A year after PayPal suspended transactions for the leading adult website Pornhub, MasterCard, and Visa have followed the example in the midst of child abuse allegations. With cryptocurrencies remaining one of the few available options for payments, the question stands if such association is indeed positive for the industry. Visa and MasterCard Block Use Of...Read More
Bankhaus von der Heydt (BVDH), one of Europe’s oldest banks, and German tokenization and digital asset custody provider Bitbond are joining forces to issue a Euro-pegged (EUR) stablecoin (EURB) on the Stellar network. The EURB stablecoin will be the first stablecoin issued directly by a banking institution on Stellar and one of the first of...Read More
Bitcoin visited $17,600 and rebounded to $18,300 at the time of writing. The altcoin market followed Bitcoin’s price movement over the past few hours. Tezos tested support at $2, and FTX Token saw a decline to $4.08 before bulls pushed the price upward to $4.27. Crypto.com Coin appeared to resume the previous bearish trend that...Read More
The bearish market sentiment was reflected by Litecoin and IOTA as they dropped strongly beneath support over the past 24 hours. Synthetix has not seen much buying volume over the past few weeks and could see a deeper correction. Litecoin [LTC] Source: LTC/USD on TradingView LTC saw the $80 support lose its footing decisively over...Read More
Bitcoin dominance rose marginally to 64%, meaning that the altcoin market was dropping in value slightly faster than Bitcoin over the past few hours. Polkadot and Steem showed strong bearish momentum as they lost important levels of support to the bears in the last few hours. Ethereum Classic reflected market sentiment and posted losses as...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
After a week of choppiness around $19,000, Bitcoin dropped beneath $18,600 and was trading at $18,135 at press time. Binance Coin looked set to drop to support at $26.7. Monero, one of the strong performers over the past couple of volatile weeks, would seek to halt losses at $127. Dogecoin saw a breakout to the...Read More
Bitcoin dropped from $19,156 to $18,248 at press time, marking close to 5% loss over 24 hours. The altcoin market reacted by posting losses as well. Chainlink could see a bounce off the $11.9 level of support before another move downward, while Bitcoin SV appeared to lose the $172 level to bears. EOS was unable...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
Bitcoin shed nearly 3% in a matter of hours following a move down from $19,298 to a low of $18,700. This affected the rest of the market as well. Binance Coin dropped beneath a level of support at $29 and could be set to retrace all the gains of the past couple of weeks to...Read More
Bitcoin has posted excellent gains on its way to ATH but the momentum stalled over the past week. At press time BTC was trading at $18,803 with a market cap of $349 billion. Source: CoinStats This sideways movement of both Bitcoin and Ethereum prompted the altcoin market to shed value. Polkadot was likely to begin...Read More
With the collective digital asset market showing little change over the past week, Ethereum too was victim to the same. Ether value ranged roughly between $565 and $620, maintaining position between the set of resistance and support. Indicative of another bearish turn, we analyzed Ethereum’s long-term chart to figure out its immediate trading range in...Read More
Ethereum has been dormant in the short-term, and Bitcoin Dominance has also been relatively flat over the past few days. The altcoin market was waiting for a breakout or breakdown. Bitcoin SV faced strong resistance from $180, while EOS tried weakly to get past the $3 level of resistance, a move that would signal a...Read More
Disclaimer: The findings of the following article are the sole opinion of the writer and should not be taken as investment advice The Litecoin market has been continuously swinging and is now slowly moving upwards. The current price of the digital asset was $83.37 and has been flirting with the resistance at $84.21. Despite the rising...Read More
Ethereum has been trading just beneath the $600 mark over the past few days. This sideways movement was reflected in the altcoin markets as well. Bitcoin Cash and Tron traded with very little vertical momentum on the charts in the past week. Zcash did not see good buying volume even as it defended a level...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
Ethereum registered its highest weekly close in the past 120 weeks with a price level of $601.95. While the short-term outlook and momentum remained neutral over the past few days, ETH bulls might be able to bounce off the $580-support and attempt to go past $620. NEM and FTX Token were also on a strong...Read More
Disclaimer: The findings of the following article are the sole opinion of the writer and should not be taken as investment advice Cardano’s valuation was continuing to hold its position above its immediate support level at $0.138, at press time. It must be noted, however, that over the past 2 weeks, it has declined gradually from...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
Bitcoin’s dominance was as high as 63.6% at press time after registering a hike that saw it climb from 61.6% last week. A sustained rise in this metric could spell trouble for the market’s many altcoins. Bitcoin SV‘s bulls attempted to defend the $183-level after breaching it a few hours before press time. Further down...Read More
The ratio of the 24-hour Open Interest [OI] change and market cap seemed to highlight an interesting trend on the question of which coin is the most leveraged in the market. Interestingly, the most leveraged cryptocurrency isn’t Bitcoin or any other crypto in the top 10 of CoinMarketCap’s charts. In fact, the most leveraged cryptos...Read More
Stellar Lumens was in a phase of consolidation before a breakout from the $0.172-level on the charts. Further down the crypto-ladder, while Polkadot had bearish momentum and could lose the $5-support level to the bears in the coming days, Status formed a descending triangle and expected a breakout over the next few days. Stellar Lumens...Read More
The Crypto Fear and Greed Index stood at 95 for the day as Bitcoin traded at $19,041, at press time. Tezos formed a bullish reversal pattern that was yet to be confirmed, while Neo was likely to head back lower to a level of support. Finally, Aave was trading within an ascending channel and a...Read More
Binance Coin could be set to lose the level of support at $29 to the market’s bears over the next few days after noting a lack of buying volume over the past two weeks. The bullish momentum behind the recent gains for both Synthetix and Nano appeared to have evaporated, and both cryptos could witness...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
Bitcoin Cash exhibited some volatility over the past two weeks, with the market appearing to be indecisive at press time, although a downside seemed like a safer bet. Bitcoin will have a huge influence on BCH going forward while IOTA was trading within a rectangle and awaited a breakout backed by strong volume. Enjin formed...Read More
Yearn.Finance’s YFI token has been in the news a lot lately, mostly due to its parabolic movement on the price charts. In fact, within a month of YFI trading at just over $7,500, the token hiked exponentially to touch the $30,000-mark on the 2nd of December. However, while YFI did hold the level for just...Read More
Many large-cap altcoins followed Bitcoin’s lead in the market to a certain extent. However, EOS and DigiByte dropped under a level of support and the subsequent pullback saw the same level retested as resistance. In fact, their indicators pointed towards the likelihood of a downside on the charts. Finally, Ontology formed a triangle pattern that...Read More
