San Francisco-based Bitcoin and cryptocurrency exchange, Kraken today announced that U.S state of Wyoming approved Kraken’s application to form Kraken Financial which would allow it to provide seamless banking services between cryptocurrencies and fiat for Kraken clients in the U.S. This move would make Kraken Financial the world’s first Special Purpose Depository Institution (SPDI) based...Read More
Germany-based video game company CipSoft has released a game that fully operates on the Litecoin blockchain and does not have a central server according to an announcement published on twitter today. Named LiteBringer, the online role-playing game is similar to CipSoft’s first video game Tibia which involves fantasy characters, difficult quests and rewards. In LiteBringer though,...Read More
Residents in the US state of Georgia can now register on the Binance.US cryptocurrency exchange which will function under the state’s regulatory requirements, according to a company announcement published today. 🍑 https://t.co/AZwoBOy3iq is now live in Georgia 🍑 Georgians can start registering & trading today! — Binance.US 🇺🇸 (@BinanceUS) September 15, 2020 This move comes...Read More
A fractal formation hints at a potential March-style crash in bitcoin price soon. The similarities between the two are uncanny and if the same does take place, we might see bitcoin dip below $10,000 level easily. Although bitcoin has climbed higher in the last 24-48 hours, it isn’t quite bullish yet, at least not until...Read More
A perfect week, one that saw the market recover to an extent, came to an abrupt halt when Bitcoin dropped by $350 over the last 24-hours. Riding high on the charts, Bitcoin, trading at a price of $10,575, soon fell down to $10,204 in a matter of just 8 hours. In fact, the aforementioned fall...Read More
With the markets going the way they are, an asset that is resolute and can withstand seismic changes would bear importance. However, in such a market, does such an asset exist? For the better part of the previous century, and even early on in the current one, long-term United States treasury bonds were thought to...Read More
Since Bitcoin’s inception, the world’s largest cryptocurrency is up by 12 million percent. 12M percent, and no, that is not a t1ypo. The price of Bitcoin was up by 12,173,746%, as of writing, and this was not even Bitcoin’s ATH. However, while outsiders may be surprised by the scale of the growth, the point is...Read More
You can look at the Bitcoin market in two ways. “Oh no, Bitcoin just dropped to $10,000 and it’s been there for over a week now” could be one way. “Bitcoin has been trading over $10,000 for over seven weeks now” could be another. Which way you look at the market is just a matter...Read More
$1000 invested in Bitcoin on 1 January would be worth $1439, as of today. In fact, at the time of writing, Bitcoin’s price was noting 43.9% in YTD returns. Ergo, it is no surprise that it is popular as an alternative investment in asset management circles. Despite the recent drop in Bitcoin’s price below $11,500,...Read More
Last week, as Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency, dropped down close to $10,000, the markets got tense. After nearly a month over $10,000, with the better part of it pushing and pulling against the $12,000 mark, a massive 13 percent drop over two days was a cause for concern. But now, one week on from...Read More
Bitcoin’s surges, over lower time frames, are really good for scalps with tight stop-losses. However, doing so can also be equally risky. At the time of writing, Bitcoin was hovering around $10,550, with the world’s largest cryptocurrency eyeing the $10,600-mark and the levels above it. Bitcoin short-term price chart Source: BTCUSD on TradingView Over a...Read More
Bitcoin’s price has dropped by 11% from $11,736 to $10,390 – all in a matter of just 10 days. In fact, some argue that the price may plummet even further with rising liquidity on the horizon. However, there are bigger concerns to take care of, such as the question of how this liquidity will be...Read More
The first 10 days of September have been eventful, setting the tone for the rest of the month. Huobi Futures, the crypto-derivatives market of the Huobi Group, rolled out BTC Options trading on 1st September, and within 10 days of the launch, BTC Options Open Interest had soared by 110%. Source: Skew At the same...Read More
When the markets collapsed in March, many thought it would be years before the pre-pandemic highs were revisited. After all, the bull market which gave the S&P500 a high of 3,500 points had been playing out uninterrupted for close to a decade. Fast forward six months since the worst stock market drop since the Great...Read More
Bitcoin’s potential use cases have evolved a lot since its launch over a decade ago, with quite a few factors contributing to the same; scalability being one of them. Interestingly, in a bid to boost Bitcoin’s scalability as a payment solution and to improve on its security features, the Lighting Network was once pitted as...Read More
Co-founder and CEO of Coinbase, Brian Armstrong recently shared, in a twitter thread his thoughts on Apple’s App Store restrictions that do not allow iOS users to earn money using cryptocurrency. The CEO also made claims that Apple told Coinbase that it was ’not appropriate’ for the App Store to allow iOS customers to use...Read More
Innovator and co-founder of Morgan Creek Digital, Anthony Pompliano, announced the launch of a new fund structure that would allow “investable entities” who could also use that money to fund other opportunities. Today I’m announcing the launch of a new early-stage venture fund 🚨 You can read more here, including how any accredited investor can...Read More
Singapore authorities have sentenced a man for robbing a Bitcoin investor of S$365,000 (U.S $267,097) in cash, to three years in prison, and 12 strokes of the cane yesterday, according to a report in The Straits Times. The accused, Jaromel Gee Ming Li, 29 pleaded guilty to engaging in a conspiracy to commit robbery along...Read More
“To everyone. I F#$%ed up. And I am Sorry”- The anonymous creator of SushiSwap took to Twitter to address the community. Chef Nomi announced on Twitter today that he regretted his earlier actions which involved selling all his SUSHI for ETH which the SUHI community had feared was an exit scam strategy. He further published...Read More
Bitcoin Association of Hong Kong, which includes over 5,000 Bitcoin-focused members, today announced that it would use donations to buy advertising spaces to post Bitcoin ads that would educate locals about the merits and risks of the premier cryptocurrency. According to the release, these Bitcoin ads will be displayed on three Bitcoin-themed doubledecker trams. Besides...Read More
Since the beginning of September, most of the market’s attention has been on the price of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and a few of the top altcoins, with the industry continuing to tackle intense bearish pressure, at press time. Amidst all the noise, however, on-chain development seems to have been forgotten somewhat, with the new Coinmetrics report...Read More
Chief Executive Officer of Twitter, Jack Dorsey today announced in a blog about the launch of a Cryptocurrency Open Patent Alliance (COPA), a non-profit meant to address the concerns regarding the offensive use of patents in the crypto community and also create a ‘shared patent library’. Square is putting all of our crypto patents into...Read More
The cryptocurrency industry, while looked down upon with a lot of suspicion once, is turning out to be the saving grace of many investment portfolios today since Bitcoin is proving itself to be an asset that can hold its value in the long run. Institutional interest in Bitcoin, aided by increasing regulatory clarity, has surged...Read More
Disclaimer: The findings of the following article should not be taken as investment advice as it is the sole opinion of the writer Clocking in at a low of $9,980 on the morning of 9 September, Bitcoin soon recovered by close to $600 in a matter of just 24 hours. However, despite the sudden bullishness,...Read More
What’s the motivation behind purchasing an altcoin? For some, a specific altcoin is an entry into a different facet of the larger cryptocurrency space. While some offer exchange-related on and off-ramps, most altcoin buyers look to these coins with small market caps simply because they can double or even triple within a few days. This...Read More
Bitcoin and the crypto-market have noted quite a few ups and downs in their fortunes over the past few months. However, despite the fact that the world’s largest cryptocurrency did fall below $10,000, and at press time, was struggling to consolidate right above that level, it is safe to argue that Bitcoin has remained fairly...Read More
The cryptocurrency market has registered a wave of corrections over the past few weeks. In fact, the price of the world’s largest digital asset, Bitcoin, has fallen by over 14% since the beginning of September, with a host of liquidations on 2 and 3 September responsible for the cryptocurrency’s price falling below $10,000. However, Bitcoin...Read More
In a recent announcement today, the widely-used stablecoin tether (USDt) will be launched on Solana, a high-speed blockchain network. This would be the first time a stablecoin has been integrated with Solana and this move will now allow tether holders to exchange their USDt stablecoins at speeds greater than 50,000 transactions per second on the...Read More
Austrian-based Bitcoin tax software developer Blockpit, announced acquisition of its German competitor CryptoTax, a tax compliance website, today. Both companies were founded in 2017, to provide legally compliant tax reports and taxable profits from trading with cryptocurrencies and the firms saw this merger as a midterm plan to internationalize company standards and expand into the US...Read More
European cryptocurrency exchange ETERBASE announced in a tweet today that the exchange had been hacked and its hot wallets were compromised, which has lead to the loss of several cryptocurrencies. The crypto exchange said that it has contacted all other centralized exchanges that might be receiving these illicit funds stolen during the hack and were...Read More
