These days, cryptocurrencies are becoming more mainstream. So it’s no wonder that more gambling venues are offering options that allow punters to pay with cryptocurrency. Online casinos have been offering this facility for a while now. But even standard casinos are now offering table games that players can join in with and pay with Bitcoin...Read More
The aggregated crypto market has been caught within a firm and unwavering uptrend throughout the past 5 weeks, with Bitcoin’s movement towards $10,000 allowing altcoins like Litecoin to see some intense upwards momentum. In the case of LTC, the crypto is currently declining from its recent highs of $78.00, and bulls are in the process...Read More
Bitcoin has seen some intense volatility over the past 24-hours, with the cryptocurrency showing signs yesterday of stabilizing within the $10,000 region before facing a swift overnight selloff that led it to plummet as lows as $9,750 overnight. BTC’s rejection at $10,200 seems to spell trouble for the cryptocurrency’s recent uptrend, although analysts are now...Read More
EOS, just like virtually all other major altcoins, has been seeing some bullish price action throughout 2020. It is important to note that its rally, however, can best be categorized as a steady upwards grind, rather than a parabolic one. This steady ascent may not last long, as a few technical factors suggest that the...Read More
XRP and all other cryptocurrencies just closed out their weekly candles a couple of hours ago, with today’s close being widely viewed as a critical event that would offer significant insight into where the markets will head throughout the rest of the year. XRP, which has seen a relatively good week, was able to close...Read More
Decentralized finance [DeFi] has continued to gain steam in the past couple of months. The latest milestone includes surpassing $1 billion Total Value Locked [TVL]. Source: Binance Research | Monthly unique users in Ethereum DeFi in 2019 Interestingly, Ethereum’s use in DeFi continues to expand since most of the decentralized financial ecosystem, so far, is...Read More
It’s no secret that Bitcoin has been caught within a firm bull trend throughout 2020, and yesterday’s rally to over $10,000 seemed to suggest that this uptrend has reached a boiling point, with a major parabolic movement looming on the horizon. It is important to note that BTC has not yet incurred any type of...Read More
Thanks to its innovation around building decentralized applications [DApps], Ethereum became crucial for the ICO space. However, the 2017 ICO boom and bust attracted a lot of bad press for the ecosystem since a large portion of many ICO scams leveraged Ethereum blockchain. Highlighting the ICO phase, Camila Russo, the Founder of The Defiant, in the...Read More
Bitcoin’s intense 2020 uptrend has led the cryptocurrency to rally up towards $10,000, with the price region lying directly below this critical price level appearing to be a heavy resistance region. It is important to note that the resistance at this level, however, has not been enough to catalyze any type of sharp selloff, but...Read More
Over the past few days, Ethereum has been one of the top-performing crypto-assets in the industry. The token recently breached the $200 mark and since 5 February, the crypto-asset has surged by over 20 percent. Bitcoin recorded a hike of 7.75 percent over the same time period. At press time, Ethereum was priced at $225.30...Read More
The competitive drive between Ethereum, EOS, and Tron over decentralized applications or DApps continued to escalate in 2020. Justin Sun’s Tron was able to surpass EOS DApps for the first time last month, however, it continued to lag behind Ethereum’s dominance. In terms of popularity as well, Ethereum‘s DeFi sector grabbed all the attention as...Read More
Ethereum has been one of the best performing major altcoins over the past several weeks, with the cryptocurrency surging past its previous resistance at $200 as its slow upwards grind begins turning into a parabolic rally. This momentum has allowed ETH to significantly outperform both Bitcoin and the aggregated crypto markets, leading many analysts to...Read More
It’s no secret that Craig Wright as a singular entity has created a significant amount of division within the crypto industry, with his notorious Bitcoin Cash hardfork – called Bitcoin SV (BSV) – and incessant claims that he is Satoshi Nakamoto leading him to be the target of a significant amount of hate from crypto...Read More
Bitcoin’s firm 2020 uptrend has led many analysts to question what types of fundamental and technical events could help bolster its mid-term price action and propel the cryptocurrency higher, and naturally its upcoming mining rewards halving is one such event that is widely looked upon as being bullish. It is important to note that the...Read More
January’s bullish sentiment has managed to permeate February as well with the market’s major crypto-assets registering a positive 1st week. Bitcoin registered another hike of 5.13 percent and the world’s largest crypto-asset breached its key resistance at $9700 on 5 February. However, the altcoins managed to rally better than BTC over the same time period....Read More
Two of the largest multinational investment banks in the world, Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, recently conducted a successful transaction utilizing the blockchain technology. Both giants made the first of its kind equity swap, but 13 more are waiting to be fulfilled, as well. Equity Swap On Blockchain As reported by Forbes, Citigroup and Goldman Sachs...Read More
The cryptocurrency market has been witnessing a rise in the price of most crypto-assets. Led by Bitcoin, most major cryptos were a part of this bullish wave. Ethereum, the world’s second-largest coin reported YTD gains of around 57%, outperforming BTC’s gains of 35%. With the price of digital assets climbing, DeFi also managed to mark...Read More
Bitcoin’s firm 2020 uptrend is likely far from over. After incurring some intense selling pressure earlier this week, bulls fought back and propelled the cryptocurrency all the up to highs of $9,900, which is just above where it is currently trading at. This momentum has made it look increasingly likely that Bitcoin will soon make...Read More
Ethereum’s imminent switch to a Proof-of-Stake consensus algorithm has been picking up significant traction over the past year. The divide between Proof-of-Work and Proof-of-Stake assets has also been increasing lately with Proof-of-Stake assets continuing to promote mainnet launches. However, PoW assets had an upper hand in 2019. According to a recent report, Bitcoin remains the...Read More
According to Coinmarketcap, a total of 5093 digital assets currently exist in the industry, at press time. This is a significant number since the larger crypto-community is involved in the investment and development of only a handful of these crypto-projects at the time. And while questions about the larger sustenance of the crypto-market remain, Bitcoin...Read More
XRP incurred a significant amount of upwards momentum over the past couple of days, which came about as Bitcoin and other major altcoins faced turbulence that put their recent uptrend at risk of being invalidated. It now appears that XRP was front running the general crypto markets, as BTC and other cryptos all incurred significant...Read More
In a quick update to the community, Ethereum 2.0 developer Danny Ryan provided an outline of the progress made toward eth2 development and the optimization improvements made over the last few weeks. He spoke about the recently completed audit and formal verification of the eth2 deposit contract bytecode by Runtime Verification, and how it is...Read More
Blockchain solutions provider, Block.one, recently announced that it would be offering $200,000 to the individual, team, or organization that is able to complete its proposed challenge. The challenge entails creating an EOSIO smart contract capable of storing and invoking “Ethereum Virtual Machine (Solidity) smart contracts in an Ethereum-like environment.” According to the announcement post, the...Read More
The California-based digital asset management company, BitGo, now offers instant trading services to its institutional clients. The new feature comes as a result of BitGo’s partnership with a company providing unified digital asset trading infrastructure, SettleBit. BitGo Offers Trading From Its Cold Storage BitGo is a digital asset financial service company operating with institutional investors....Read More
Creator of the Bankless program and Mythos Capital founder, Ryan Sean Adams, recently published an article discussing why stablecoins are not parasites on the network, but one of the biggest reasons to be bullish about Ethereum. In the article, Adams explained how Ethereum is the dominant network for fast-paced, growth-oriented stablecoins, with bank and protocol...Read More
Bitcoin has been caught within a wild uptrend throughout 2020, rapidly rising from lows of $6,800 to highs of $9,600. This uptrend, although wild on a small scale, may ultimately prove to be minuscule when compared to the insane rally the cryptocurrency could see in the coming several months, as historical data suggests that BTC...Read More
Bitcoin’s price noted a boost of just over 8% over the past week. This push caused the price of the world’s largest cryptocurrency to rise above its $9k resistance and it was valued at $9,336.77, at press time. Such growth was also noted among major cryptocurrencies, with Ethereum [ETH] surging by over 12%. According to...Read More
The second-largest cryptocurrency aka Ethereum [ETH] has pumped more than 7% in the last 4 hours or so. In terms of BTC, it has pumped by 4.25% making 1 ETH equivalent to 0.0202 BTC at press time. However, this rally is running on fumes and is bound to head lower in the upcoming day. Pumping...Read More
Ethereum has been able to secure a relatively strong foothold within the $180 region over the past several days and weeks, with its multi-week uptrend allowing it to post consistent gains in tandem with Bitcoin and other major altcoins. It is important to note that Ethereum could now be on the cusp of posting a...Read More
Bitcoin has been incurring steady upwards momentum since the start of 2020, which has in turn allowed most major altcoins to similarly post notable gains. It is important to note that although many altcoins have been able to post notable gains over the past several days and weeks, Bitcoin still has significant dominance over the...Read More
