During press time, the entire market seemed to be on a downward trajectory. The global crypto market cap followed the trail recording almost a percent in daily decline. VeChain and EOS were poised for a southward price action towards their support levels, as mounting bearish pressure and low buying volumes existed for the two digital...Read More
As institutions line up to buy Bitcoin, its origin story comes into focus. Most argue that Bitcoin was created in response to the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy and the Global Financial Crisis that followed. However, it is the result of decades of work on peer to peer payments. Since prices are driven by inflow and volatility...Read More
Binance Coin despite its immediate bearishness on the hourly charts, remained strong in terms of buying volumes, that might help BNB in its price recovery over the next few days. Cosmos too, although bearish for the day, could be poised for price recovery soon, given its overall uptrend and weak selling pressure. While Stellar Lumens indicated...Read More
Plaintiff Dmitry Dolgov, a resident of Moscow, Russia has filed another lawsuit against crypto exchange BitMEX for violating regulations and manipulating markets with legal claims amounting to $50 million. The lawsuit alleged that HDR Global Trading Limited, the company that owns and operates BitMEX, violated know your customer and anti-money laundering policies, which caused hackers...Read More
For Bitcoin SV, breaching above $165 has become a formidable task. Since the start of September, the valuation has attained a position above $165, only to face a subsequent drop below the resistance. Over the past few days, a similar trend has followed in spite of its legitimacy to remain above $165. Bitcoin SV had...Read More
We are continuing to explore the addition of custody support for new assets for customers around the world. Coinbase Custody is one of the world’s largest and most trusted crypto custodians. Since its inception, it has focused on providing a highly secure and sophisticated storage solution for institutions and individuals that hold large crypto holdings....Read More
Corrections seemed to be the norm across the board, at the time of writing, after most of the market’s altcoins depreciated on the charts as Bitcoin consolidated its own position. While the likes of Tezos, IOTA, and Crypto.com Coin did climb on the back of Bitcoin’s movement, these alts were soon on their way down...Read More
After the launch of Filecoin mainnet, CEO of Tron and BitTorrent Justin Sun accused the Filecoin developers of employing an exit scam strategy by selling 1.5 million of their FIL tokens at a steep price of $200, without any consent from the community. It is not clear how Justin Sun has calculated the aforementioned selling...Read More
As an altcoin, Ethereum has been the leader in terms of its growth observed this year. The evolution of ERC-20 tokens along with the decentralized platform established on Ethereum were vital contributors to Ethereum’s performance. Although the beginning of the final quarter of 2020 did portray as though ‘DeFi was dead’, but that seems to...Read More
Coinbase has published a “transparency report” that also revealed how the leading crypto exchange has received 1,914 “legitimate government” requests in 2020. According to Coinbase, these requests mainly came in the form of subpoenas and sometimes included search warrants and court orders. About 90% of these “transparency” requests were sent from the U.S., the U.K.,...Read More
Chief Security Officer at cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, Nicholas J. Percoco alerted users today about a scam that was targeting crypto users, which involved a homograph phishing attack and “multiple” people who were pretending to be Kraken employees. Percoco further alleged that people named Liz Cohen, Darin Zumberi or Jing Kang were posing as Kraken employees and...Read More
The bullish rally at the end of July was pretty significant for Ethereum. The valuation jumped above $250, $300, $350, and eventually surpassed $400 after more than 2-years. Ethereum’s rally was so dominant that options trader expected Ethereum to impute more volatility than Bitcoin itself. ETH-BTC 3 months realized vol spread on 27th July was...Read More
Another week passed on the cryptocurrency market, and it surely wasn’t a boring one. The cryptocurrency started off strong, causing many to believe that it might finally breach the coveted $12,000 mark. However, the excitement was short-lived because, just today, news broke out that the founder of OKEx, one of the primary cryptocurrency exchanges, has...Read More
By Paul Grewal, Chief Legal Officer Coinbase believes that trust is built through transparency and honesty. As we continue on our journey to becoming the most trusted venue for anyone to interact with the cryptoeconomy, today we’re releasing a Transparency Report that shares insights into how we handle legitimate government requests for some customer data....Read More
Bitcoin, despite its recent sideways movement on the charts, has a very positive outlook attached to it. Hodlers of the cryptocurrency have long been optimistic about BTC’s long-term price trend. However, with the MicroStrategy, Square Inc., and Stone Ridge’s news breaking out over the past few weeks, it would seem that institutions, en-masse, are buying into...Read More
Bitcoin Bitcoin saw a 4.3% price surge over the past seven days. The cryptocurrency was trading slightly above $11,000 last Friday as it started to push higher. Throughout the week, it managed to spike as high as $11,730 (1.414 Fib extension) but was never able to close a daily candle above resistance at $11,537 (provided...Read More
Cryptocurrency trading platform Bitfinex announced today that it has made staking rewards available for Polkadot (DOT), the native token of Polkadot blockchain, which would allow DOT token holders on the Bitfinex platform to earn rewards of up to 14 percent per year, according to a release shared with AMBCrypto. The staked DOT tokens will be...Read More
Despite its falling market share and market dominance over the past few months, Bitcoin continues to exert a lot of influence on the altcoin market. However, while BTC does indeed share high correlation stats with many altcoins, its influence isn’t uniform across the board. The same was evidenced when Tron, Basic Attention Token, and Dogecoin’s...Read More
A few hours ago, global cryptocurrency exchange giant OKEx halted withdrawals much to the chagrin of traders and investors. Bitcoin prices fell as a response to additional reports of founder Xu Mingxing being arrested over a week ago. However, what should be more concerning is the amount of BTC held by the exchange’s wallets. Data...Read More
Bitcoin’s value has been appreciating over the past week and it currently stands at $11, 377. The value of the digital asset peaked a couple of days back at $11,731, but could not hold on to this level and slipped lower. However, BTC staying above the $11k mark has been a sign of relief for...Read More
While DeFi applications have taken the crypto-space by storm in 2020, there has also been a dark side to the whole proceeding with frequent ‘rug-pulls’ damaging the industry’s reputation. The convenience of setting up a DeFi token on Ethereum has also seen a lot of bad apples over the past few months. The prime example...Read More
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Bitcoin has failed to hold above $11,500 for the second time this week as bears continue to drive prices back down towards the unfilled CME gap at $11,100 (GAP 2). CME bitcoin futures gaps appear because traditional markets close before the weekend and reopen the following Monday, while BTC continues to be traded 24/7. This...Read More
Earlier in 2020, The Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC) announced that there were over 300 digital currency exchange providers (312 in February 2020) enrolled with the AUSTRAC. It is fair to say, cryptocurrencies were becoming a popular asset in Australia and amidst such fierce competition, the Swyftx exchange was making a lot of...Read More
Ripple’s third annual Blockchain in Payments report had some interesting revelations regarding digital asset adoption globally. Despite the ongoing global pandemic, 79% of businesses reported growth in 2020, with 44% stating that innovation in payment technology is a key growth driver. According to the report, there were four key benefits driving blockchain adoption, namely, improved...Read More
One of the most popular cryptocurrency exchanges, OKEx, suspended withdrawals earlier today, which led to lots of confusion within the community and price slumps for the market. CryptoPotato reached out to OKEx personnel, including CEO Jay Hao, to shed some light on the entire situation. In the original statement, OKEx reasoned that the withdrawal suspension...Read More
Despite talk of an altseason rearing its head a few months ago, it would seem now that most of the market’s altcoins have reverted back to following Bitcoin’s lead. The world’s largest cryptocurrency fell below $11k in the first week of October, following which, BTC was quick to climb and hold a position above the...Read More
In hopes of regaining the support of the cryptocurrency community after the ‘apolitical’ stunt, Coinbase has decided to fund ‘at-least’ two Bitcoin Core developers. This sponsorship act marks the debut for Crypto Community Fund, the exchange’s new grants program. Coinbase Shows Support For Bitcoin Development In a blog article released yesterday, Manish Gupta, EVP of...Read More
Disclaimer: The findings of the following article attempt to analyze the emerging patterns in the Ethereum short-term market and its impact on the price. The sudden surge in the price concluded on 13 October, as Ethereum’s price has been descending since. As the price appreciated there have been some bumps in the way downwards that...Read More
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