Bitcoin often faces a lot of criticism for its high transaction fees. A recent network transfer worth over $930 million in BTC shows things can be done differently. It is interesting to see how high-value transactions tend to have low TX fees. Small Transaction Fees may Still be too High This is possible, even when...Read More
Public perception is key to radically new ideas and innovations gaining traction in mainstream society. Such is the case for the world’s largest cryptocurrency – Bitcoin. While Bitcoin has come a long way over the past decade, Bitcoin doesn’t really rely on a centralized and well-oiled branding and marketing machinery. If adoption has increased and...Read More
The crypto investors suffer from hard days recently, as the primary cryptocurrency tumbled approximately $1000 over the past five days. After a long battle to maintain the $9K mark, Bitcoin finally lost, and immediately plunged to $8816 on Binance Futures exchange, which is the current daily low, as of writing these lines. Aside from a...Read More
Ethereum and the ecosystem it hosts have been on a ride this last week, particularly the DeFi ecosystem. This was mainly due to the recent hype around yield/liquidity farming. Interestingly, all of this is happening at a time when ETH is transitioning into PoS. Regardless, ETH is still the second-largest cryptocurrency in the market, one...Read More
Bitcoin Options contracts worth over $1.7 billion expired on 26 June. Deribit BTC Options held close to $1.3 billion of the total contracts, but with Bitcoin’s volatility preceding the expiry date, users did not expect huge price swings following the expiry. Before yesterday’s expiry, the Options market did not note any bearish strength. Now, according...Read More
The CEO of SchiffGold, Peter Schiff, responded to claims by RT news host Max Keiser that he would end up panic-buying Bitcoin when its price hits $50,000. Schiff suggested Bitcoin’s dollar value would drop as low as zero – although implied Keiser might consider selling at $2,000. Shortly afterward, Bitcoin developer and Blockstream CEO, Adam...Read More
Disclaimer: The following analysis attempts to foresee Litecoin’s movements until the second week of July Litecoin’s fortunes in 2020 have turned out to be fairly positive. However, for the world’s seventh-largest cryptocurrency, its price action in the month of June wasn’t as promising, to say the least, with the price noting a slight dip and...Read More
Bitcoin, like stocks, goes through cycles in its market; a bull run followed by a bear run, together, constitute a cycle. So far, Bitcoin has undergone 3 cycles, ie., 3 bull runs and 3 bear runs. However, while the 4th bull run seems to be on the verge of taking flight, there seems to be...Read More
Disclaimer: The conclusions of the following analysis should materialize over the next 24-48 hours June continues to get worse and worse for the market’s fourth-largest crypto-asset, with XRP continuing to slide down the charts, despite strong support at certain price points. On 24 June, XRP registered another significant drop as the asset dropped below its...Read More
Popular cryptocurrency YouTuber recently posted a chart illustrating that if Bitcoin repeats its previous significant bull run from 2017, its price could exceed $300,000 by the end of 2021. Interestingly, this highly optimistic prediction corresponds with the well-known BTC stock-to-flow model. BTC To Over $300,000? Bitcoin price predictions are among the most commonly discussed threads...Read More
As of 27 June, the total value supplied on the Compound protocol has hit a whopping $1 billion, signifying the sure start of a new trend – yield farming. What Compound did was fully embrace decentralization with the launch of their COMP tokens, which are governance tokens. These tokens can be used to vote on...Read More
Ethereum facing the heat? It would seem that the group behind the PlusToken, one of the industry’s biggest scams, is becoming more active by the day. Just a few days after PlusToken moved over $65M in EOS between wallets, an ETH transfer worth $186M was initiated. While the said transaction was, briefly, stuck in a...Read More
The cryptocurrency market saw a lot of its momentum evaporating after many of its coins underwent corrections on the charts after a brief upside. At the time of writing, the collective market cap had fallen to $262.45 billion, while Bitcoin’s dominance stood at 64.5%. As Bitcoin’s price slid to $9,189 at the time of writing,...Read More
A recent report warned that most malicious Google Chrome extensions have come from a single Internet domain registrar – CommuniGal Communications (GalComm) and have been downloaded nearly 33 million times. Such malicious extensions have proven to be alarmingly dangerous to cryptocurrency investors as popular proponent recently lost all of his Bitcoin savings. Suspicious Google Extensions...Read More
Disclaimer: This article attempts to foresee Bitcoin Cash’s [BCH] price movements over the next 24-hours. Spawned out of a Bitcoin hard fork due to bitter ideological differences between both camps, Bitcoin Cash [BCH] has been lying low after a massive fall on the 24th of June. While the coin remained fairly stable throughout the year...Read More
The past few days have seen Bitcoin’s price drop to close to $9000, and as expected, many of the market’s altcoins were quick to mirror the price action of the world’s largest cryptocurrency. In fact, since the early hours of 23 June, the prices of Bitcoin and popular altcoins such as Monero and Dogecoin have...Read More
On 26 June, Bitcoin‘s quarterly Futures contract reached its expiry after Bitcoin Futures’ Open Interest touched a 3-month high of $98 million on Deribit. The derivatives gains can be widely classified by Options demand over the past quarter, but according to Arcane Research’s latest weekly update, subdued price levels over the last few weeks have...Read More
In its latest report, the Bank of International Settlements doubled-down on its narrative that the COVID-19 pandemic has exemplified the need for central banks to accelerate the development of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). BIS outlined the ongoing payment digitalization phase and predicted that whoever launches such currency first will ultimately prevail. BIS: Payment Digitalization...Read More
Only five days ago, the price of Bitcoin touched $9800, followed by another failure to break up the critical descending trend-line (marked yellow on the following daily chart). Since then, the primary cryptocurrency had been correlating with the plunging global markets, and as of writing these lines, Bitcoin is trading slightly above $9000. The Micro...Read More
In years prior, 2020 was pegged to be remembered for one event and one event only – the halving, but now, with half the year gone, the event that dominates the memory of the cryptocurrency community is ‘Black Thursday.’ On 12 March, Bitcoin lost over 50 percent of its value in one day, falling from...Read More
