The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) has climbed up the listings to rank in the top 10 derivatives exchanges. The volume and open interest from institutional heavyweights on exchanges like CME solidify Bitcoin’s mainstream acceptance. It fuels anticipation and liquidity on spot and derivatives exchanges for retail traders. The magnitude of the influence is debatable, however,...Read More
The ongoing Bitcoin price rally is lucrative to traders on spot and derivatives exchanges, however, there are several factors that may influence the trajectory of the coin. This article takes a deep dive into the red flags to look out for. Looking at Bitcoin’s 24-hour change, the change is less than 0.50 percent, and weekly...Read More
In the past six months, the pandemic has gripped the world economy. Companies are going out of business, governments and banks have bleak projections for 2020-21 and are comparing the current financial meltdown to the great depression. Despite this, it has played out counterintuitively for the global financial markets. S&P 500 broke records hitting an...Read More
Bitcoin‘s market price is under a transitional period and the same can be said for the market sentiment at the moment. Correlation is a huge part of the market and any price movement often changes the metric which leads to important alterations. The asset’s price recently topped at $12,500 and it led to an interesting...Read More
The crypto industry is almost 2 weeks into August, and since the colossal surge on August 1, Bitcoin‘s price has been tepid again. With the price sustaining between the range of $11,500-$12,000 for the majority of the time, optimism is currently pinned on other factors for the bull run to continue. Multiple arguments have been...Read More
Discussions involving Gold and Bitcoin in the same sentence are never far from making the headlines. Both the non-yielding assets have made significant strides in 2020 as the traditional stock market lost a bit of its credibility. With Bitcoin nearing $12,000 at the time of writing, Skew analysis suggested another ground-breaking development between the two...Read More
With Bitcoin’s price gathering positive momentum in its price charts, some of the important metrics were beginning to witness a shift. The largest digital asset recently breached over the $11,500 once again and it is currently marching towards a re-test of the $12,000 resistance. With the price climbing the valuation ladder, the Glassnode indicated that...Read More
The latest data suggests that Bitcoin’s recent bullish stint has excited large scale investors. Whales have been accumulating copious amounts of BTC in anticipation of a larger rally. Also, there’s an almost 38 percent increment in Bitcoin addresses holding more than $1 million worth of BTC. Bitcoin Hodler Net Position Change Remains Positive Data from...Read More
On Wednesday, July 15, Twitter accounts belonging to prominent individuals, including Elon Musk, Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and a number of crypto industry executives, were commandeered by hackers who allegedly gained access to internal content moderation tools. A scam was posted requesting Bitcoin to get double the returns. The news went global, and...Read More
By Dmitriy Gurkovskiy, author at RoboForex Blog On Tuesday, July 21st, the BTC rate is growing. The cryptocurrency is generally trading at 9307.56 USD. On D1 of BTC/USD, the picture has not changed much since last week. The pair is still trading at the upper border of the descending channel between 100.0% and 61.8% Fibo. Another...Read More
BigONE Exchange, one of the world’s safest crypto exchanges, has taken on a new sheen as it just launched a brand new VIP system that converts a user’s every engagement with the platform into his or her own benefits, be they discount on spot trading fees, reduction on leverage interests rates, or an increased referral...Read More
Following the recent block reward halving, many people expected the Bitcoin network hashrate to drop off significantly. That has not happened as of yet, although some changes can be noted when looking at rankings of the mining pools. Statistics provided by BTC.com confirm that the Bitcoin mining landscape has undergone some changes in the past...Read More
Digital currency markets are down on Sunday evening roughly 2.14% as global trade volume has slid by 31% this weekend. Coins like ethereum, bitcoin, litecoin, and bitcoin cash are all down between 1-2% in the last 24 hours. Crypto Assets Shed $16 Billion in Two Days At the time of publication, the cryptocurrency market capitalization...Read More
Statistics play a crucial role in any industry, and cryptocurrencies are no exception. Looking at the number of unique addresses holding at least 0.1 BTC in their balance, it seems as if the ongoing growth cannot be denied. Bitcoin is, for all intents and purposes, designed to be a very scarce asset. More Addresses Holding...Read More
A recent study published by Amun researcher, Eliézer Ndinga, shows that USD-pegged stablecoins are being leveraged in Hong Kong as “vehicles for capital control flight.” The report shows how individuals from mainland China, Singapore, and Hong Kong are moving their capital out of control by using these dollar-pegged blockchain tokens. Last week on June 9,...Read More
A Japanese high court upheld the Tokyo-based lower court’s decision to reject the former Mt Gox CEO’s appeal. Mark Karpeles was arrested in 2015 and accused of “manipulating electronic data” and managed to duck embezzlement charges. The former boss of Mt Gox, Mark Karpeles, now has to face the music for his prior “manipulating electronic...Read More
Over the past few years, many Bitcoins have been lost forever due to people throwing away old hard drives or entire computers. One Redditor managed to bring back an old laptop to life, and it holds a Bitcoin wallet containing 533 BTC. Many people have forgotten that they ever owed any Bitcoin or other cryptocurrency....Read More
Data from the crypto analytical firm Skew.com shows that bitcoin options are maturing much faster than the futures markets launched in December 2017. Skew’s data shows that the open interest in bitcoin options has risen significantly in the last few months. Bitcoin options “are starting to play catch up with the more mature futures market,”...Read More
Just recently, cryptocurrency evangelist Roger Ver shared a video on Twitter that shows a number of vending machines in Hong Kong that accept bitcoin cash and ethereum, but not bitcoin. A bunch of people got upset at the Tweet, including the crypto-pundit Tone Vays because they couldn’t deal with the fact that onchain bitcoin transactions...Read More
China-based bitcoin miners have started to migrate southbound from North China, according to local reports. The operators are having difficulties and are transitioning mining facilities for cheap hydro-powered electricity. Testimonials also show that 64 mining operations in the prefecture in Yunnan have been threatened by local authorities. Sources say a hydropower station discharge sparked a...Read More
During the last six days, America has been feeling the wrath of a myriad of protests and riots in nearly every major city across the nation. The U.S. is experiencing an uprising like never before, but some of the protests and demonstrations could be more peaceful. Acts like not voting for the political class, and...Read More
By Dmitriy Gurkovskiy, author at RoboForex Blog On Friday, May 29th, the BTC has grown steeply and is aiming upwards. It is generally trading at 9632.50 USD. On D1, the picture has hardly changed since last week. The pair keeps trading the upper border of the descending channel, trading between 50.0% and 61.8% Fibo. After yet...Read More
According to an online monitoring web portal called, Under the Breach, a hacker is purportedly trying to sell customer information that stems from companies like Keepkey, Trezor, Ledger, and even the investment platform Bnktothefuture. The hacker doesn’t seem to have any passwords, but is offering detailed information that was stolen from an alleged Shopify breach...Read More
The price of bitcoin and a number of other popular cryptocurrencies have been collectively holding a market valuation of around $255 billion. The fiat value of these cryptocurrencies has slipped downwards during the last four days. Despite the weekly losses of around 3-6%, many digital currency proponents are still very optimistic. Mainly because of how...Read More
During the last two months since the March 12 crypto market rout, otherwise known as ‘Black Thursday,’ demand for cryptocurrencies seems to be on the rise in certain regions in Latin America. Various reports published this week have noted that countries like Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, Chile, Brazil, and Mexico have seen significant bitcoin trade volumes....Read More
The total fallout of the recent Bitcoin block reward halving has yet to be determined. One thing is apparent: more funds has been withdrawn from exchanges in recent days, further confirming that people are primarily intent on holding. There is always an ample supply of Bitcoin on exchanges and trading platforms. Moving More BTC off...Read More
On May 14, Bitcoin.com Executive Chairman Roger Ver sat down with Digifinex cofounder, Kiana Shek, for an ask-me-anything (AMA) session about the cryptocurrency ecosystem. Ver explained what he thinks about the central banks printing unlimited money, the government-induced lockdowns, and his opinions about certain cryptocurrencies like BTC, BCH, XRP, ETH, and more. Bitcoin.com Executive Chairman...Read More
In mid-April, news.Bitcoin.com reported on a great number of BTC withdrawn from cryptocurrency trading platforms and after the third BTC halving, the trend has picked up once again. Data from Glassnode’s Bitcoin Exchange Net-Flow statistics show that close to 24,000 BTC has been withdrawn since May 11. Additionally, statistics from Bituniverse’s exchange reserve data indicate...Read More
Around the Block #6: Bitcoin’s dominance alongside Coinbase customer behavior, the coming DEX revolution, and other recent crypto news Coinbase Around the Block, sheds light on key issues in the crypto space. In this edition, Justin Mart analyzes Bitcoin’s continued dominance alongside Coinbase customer behavior, the coming DEX Revolution, as well as other notable news in...Read More
On May 11, 2020, the Bitcoin network completed it’s third block reward halving and the network seems to be chugging along just fine. However, it may take a while longer to see the halving’s effect on the mining industry and right now bitcoin transaction fees have risen exponentially. Despite the rising fees, the research firm...Read More
