BitPay, a payment provider offering merchants the ability to accept cryptocurrencies, launched support for several stablecoins. Users will now be able to use USD Coin, Gemini Dollar and Paxos to pay for goods with all on-boarded merchants. BitPay previously specialized on letting sellers accept cryptocurrencies without ever getting exposure to their volatility. The service was...Read More
The CEO of a digital currency exchange in the UK has set himself an incredibly bizarre challenge. People have been donating to Pete Wood of CoinBurp as he attempts to raise money for a homeless charity by saying the word “crypto” 100,000 times.Wood is live streaming the challenge via YouTube with public addresses displayed for...Read More
On December 9, 2019, Nayuta announced the launch of what it claims is the first application to enable a “Bitcoin full node and SPV [simplified payment verification] node” on mobile devices. The Japanese company, best known for releasing the fourth Lightning Network client which operates on the grounds of the BOLT protocol, Ptarmigan, has published...Read More
Recently, Philip Gradwell, Chief Economist at Chainalysis, a blockchain data analytics company, spoke at a Meetup in London about token economics in on-chain analytics. During his talk, Gradwell spoke about both on and off-chain data, how they can be linked together, and gave some insights based on their analysis of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies’ data....Read More
The crypto community is reeling after Matic dumped 70% of its USD value in an hour. And as a Binance Launchpad project, the circumstances around the event have left many wondering whether IEOs are any different to ICOs.Matic Crashes Back Down To EarthOnly yesterday, Matic was riding high off the back of strong price performance....Read More
The price of the second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, Ethereum, may be down as much as 90% from its all-time high price of over $1,400, but ICO investors are still up over 400x on their initial investment.The post appeared first on NewsBTCRead More
A lot of companies and service providers are rolling out staking support for Tezos. The latest company to do so is Ledger, as its Live software now lets users stake XTZ. Ledger is best known for providing hardware wallets to customers all over the world. Ledger Enables Full Tezos Support Their devices are both relatively...Read More
Bitcoin price has been steadily falling, locked in a downtrend over the course of the last few months, taking the price of the cryptocurrency to roughly 50% of the year’s high of $14,000.After the latest sustained drop, Bitcoin has been consolidating in what now appears to be a bear pennant chart pattern formation, which suggests...Read More
The Bitcoin [BTC] market has lost 0.54% of its value in December 2019, with the king coin’s price movement recording recurring dips. A recent dip of 2.45% contributed to the price of the world’s largest crypto tumbling down from $7,450.62 to $7,268.03. Following the loss, Bitcoin tried to recover. However, it was stuck at $7,337.32,...Read More
Many Wall Street veterans are in agreement. The returns from stocks and bonds over the next decade will be sluggish. Time to add crypto to your savings plans? Traditional Investment Portfolios Set to Underperform Morgan Stanley analysts told Bloomberg that “The return outlook over the next decade is sobering. Investors face a lower and flatter...Read More
Last night, the altcoin cryptocurrency known as Matic was the talk of the crypto community, as the asset had spent the week going on a circa-2017 Bitcoin-like parabolic run, only to drop over 70% in less than an hour, destroying investors who got caught up in price action.The post appeared first on NewsBTCRead More
Verge (XVG) is backtracking, erasing more than 15% of its price on Tuesday. XVG fell to $0.004, moving away from a recent spike. The Verge market price sank significantly on Tuesday, despite the still expected scheduled hard fork. The asset sank after a week of hiking higher, moving up by as much as 30% on...Read More
Bloomberg called Binance Coin the best-performing cryptocurrency of 2019 but it nevertheless remains vulnerable to traders’ intrinsic greed.The native token of one of the world’s largest crypto exchanges, Binance, has surged by more than 146 percent as of this time of writing. The gains are far larger than what the benchmark cryptocurrency Bitcoin has delivered...Read More
Tezos has a bullish short-term and medium-term trading outlook The four-hour time frame shows that a bearish reversal may start to take place The daily time frame continues to show the presence of a large bullish pattern Tezos is starting to correct lower after the cryptocurrency recently rallied to its highest trading level since August...Read More
HODL is not working for now. How do traders profit from Bitcoin trading sideways? Register via this link now to get a permanent 10% trading fees discount. On December 4th Bitcoin have suddenly raised for almost $1,000 in just minutes, but then gave up and returned to the $7,200 mark, similar spike showed the other...Read More
With the holiday season around the corner, you probably have started looking into Bitcoin travel options. Especially given that traveling to be with family and friends is something that every person looks forward to, it’s only fair that you start making arrangements in advance. However, the reality is that making travel arrangements is never an...Read More
Our previous price analysis had identified a tight range in which Bitcoin is trading inside. Over the past hours, this range is seemingly cracking down, to the downside. For the past five days, Bitcoin was trading between $7300 to $7600. Despite a fake-out that reached the mentioned resistance area of $7700, Bitcoin was trading inside...Read More
The broader cryptocurrency market came back under downside pressure on Tuesday, as Bitcoin and other major cryptocurrencies gave back early week trading gains. Matic Network is under heavy bearish pressure, following a flash crash late-Monday night. Matic had rallied by over 190 percent since November 22nd before the sudden reversal occurred. Chainlink is the top...Read More
After recently announcing its support for the introduction of Liquid network for Bitcoin and USDT transactions on its platform, BTSE exchange has now revealed its plans to facilitate a native exchange token sale on a Bitcoin sidechain with the help of Liquid. According to reports, the exchange is also planning to raise a total sum...Read More
A security research team at Kraken, a crypto exchange valued at $4 billion, has found a way to gain access to seeds from the widely-used KeepKey hardware wallet.To carry out the attack, the Kraken Security Labs team said that a specialized piece of hardware and knowledge is needed. With that, it takes less than 15...Read More
Mining companies may benefit from a growing market for Bitcoin (BTC) derivatives to finance and support their power-hungry operations. In 2019, despite price fluctuations, mining activity remains near all-time highs. Bitcoin Mining Turned into Large-Scale Business Mining is becoming large-scale business in 2019, with big pools and ASIC producers once again coming into the spotlight....Read More
London-based blockchain firm Saga announced the launch of its Saga token (SGA). The digital unit represents a global currency that complies with regulators’ requirements. Saga Advised by Nobel Prize Winner, Former Bank of Israel Governor The currency is backed by a basket of fiat currency to avoid high volatility. Thus, it acts like a stablecoin...Read More
Most millennials are burdened with student loans or debts. However, most millennials are also working towards achieving financial independence. Like many, even I’m working my way towards financial independence while trying to juggle my work and social life. Recently, I penned an article titled ‘How many Bitcoins should you own to stay a millionaire?‘ and...Read More
Matic, a cryptocurrency known to have an active and supportive community, plunged by more than 50% on the day and over 70% at the day’s lowest point. But, such a drop can occur to any minor crypto asset.According to global markets analyst Alex Krüger, large hands can adjust the selling volume of a cryptocurrency, causing...Read More
Matic Network, a sidechain-based scaling solution for public blockchains, saw its native token skyrocket over 300 percent since late September. The move appears to be correlated with a wave of developments that were intended to expand the token’s utility. Over the last few hours though, its price crashed over 70 percent amid fears of an...Read More
Bakkt has launched two new regulated bitcoin derivatives products. Within hours of launch, Bakkt announced that over 1,000 futures contracts had been traded in Asia. The platform now offers four types of regulated bitcoin derivatives products: monthly and daily physically delivered bitcoin futures, cash settled bitcoin futures, and options on monthly bitcoin futures. Also read:...Read More
The altcoin market sheds more than $2 billion in value on Tuesday. Bitcoin price approaches $7,200 on major exchanges. Volatile trading conditions follow a surprise announcement by Huobi Group that its U.S. operations are closing. Bitcoin’s gravitational pull on the wider cryptocurrency market was evident on Tuesday, as altcoins lost billions in collective value. There...Read More
Matic drops 70% in an hour after weeks of positive gains. The cryptocurrency was up nearly 200% in two weeks before the plunge. Was it an inside job? Matic — one of the first tokens to originate upon Binance Launchpad has witnessed one of the harshest dumps in crypto history, falling a massive 66% in...Read More
Swiss Startup Amun has got clearance to offer its products to retail clients in Europe. Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority (SFSA) granted permission to the firm this Tuesday, Dec 10, 2019. “[The approval] gives us wide access to sell directly and market directly to basically all retail in Europe,” Amun CEO Hany Rashwan said. Furthermore, with...Read More
Students who choose to buy custom essays complete all their tasks without any stress. They have to work hard and choose the right kinds of subjects. Many people who work in the industry of blockchain know that it is one of the best career options they have made. Bitcoin started gaining popularity in 2009 and...Read More
