Bitcoin price has been consolidating since June, after it was rejected from former bear market resistance at $13,800 – stopping Bitcoin’s parabolic advance short of retesting its previous all-time high of $20,000.The post appeared first on NewsBTCRead More
Jennifer Bailey, the vice president of Apple’s payments service, Apple Pay, said that the company was watching cryptocurrencies closely as they believe it has long-term potential. The company claims that Apple pay processes about one billion transactions every month. With such a wide reach, Apple’s move to crypto, similar to Facebook, will be a huge...Read More
The much-anticipated, fully-regulated Bitcoin exchange and custody offering from Bakkt looks on track to make good on its previously-announced launch date later this month. The company has just announced that its Warehouse custody solution is now open for customer deposits and withdrawals.The Bakkt platform seeks to make investing in Bitcoin more friendly to institutional investors...Read More
Lithuanian blockchain startup DappRadar, a platform for discovering and analyzing blockchain-based decentralized applications (DApps), announced it raised $2.33 million in seed funding. $2.33 million to expand services On Sept. 5, DappRadar announced the closing of a $2.33 million seeding round, which was led by Naspers, a South African-based global internet and media group, with participation...Read More
When we talk about an open playing field in the Bitcoin ecosystem, price predictions on the asset’s future generate the most attention. Bitcoin has been around for little under a decade, and the limited time-period often leads to contrasting predictions. Personalities in the space are often predicting the price based on different factors, as the...Read More
Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve Jerome Powell said that the United States Federal Reserve is monitoring digital currencies carefully, but not working on its own at the moment. Speaking at a forum in Zurich, Switzerland, on Sept. 6, Powell addressed the issue of cryptocurrencies, arguing that central banks would likely will not release...Read More
September 6, 2019 21 Views This past Thursday, dapp.com closed a $1 million Pre-A Investment round led by Hashed, a South Korean blockchain VC firm, and Du Capital. Dapp.com provides data analytics for decentralized app products built on blockchains such as ethereum, EOS, tron, steem, and others. In a statement, Dapp.com Founder and CEO, Kyle...Read More
Overnight Bitcoin (BTC) was able to incur a significant amount of upwards momentum that sent it shooting past its previously established resistance level around $10,800, and any extension of this upwards momentum is highly likely to send the crypto into the $11,000 region in the very near-future.This upwards momentum has also allowed Bitcoin to begin...Read More
Bitcoin price has posted positive returns every quarter this year till date. Last time this happened, we saw BTC hit $20,000 in 2017. Is bitcoin preparing to repeat history then? Bitcoin Hit Green in All Quarters This Year Bitcoin is quietly inching towards the $11,000 price mark, as the contents of this piece are being...Read More
The crypto bros are a smart bunch. They know a thing or two about cryptography; they know how money is moved electronically across the world; and they know more than most about multiple interlocking positive feedback loops. But more than anything else, they know how to spin a “this is good for crypto” story when they see...Read More
Bitcoin price is closing in on $11,000 after a period of extreme volatility. Last week, the crypto asset fell below $10,000 in what many are calling a bear trap, and quickly bounced from lows around $9,400 back up the current price of $10,900 where it is currently trading.Along the way back up, yet another CME...Read More
It may be the official end of summer, but this week has been a bumper one for the Bitcoin price. Spot markets appear to be reacting to bullish news that institutional involvement is increasing. A SIMETRI Research analysis (below) highlights that if Bitcoin successfully passes $11,000, the market might see a retest of $15,000. Following...Read More
Social media giant Facebook has hired two more lobbyists to aid the release of its forthcoming Libra stablecoin. As Bloomberg reported on Sept. 5, lobbying disclosures filed earlier this week revealed that William Hollier, the president of legislative and regulatory counseling firm Hollier Associates LLC, began lobbying for Facebook on blockchain policy, among other matters,...Read More
Facebook stock is tanking and puncturing Nasdaq in its spiral. | Source: REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo Facebook stock (FB) plunged after a nine-state antitrust investigation was announced against the social-media monopoly. As of this writing, Facebook is the worst-performing stock in the Nasdaq. Facebook tumbled 1.9% shortly after the attorneys general of eight states and the...Read More
Stablecoins have a goal of putting an end to the recent volatility of the crypto market — and in doing so, they have opened the door to crypto usage for institutional investors, which has long been considered an important milestone on the road to mainstream adoption. One of the ways that institutional investors are looking...Read More
Friday is turning into the greenest day of the week for most of the crypto market. After successfully holding its gains yesterday, Bitcoin is now continuing its run towards $11,000. The altcoin landscape is even more interesting, with several strong outliers in a fairly green sea. And then there’s the rogue wave from Augur –...Read More
Bitcoin could be on its way to $20,000 next year if a historical trend repeats itself once again, according to crypto trader Josh Rager. | Source: Shutterstock Crypto trader Josh Rager is a noted bitcoin bull known for his ambitious price targets. He is now predicting that the price of the flagship cryptocurrency could surge...Read More
Bakkt announced that it is opening a Warehouse. Its potential clients are those customers willing to deposit Bitcoin as well as withdraw it. It seems that the company is preparing for the introduction of its futures. Today Bakkt opened its long-awaited Warehouse for customer Bitcoin deposits and withdrawals. As they said in their tweet: Today...Read More
Bakkt Warehouse, a qualified custodian of crypto trading platform Bakkt, is now accepting customer Bitcoin (BTC) deposits and withdrawals. First physical BTC futures on the way As the company tweeted on Sept. 6, Bakkt Warehouse has officially launched in accordance with the plans revealed on Aug. 28. The launch of Bakkt Warehouse comes as the...Read More
Someone just moved $1 billion in bitcoin to an unknown wallet. | Source: Shutterstock On September 6, more than $1 billion worth of bitcoin was sent from an unknown wallet. The transaction was processed within several hours with a $700 fee. A $1 billion bitcoin transaction processed with a $700 fee (source: blockchain.com) The Token...Read More
Institutional investors are paying high premiums for shares of the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC), which allows them to bet on Bitcoin (BTC) without holding the asset itself. GBTC is an investment vehicle which tracks the spot price of Bitcoin, providing investors from mainstream finance with a familiar means to gain exposure. At the time of...Read More
Bitcoin has most of its wealth creation still to go and could top a giant $1 trillion in market cap in just six years, new analysis claims. $1 Trillion Bitcoin Doesn’t Need Parabolic Trend Published last week, the forecast by Blockchain investment advisory resource, Byte Tree, suggests that even with conservative growth, Bitcoin will achieve...Read More
Bitcoin’s price, which was stuck in a limbo, is facing a tipping point. If the volume is high and the price continues to trend higher, the bulls are back in action. However, if the volume is not enough, BTC prices will face uncertainty, just as Schrodinger’s cat did. In yesterday’s article, Bitcoin’s daily chart presented...Read More
About $1 billion worth of Bitcoin was moved yesterday in a single transaction, sparking reactions on Twitter and other social media sites. TokenAnalyst went deeper and found that a significant share of sending addresses point to crypto exchange Huobi. 94,504 Bitcoin Reaches a Single Address On Thursday, Twitter user Whale Alert announced that 94,504 Bitcoin...Read More
A buoyant sentiment carried into the bitcoin market this Friday as the benchmark cryptocurrency inched towards the $11,000 level.The BTC/USD instrument established a local top of $10,925 on San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange at 1215 UTC. The move brought the pair to its 16-day high and further promised to end the week in positive territory. Bitcoin...Read More
This year, Bitcoin (BTC) has done astonishingly well. Year to date, the cryptocurrency’s price has gained some 200%, surging off an influx of positive news and the start of a new hype cycle.Simultaneously, central banks have put their noses to the grindstone, activating dovish monetary policies across the board. There is now over $17 trillion...Read More
A $1 billion Bitcoin (BTC) transaction became conspicuous because its sender spent far too much on fees. Some are guessing at the origin and destination of the funds with some believing it’s tied with Bakkt. There was a $1 billion Bitcoin (BTC) transaction whose sender spent a bit too much on fees. Social media users...Read More
With this move, Paxos plans to democratize the gold trading process by leveraging the power of blockchain technology. The Pax Gold (PAXG) token will make Gold mobilization absolutely easy. Popular stablecoin issuer Paxos has now planned to digitize the most-precious metal gold. Bridging the gap between the gold investors and crypto enthusiasts, Paxos unveils a...Read More
Bitcoin is looking at a fresh yearly high if support sticks, analysts have claimed. | Source: Shutterstock Since September 2, within four days, the bitcoin price has recovered from $9,500 to $10,700, rising by well over 10 percent against the U.S. dollar. The bitcoin price on a steady recovery since early September (source: coinmarketcap.com) As...Read More
The recipient wallet of the $1 billion Bitcoin (BTC) transaction on Sept. 6 is now presumed to be the first richest non-exchange address. The recipient wallet of the massive 94,504 Bitcoin ($1.031 billion) transaction is the top richest Bitcoin address that is not reportedly associated with any crypto-related company, according to data from monitoring resource...Read More
