The exciting start of 2020, in terms of price action, has brought serious retail attention to the cryptocurrency market. Google Trends data shows that Bitcoin and altcoin searches are recording their highest levels since August of 2019. Bitcoin Price Drives Attention The largest digital asset began the year trading at $7,170. At the time of...Read More
The cryptocurrency market is the fastest-growing asset class of 2020. Can the trend continue? | Image: REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration Bitcoin’s price approaches $10,500 for the first time since early September. Twenty-nine of the 30 top cryptocurrencies reported gains Wednesday. The combined market cap of all coins crosses $300 billion for the first time in six months....Read More
The cryptocurrency market is growing at a notable rate since the beginning of 2020. Interestingly enough, the growth is across the board. Despite Bitcoin’s increasing price, its dominance continues to fade. This is a definitive sign that altcoins are claiming serious grounds as their prices continue to boom. Cryptocurrency Market Cap At 6-Month High It’s...Read More
Though Bitcoin is quite heavily misadvertised as an anonymous payment network, it is actually one of the more transparent crypto-networks to transact on. In the early days of cryptocurrency, when KYC and AML regulations weren’t as strict as they are now, it was easier to conduct Bitcoin transactions which couldn’t be traced back to criminal...Read More
As has been the case with almost all cryptocurrencies so far this year, Litecoin has made substantial gains over the last five weeks. Sporting a price tag of around $74 at the time of writing, Litecoin has a market capitalization of $4.72 billion according to CoinMarketCap. Litecoin 1-day chart Source: LTCUSD on TradingView At its...Read More
The digital asset trust company and security company, BitGo announced its expansion plans with new custodial entities in Switzerland and Germany. According to the official release of the Palo-Alto-headquartered firm, BitGo’s Swiss entity BitGo GmbH is a member of the Financial Services Standards Association [VQF], overseen by the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority [FINMA] Its...Read More
China, with its central bank digital currency, dubbed, ‘DCEP‘ is advancing its development toward replacing coins, banknotes, and other money equivalents. China had recently implemented a law on January 1st, 2020 that aimed to govern password management, as part of its plans for DCEP’s release. While rumors regarding the development of a Chinese CBDC gained traction...Read More
Litecoin and other altcoins are certainly experiencing an altcoin rally, however, it’d be premature to call this an ‘alt season’. As for Litecoin [LTC], it has surged by a whopping 105% in just 37 days, pushing its price from $38 to $78. The market cap of Litecoin has doubled from $2.5 billion to $5 billion....Read More
Earlier this month on Twitter, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin posed the question of whether transactions using CBDCs, such as the one recently proposed by China, would be cryptographically provable. Important tech question about these CBDCs that are starting to pop up (CC @mg0314a): will transactions be cryptographically provable? That is, if I send you...Read More
Cardano has been taking leaps and bounds with respect to developments on its network. From establishing many strategic partnerships at Davos WEF 2020 to opening up new avenues in a bid to bring about commercialization in the ecosystem, Cardano is on a roll. As revealed by IOHK CEO and Co-founder Charles Hoskinson in an interview...Read More
Over the past few days, Ethereum has been one of the top-performing crypto-assets in the industry. The token recently breached the $200 mark and since 5 February, the crypto-asset has surged by over 20 percent. Bitcoin recorded a hike of 7.75 percent over the same time period. At press time, Ethereum was priced at $225.30...Read More
The Cardano ecosystem has been focused on maintaining and enhancing the Shelley Incentivized Testnet. The progress made in terms of the ITN has been substantial. Communications Director at IOHK, Tim Harrison, recently compiled the latest ITN stats, revealing that Cardano has reached 1,046 number of registered stake pools out of which 87.2% are registered by...Read More
The competitive drive between Ethereum, EOS, and Tron over decentralized applications or DApps continued to escalate in 2020. Justin Sun’s Tron was able to surpass EOS DApps for the first time last month, however, it continued to lag behind Ethereum’s dominance. In terms of popularity as well, Ethereum‘s DeFi sector grabbed all the attention as...Read More
January’s bullish sentiment has managed to permeate February as well with the market’s major crypto-assets registering a positive 1st week. Bitcoin registered another hike of 5.13 percent and the world’s largest crypto-asset breached its key resistance at $9700 on 5 February. However, the altcoins managed to rally better than BTC over the same time period....Read More
The cryptocurrency market shows no signs of slowing down so far in 2020. After charting one of the most impressive performances in January, Bitcoin continues its rally in the first week of February as well. In the past seven days, the cryptocurrency increased by about 5.5%, claiming essential resistance levels on the way up. Currently...Read More
Bitcoin Bitcoin saw a 5% price rise over the past 7 days of trading as the cryptocurrency rebounds from support at $9,145 to meet resistance at around $9,815. With the 30-day 21% bullish surge, Bitcoin can be expected to break $10,000 pretty soon. Other cryptocurrencies are outpacing Bitcoin. However, this does not mean it cannot...Read More
SFOX’s market report for this month showed that all major crypto-assets finished January with significant month-on-month gains — with some unexpected contenders like Bitcoin SV and Ethereum Classic rising by over 100%. While prices have been on the rise, coupled with substantial growth in offered institutional products and regulatory clarity, there are still several unknown...Read More
Crypto investors have their foot on the pedal as bitcoin and altcoins reach multi-month highs. | Image: shutterstock.com The crypto market cap peaked near $278 billion on Thursday, the highest since August. Bitcoin reached an intraday high of $9,856.43, its best level since September. Despite seeing impressive results, bitcoin is being outperformed by its lesser-known...Read More
Ethereum’s imminent switch to a Proof-of-Stake consensus algorithm has been picking up significant traction over the past year. The divide between Proof-of-Work and Proof-of-Stake assets has also been increasing lately with Proof-of-Stake assets continuing to promote mainnet launches. However, PoW assets had an upper hand in 2019. According to a recent report, Bitcoin remains the...Read More
There have been various factors and crypto trends over the past years, which have significantly impacted or contributed to the adoption, price changes, and development of new digital assets. We will be taking a look at the main crypto trends that may shape the market in 2020. Altcoin Extinction? During 2019, more than 2300 new...Read More
Bitcoin has marked yet another particularly turbulent day of trading, charting increases of up to 7% in the past 24 hours. This caused the cryptocurrency to spike to a new high for 2020, lining up the question if $10,000 is the next target. Bitcoin Price Skyrockets 7% On The Day If one thing is certain...Read More
In the latest issue of its weekly ‘State of the Network’ report, blockchain data analytics firm CoinMetrics explored market data over the past week and provided insights into Bitcoin and cryptocurrency market movements, as well as plausible explanations for the same. CoinMetrics used five cryptocurrencies in their sample set, of which all saw a 20%...Read More
Most of the altcoins are trading in the green over the past 24 hours. Bitcoin, on the other hand, remains somewhat stagnant at around $9,200. Consequently, BTC’s dominance dropped to 64.5%, which is the lowest it has been since July 2019. Altcoins Compared To Bitcoin. Source: coin360.com The sentiment within the community is shifting quickly,...Read More
Cardano has seen a lot of positive movement this year, with the ADA token recording significant gains in the first month of 2020 alone. However, this might not be the end of its glory days as some bullish movement looks plausible in the short to medium term. At the time of writing, ADA had a...Read More
The world of cryptocurrencies has been dictated to be a decentralized world. However, with the community wanting to extend the use case of crypto to a global level, a certain level of centralization is ought to set in. However, ETC Developer Donald McIntyre introduced the community to a principle of permissionless fallacy, an idea that...Read More
Blockchain solutions provider, Block.one, recently announced that it would be offering $200,000 to the individual, team, or organization that is able to complete its proposed challenge. The challenge entails creating an EOSIO smart contract capable of storing and invoking “Ethereum Virtual Machine (Solidity) smart contracts in an Ethereum-like environment.” According to the announcement post, the...Read More
The recent price increases in various altcoins have made their mark on the community. According to two recent surveys, traders have allocated serious portions of their portfolio in cryptocurrencies other than Bitcoin. Majority Believes In Altcoins A popular cryptocurrency analyst conducted a Twitter poll where he asked the community members how much they are involved...Read More
Malta-based crypto-exchange Binance is all set to roll-out perpetual contracts for privacy coin Zcash [ZEC]. The ZEC/USDT perpetual contract will go live on 5 February at 8:00 AM [UTC]. This is the third privacy coin to be listed for perpetual contracts in less than a week, the first being Monero. XMR/USDT began trading on 2...Read More
2019 recorded a slew of developments in the derivatives market. The size and accessibility of crypto-derivatives have prompted this space to post some staggering figures. According to the latest edition of Binance Research for the month of January, the volume on Binance Futures recorded an increase of 85% month-on-month, with $56 billion traded across its...Read More
The Bitcoin Cash [BCH] ecosystem’s development fund proposal has faced a lot of backlash recently. The most contentious part of the entire episode was the “no-debate” clause which stated that any miners who didn’t support the soft fork would risk having their blocks orphaned. While many crypto-proponents have criticized the way the proposal was put...Read More
