After hitting a high of $19,918 on 1 December, Bitcoin has completely stagnated to consolidate between the ranges of $18k and $20k. Yesterday, a low of $17,610 was registered, but a quick bounce back above $18,000 was soon recorded on the charts. With respect to its price, CME’s derivatives market is now going through a...Read More
When MicroStrategy and Michael Saylor invested close to $425 million in Bitcoin back in August-September 2020, the sole purpose was to preserve its cash reserves’ purchasing power by converting it to Bitcoin. While the benefits were initially highly incremental for the company, MicroStrategy seems to be raising its game now. MSTR’s growing capital in Bitcoin...Read More
Popular crypto-platform Circle is in the news after it announced the launch of a major platform upgrade. At the core of Circle’s latest platform upgrade will be a new digital currency native treasury account infrastructure – Digital Dollar Accounts. This upgrade will allow users to store value natively in digital currencies while maintaining compatibility with...Read More
2020’s week 50 is upon us right now, with Week 49 being rather quiet for Bitcoin from a price perspective. Between 2 December and 8 December, Bitcoin’s price movement was restricted between $19,800 and $18,400. While the movement on the 8th remained the most significant, the cryptocurrency’s price did remain above $18,800 for the 6...Read More
In what is yet another victory for the still-nascent crypto-market, DBS, Southeast Asia’s biggest bank, has announced that it will launch a cryptocurrency exchange. The planned digital currency exchange will offer Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH), XRP, and Bitcoin Cash (BCH). According to a statement made by CEO Piyush Gupta, DBS Digital Exchange would be the...Read More
Bitcoin demand is not only expanding among individual traders and crypto enthusiasts, but has also managed to attract institutions, hedge funds, and corporates. Many traditional financing institutions have included Bitcoin in their portfolios and are increasing their hold on Bitcoin. Now that there is less than 2.434 million Bitcoin left to mine, the race to...Read More
Bitcoin has established itself as a profitable investment asset and it is becoming more evident as more institutions flock to include the digital asset in its portfolio. According to Bitcoin Treasuries, companies including, Grayscale, MicroStrategy Inc., Square Inc. together own a sum of 0.888 Million BTC or 888k BTC. This value is expected to only...Read More
Bitcoin’s price seems to be losing its foothold as the price suffered a drop of 5% in the last 8 hours. Considering the situation more of this could follow. How much? Perhaps, an average drop of 30% can be expected, especially during bull runs. Bitcoin Corrections Historically, bitcoin seems to correct during bull runs and...Read More
Why Bitcoin will replace US Dollar as the World’s Reserve Asset is as much a story of the United States Dollar, as it is of Bitcoin. It started when United States GDP was a third of the world’s GDP and even larger when it comes to the manufacturing sector, at the close of the second...Read More
Traders who witnessed Bitcoin’s 80% drop in price following the 2017 Bull Run to ascent from $1000 to new ATH of $19891.99 on Coinbase in 2020 have seen it all. The rally of massive volatility, the quiet rally and the quietest ever rally. Despite the media attention, a certain degree of hype on social media,...Read More
One of the leading International banking groups, Standard Chartered has taken its first step towards cryptocurrency. Its innovation arm, SC Ventures announced a partnership with Northern Trust to launch an institutional-grade custody solution for cryptocurrencies, called Zodia Custody. Many banking groups around the world have already ventured into crypto in some form or another. Reports...Read More
Will DeFi with its inverse BTC correlation eat Wall Street? In his latest tweet, Tyler Winklevoss of Gemini Exchange mentioned that “DeFi is the software that is starting to eat Wall Street”. Since DeFi’s market capitalization is still one-third of XRP’s market capitalization there may be room for growth. As Tyler argues, DeFi may eat...Read More
Another weekend for Bitcoin’s price action has passed quietly. The entire week, as Bitcoin’s price hit new ATH, there was the anticipation of the price crossing $20000. There was an increase in percent active supply and the increasing liquidity by whales was balanced by retail and institutional buying. In the past week, the price increased...Read More
Ethereum is the most dominant cryptocurrency among the Top 4, based on activity, updates and the highest Github submission rate. The development team of Ethereum makes daily routine submissions that make it the busiest cryptocurrency that ranks #2 based on market capitalization. Despite its dominance, there are a few challenges facing ETH 2.0’s further growth. As...Read More
Let’s pick up where MicroStrategy left off – their additional purchase of bitcoin, which leaves them with a total of 40,824 BTC. While this may be bullish for bitcoin and everyone in the ecosystem, we don’t realize what this implies, so, let’s take a look at what this means. Grayscale Grayscale Investments has been at...Read More
SBI Holdings has already established itself as a major player in the world of cryptocurrency teaming up with Ripple. Now, the banking giant has announced through its subsidiary SBI Digital Asset Holdings a joint venture with Switzerland-based SIX Digital Exchange. The announcement noted that the joint venture was aimed at driving institutional digital asset liquidity...Read More
Facebook has been having a tough time dodging lawsuits with respect to its crypto-project. The social media giant rebranded its crypto project from Libra to Diem and announced it on 1 December. However, this rebranding has resulted in another lawsuit lining up from a London-based Fintech company. According to reports, Diem, a London Fintech startup...Read More
During a recent G-7 meeting held on 7 December, US Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin hosted a discussion that included ongoing responses to “evolving landscape” of crypto assets and other digital assets. In addition to this, officials and G-7 members discussed national authorities’ work to prevent the use of cryptocurrencies for “malign purposes and illicit...Read More
CEO and founder of the digital currency company Circle, Jeremy Allaire thinks that the Biden administration is likely to be supportive of cryptocurrencies and the benefits the US can obtain from them. In Allaire’s opinion, Joe Biden and his administration will ultimately be supportive of cryptocurrencies because it signifies an infrastructure change as big as...Read More
A court in Paris sentenced alleged Russian Bitcoin hacker Alexander Vinnik to five years in prison for crimes connected to money laundering and for providing false information about the origin of the proceeds. In addition to this, Vinnik has been ordered to pay a fine of 100 thousand euros ($121,000). Suspected of a bitcoin fraud,...Read More
With Bitcoin’s price trending closer to $20,000, on-chain analysts are suggesting that an upcoming correction may soon become inevitable. This is a strong possibility, despite the consistent buying and demand generation by institutions and whales. While retail/institutional traders may not be bearish just yet, according to popular on-chain analyst Willy Woo, “Bitcoin on-chain structure saying...Read More
Major cryptocurrencies Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Tether have all got a mention on the Season 11 premiere of the long-running American comedy-drama television series “Shameless” which features on Showtime. The first episode – ‘This Is Chicago’ shows how Kevin (Steve Howey) is confused about the plight of one cryptocurrency user who says: My Bitcoin. It’s down...Read More
2017, the year of the historic bull run, was also the year of extremes. On the contrary, 2018 was the year of the big drop while 2019 was the year when the brave HODLed and weak hands sold Bitcoin. Source: Coinstats The year 2020, however, may go down in Bitcoin’s history as the year of...Read More
Bill Winters, CEO of Standard Chartered Bank, is the latest representative of a financial giant to address the phenomenon of digital currencies. Speaking at the Singapore Fintech Festival, Winters said that the creation and adoption of digital currencies is “absolutely inevitable,” an opinion that was quite a turnaround from the one held by these institutions...Read More
When Bitcoin’s price hit a new ATH on most cryptocurrency exchanges, traders expected it to hit $20,000 quickly. However, the crypto-asset soon faced a wave of corrections following the same, even as its market cap crossed $354 billion and it became the 7th largest currency in the world. To many, the $20,000-level may seem unattainable...Read More
Bitcoin, at the time of writing, was trading well above $19,000 on the charts. However, while that is a bullish observation, a closer look at Bitcoin’s fundamentals would reveal a contradiction of sorts. Curiously, the active supply of Bitcoin has hit both an ATH and an ATL. This contradictory position is possible entirely due to...Read More
With Bitcoin consolidating its position right under its latest ATH on the price charts, the general mood in the crypto-market is one of bullishness and optimism. Such a mood swing has caught the attention of many in the mainstream, many of whom were previously hesitant about investing in cryptocurrencies. In fact, there is also an...Read More
When Bitcoin decoupled from Gold in November 2020, on-chain analysts predicted that it was gearing up to hit a new ATH on the charts. As it happened, that’s exactly what happened. However, the sentiment on the part of the market’s retail traders was mostly mixed after the Bitcoin-Gold correlation dropped so dramatically. The “store of...Read More
Litecoin has come in for a lot of criticism over the past two years thanks to its lukewarm movement on the charts. Not only is Litecoin trading at a level that is way off its all-time high of December 2017, but organic developments are far and few to talk about as well. And yet, despite...Read More
It’s been a good few weeks for Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency. Not only did BTC climb to a new ATH recently, but it has also emerged to become the world’s fastest adopted asset. This was recently brought to light by a tweet authored by popular on-chain analyst Willy Woo. The tweet in question compared...Read More
