French international banking group BNP Paribas is in the news after the conglomerate, along with the French bank CA CIB and the French investing company Caisse des Dépôts, announced the launch of a project exploring a digital interbank currency (DIBC). The venture in question will also include tokenizing solutions firm Tokeny and The Blockchain XDEV...Read More
In what is a breaking development, Binance Holdings Ltd. today filed a defamation suit against Forbes Media LLC before the U.S District Court of New Jersey. Representing the Changpeng Zhao-led Binance, arguably the world’s biggest crypto-exchange, the petitioner is suing Forbes and two of its journalists over a story they published last month. .@binance sues...Read More
With the total value of assets locked in DeFi now worth over $13 billion, many expect this part of the crypto-space to grow at a rapid pace. In fact, in Q3 of 2020 alone, the DeFi ecosystem saw its transaction volume surpass $123 billion, with 96% of the total belonging to Ethereum. However, DeFi’s growth...Read More
Crypto Fear and Greed Index stood at 91 to denote extreme greed as Bitcoin, after a brief dip below $17,500, rose past $18,000 once more. Binance Coin broke out of a triangle pattern and showed signs of an uptrend. Monero was also strongly bullish, while Algorand traded within a range over the past two weeks....Read More
Decentralized oracle provider Chainlink seems to be having a ubiquitous influence on the cryptocurrency ecosystem lately. In fact, over the past few weeks, several developers have been integrating the network with their projects at a rapid pace. Base Protocol is the latest to do so after the project, having a new kind of synthetic crypto-asset...Read More
Bitcoin Dominance continued to rise and stood at 67.17% at press time. A rise past 67.5% could delay an altcoin market rally. At press time Bitcoin was being traded at $18,028 with a trading volume of $38.2 billion. Source: CoinStats Polkadot was unable to flip a level of resistance it ascended past. EOS saw some...Read More
ETH/USD – Ethereum Rejected By Rising Price Channel Upper Boundary Key Support Levels: $465, $447, $439.Key Resistance Levels: $490, $500, $511 On Monday, Ethereum found support at the $447 level, which allowed the coin to rebound higher. From there, it pushed higher to break $475 (September high-day close) and reach the resistance at the upper...Read More
Ethereum bulls are busy pumping the network’s native cryptocurrency ETH as if there’s no tomorrow. So much so that the asset almost tested the $500 resistance today. But what’s even more interesting is the gradual progress on the staking front for Ethereum 2.0’s launch. Depositors have already staked more than 100,000 ETH in the ETH2...Read More
Bitcoin’s price and its surge in market cap call for a celebration, however, what most people have been missing is the surge in stablecoins. As of Wednesday, Bitcoin hit a new high not seen in the last two years and this is only for the price, in fact, the all-time high [ATH] is only 9%...Read More
Bitcoin approached its ATH after years in a bear market. The euphoric sentiment aside, no asset moves upward in a straight line and retracements are part of a healthy uptrend. However, an eventual Bitcoin pullback could hurt the altcoin market in its immediate aftermath. Litecoin approached an important level of resistance on the back of...Read More
In this final article of the three-part look at Bitcoin in bearish-2018, we look at which investing period gives you the least loss. The reason for looking at such a pessimistic year while the market is on a bull-run currently is to bring some perspective. Let’s do a quick recap before the summary. Firstly, we...Read More
IOHK, the technology company behind the Cardano blockchain, today announced the introduction of SMASH – a Stake pool Metadata Aggregation Server, as a new component of the Cardano ecosystem. Noting that node decentralization is a “key element,” a primary reason behind introducing Smash is to allow IOHK to try and minimize the influence of bad...Read More
Bitcoin’s price crossed $18k on November 18, 2020, and this has led to bullish sentiments all across spot and derivatives exchanges. In the daily price chart, Bitcoin has rallied over 4.5% in less than 24 hours, marking a new high for 2020. The current bullish sentiment reflected in the price chart may also be dubbed...Read More
There is a sense of bullish urgency in every top digital asset at the moment, and XRP is no different. After taking a back seat for much for the rally, XRP breached above $0.254 on 13th November, and over the past-24 hours, it tested $0.30. XRP is currently consolidating near the present high and collectively,...Read More
Bitcoin has gathered more criticism than any other asset class in the past decade. However, one of the most popular and oldest arguments is that “Bitcoin could fail if it becomes a threat to national currencies it will simply get banned”. If you have heard this a bunch of times, let’s dive into why Bitcoin...Read More
Bitcoin cash isn’t the only crypto feeling the brunt of bitcoin’s volatility. Bitcoin’s return has surged the highest since August, accompanying this high return is the volatility, which has also seen a stark surge. The above table shows bitcoin volatility which has affected all altcoins’ returns and price movement. The highest volatility is being seen...Read More
Vietnam’s Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) will now avail blockchain services from smart contract platform TomoChain following a recent partnership. The Ministry would make use of blockchain’s core features such as transparency and having an immutable verification of data. According to a release shared with AMBCrypto, the Ministry’s National Qualifications Archive program will ensure...Read More
The public blockchain project TomoChain has signed an agreement with Vietnam’s Ministry of Education and Training to provide DLT services. As a result, all certifications achieved by students in High School and Higher Education will be uploaded to the TomoChain blockchain network. TomoChain Enters The Vietnamese Market The Singapore-based blockchain company powered by a proof-of-stake...Read More
The Bitcoin billionaire bandwagon has another representative in the likes of Mexico’s second-wealthiest man – Ricardo Salinas Pliego. He recently highlighted the problems with fiat currencies, especially in Latin America, and clarified that his first BTC purchase came four years ago. Mexican Billionaire Points Out Fiat Problems According to a Forbes publication from earlier this...Read More
Bitcoin’s price hit an ATH of $18000 on November 18, 2020. Few hours prior to the price rally, open interest on top derivatives exchanges hit a new ATH of $6.4 Billion based on data from Skew. BTC Futures || Source: Skew Bitcoin futures have hit new highs previously, however interestingly every ATH has been closely...Read More
Ethereum saw a rapid move down from $492 to $470 and major altcoins saw a pullback as well. This could turn into a deeper correction if ETH continued to drop. Chainlink moved past $14 and could test resistance at $14.5 in the coming days. IOTA tried to climb upward but was met by selling pressure,...Read More
The Big Payday (BPD) is upon us. Referring to the 353rd day after the HEX contract launched, BPD marks the end of the 50-week launch phase on November 19. This is the point when the Launch Phase’s Adoption Amplifier – whereby ETH can be used to mint new HEX – goes away, and HEX will...Read More
Following the recent roller-coaster that resulted in a few massive four-digit price movements, Bitcoin appears to have calmed north of the $18,000 price tag. The alternative coins also followed the volatility ride but have ultimately lost market dominance against BTC. More interestingly, Bitcoin has managed to reach an all-time high value in terms of its...Read More
When it comes to trading with CFDs on multiple assets, there are multiple brokers in the trading industry but it is important to identify the right platform for consistent profits in the market. In line with the above information, T1 Markets is an online CFD trading platform where clients can choose from multiple assets such...Read More
Bitcoin had nothing but thin air above it to reach ATH, while Ethereum was trading above $480 once more, with $500 a level it has not been above since mid-2018. Tezos saw strong interest from buyers in the past week, while Compound appeared to be recovering from the last two months’ heavy losses. Ethereum [ETH]...Read More
The financial landscape of trading on assets continues to grow and more asset classes continue to arrive. Over the past decade, new popular have emerged such as Tesla, and digital currencies have established a completely different asset class. Now, traders have multiple options and markets to trade on. CFDs are becoming a popular investing tool,...Read More
Despite receiving nearly 500,000 answers telling her not to “go long on Bitcoin,” the actress portraying Arya Stark in the legendary Game of Thrones TV series, Maisie Williams, has gone against their advice and actually purchased bitcoins. Williams Defies The Critics And Buys Bitcoin As reported yesterday, the 23-year old actress took it to Twitter...Read More
SpaceX’s Crew-1 spaceship flew 4 astronauts to space yesterday. But it seems the shuttle also dragged the bitcoin and cryptocurrency market along with it. As in what happens to be a revisit of 2017, BTC smashed past the $18,000 price mark pushing the total digital asset market cap north of $500 billion. The excitement was...Read More
The maiden halving event will cut the Zcash inflation rate from 25% to 12.5%, which is significant because the privacy-focused altcoin has been hampered by high inflation since its inception in 2016. A series of halvings every four years beginning with today’s one in around six hours’ time which will decrease inflation substantially. Zcash block...Read More
If you have some Bitcoin in your wallet – and you live in Brazil – you can attack your country’s electoral infrastructure and bring the public institutions to their knees while people express their anguish as they wait for the results of a critical election to measure the leadership of the current president, deemed the...Read More