameters. Bitcoin Price up 95% YTD At press time, the Bitcoin price is up by about 95% year-to-date (YTD). After a difficult 2018 that saw the top-ranked crypto drop 72%, BTC...Read More
The leaves that bud out of the stem, the pattern on the shell of snails, the petals of flowers; all of these have a common denominator, a pattern. Nature follows a particular kind of symmetry. The world that we live in has many mysteries to it, many that might seem chaotic to naked eyes. However,...Read More
As this decade inches to a close, Poloniex becomes the next cryptocurrency exchange to mismanage user data after “someone leaked” email addresses and passwords. Poloniex Forces Users to Reset Passwords After rampant scams and phishing attempts, Poloniex customers were rightly cautious over the email they received from the cryptocurrency exchange on Dec 30. One customer...Read More
The last five years have been a test phase for bitcoin derivatives, which began tentatively when Bitmex eased into life in 2014. Now, as the cryptoconomy prepares to enter a new decade, derivatives products will play a pivotal role in price discovery. 2020 will be a big year for bitcoin and for the futures markets...Read More
Despite harsh crypto industry returns in the last Crypto Winter, Israeli Blockchain companies have increased by 32% in the 2019 calendar year. As of December 2019, the no. of blockchain companies increased to 150 instead of 138 in 2018. This is according to a survey by the Israeli Bitcoin Association. The survey further shows that...Read More
Ripple has taken the adoption of XRP to a new technological level by making it a part of its services. The use of Ripple’s platform has resulted in increasing trust from financial institutions, as well as the adoption of XRP. However, as the community waited to see an upward push in the digital asset’s price,...Read More
XRP hasn’t done too well in the past 12 months, plunging by 47% since Jan. 1st, 2019. For some perspective, Bitcoin has gained a jaw-dropping 90%, surging on the back of a confluence of factors, which includes a capital flow from altcoins to the market leader BTC.Tis the season to feast on the tears of...Read More
According to a recent warning by Parity, the fastest Ethereum client, it seems that Parity Ethereum nodes may be under attack, and users need to implement new updates. As the last day of 2019 took off, a new announcement was published on the website of Ethereum client, Parity. The announcement says that the company, Parity...Read More
Experts predict that Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies will gain momentum in 2020 and therefore will become increasingly pervasive in all industry sectors. There will also be an explosion of cybersecurity threats targeting all verticals worldwide next year, they say. Bitcoin Transactions and Data on the Blockchain Are Safe Just like other industries, the crypto industry...Read More
Hedera Hashgraph, one of the prominent new projects for 2019, is in trouble again. Nodes have shut down without warning, suggesting the network may be more centralized than previously thought. The community noted 4 out of 10 council nodes shut down, signaling centralization. The closing of this number of nodes also practically turns Hedera Hashgraph...Read More
Just a quick update to yesterday’s extended Bitcoin update: Shortly after reaching the significant resistance of the month-old descending trend-line, as of yesterday, Bitcoin got rejected and rapidly lost momentum. Failing to hold the $7400 and breach the December descending trend-line (marked light green on the following daily chart), had sent Bitcoin below the next...Read More
An Ethereum wallet available as a Chrome browser extension has been found to be injecting malicious javascript code. ‘Shitcoin Wallet’ tries to scrape data from other open windows and send it to a remote server. MyEtherWallet And Binance Among Those Targeted The code was identified by security and anti-phishing expert, Harry Denley, who warned about...Read More
US Subsidiary of Binance had earlier opened Beta testing for mainly developers to test the iOS apps. The latest update regarding this testing is that the exchange will release the apps to the general public for testing. The exchange with assistance from TestFlight has set up a testing environment easily accessible to any user. The...Read More
Despite the harsh market conditions this year, high profile closures of a few ventures and a lot of employee downsizing, the number of companies operating in the blockchain and cryptocurrency fields in Israel actually grew by 32% in 2019. Also Read: Bankrupt DX Exchange Didn’t Pay Israeli Suppliers and Employees Israeli Blockchain Industry Survives Crypto...Read More
While Bitcoin saw a strong rejection at $7,500, with the price of the leading cryptocurrency rapidly plunging to $7,200, leading some to suggest that an extended bearish reversal was possible, analysts remain bullish on BTC.A prominent cryptocurrency trader recently remarked that his analysis of Bitcoin’s chart over the past few months shows that a key...Read More
As of 31 December, an official announcement from Parity claimed that there might be an “attack underway” as some Parity Ethereum nodes were not syncing. Moreover, Bitfly, a blockchain service company, tweeted that they had received multiple reports that Parity nodes were falling out of sync on the Ethereum mainnet. Parity client allows fast synchronization...Read More
As the year comes to an end, there are many projects in the ecosystem facing issues. Recently, IOTA faced an issue that prevented the network from processing transactions. As of 31 December, there are now reports of Hedera Hashgraph’s network facing an issue with their own nodes. Hashgraph’s Council Nodes A Twitter account, “Scam Alerts,”...Read More
Tron has been on a roller-coaster ride in 2019, with it being ranked among the top 10 cryptocurrencies, before then slipping out of the top 10 by the end of the year. However, despite many challenges in the market, the twelfth largest cryptocurrency’s DApps have been gaining popularity this year, along with its acquired firm,...Read More
Swiss president has strong views of the Facebook developed cryptocurrency, Libra. Ueli Maurer, Switzerland’s finance minister, and outgoing president commented on the Libra calling it as a Failed Project. According to him, “I don’t think (It has a chance in its current form), because central banks will not accept the basket of currencies underpinning it.”...Read More
The controversy around the Wright versus Kleiman legal case continues, as the former is reportedly going to receive the private keys needed to access over one million Bitcoins on January 1st, 2020. If successful in retrieving them, it’s questionable how and if Craig Wright will dispose of the cryptocurrency and what the effect on the...Read More
The Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) has set their eyes on blockchain implementation for businesses. They are in plans to start guidance for companies to inculcate blockchain knowledge and in turn develop the technology. “The guidance is aimed at executives in financial services & companies using blockchain technology in their supply...Read More
Bitcoin price is currently consolidating above the $7,200 and $7,150 support levels against the US Dollar.The price is likely to climb higher again unless there is a daily close below $7,000.There is a key bearish trend line forming with resistance near $7,240 on the hourly chart of the BTC/USD pair (data feed from Kraken).The pair...Read More
Virgil Griffith, the Ethereum Foundation research scientist arrested for allegedly aiding North Korea with sanction evasion, was released today on a $1 million bond just in time for the new year. Griffith was charged for violating federal law after traveling to North Korea to deliver a presentation on using cryptocurrency and blockchain. Allegedly, his talk...Read More
The total crypto market cap is holding an important support area near the $185.0B level.Bitcoin price is struggling to continue higher and trading close to the $7,200 support.EOS price is down 2% and it is now trading near the $2.600 support area.Binance Coin (BNB) is down 3% and it failed to stay above the key...Read More
The global focus continues to shift toward China’s digital currency plans. Despite a genuine lack of information, it certainly poses many different threats. Rumors regarding a digital yuan have persisted for years now. China’s Digital Yuan is More Than Just a CBDC Only a few months ago, it became apparent this was more truth than...Read More
Any development in technology, science, and space deserves to be highlighted. Russian engineers are confident they have put together a working hypersonic missile. Rumors of such a missile have persisted for some time now. The Hypersonic Missile Appears Real According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the hypersonic missile is now in service. This missile...Read More
Ethereum is down around 4% from the $138 high and tested the $130 support against the US Dollar.The price is currently consolidating above the $130 support, with a few bearish signs.There is a connecting bearish trend line forming with resistance near $132 on the hourly chart of ETH/USD (data feed via Kraken).Bitcoin failed to stay...Read More
IOTA was unable to process transactions for 15 hours due to a bug with its “Coordinator,” a centralized node which determines which transactions are confirmed. Bug Stops IOTA Transactions On Dec. 29 around 11 a.m. the IOTA Tangle stopped processing transactions. The bug was identified and fixed 15 hours after the stoppage, as first reported...Read More
Dear Members of BitCherry Communities: The BitCherry project could not have been developed so far without the strong support and encouragement of community members. We believe that an outstanding community is one of the most important assisting factors in project development. BitCherry has started a strategic layout in the United States, Russia, South Korea, Vietnam,...Read More
