Bitcoin might be trending on Twitter, but on its charts, it’s more of the same. Since hitting the $9,000 mark over two months ago, and despite numerous seismic events, including the halving, a massive derivatives expiry, and a Twitter hack, Bitcoin is still trading in the same range. Looking at the short-term chart of the...Read More
Proof of Work, a consensus mechanism, has proved to be the backbone of some of the leading and widely-adopted blockchain networks. These include Ethereum, Litecoin, and, of course, Bitcoin. Many from the blockchain industry have wondered how come Proof of Work (PoW) remained so resilient over all these years. Some are even baffled by its...Read More
Bitcoin Cash, the hardfork of Bitcoin, is in the category of altcoins that have sunk post the events of ‘Black Thursday.’ Following the market collapse in March, some altcoins surged even higher than their Q1 2020 prices, others failed to recover. Bitcoin Cash, evidently, is in the latter category. Looking at the long-term price of...Read More
Litecoin is divided in the altcoin market-space. While coins above, like Chainlink and Cardano, are surging beyond expectations, others like Bitcoin Cash and XRP are going through slumps. On the other hand, digital silver is just hanging in there. Now on the 10th spot in the market, with a market capitalization of $2.7 billion, Litecoin...Read More
Owing to the relative youth of the cryptocurrency market, it is often accused of lacking in maturity. Even with institutional investors rushing in, there are grounds for arguing that the Bitcoin-led market is not completely mature. A reason why such doubts exist is due to the inherent volatility of the market, one where a cryptocurrency...Read More
Darknet transactions are so intrinsic to the Bitcoin ecosystem that to think of Bitcoin without such transactions would be to violate the core features of what makes the cryptocurrency truly decentralized. Even though it has been many years since the infamous Silk Road, Bitcoin’s first prominent e-commerce use-case, darknet transactions using the cryptocurrency have only...Read More
On July 15 several prominent Twitter accounts were hacked and a fraudulent Bitcoin campaign and address propped up as part of a coordinated attack. Among the celebrities targeted were Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Barack Obama. This high-profile scam saw the hackers make 12.86 BTC or $118,000. While this grabbed headlines in crypto and traditional...Read More
Defining Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in mainstream terms has never been easy. After all, how can it ever be? Cryptocurrencies are revolutionary, they were never meant to be confined to the traditional definition of concepts. The example of how difficult it has been to define cryptocurrencies in legal terms is a case in point. However, whenever...Read More
While Bitcoin remains relatively calm in its comfort price territory, lots of alternative coins have been fluctuating significantly. Decentralized finance (DeFi) and some prominent developments from several projects initiated serious price increases for various altcoins, and given the decrease in Bitcoin’s dominance, a new altcoin season booms. Chainlink (LINK) continues to impress with its performance,...Read More
Twitter, the social media platform that substitutes for Presidential proclamations these days, was hacked a few days ago, with a host of accounts hijacked to promote a Bitcoin giveaway scam of sorts. This wasn’t the first time someone has hacked into a Twitter account. However, what caught the eye of news media across the world...Read More
Clark Moody, the creator of the first real-time Bitcoin market data website, recently recollected the BTC market’s history over the last ten years. He pointed out that if the first BTC buyer held onto their holdings, they would have made a humongous 18.4 million percent return on his investment. It’s also worth pointing out, though,...Read More
Ordinarily, Bitcoin’s price performance on the charts will be mirrored by the many altcoins in the market. However, off-late, that hasn’t been the case. Despite many alts noting corrections over the past few days, not every alt got the memo, with the likes of XRP and Dogecoin climbing, while LINK continues to correct. XRP Source:...Read More
Much of the altcoin market has reverted to the norm of following Bitcoin’s lack of movement on the charts; many of these alts registered corrections of their own. However, while the likes of Bitcoin Cash and IOTA noted significant losses over the past week, Decred’s case was slightly different, with the crypto gaining slightly instead....Read More
After what seemed like a brief spell where the market’s altcoins noted movement independent of that of the world’s largest cryptocurrency, at press time, it seemed like these cryptos had reverted to taking Bitcoin’s lead. Over the last 7 days, Bitcoin fell by just over 1.5% on the charts. Source: Coinstats While the magnitude of...Read More
The weekend turns out to be a rather boring one again for Bitcoin’s price as the asset continues hovering at about $9,150. However, the fluctuations within the altcoin market attract attention, with numerous double-digit gainers, led by Binance’s most recent acquisition – Swipe. Twitter Hack And Bitcoin After the blatant Twitter hack earlier this week,...Read More
