Bitcoin’s value has been appreciating over the past week and it currently stands at $11, 377. The value of the digital asset peaked a couple of days back at $11,731, but could not hold on to this level and slipped lower. However, BTC staying above the $11k mark has been a sign of relief for...Read More
In hopes of regaining the support of the cryptocurrency community after the ‘apolitical’ stunt, Coinbase has decided to fund ‘at-least’ two Bitcoin Core developers. This sponsorship act marks the debut for Crypto Community Fund, the exchange’s new grants program. Coinbase Shows Support For Bitcoin Development In a blog article released yesterday, Manish Gupta, EVP of...Read More
Bitcoin has endured long periods of consolidation and bursts of strong volatility over the course of 2020. One of its more notable achievements saw BTC break yet another key barrier – the $11K resistance. However, as was the case the last few times, the most recent example of the cryptocurrency breaking the $11K-mark saw BTC...Read More
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase announced today that it would sponsor at least two Bitcoin developers, who contribute directly to the Bitcoin Core codebase or closely associated Bitcoin projects, through the exchange’s new grants dubbed Crypto Community Fund. Coinbase said it would make the final selections after current Bitcoin Core developers and “important” community members shortlist the...Read More
When we talk about the accumulation of crypto-assets, only one corporation comes to mind this year – Grayscale Trust. In 2020 alone, Grayscale has accumulated more than 300,000 BTC, while also introducing a new digital asset trust associated with Litecoin. In fact, according to reports, the firm has registered over $1 billion in inflows in...Read More
By Manish Gupta, EVP of Engineering As part of our Crypto Community Fund, Coinbase plans to sponsor at least two Bitcoin developers, who contribute directly to the Bitcoin Core codebase or closely associated Bitcoin projects. We are beginning our search for grant recipients starting today. We believe helping to connect and grow the cryptoeconomy is...Read More
With a press time price of just over $11,300, Bitcoin was attempting to head towards its next high on the charts. In fact, at the time, BTC’s price was nearly 8% higher, when compared to the same a week ago, with 88% HODLers sitting on unrealized profits. With the price climbing, HODLers are spending their...Read More
Polkadot announced that a new trustless wrapped Bitcoin – PolkaBTC- will be released on its blockchain in early 2021. This will be Polkadot’s first trustless wrapped Bitcoin which the platform deemed as a critical step toward an interoperable ecosystem. The tokenized bitcoin, which will enable users to mint 1:1 bitcoin-backed assets onto Polkadot, is being...Read More
Polkadot is one of the biggest cryptocurrency projects, currently ranked eight in terms of total market capitalization. Now, the team has revealed that trustless wrapped Bitcoin will come to its ecosystem in early 2021 through Interlay – a framework designated to allow permissioned and permissionless blockchains to connect and interact. Polkadot’s BTC-Relay Effort Known as...Read More
Disclaimer: The findings of the following article are the sole opinion of the writer and should not be taken as investment advice After testing the resistance level at $11,731 on 13 October, the prevailing market trend took the world’s largest cryptocurrency well below $11,500. While the movement in question should have been minor, later corrections took...Read More
Twitter chief Jack Dorsey has urged his followers to donate Bitcoin to support the protest over police brutality in Nigeria. Earlier today, Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter and Square, showed his support for the ongoing #EndSars protest over police brutality in Nigeria. Dorsey, a Bitcoin proponent, encouraged Bitcoiners to make BTC donations towards the fight...Read More
Digital Dollar’s Pivot Programs The digital dollar is a project in collaboration between Accenture and the Digital dollar foundation to explore the real-time use cases of the project. Recently, collaboration proposed as many as 9 distinct programs in order to identify opportunities to test and assess the main features of digital dollars. The proposal contained...Read More
Ethereum has been the market’s most important altcoin over the years, with the cryptocurrency continuing to be closely correlated to Bitcoin. In fact, Ethereum was one of the year’s better performers on the back of the DeFi boom earlier this year. However, contrary to expectations, ETH’s value seemed to be back on track at press...Read More
The deadline for submitting a rehabilitation plan for reimbursing Mt. Gox creditors has been delayed once more – this time to December 15th, 2020. As CryptoPotato reported before, the Tokyo District Court had issued an order indicating that the submission deadline was until October 15th. Nobuaki Kobayashi, the Mt. Gox rehabilitation trustee who has been...Read More
A week after the launch of EOS, Litecoin, and Polkadot Perpetual Swaps, Bitfinex has announced the launch of a new yield product. Bitfinex users can now begin to earn rewards on their crypto-holdings following a new partnership with Celsius Network. The integration in question will allow customers of the exchange platform to create a wallet...Read More
The research added that around 14% of the total supply is currently held in accumulation addresses. The findings by on-chain analytics firm Glassnode report that there has been a steady up trend in Bitcoin accumulation since the beginning of 2019. The chart overlays price action and the two do not appear to be correlated as...Read More
Brainwallets, especially those generated with passphrases from popular culture references, might not be as safe as previously imagined. Pop Culture References Make for Vulnerable Keys According to a report published by BitMEX Research on Oct. 13, brainwallets might be easy to crack with hackers purportedly setting up servers to crawl the blockchain in search of...Read More
The financial regulating body, New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) said that the “double your money with bitcoin” scam as a result of the infamous Twitter hack on July 15 led to “weaponization” of major social media companies. The policymakers have called for strong cybersecurity to curb such events. NYDFS claimed that in...Read More
Everybody knows the BitMEX situation after its CTO, Samuel Reed was arrested on October 1. The implications of this are wide, however, this article takes a fresh look at the situation from the traders’ perspective. Open Interest [OI] The previous article covered the OI drop seen on BitMEX long before the fiasco involving authorities. However,...Read More
Breaking out of its consolidation period, Bitcoin‘s value increased to $11,731 on 12 October, before dropping to $11,385, at the time of writing. This drop could be the minor corrections taking place in the market, but this was the longest time frame BTC’s value maintained its position above the $11k resistance in a while. The...Read More
The leading digital asset manager, Grayscale Investments, continues with its growth after registering its third consecutive record-breaking quarter with over $1 billion of inflows. Somewhat expectedly, the Bitcoin Trust remained the most widely chosen company product. $1 Billion Entered Grayscale In Q3 2020 Grayscale released its Q3 2020 report earlier, noting that the total investments...Read More
The pandemic was considered to be the tipping point for Bitcoin, however, after hitting a high of $12k in August, Bitcoin’s price has kept retail traders on their toes. Based on the market cycle of Bitcoin, we are in an accumulation phase and the price may drive higher in the next few weeks, however, the...Read More
Cryptocurrency asset manager Grayscale Investments published its third-quarter investment report, according to which the firm has raised $1.05 billion into its investment products, marking this their largest capital inflow in a single quarter ever. Dropping our latest Digital Asset Investment Report this morning…@Grayscale raised over $1 billion into our family of products in 3Q20!! a...Read More
Financial strategists at JP Morgan have projected a bleak outlook for bitcoin prices in the short term. According to them, the cryptocurrency has a higher price and is trending at 13 percent over its ‘intrinsic value.’ They based their analysis on ‘positioning indicators’ derived from bets made by traders in the futures markets. But does...Read More
Hester Peirce, the Commissioner of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) believes that the charges against BitMEX brought by the CFTC were a “loud and clear” message. In a recent podcast, the so-called ‘Crypto Mom’ also noted that a Bitcoin ETF could be beneficial to all parties but didn’t specify if such a product...Read More
In recent days, the crypto space has witnessed numerous acquisitions from big companies. The followers and traders expecting a major breakout rejoiced the moment. But the question that arises here is, why do institutions acquire bitcoins at blooming prices? Why not when the prices are slashed? Did the company’s analysts not analyse the Bitcoin prices...Read More
Bitcoin’s NVT [Network Value to Transaction ratio] metric is used to determine whether an asset is bullish or bearish. However, using it in tandem with other indicators/metrics works the best. What does it signify? Put it simply, the metric shows if the network is being used a lot or not. If the NVT is high,...Read More
Leaders from G7 intergovernmental economic organization cautioned against global surge in ransomware attacks that involved crypto payments as ransom money. These ransomware attackers often demanded payments “primarily” in cryptocurrency which according to the G7 facilitated money laundering. G7 believed that attacks had intensified over the last two years and the ongoing pandemic could make the...Read More
Bitcoin has been noting six-strong consecutive days of growth as the price surged by 11.23%, from $10,547 to $11,731. A contributing factor for the sudden increase in the value of the asset was Square’s announcement of it buying approximately 4,709 Bitcoin at an aggregate price of $50 million. Square Inc put 1% of its total...Read More
Yet another major company has jumped on the Bitcoin bandwagon by purchasing 10,000 BTC and putting it to use as its primary treasury reserve asset. According to an official press release, the $13 billion asset manager scooped up the BTC through its subsidiary called New York Digital Investment Group (NYDIG). Speaking on the matter was...Read More
