For all the talk about an altseason, Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency, continues to share high correlation stats with the rest of the market’s altcoins. This was very apparent over the last 72-hours as the larger crypto-market bled following Bitcoin’s incredible depreciation on the charts. The likes of Chainlink, IOTA, and DASH were among them,...Read More
Brazil Central Bank President, Roberto de Oliveira Campos Neto, announced that plans to have a digital currency by 2022. In an interview with Bloomberg Markets’ Editor, Erik Schatzker, Neto said that Brazil’s central bank digital currency or CBDC will modernize the country’s banking system. According to Neto, Brazil’s central bank leadership in 2019 led to...Read More
Bitcoin may be the dominant cryptocurrency in terms of its market cap, but altcoins have gained a lot of attention this year. Chainlink [LINK] has been one such altcoin, that grew exponentially over the past few months, providing investors massive gains. There have been several products introduced by exchanges to invite more user interest on...Read More
After a week of battling to regain position above $200 effectively, Bitcoin SV’s price finally gave in to the pressure of the bears as the collective crypto market fell. For BSV, it felt almost expected as the asset declined by 13 percent over the past day. The token also dropped in the rankings and is...Read More
Many in the community sighed with relief after Bitcoin arrested its fall on the 2nd of September by holding steady around the $11,300-mark. However, this wasn’t to last as over the next 24-hours, a bloodbath ensued, with the world’s largest cryptocurrency falling to under $10,300, at the time of writing. As is usually the case,...Read More
A judge in the Seoul Central District Court today announced a ruling regarding a lawsuit filed by three users of Bithumb Korea who claimed $126,000 and $38,000 for damages citing data leaks during a 2017 Bithumb hack. The ruling is said to hold Bithumb partially liable for the damages claimed by the users. Local news...Read More
Coinbase, the San Francisco based cryptocurrency exchange announced in a blog today that it has now “temporarily” listed Celo under the CGLD ticker symbol, which is also available on the iOS and Android apps of the exchange. Celo (CGLD) is launching at https://t.co/u9kzBrgZWx and in the iOS and Android apps within the next 15 minutes....Read More
Cryptocurrency lending platform, BlockFi announced on twitter today that the startup received its Money Transmitter License (MTL) which now allows BlockFi to enable its users to transfer funds from their bank or crypto wallets. The tweet further said that the platform will make stablecoin trading and wires available to New Jersey residents. We’re excited to...Read More
Disclaimer: The following article attempts to analyze the emerging patterns in the long-term Tezos market and its impact on the price Tezos [XTZ] was among the market’s best-performing assets in 2019. It has continued to do so in 2020, with the digital asset noting YTD returns of over 110%, at the time of writing. However,...Read More
In a panel discussion with the Brooking Institution, Governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey said that stablecoins, Bitcoin, and other cryptocurrencies are difficult and unsuitable for the public to use for traditional payments as he believed that the majority of the retail public still does not understand the usage of digital currencies. According...Read More
In retrospect, LINK seems to have topped at $21. Since touching the aforementioned price point, LINK has slowly but surely headed down the charts, with the same valued at $14.56, at the time of writing. In fact, Chainlink’s market cap has fallen by ~$500 million in the last 24 hours alone. At the time of...Read More
The market value of most cryptocurrencies in the market got slashed when selling pressure increased across Bitcoin’s market. Due to the resultant price swing that followed, most of the market’s altcoins were trading in red, at press time. Cardano [ADA] Source: ADA/USD on TradingView During a recent AMA, Charles Hoskinson, the CEO of IOHK, discussed...Read More
All the following coins, XRP, Cosmos, and Maker, had a bullish outlook, with a 5-15% surge incoming. This could be due to the recent crash in Bitcoin’s price, crash that pulled down its value from $11,800 to $11,100. XRP Source: XRPUSD on TradingView XRP has been trending lower after hitting a temporary peak at $0.3255....Read More
Since the start of the month, Bitcoin along with many of the market’s altcoins, has seen its fortunes take a turn for the worse. While Bitcoin continued to stay above the key $11k-mark, altcoins such as Polkadot lost close to 5 percent of its trading value yesterday. The drop, however, was not uniform across the...Read More
Binance Coin rose above the resistance level and looked likely to retest the same level to confirm a resistance-flipped-to-support zone. Ethereum Classic lost a support level and looked likely to be headed further downward. VeChain had recently shown signs of bullishness, and a reversal of its downtrend since reaching $0.022 highs. But it was rejected...Read More
Bitcoin SV showed a bit of bullishness and had hardly begun to move upward when the bears stepped in. IOTA on the other hand lacked momentum in either direction and was trading just above support level while Compound looked poised to drop to its immediate support. Meanwhile, the world’s largest cryptocurrency Bitcoin briefly saw a...Read More
BiLira (TRYB), Turkey’s first stablecoin which is backed by the Turkish fiat currency lira announced on twitter that the token has been listed on the Bittrex Global crypto exchange. The announcement detailed that the ERC-20 token will be available for trading starting from today. Global Bittrex, a U.S based cryptocurrency trading platform, also joined the...Read More
Bitcoin rose from $11,200 a few days ago to trade at $12,000 just a few hours before press-time. However, the resistance again proved too strong for Bitcoin to surmount at present. This rejection can be linked to the fact that some of Bitcoin’s on-chain metrics looked weak. Altcoins such as Chainlink and Stellar did not show...Read More
Disclaimer: The following price prediction should not be taken as investment advice as it is the opinion of the writer. The prediction should materialize over the current week. After falling bait to a bearish cycle back in mid-August, XRP has managed to turn its fortune around towards the end of the month. On August 27th,...Read More
The start and conclusion of August echoed a similar note for Ethereum; both witnessed the beginning of a bullish rally. In between, the markets were extremely choppy but according to Deribit’s August Institutional Newsletter, the altcoin registered another positive month in terms of derivatives activity. According to the newsletter shared with AMBCrypto, Ethereum’s turnover growth...Read More
Debate raged on social media whether the strong rise of Ethereum’s price was organic demand for ETH, or whether it was all propped up by the DeFi explosion. However, a green Ethereum usually spells green for the altcoin market as well. Dash and Dogecoin seemed not to have received the memo, as they struggled to...Read More
Ethereum showed strong momentum as it zoomed past its resistance to post strong gains. It was eyeing the next level of resistance at $510 as an upside target in the coming days. Zcash showed a strong upward trend in the past few days while FTX Token was soaring to new heights, but might experience a...Read More
Roger Ver today announced in his tweet that deadalnix will be forking from Bitcoin Cash on 15 November, 2020. The tweet did not mention the name of the new coin that will be created as a result of the fork, but twitter users were quick to chime in with suggestions like BCASH. Bitcoin ABC and...Read More
U.S government agency, CFTC or the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, today charged 20 entities, among which some were crypto traders and exchanges, for making false claims of having CFTC registration and National Futures Association (NFA) membership. These are mandatory registrations that allow exchanges to offer services related to trading in digital assets, derivatives, and forex...Read More
Disclaimer: The following price prediction should not be taken as investment advice as it is the opinion of the writer. The prediction should materialize in the next couple of weeks. Mainly mirroring the end of July, the end of August seemed to have kickstarted another bullish rally for Ethereum. From the 2nd week of August...Read More
Binance Coin advanced steadily toward resistance after stepping out of a range it traded within for a few weeks. Dash showed bearish signals and could test support and even drop beneath support while Dogecoin continued to sustain the bearish sentiment. Binance Coin [BNB] Source: BNB/USDT on TradingView BNB appeared to trade within a range for the greater...Read More
Bitcoin SV showed a bullish reversal pattern, indicating the possibility that BSV could rise to near $230 in the coming days. Ontology was trading in a rising channel and showed no signs of bears gaining control while FTX Token went parabolic and could rise higher. Bitcoin SV [BSV] Source: BSV/USDT on TradingView BSV formed a...Read More
Five months after the project was unveiled, Binance announced the launch of its Binance Smart Chain blockchain today, which enables creation of smart contracts and allows users to stake BNB, Binance’s very own token. The blockchain is compatible with Ethereum Virtual Machine, which may increase the utility of both Binance Chain and the BNB token....Read More
Wrapped BTC aka WBTC locked in DeFi has hit a new high of 33,762 WBTC. At bitcoin’s current price this puts the total value of WBTC to about $400 million. The implications of this are many and the key factors are addressed in this article. Defi and Bitcoin With DeFi mania increasing every day it...Read More
The Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency and payment platform Crypto.com hired ex Visa International Asia-Pacific executive, Nobuyuki Nagahama, as General Manager of Japan. According to an official release, the company which serves over 3 million customers worldwide claimed that this move will allow the platform to launch strategic initiatives in the Japanese cryptocurrency market. At Crypto.com Nagahama...Read More
