Disclaimer: The findings of the following article are the sole opinion of the writer and should not be taken as investment advice Polkadot’s price surge took the industry by storm when it began in early September. Surging up to $6.89 in a matter of days, the crypto-asset locked in a position in the market’s top-5 in...Read More
The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) is reportedly working towards introducing a regulatory framework for cryptocurrencies, according to a new document published this week. The SEC emphasized that this study focused exclusively on non-government or private crypto assets and not on Pakistan’s central bank digital currencies (CBDC). Stating that it welcomed any comments...Read More
Bitcoin’s dominance, alongside Bitcoin‘s own price, was rising steadily and stood at 65.58%, at press time. While some altcoins posted gains alongside Bitcoin, their performances have not generally been bullish. In fact, Cardano was trading within a descending channel and could lose a level of support shortly. Synthetix and Dash seemed strongly bullish as they...Read More
2020’s crypto-market is very different from the one back in 2017. However, while it has changed a lot over the ensuing years, there remain two constants – Bitcoin and Ethereum. In fact, the two cryptocurrencies continue to retain the market’s top two positions. The constant reshuffling of the pack fuels the question – How will...Read More
A self-claimed Chinese cryptocurrency reporter, Colin Wu, who has an exclusive focus on the crypto mining industry, regulation and exchanges in China, took to twitter today to share that Bitcoin miners based in China are finding it difficult to pay their electricity bills. Colin Wu found that the Chinese local governments have been cracking down...Read More
The Crypto Fear and Greed Index was registering a figure of 90 at the time of writing, expressing a sentiment of extreme greed in the market. Litecoin and NEM reflected this bullish sentiment as they formed bullish patterns on their charts and found strong buyer interest behind their price rise. Verge, on the contrary, noted...Read More
Disclaimer: The findings of the following article are the sole opinion of the writer and should not be taken as investment advice Binance Coin is probably one of the best exchange tokens out there right now. In fact, its year-on-year growth [from 2018 to 2019] was a whopping 522%. In 2020 alone, BNB has noted YTD...Read More
While Bitcoin did dip briefly under $16,000, the sentiment around BTC remained strongly bullish, which is why the buyers were assertive enough to later push the price to $16,117, at press time. Further down the crypto-ladder, Stellar Lumens saw traders take-profit upon a push past the resistance level. Bitcoin Gold was trading within a range...Read More
SushiSwap is one of the ‘forgotten’ DeFi projects in the space today, one that everyone certainly remembers. And, not for all the right reasons wither. In fact, in light of the aftermath of the Nomi/Sushi ordeal, SushiSwap has been passed up by many as an ‘investable project.’ However, it would now seem that the protocol...Read More
The world’s premier privacy coin, Monero appeared to break out of a short-term downtrend and could be set to move toward its resistance around the $127-level, provided it can defend an important level of support at $115 if the bears gain some traction over the next few hours. Further down the crypto-ladder, Basic Attention Token...Read More
Bitcoin Cash has been moving steadily down the charts over the past few days, with BCH likely to see more of the same in the near-term. While a break out of its downtrend was possible in the coming days, the same wasn’t visible on the charts yet. Finally, Algorand’s market appeared undecided in the short-term,...Read More
Disclaimer: The findings of the following article are the sole opinion of the writer and should not be taken as investment advice Bitcoin’s latest failed attempt at a sustained breach of $16,000 has given the market’s altcoins the chance to do more, by surging higher or by stopping its slide down the charts. With Cardano, that...Read More
The Crypto Fear and Greed Index was noting a figure of 86, at the time of writing, with the same over 80 for over a week now. Ethereum was on a strong uptrend and pulled back to a level of support while Cosmos looked set to register a small drop in price. Enjin, on the...Read More
One of the most reputed DeFi traders in the business today, the pseudonymous DegenSpartan recently shared his critique on quite a few popular DeFi protocols that have a strong following with independent crypto-researcher Hasu. DegenSpartan has perhaps been most critical of Maker – the second most dominant DeFi protocol after Uniswap. Source: DeFi Pulse According...Read More
Bitcoin was trading just under the $16,000-level, having not yet offered a significant pullback for traders and investors to buy as it thundered past the $13k and $14k-levels. Tezos formed a bearish pattern that projected a near 10% loss for the coin in the coming days, while Decred made massive gains recently. Augur also formed...Read More
While DeFi was the talk of the town months ago, the hype around Decentralized Finance seems to have died down lately. This, in turn, has reflected badly on the price action of many DeFi tokens, many of which surged just a few months ago. Synthetix Network Token [SNX] is a case in point. After having...Read More
Bitcoin’s dominance was noted to be around 65.27% at press time, after a drop from 65.99%. A rise in the said metric, alongside an appreciating Bitcoin, is generally an indication of losses in the altcoin market. Both Bitcoin SV and Ontology looked to be heading south on the charts. BSV was unable to breach a...Read More
With the Flare Network scheduled to carry out an airdrop of Spark Tokens almost a month from now, it has been receiving support from a host of exchanges including Bitrue, Cred, Uphold, and Bitbns. However, there are many exchanges that have not yet confirmed their support of the airdrop, exchanges like Bitstamp. Bitstamp revealed that...Read More
Chainlink did not have strong buying interest behind it as its price appeared to break out of a continuation pattern, one that invalidated the break. Waves, on the contrary, saw rapid gains and could post more, although it also showed some important levels to watch out for in case the surge north broke down. Finally,...Read More
The largest bank in Belarus – the ASB Belarusbank – has reportedly launched a legal service enabling customers from the country and Russia to purchase cryptocurrencies. Users will be able to exchange digital assets for Belarusian and Russian rubles, US dollars, and euros directly with their Visa payment cards. Belarusbank To Allow Crypto Purchases According...Read More
Stellar Lumens was on its way to flip a level of resistance to support while moving higher on the charts, at the time of writing. On the contrary, DeFi tokens saw a surge after investors piled in on the first sign of strength and Aave doubled in value over the past few days. Finally, FTX...Read More
The famous hip hop artist Akon has announced that the digital asset Akoin has been listed on Bittrex, and trading has started earlier this week. Akon and Akoin’s co-founder and president Jon Karas called the addition a “major milestone” in a recent livestream. The rapper believes that more exchange will follow the example set by...Read More
xBTC is in the news today after it announced its integration with Chainlink to launch a new product type that will use Chainlink oracles to dictate a token’s economics. This integration will create a spot price for a data point that has never before had a spot price – Bitcoin Market Cap Dominance (BMCD). That’s...Read More
Disclaimer: The findings of the following article attempt to analyze the emerging patterns in Litecoin’s short-term market and its impact on the price The value of the cryptocurrency popularly dubbed “digital silver” received a boost after it climbed from $58 to $66 in a matter of hours. In fact, Litecoin‘s price, for a while, had...Read More
Bitcoin induced euphoria in the market’s traders after recently registering a yearly-high of $16,400. Further down the crypto-ladder, EOS seemed to have exhausted its recent bullish outlook while NEM’s chart exhibited a bearish divergence and was likely to see a pullback. Finally, Compound recorded gains recently, but it was yet to show any sign of...Read More
The Bank of England’s deputy governor Jon Cunliffe reportedly said that England’s central bank was not going to ensure that mainstream banking business would remain relevant or not when future digital currencies launch. Cunliffe said in a report: Our job is not to protect bank business models. Banks will have to adjust. Our job is...Read More
Unlike Bitcoin, the altcoin market has not been successful in registering record highs. XRP, even though a major alt, has not been able to follow its 2017 trajectory and has been stuck within its known range, while other coins were still in a state of loss in terms of YTD performance. XRP Source: XRP/USD on...Read More
Tezos, once a major altcoin threatening a position in the top 10, has been unable to take advantage of the recent bullish scenario. While the coin has dropped down to 18th in the market, its long-term charts failed to indicate a lot of positive momentum. While its recent Delphi upgrade reduced smart contract gas fees...Read More
Hacked crypto exchange Cryptopia’s assigned liquidator, Grant Thornton New Zealand shared a follow-up update for Cryptopia account holders stating that “due to an error” by court staff at the Christchurch High Court, certain customer data “had been provided to an unauthorized third party.” The liquidators believed that this third party could try to use this...Read More
There are quite a few unfortunate stories of people that lost their Bitcoin forever as a result of using questionable means of storing their crypto. A notable example being James Howell, who lost $127 million worth of Bitcoin in 2017 and was unable to reclaim it. According to a report, Howell mistakenly placed the drive...Read More
