Months after the infamous hack on its platform, the social media giant Twitter has appointed a noted hacker as its head of security. Pieter Zatko, also known as “Mudge,” has also testified before Congress, educated President Bill Clinton about DDoS attacks, and worked in Google and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Twitter To...Read More
Maisie Williams, the actress portraying Arya Stark in the Game of Thrones TV series, asked her 2.7 million followers if she should “go long on Bitcoin.” Apart from thousands of responses she received from the community, Barry Silbert, Mike Novogratz, and even Elon Musk weighed in as well. Arya Stark Looks To Buy Bitcoin? Born...Read More
The situation around a possible vaccine for the novel coronavirus COVID-19 continues to develop. Today, Moderna Therapeutics, one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies, announced that its preliminary data shows its coronavirus vaccine is more than 94% effective. This sent its stock price higher and major indices, which are all trading in the green following...Read More
The ongoing assault on money laundering in the Chinese telecoms and crypto industry has seen Bitcoin miners facing difficulties in paying electricity bills as banks freeze cards associated with cryptocurrency transactions. Three-quarter of Chinese Bitcoin Miners Can’t Pay for Electricity According to a local news outlet, in a tweet thread on November 16, 2020, Chinese...Read More
Bitcoin is the new gold, said Thomas Fitzpatrick – a Managing Director in the giant multinational bank Citibank. He also predicted that BTC could skyrocket to $318,000 per coin in the upcoming 13 months by exploring several historical price cycles and the ongoing economic uncertainties. Bitcoin Is The Gold Of The 21st Century Fitzpatrick has...Read More
Bitcoin has overtaken the $16,000 price tag after struggling to remain above it during the weekend. Large-cap altcoins have fallen behind with slight decreases, while the DeFi field sees high volatility once more. Bitcoin Reclaims $16K As reported last Friday, Bitcoin’s impressive performance as of late took the asset towards a fresh yearly high of...Read More
Bitcoin’s price is now back on the key S/R zone (top green bar) between $15,900 and $15,860, as low weekend trading volume puts the brakes on bullish momentum. Since setting a new high of $16,475 on November 13, the leading crypto has printed 4 consecutive lower highs over the 4-hour time frame and is now...Read More
Although BTC has recovered from the two dips beneath $16,000, so far over the weekend, the asset struggles with decisively reclaiming the coveted price level and the area between $16,000 – $16,250. Larger-cap altcoins have also lost some steam, but DeFi tokens have surged in value. Bitcoin Stalls Around $16K Bitcoin’s impressive performance as of...Read More
Americans have just elected Cynthia Lummis (R) as their first female pro bitcoin senator, and she seems ready to make history. Lummis (R) became senator-elect from the state of Wyoming after beating the democrat candidate Mike Enzi. She has a long and well-known career in politics, but few know about her proud past as a...Read More
It has been roughly seven months since the US government sent the first stimulus checks worth $1,200 to many citizens. Interestingly, that amount would now be worth nearly $3,000 if invested in Bitcoin as the asset price has significantly appreciated since then, unlike the dollar. Stimulus Checks: The History World governments were caught by surprise...Read More
After marking a new yearly high of $16,500, BTC now seems to be retracing. The cryptocurrency dropped to as low as $15,750 and recovered to where it’s currently trading at $15,880. Most altcoins are following suit. The Correction Begins? There’s a saying for traders that goes – ‘what goes up, must come down.’ In other...Read More
When the Crypto Twitter community reacts, it does so in a big way. And when the guys from the Bitcoin neighborhood unite, there’s nothing to stop them, especially when it comes to criticizing traditional financial institutions —whether they’re crypto-friendly or not. If this seems hard to believe, ask PayPal, who had to deal with significant...Read More
Bitcoin is up by a total of around 5% this week. However, the most interesting part is that it finally broke above the coveted $16,000 mark for the first time since January 2018. This time, however, things are looking a lot more stable. BTC had a few attempts at $16,000 and managed to convincingly break...Read More
Bitcoin Bitcoin saw another 4% price hike this week, which had it breaking above the $16,000 level to reach as high as $16,491 today. The coin has since dropped slightly to trade at $16,135 at the time of writing. Last week, the coin had surged into the $16,000 level, which caused it to roll over...Read More
A group of researchers has located a new type of ransomware attack called Pay2Key executed against several Israeli and European companies. The perpetrators have requested the ransom to be paid with bitcoins, which the researchers have followed the funds to an Iranian cryptocurrency exchange. A New Ransomware Attack On Israeli And European Firms The updated...Read More
Bitcoin payments for passport services? You read that, right! In a first, a nearly 50-year-old U.S based passport and visa processing firm, Peninsula Visa, will now be accepting BTC for select passport services. Coinbase’s crypto payments arm, Coinbase Commerce, will be assisting the company in the same. Peninsula Visa Is Now Accepting Bitcoin For Passport...Read More
Bitcoin marches confidently towards new yearly highs while most alternative coins have failed in pursuit. Consequently, BTC’s dominance over the market has climbed above 65%. Red Dominates The Altcoins On a 24-hour scale, most alternative coins have either decreased in value or remained stagnant. Ethereum initiated a leg up towards $470, but the bears didn’t...Read More
The giant online payment processor announced yesterday that all “eligible PayPal account holders in the US can now buy, hold, and sell cryptocurrency directly with PayPal.” The update of the original statement reads that users can interact with digital assets from their PayPal application or through their desktop accounts. The cryptocurrency community remains split in...Read More
During Friday morning’s Asia trading session, Bitcoin reached its highest price since January 2018 as it topped out at $16,490 according to Tradingview.com. The massive move has built upon November’s momentum adding a further 5% to the king of crypto over the past 24 hours. This week alone, BTC has made 7% and since the...Read More
In the latest turn of events, the Russian Ministry of Finance has taken a harsh stance wrt cryptocurrency regulations. Crypto holders on not disclosing their digital assets (worth 45 million rubles or more) at least twice in a period of three years stand to face a jail term of up to three years. This, however,...Read More
The popular Bitcoin derivatives exchange BitMEX has taken a step towards improving its trade surveillance and AML efficiency endeavors by collaborating with Eventus Systems. Founded in 2013, Eventus is a global provider of multi-asset trade surveillance and market risk solutions. BitMEX will integrate the cloud-based version of the Eventus Validus platform with its already existing...Read More
Bitcoin bulls have returned with force today and propelled the top crypto to a new high of $16,177 – a price not seen since 2017! The global crypto market briefly rose back above $460 billion during the surge as $12 billion flooded back into the space. Despite strong selling pressure at this new level, optimism...Read More
After breaking the previous yearly high and briefly spiking to $16,000, BTC has retraced slightly and trades beneath that level. Simultaneously, Ethereum surged to a new high since early September, while Chainlink’s impressive weekly performance has taken the asset to the 5th spot in terms of market cap. Bitcoin Sees New YTD High But Retraces...Read More
Bitcoin re-tapped its highest price since January 2018 a few hours ago as it came within a whisker of $16,000. For the second time this month, that price level proved to be too much resistance and the asset has fallen back to $15,750 at the time of writing. The bullish momentum over the past month...Read More
Brad Garlinghouse believes that bitcoin holding companies will soon be affected by new policies from the Biden-led administration. Bitcoin Will be Subject to Climate Change Management Policies According to a tweet on Monday (November 9, 2020), Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has envisaged that Bitcoin holding companies might come under scrutiny once the Biden admin begins...Read More
Bitcoin continues its positive price development as it just managed to take yet another coveted milestone – the $16,000 mark. With this most recent increase, bitcoin’s price has increased by as much as 325% from the lows that it encountered back in March 2020 as the COVID19 pandemic was announced. It’s worth noting that this...Read More
Kraken released it’s August Bitcoin Volatility Report 2 months ago. Then the cryptocurrency exchange sounded supremely confident about BTC registering higher highs as the year ends. In its October version of the same report, Kraken has maintained its bullish stance. November will see bitcoin log much higher price and volatility rallies. Also, BTC might as...Read More
Bitcoin is following the plan like “clockwork” after the third halving, said the creator of the popular stock-to-flow model. He also reaffirmed his belief that the S2FX model is correct, and BTC will trade between $100,000 and $288,000 per coin by the end of 2021. BTC Moving Like Clockwork The stock-to-flow model and its variations...Read More
During the past 24 hours, Bitcoin tanked to $15,100, but it has recovered since then and trades around $15,400. Most high and mid-cap altcoins have outlined substantial gains and have reduced BTC’s dominance to below 64%. Bitcoin Price Slides But Recovers After peaking at nearly $16,000 last week, Bitcoin has struggled with maintaining such a...Read More
Bitcoin is currently resting along the support of what appears to be an early ascending triangle. Although this pattern is typically a bullish continuation formation, there are 3 concerning factors that suggest BTC prices are about to tumble. (1) There’s substantial divergence on the 4-hour RSI that indicates the current trend is particularly weak (yellow...Read More
