The cryptocurrency world is full of ‘ifs.’ For instance, if you would’ve bought Bitcoin 10 years ago, you would’ve been a millionaire now. The problem with statements like these is that they are based on probabilities, which, let’s be real, never come true. While you were certainly not thinking about an obscure internet currency in...Read More
Bitcoin has new blood. With the cryptocurrency reaching a high not seen since December 2017, following which it endured a 15-month long bear market, new and unfamiliar investors are entering the Bitcoin markets. For starters, these newbies are rushing in to buy Bitcoin, creating fresh demand. This demand has to be catered to by Bitcoin’s...Read More
According to a recent report by LongHash, public companies in the U.S. now own $10 billion worth of Bitcoin – something that can be accredited to increased investment as well the cryptocurrency’s rise in price over the month of October. While the general consensus regarding more institutions getting interested in Bitcoin is fairly positive, the...Read More
Netherlands-based cryptocurrency exchange BLOX, announced in a blog today that it has now been included in the registry of the Dutch Central Bank (De Nederlandsche Bank). Earlier this year, the Dutch parliament had passed Anti-Money Laundering (AML) amendments following which, cryptocurrency exchanges were expected to register themselves with the Dutch central bank, if they wanted...Read More
COVID-19 pandemic has, among other things, severely affected global markets and with regard to the pandemic’s consequences, several representatives convened at an online meeting of Central Bank Governors’ Club, hosted this week by Elvira Nabiullina, the Governor of the Bank of Russia. At the meeting, representatives from central banks across the globe discussed the pandemic’s...Read More
Digital asset bank Sygnum announced today that it launched custody, trading, credit as well as staking services for Tezos blockchain’s native XTZ token. Through its new staking services feature, Sygnum said it would offer up to 5% annual rewards for staking XTZ: For the first time, XTZ can be deposited and staked with a regulated...Read More
As Bitcoin hit 2020’s ATH at nearly $15800, open interest on top derivatives exchanges like CME and Bakkt went up. On CME, where top institutions trade, the open interest increased by 16% to $933 Million. CME futures open interest and volume || Source: Skew Based on data from Skew, open interest has climbed up, however,...Read More
Canada’s federal tax collection service, the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) is asking a judge to force Toronto-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinsquare to hand over information and certain documents about all of the platform’s clients using the platform since early 2013. CRA intended to use this information to help fight against tax fraud and the underground economy....Read More
2020 has been a key year for Bitcoin. There have been key moments of highs and lows but the current market suggests that the digital asset might be saving its best period for the penultimate months. The price speaks for itself. BTC is valued above $15,000 as we speak, taking over major price range one...Read More
Cryptocurrency exchange OKEx shared an update today stating that it has now hired an “external legal counsel” to help resume withdrawals it halted on 16 October, which had left many traders frustrated. In its 6 November, announcement OKEx said that it has even contacted some private key holders. Again declaring that its users’ funds were...Read More
Five months into the third halving and Bitcoin’s price has rallied 75%. Most of this can be attributed to the race to over $15000 in the past 24 hours. There was a 6.47% daily gain and this could possibly be termed parabolic. Hitting a high of $15000 did not even surprise most seasoned traders as...Read More
Ripple’s Q3 market report revealed that XRP’s average daily volume reported in Q3 was $403.58 million, a considerable increase from $196.28 million in Q2. Source: Q3 2020 XRP Markets Report This volume was inclusive of Line of Credit, a new beta service on RippleNet that allows customers using On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) to source capital on-demand. Regarding Ripple’s...Read More
The increasing value of Bitcoin [BTC] has given a nudge to many traders snoozing during the low volatility period. The coin’s current trading value of over $15K has enabled significant profits for BTC investors. As the cryptocurrency market retraced the 2017/18 journey, the P2P volumes appeared 66% lower than the peak noted during the previous...Read More
An analytics firm has claimed today they found an increasing number of reports from XRP holders who seem to be falling victim to a new scam. XRP Forensics published a tweet on 5 November that warned XRP community to “stay alert.” We [XRPlorer] also see an uptick in reports of stolen XRP as a result...Read More
Galaxy Digital founder Mike Novogratz told CNBC’s Squawk Box that the Rubicon in BTC adoption has been crossed, even as BTC prices ranged roughly between $ At time of writing, bitcoin prices were hovering above $15,000. This bull run could have been a result of recent events, during which, some leading corporate entities began investing...Read More
The decentralized finance [DeFi] space has managed to carve out its position in the crypto sphere. For the better part of the year, when the crypto market had remained restrained under heavy sell pressure and other global economic turnarounds, the DeFi projects acquired great interest and led to a DeFi hype. During this period Ethereum...Read More
US Department of Justice announced that it has seized $24 million in cryptocurrencies through a collaboration with the Brazilian federal police investigation pertaining to a cryptocurrency scam operation dubbed “Operation Egypto.” According to the DOJ notice, US law enforcement seized the crypto after the government of Brazil made a request for help with the aforementioned...Read More
Ethereum 2.0 is finally undertaking fundamental strides in the developmental direction. Through months of anticipation, delayed launches, online spats with other proponents (i.e BTC maximalists), deposit contract for ETH 2.0 was finally deployed by the community. The immediate effect of the announcement was emphatic. Reports suggested that $1 million worth of ETH was locked in...Read More
Bitcoin is currently trading around $14,500. The asset saw this particular price range back on January 8th, 2018, a whopping 1029 days back. Safe to say, these were unfamiliar trading provinces in the past three years. With Bitcoin building its rally step-step across the past month, the recent entry above $14k is currently creating a...Read More
In anticipation of the upcoming hard fork of Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Hardware wallet manufacturer, Trezor announced that it “will not be supporting any coin split that may result from it.” Our official announcement regarding Bitcoin Cash hard fork. Trezor will not be supporting any coin split that may result from it. Read the full statement...Read More
Bitcoin returns have been amazing without a doubt, but it has been touted as the most volatile asset. However, looking at how things have evolved over the last couple of years, we can say that bitcoin isn’t volatile, in fact, it is less volatile than FAANGs. Why institutions hate volatility? Institutions like their holdings [portfolio]...Read More
En + Group has entered the crypto mining space in a joint venture with bitcoin miner hosting provider BitRiver. Reportedly, the joint venture known as Bit + already saw its first phase of a bitcoin mining facility set up and running with over 10 megawatt-hours of capacity provided by En + The two partners plan...Read More
The journey of Bitcoin in 2020 has been pretty nail-biting. With the global events hitting the crypto market, many investors saw Bitcoin’s recovery and decided to include it as a part of their investment portfolio. BTC has been reporting a 86% returns to investors year-to-date, while this surge in volatility also returned many traders back...Read More
Percent Finance, a community-owned fork of Compound Finance, announced today that some of their money markets experienced an issue that could lead to permanent locking of users’ funds. Reportedly, close to $1 million worth of user funds on the platform are stuck in money market smart contracts. Source: Percent Finance on Medium The amount locked...Read More
Founder of crypto derivates exchange FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, has made a contribution of $5.2 million to the campaign of U.S Democratic presidential candidate, Joe Biden. Data from OpenSecrets.org, noted this donation on their Top Contributers page, which lists the money that came from organization’s PACs, individual members, employees, and their immediate families. According to a...Read More
Major blockchain engineering company IOHK announced that it will sponsor the newly-created Haskell Foundation, which is dedicated to broadening adoption of the Haskell programming language. IOHK said it would donate $125,000 to the foundation which was launched at the Haskell eXchange virtual conference on 4 November. With this move, IOHK will be Haskell Foundation’s largest...Read More
Decentralized oracle platform Razor Network has raised a total of $3.7 million in a seed and private sales round which was led by investors in the blockchain space, such as NGC Ventures, Alameda Research, and Spark Digital Capital among others. The firm’s private sale round saw investors including Mariano Conti, former head of oracles at...Read More
Chinese financial services corporation, China UnionPay, which is similar to major card providers like Visa and Mastercard, has announced a partnership with South Korean payment provider Danal to launch a cryptocurrency-supporting digital card. Danal will offer its Paycoin cryptocurrency as an option on the new prepaid mobile card which will be accessible via Danal’s cryptocurrency wallet....Read More
Yesterday bitcoin observed the second largest negative difficulty adjustment [-16.05%] of all time. The most recent one was after the bitcoin halving when difficulty dopped by -14.56%. There is one interesting connection between these negative adjustments and it will affect not just the miners but also traders. This article talks about what that is and...Read More
The growth of Ethereum has been experiencing a slow down compared to its journey in the first half of the year. As the crypto market deals with a much volatile period right now, ETH’s value has trended lower since the end of October and was currently at $382.10. However, the Ethereum community was met with...Read More
