The total crypto market cap is declining and struggling to stay above the $188.0B support.Bitcoin price is down more than 2% and it broke the $7,200 support area.Litecoin (LTC) price is declining and approaching the $43.20 support area.BCH price is somehow holding the main $200 support area.EOS price is sliding and it seems like it...Read More
It has been another miserable week for Ethereum as prices continue to erode. Further declines today have left the world’s second largest crypto asset in danger of hitting a nine month low. Decentralized finance (DeFi) markets are in an opposing trend with continued growth in the sector.Ethereum Hits $140Ethereum is still deep in a two...Read More
Ripple price is declining and it recently broke the key $0.2200 support area against the US dollar.The price is likely to face hurdles near $0.2200 and $0.2240 in the near term.Yesterday’s key bearish trend line is intact with resistance near $0.2200 on the hourly chart of the XRP/USD pair (data source from Kraken).The bears are...Read More
Crypto markets are depreciating for another day as Bitcoin fails to gain any traction. Volatility appears to be returning as a big spike triggered a lot of liquidation a few hours ago. The overall picture is still very bearish though.BitMEX Bitcoin Manipulation CallsThe slow grind down has continued this week but some spurious action on...Read More
Ethereum is down more than 2% and it broke the $142 support area against the US Dollar.The price is currently correcting higher, but it could face hurdles near $142 and $144.Yesterday’s major bearish trend line is active with resistance near $145 on the hourly chart of ETH/USD (data feed via Kraken).The price remains in a...Read More
The Stellar Development Foundation won’t be airdropping 2 billion in Lumens after all. In a blog post yesterday, Keybase and the Stellar Development Foundation announced the cancellation of its 2 billion Lumens airdrop program after getting attacked by “hordes” of fake accounts. “This month will be our last of the Stellar Space Drop. On the...Read More
For exchanges, supporting new tokens, forks, and token airdrops has become part of everyday operations. Binance users will be pleased to hear that the exchange will support the ETHBNT airdrop for Bancor holders. No one will ever say no to free airdrop tokens, even if they might not be all that valuable at first. Another...Read More
Some surprising cryptocurrency news has come out of Germany this week. It now appears banks in the country prepare to embrace digital assets in every way possible. The first bank openly pledging support is SolarisBank. A Smart Move by SolarisBank The company confirmed it will launch a digital asset custody service for all of its...Read More
Privacy coin attacked for “dumping on investors”. Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin – also an advisor for Zcash (ZEC) – says coin is exploring uncharted terrain. Market cap – but not coin price – up 40,000% since launch. Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin leapt to the defence of privacy coin Zcash (ZEC) after a prominent crypto influencer...Read More
The future of banking may look very different compared to today. It would appear SBI Ripple Asia is looking to expand in an aggressive manner. During a recent meeting, it was announced how this consortium wants to take up roughly half of the transaction volume of the Ripple network. SBI Ripple Asia is Liquidity-Hungry That...Read More
The introduction of Libra was met with a lot of reaction from all corners of the crypto-space, with many hotly contesting the utility and functionality of Facebook’s crypto-project. In an exclusive interview with a media outlet, CoinMetrics’ Nic Carter claimed that the social media company has made a huge miscalculation with the Libra project. Carter...Read More
Ethereum has had a turbulent week, with much of its recent price action favoring sellers as the crypto has faced a steady stream of downwards pressure in the time following ETH’s recent visit to over $150 earlier this past week.Although all eyes are closely watching Bitcoin’s near-term price action, it is important to note that...Read More
Security is one of the key evolving aspects of the crypto-industry and the cryptocurrency market. Over the years, many exchanges across the world have fallen victim to hacks. These incidents often raise a lot of questions within the community, especially with regard to the credibility of certain asset custodians. On a recent edition of Untold...Read More
The number of bitcoin traders going long on BTC is approaching an all-time high. That sounds bullish, but it’s actually an extremely bearish signal. Is the bitcoin price on the verge of another plunge? Bitcoin longs are nearing record highs on margin trading platforms like Bitfinex. The last time the number of long positions to...Read More
New research shows that China’s dominance of the total Bitcoin hash rate continues to grow. The nation reportedly now accounts for around 66 percent of all the computing power supporting the Bitcoin network at present.China has historically been the leader in global Bitcoin mining. However, with large mining operations coming online in the US and...Read More
The latter part of 2019 has been a volatile several months for Bitcoin, with the embattled cryptocurrency ranging between lows of $6,500 and highs of over $10,000. Currently, BTC is trading at the lower part of this trading range, and it has been struggling to gain any decisive momentum in either direction.This lack of momentum...Read More
Twitter plans to move its platform onto the blockchain. The social media giant is putting together a team to develop an open, decentralized standard for social media, with Twitter as one of its first clients, announced CEO Jack Dorsey. Jack Dorsey, the idiosyncratic CEO of Twitter and Square, announced that Twitter is funding a five-person...Read More
Cryptocurrency users around the globe face many different threats. SIM Swaps are perhaps the worst type of attack, yet they continue to occur on a regular basis. Anyone keeping bitcoin or altcoins on an exchange would be better off using a hardware wallet of some sorts. Another SIM Swap Story Pops up Users who rely...Read More
New cryptocurrency “Designed for 10,000x Returns” draws crypto community ire. Critics say the coin’s creator will hold 45% of the entire coin supply after the first year. Not a Ponzi, not a pyramid – a new breed of scam coin. A new cryptocurrency is attempting to pick up where BitConnect and OneCoin left off –...Read More
The Unknown Fund claims to have now donated a total of $75 million to groups and companies working on privacy preserving technology. The Anonymous-promoted Bitcoin fund was first detailed in mid-November.The origins of the funds are largely unknown and, of course, the beneficiaries of the donations are also keeping quiet. The secrecy has understandably created...Read More
In a recent interview, Bitcoin Cash’s Roger Ver, hailed by many as “Bitcoin Jesus” in the community, spoke about the use of cryptocurrencies in times of financial crises, the upcoming Bitcoin halving and the challenges cryptocurrencies face today. During the interview, Ver said that he thinks financial crises are not inevitable, adding that they are...Read More
Anyone who thought that the lead Satoshi Nakamoto impersonator, Craig Wright, would finally have accepted defeat and scurried off back into obscurity again by now, must be getting increasingly disappointed. Despite losing the well-documented Kleiman case back in August, Wright is still trying to wriggle out of paying the $658,000 legal fees. The (Highly Implausible)...Read More
“Blockchain, not Bitcoin.” This rallying cry became a hallmark of the 2017 market boom and continued to reverberate in the subsequent cryptocurrency bear market. Entrepreneurs and institutions from every corner of every industry tried to shoehorn blockchains into use cases for everything from pharmaceuticals to bananas. “Just slap a blockchain on it,” the idea went,...Read More
Long positions taken on Bitcoin on the popular crypto exchange Bifinex are nearing an all-time high, all while the leading cryptocurrency by market cap continues to fall.The post appeared first on NewsBTCRead More
The Matic Network’s MATIC token broke Crypto-Twitter recently after its price plummeted by about 70.75% in just three hours. Following the same, a lot of people suspected foul play, with the founder of a cryptocurrency evaluation platform, Validity, Samuel JJ Gosling, alleging that the platform had sent over 1.5 billion tokens worth $70 million MATIC...Read More
The cryptocurrency known as XRP, also called Ripple, has been among the worst performing crypto assets throughout the year of 2019.The post appeared first on NewsBTCRead More
According to a popular monitoring resource, the number of new addresses on Ethereum’s blockchain shares a very similar pattern with the ETH price most of the time. Lately, however, the price is taking the lead. Correlation: ETH Price And New Ethereum Addresses The popular cryptocurrency monitoring resource TokenAnalyst has presented interesting findings regarding the number...Read More
In the weeks following dramatic new restrictions regarding the acquisition of both bitcoin and USD in Argentina, the local crypto community has reacted in a number of interesting ways, showing both the possibilities of Bitcoin as a financial tool in the face of government constraints as well as the decentralized crypto asset’s resilience to measures...Read More
Today, we will be looking at some of the past price trends, development status, and market opinions for TRX in order to project a Tron price prediction for December 2019. Tron Overview Created by Justin Sun, the Tron project is a blockchain platform that was designed to facilitate the sharing and publishing of online content....Read More
Bitcoin has in the past been called a Ponzi scheme, a scam, a tool for money laundering and criminal activities, and even has been dubbed rat poison by the Oracle of Omaha himself, Warren Buffett.The post appeared first on NewsBTCRead More