Switzerland has been the home for various cryptocurrency projects due to its sorted outlook towards it and its underlying technology, blockchain. However, the country’s financial regulators have warned against the risk emerging from blockchain and bank’s lower profit margins. The regulators also noted that Switzerland was “particularly exposed” to money laundering risks due to its...Read More
By Dmitriy Gurkovskiy, Chief Analyst at RoboForex This week, the EOS cryptocurrency resumed declining, and on Tuesday, December 10th, it is generally trading at $2.65. On D1, the downtrend is slowing down, and a convergence is forming on the MACD. As the main goal of the developing trend, we should regard the fractal minimum of...Read More
Over the past few days, Bitcoin (BTC) has shown signs that the bottom is in.For instance, prominent trader Filb Filb noted in a recent newsletter that the cryptocurrency bounced off the “miner’s bottom,” the price at which the average cryptocurrency breaks even when mining BTC. This is notable as the crypto market bottomed when Bitcoin interacted...Read More
The crypto industry has yet to evolve from exchanges which are nothing more than digital banks in reality. A couple are taking bold moves to slash their fees but how many others will follow and how will it affect the wider crypto industry. Crypto Exchanges: Banks in Disguise True financial decentralization should consist of direct...Read More
The Legislative arm of Ukraine, The Verkhovna Rada, has passed an amendment to legalize crypto payments in the country. The anti-money laundering (AML) law complies with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) standards. The law mainly handles the maintenance of virtual assets and virtual asset service providers (VASP’S). It provides clear guidelines for traders and...Read More
As Bitcoin is the most popular crypto in the world, many people are still looking for the fastest way to earn Bitcoins online. Unfortunately, there is no one best way to earn Bitcoins, which can apply to everyone. Whatever method of making Bitcoins you select, you will still have to invest time, knowledge, or your...Read More
Ethereum saw a major reduction in Google searches in the last few months, attracting less attention than ever before. Ethereum Less Popular Now Than When it Was $20 Ethereum (ETH), the second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, is going through an interesting period as of late. A Trustnodes report indicates that the project has seen the...Read More
Known as digital gold, Bitcoin (BTC) is the most well-known cryptocurrency. Since the moment the Bitcoin network came into existence back in 2009, this crypto coin already had a value associated with it. But how are new coins generated? Bitcoin mining is the computational process that solves mathematical calculations to verify transactions in the network...Read More
At a recent lecture on financial regulations at Harvard’s Kennedy School, CFTC chairman Heath Tarbert spoke about the role of the CFTC in digital asset regulations, how jurisdiction is divided between the CFTC and the SEC, as well as the regulatory risks involved with regard to cryptocurrencies. During his talk, Tarbert said that apart from...Read More
Coinbase backed MATIC token, one of the popular IEO on the Binance Launchpad, faced an excruciating 24 hrs. The token has plunged 70% following an inaccurate claim from Samuel JJ Gosling, founder of a cryptocurrency evaluation platform, Validity. Samuel in his tweet claimed that Matic Network has transferred 1,495,322,715 $MATIC (15% of the supply) in...Read More
The Argentinian government has been hit with a Bitcoin ransomware attack. According to the latest information, the hacker demanded 50 BTC to withdraw the attack. For all the positive changes that cryptocurrencies have brought in the last few years, there are still those who would use them to harm others. A perfect example of this...Read More
The Matic Network (MATIC) token went through a crisis, erasing more than 50% of its price in the past day, to drop to $0.02. The price crash, however, follows a period of wild appreciation on a parabolic trend, as MATIC more than tripled its price and moved to a record above $0.04. Fears of Team...Read More
Following Facebook’s announcement of its digital currency project, Libra, many crypto-enthusiasts saw it as a challenge and began working on a derivation of the social media giant’s project. Similarly, Saga, a blockchain firm, has announced the launch of its new token, Saga [SGA], claiming that its project is an alternative to Facebook’s digital currency proposal....Read More
A U.K. based blockchain firm Saga is launching an alternative token to Facebook’s digital currency proposal Libra. Saga’s advisory board includes Nobel Prize-winner Myron Scholes. The firm hopes to build a global currency that complies with all crypto regulations. However, the firm doesn’t plan to launch its token in the U.S. yet. It claims SGA...Read More
Switzerland’s premier Fintech firm, Amun AG, has been in the news lately for issuing several cryptocurrency exchange-traded products, more popularly known as ETPs. Despite the firm offering several cryptocurrency ETPs, these were previously limited to Switzerland and Germany. However, the latest news from the company reveals that it is eyeing expansion. According to a press...Read More
In an effort to further establish itself as an emerging fintech and crypto hub Lithuania will be issuing the world’s first collectible crypto coins. The commemorative issue coin is dedicated to the 1918 Act of Independence and will feature its 20 signatories. Crypto-Friendly Lithuania The Bank of Lithuania is expected to issue these world-first digital...Read More
One of the more popular projects that had their Initial Exchange Offering (IEO) on Binance Launchpad, MATIC, went through a sudden overnight drop. The token lost upwards of 70% of its value in a violent red candle. Rumors started to circle around the community that the CEO of the project is behind it, but Changpeng...Read More
Earlier we reported Bakkt launching USD cash-settled Bitcoin Futures on the ICE futures platform. The ICE Singapore platform has seen great records since this launch. The platform traded over 1,000 Bakkt Bitcoin (USD) Cash Settled Futures contracts since the launch. The Bakkt team took to twitter to announce this exciting news. The ICE Futures platform...Read More
The U.S. partner of the Huobi Global exchange has decided to shut down its operations after just 18 months. Huobi announced the plans in a tweet titled “HBUS Cease to Operate”: “We regret to inform you that HBUS will need to cease operations so that it can return in a more integrated and impactful fashion...Read More
Bitcoin price traded to a new weekly high at $7,664 and declined recently against the US Dollar.The price is now trading below the $7,420 and $7,400 support levels.There is a key bearish trend line forming with resistance near $7,525 on the hourly chart of the BTC/USD pair (data feed from Kraken).The pair is likely to...Read More
The total crypto market cap is declining and it is now well below the $200.0B resistance.Bitcoin price is down close to 2% and it is now trading below the $7,400 support.EOS price is approaching the $2.600 support area and it could bounce back.Binance Coin (BNB) is currently down around 3% and it is struggling to...Read More
Around $6 billion has been dumped out of crypto markets over the past few hours as the bears return again. Coincidentally it has happened again, right after Bakkt launched more institutional investment products for Bitcoin.Bitcoin Barrels Towards $7kBTC charts were looking positive during late trading yesterday but the Asian session changed all of that. A...Read More
Ripple price is currently declining from the key $0.2320 resistance area against the US dollar.The price is now trading below $0.2260 and it is showing a few bearish signs.Yesterday’s major bullish trend line was breached with support near $0.2280 on the hourly chart of the XRP/USD pair (data source from Kraken).Ethereum is also struggling and...Read More
The reason the majority of the cryptocurrency market has under-performed this year is lack of liquidity. Add margin trading to that and the potential of massive cascades in price arises as holders of the altcoin MATIC have just found out.Cryptocurrency Collapse: MATIC Dumps 70%A few hours ago MATIC dumped a whopping 70% in a matter...Read More
Ethereum is struggling to clear the key $152 resistance area against the US Dollar.The price is declining and it is now trading near the $146 support area.Yesterday’s major bullish trend line was breached with support near $148 on the hourly chart of ETH/USD (data feed via Kraken).The price could continue to move down and it...Read More
Major developments continue to take place in the artificial intelligence industry. Facebook’s Jerome Pesenti thinks the current model of deep learning is reaching its limits, however. Dozens of companies are in the process of exploring the potential of artificial intelligence. The Costs of Artificial Intelligence Research Virtually all of these companies have scientists and engineers...Read More
Numerous cryptocurrency exchanges provide fiat onramps for clients all over the world. One notably absent currency is the Pound Sterling, albeit Kraken is offering extra options in this regard. It is crucial for any cryptocurrency trading platform to cater to users from all over the world. Kraken Expands its GBP Options Albeit the UK is...Read More
As the reward halving approaches, bitcoin miners are preparing new strategies so customers can reap the most profits from their hashrate services. On December 3, the mining operation Poolin introduced a hashrate auto-switch feature so clients can automatically switch between BTC and BCH mining. Moreover, a few days later at Bitmain’s annual customer appreciation meeting,...Read More
Bitcoin has finally started to show some signs of weakness after stagnating above $7,500 for days on end, recently dipping under the key support in and around $7,400. As of the time of writing this, the cryptocurrency is trading for $7,350 on many major exchanges, posting a 2% loss in the past 24 hours.Related Reading:...Read More
Research outfit Matter Labs announced a Zero-Knowledge Proof-based scaling solution, which leverages many of the changes from Instanbul. Critics from the Bitcoin camp claim it’s just another “shitcoin.” ZK-Rollups and “Visa-Scale” Throughput Achieving scale has long been the Achilles heel of public blockchain networks. Earlier approaches to the same problem may have managed to achieve...Read More
