The official election of Joe Biden as the 46th US President resulted in a sharp nosedive for Bitcoin and the rest of the cryptocurrency market. While BTC dumped to a low of $14,350 at its Saturday’s lowest, the total market cap lost nearly $30 billion at one point yesterday. Biden’s Election Drove BTC Down? The...Read More
The uncertainty seems to have come to an end: Biden is the new president of the United States after winning the decisive electoral votes of Georgia and Pennsylvania. At this moment, Biden has 290 votes out of the 270 needed to win the presidency, while Trump has only 214. And with only 34 votes in...Read More
Startups have taken note of the growing interest in cryptocurrencies, seizing the opportunity to position themselves in the market and Crypto ATM manufacturers are expanding more than ever. According to figures from the metrics website Coin ATM Radar, so far in 2020, there has been a growth of more than 80% in the deployment of...Read More
After increased volatility that took Bitcoin to $16,000 and $15,200, the cryptocurrency has calmed and trades around $15,500. The altcoins have surged in the past 24 hours as Ethereum is above $450, while Ripple is north of $0.26. Most impressively, Yearn Finance’s YFI token increased by around 100%. Bitcoin Calms After Record Days The primary...Read More
Ransomware attacks are one of the most notorious examples of crypto-related criminal activities 2020, with targets ranging from city halls and universities to major industries such as Tesla. And this week, hackers claimed a new victim: The gaming giant Capcom. Capcom is the corporation behind major hits like Devil May Cry, Resident Evil, Megaman and...Read More
This week was wild for Bitcoin. Starting at around $13,500, the cryptocurrency went on to shatter the high set back in 2019 and surge to as much as $16,000 just today. It’s interesting to note that this happens despite the fact that retail investors are yet nowhere to be found, according to data. It appears...Read More
Bitcoin Bitcoin saw an extraordinary 15.3% price surge this week which allowed the cryptocurrency to scratch the $16,000 level today. It has since dropped slightly to $15,500 but is still very much bullish. BTC started the week at $13,200. From there it headed higher into the $13,800 resistance but stalled at the weekend. As the...Read More
Bitcoin has been surging in the past few weeks to consecutive yearly highs. Speculations emerged within the community if or when BTC will even surpass its 2017 ATH of nearly $20,000. At the same time, though, most alternative coins seemed to be dragging behind their leader. Bitcoin’s dominance highlights this – a metric that surged...Read More
Tyler Winklevoss, the co-founder of the US-based cryptocurrency exchange Gemini, believes that the US stimulus packages are a “code for buy Bitcoin.” The former business partner of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg commented on a speech by the US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss. Image Source: CNN In it, Powell said that...Read More
Bitcoin has enjoyed the past several weeks with impressive price increases registering fresh yearly highs. As its price touched $16,000 hours ago, the community has become overly optimistic, according to a popular metric called the Fear & Greed index. However, history shows that similar scenarios could lead to steep price drops. Extreme Greed Takes Over...Read More
The cryptocurrency community is buzzing with reports and tweets about the prices. Bitcoin is frequently marking fresh yearly highs. Even the 2019 record of nearly $14,000 was taken down and seems far behind. Just yesterday, the primary cryptocurrency gained about $1,500 of value in 24 hours. As something similar occurred precisely three years ago, before...Read More
Bitcoin’s most significant green candle happened on December 7, 2017, when traders started the day at $14090 and pushed the token to $17390 in 24 hours. That would be the first time a bullish candle broke the $15900 line —an event that new investors are experiencing today. December 7 of 2017 can also be remembered...Read More
Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s payments firm Square is riding the Bitcoin wave like there’s no tomorrow. The company’s Q3 investors’ letter has just come out. And if numbers are anything to go by, Square has registered a humongous $1.3 billion revenue in the third quarter through Bitcoin sales. This comes amid the company clocking a...Read More
The United States Department of Justice confiscated around $1 billion worth of bitcoins on Tuesday. Today it is suing for forfeiture of the BTC that federal personnel seized. The coins allegedly belong to the now-defunct darknet marketplace Silk Road. US DOJ Wants The Forfeiture Of Bitcoin Worth $1 Billion As per Bloomberg’s latest report, the...Read More
Galaxy Digital CEO Mike Novogratz believes that Bitcoin is in a bull market as the asset has crossed a milestone in its adoption cycle. The former hedge fund manager also noted that BTC will only benefit if the US Federal Reserve continues printing such excessive amounts of money. Novogratz: Bitcoin Is In a Bull Market...Read More
Bitcoin price continues to break new grounds today as bulls prepare to take on the $14,900 resistance. Since the bottom of the brief dip yesterday at 08:00 UTC, $24 billion has been added to the market with most of it being piled into BTC. Bitcoin dominance has now broken over 65.0% for the first time...Read More
Another leg up took Bitcoin to a fresh yearly high of over $14,500. Most alternative coins were left behind, and BTC’s dominance over the market has further expanded to nearly 65%. Bitcoin Peaks Yet Again To $14,350 It’s safe to say that the primary cryptocurrency has enjoyed the past several weeks. Bitcoin marked consecutive yearly...Read More
Ethereum’s creator officially announced the release of the Ethereum 2.0 deposit contract a couple of hours ago. ETHUSD markets responded with a large green candle that has pushed the network’s native cryptocurrency past the $400 mark. The question is, will this latest update help ETH outperform bitcoin once again? Ethereum 2.0 Deposit Contract Officially Released...Read More
• This day has been nothing short of exciting for the cryptocurrency markets. In fact, it has been a wild ride for all markets, and that’s to be expected – after all, the 2020 US Presidential Elections are currently taking place. • As the officials are counting the last ballots in a few states, the...Read More
Republican candidate Cynthia Lummis, endorsed by President Donald Trump, has won the US Senate race in Wyoming. She will become the first woman to serve as US Senator in Wyoming’s history and one of the first Bitcoin proponents in Senate as she initially purchased BTC back in 2013. Bitcoin HODLer To Become Wyoming Senator Lummis...Read More
Bitcoin briefly spiked above $14,000 again, this time perhaps on news from the US Presidential elections. The altcoins have erased most of yesterday’s losses, and the market capitalization has added about $10 billion. Bitcoin Reacts On US Election News? Bitcoin broke above the coveted $14,000 mark on Saturday for the first time since January 2018....Read More
One of the most famous Bitcoin wallets among hackers and treasure hunters in the crypto-verse is now empty. Someone moved over 69.369 BTC from a legacy wallet to a new native SegWit format address (a more modern format aimed at optimizing transactions by lowering their transaction fees). Everything about the wallet is a mystery: Nobody...Read More
After breaking June 2019’s 15-month high just four days ago, Bitcoin is getting closer to the hot zone once again, seeking a new high since January 2018. As of writing these lines, the first U.S. elections results are incoming shortly, and so far, Bitcoin is repeating its behavior from four years ago – surging 3%...Read More
Bitcoin, after a massive rise to last year’s high, trimmed gains in a sudden selloff yesterday. YouTube-based BTC commentator Carl Martin a.k.a The Moon, opined that the cryptocurrency is experiencing selloff from miners. But is that actually true? Is bitcoin dipping because of miner capitulation? Nope, there’s no tangible proof to corroborate the same. Carl...Read More
The Bitcoin network just went through the second-largest negative difficulty adjustment and its most significant one since the start of the ASIC era. The 16.05% decline exceeded previous expectations indicating a readjustment of somewhere between 7% and 10%. Record-Setting BTC Mining Difficulty Adjustment The mining difficulty on the Bitcoin network goes through an automatic adjustment...Read More
It goes without saying that a lot has happened over the past four years when it comes to cryptocurrencies. We went through the market’s most parabolic cycle in 2017 and a prolonged bear market in 2018. In 2020, the market is arguably in a bullish state coming into this year’s US Presidential Elections, where Donald...Read More
Bitcoin continues to struggle ever since it peaked above $14,100 during the weekend. The situation with alternative coins is even worse, and the total market capitalization has dipped to about $390 billion. Bitcoin’s Struggles Since Its 1,000-Day Peak CryptoPotato reported over the weekend that the primary cryptocurrency spiked to a new 2020 high of about...Read More
Bitcoin’s Fee Ratio Multiple (FRM) is a metric for measuring the distance proof-of-work blockchains have to cover in order to sustain current security levels solely through transaction fee revenue. According to analytics provider Glassnode, FRM is linked to demand and caused by higher transaction fees. It is currently at its lowest level since January 2018....Read More
Bitcoin bulls have managed to regain the $13.4K support today after prices crashed 3.7% in 4 hours. Uncertainty in the stock markets and the upcoming US presidential elections could have played a role in today’s crypto market activity, as larger traders tend to withdraw into more stable assets ahead of significant global events. $12 billion...Read More
Bitcoin has failed to sustain its level above $14,000 after breaking it a few days ago. In fact, the cryptocurrency saw a sharp decline in just a few minutes as it lost about $300. Bitcoin’s dominance has also decreased over the past 24 hours by almost 0.5% which means that altcoins are trying to claim...Read More
