Chanpeng Zhao, CEO of the leading cryptocurrency exchange Binance, believes that there’s an ongoing altcoin season in the digital asset market. In a recent interview, he also emphasized on Bitcoin’s increased stability, joking that it has become a stablecoin now. CZ Suggests An Altcoin Season During the past several weeks, the altcoin market has boomed...Read More
Today, BTC/USD price appears to have reached maximum consolidation between two long-standing trend lines (see daily chart below). Volatility has also continued to diminish further over the weekend, with the Bollinger bandwidth now at 0.1 on the 4-Hour chart. These two factors suggest that a major move could take place over the course of today’s...Read More
Altcoins continue gaining traction, while Bitcoin remains calm. This decreases BTC’s dominance over the cryptocurrency market down to 62%, which is the lowest point in five months. Altcoin Market Rises To The Occasion The past 24 hours come as another example that the altcoin market is fluctuating massively lately. This is especially evident among lower-cap...Read More
Clark Moody, the creator of the first real-time Bitcoin market data website, recently recollected the BTC market’s history over the last ten years. He pointed out that if the first BTC buyer held onto their holdings, they would have made a humongous 18.4 million percent return on his investment. It’s also worth pointing out, though,...Read More
The weekend turns out to be a rather boring one again for Bitcoin’s price as the asset continues hovering at about $9,150. However, the fluctuations within the altcoin market attract attention, with numerous double-digit gainers, led by Binance’s most recent acquisition – Swipe. Twitter Hack And Bitcoin After the blatant Twitter hack earlier this week,...Read More
Australia-based Jiu-Jitsu champion Craig Jones said he was one of the many who missed their chance to cash in their purchased Bitcoin after the 2017 ATH. The professional fighter had bought his crypto assets in 2015 but apparently lost the advantage of the all-time high value after mislaying his coins. Losing His Bitcoin In a...Read More
Although the Twitter hack had some delayed effects on Bitcoin, the downward move was quickly disbanded, and BTC remained relatively calm. The altcoin market is again showing signs of volatility with numerous examples of double-digit gainers and losers, including Elon Musk’s favorite Dogecoin. Bitcoin Chills On Friday The largest cryptocurrency by market cap has been...Read More
During the past seven days, Bitcoin failed to surprise us with anything in terms of price action. It appears that the cryptocurrency continues with its somewhat dormant state as it remained stagnant and rangebound between $9,000 and $9,200. Yesterday, BTC’s price dropped from slightly above $9,200 to around $9,040, sparking worries that things might take...Read More
Bitcoin Bitcoin saw a small 1% price decline this week, but it managed to remain within the confines of a symmetrical triangle pattern. Throughout the week, BTC attempted to break above the upper boundary of the triangle on numerous occasions but failed each time. The coin recently found support at the lower edge of the...Read More
Wednesday, July 15th, 2020, will forever be remembered as the day Twiter became a puppet in the hands of a mischievous hacker. Twitter was hacked. And the accounts of some of the most prominent people in crypto and the world were compromised and used to steal Bitcoin in giveaway scams. Experts Share Their Opinions Although...Read More
Bitcoin is looking a bit worse for wear right now. Bearish traders have finally succeeded in overcoming the long-standing up-trending support (yellow line) that was first established on May 11, and we now have three red candles in a row on the daily BTC/USD chart for the first time since late June. During today’s trading...Read More
While the perpetrators of the infamous Twitter hack from a few days ago remain unknown, popular cryptocurrency proponent Cameron Winklevoss believes that “we do know who continually hacks the US dollar – the Fed.” The Fed Hacks The USD? During the past few days, the world’s attention is focused on the bold Twitter hack, which...Read More
With a bit of delay following the Twitter hack, Bitcoin finally sees a slight movement downwards to $9,100. Interestingly, this time the three major US stock market indexes decrease in value with a similar percentage. The situation appears much more favorable in the low-cap altcoin market, as massive gainers include Aurora, Ampleforth, and Algorand. Bitcoin...Read More
In an effort to find a temp solution to deal with yesterday’s attack, Twitter has apparently made it impossible for users to post Tweets containing strings of letters and numbers in order to avoid any scam “giveaway” from sharing their cryptocurrency wallet addresses. Something Went Wrong: Twitter Blocks Wallet Addresses Indeed, when I tried to...Read More
Yesterday’s fake Bitcoin giveaway scam on Twitter unleashed a series of events and comments from prominent figures. While some spoke against the popular social media platform, others against BTC, a US Congressman stood behind the primary cryptocurrency and blamed it on “centralized control.” US Congressman: Bitcoin Isn’t The Problem As yesterday’s Twitter hack, which unfolded...Read More
It’s not often the tech, crypto, political, and celebrity worlds converge, but that’s exactly what happened on July 15 after a bitcoin giveaway scam replicated across dozens of major Twitter accounts. From billionaires to entrepreneurs, and from crypto traders to exchanges, high-profile accounts of all kinds were targeted in an audacious hack that’s left Twitter...Read More
The news broke yesterday on the Twitter scam that targeted some of the biggest accounts in the cryptocurrency industry. It turns out that the crypto field was not the target, but Bitcoin was the preferred means of payment for the hackers. As CryptoPotato reported, multiple accounts were hacked with a message promising that if users sent...Read More
Although Bitcoin received massive attention yesterday while hackers exploited almost every world leader’s Twitter accounts, the asset price refuses to move outside of its comfort zone of approximately $9,200. The altcoin market, though, remains volatile – Chainlink reached a new all-time high yesterday, Tezos next? Twitter Hack Can’t Shake Bitcoin All eyes were on the...Read More
An ongoing scam is being promoted on Twitter through some of the biggest accounts of major cryptocurrency companies and proponents. These include the world’s leading exchange, Binance, the US-based exchange Coinbase, as well as the account of one of the best-known Bitcoin proponents, AngeloBTC, and even Winklevoss’ Gemini. Ongoing Crypto Scam In the past few...Read More
The continuous rise of institutional interest towards the cryptocurrency industry is exemplified by Grayscale Investments’ record Q2 2020 earnings report. The large digital asset management company announced today that it had received total investments in Q2 of over $900 million – $400 million more than its previous record. Grayscale’s Best Quarter To date The company,...Read More
Bitcoin’s price has been trading in a very tight range for a while now. The cryptocurrency seems unable to break out in any directions, while in the meantime, altcoins are popping massively. This has led to a 3% decrease in Bitcoin’s dominance, which measures the share of BTC relative to the entire market capitalization. However,...Read More
Darrel “Bubba” Wallace, who is the only African American to win one of NASCAR’s top three national touring series, is apparently going for victory carrying the Bitcoin logo on his car. The New Look Consists Of BTC and Cash App Logos In a recent post, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey brought the spotlights to the NASCAR...Read More
BitMEX’s parent company, HDR Global Trading Limited, has established a new holding company structure – 100x. As BitMEX will fall under the new structure, the organization noted that it would enable the platform more freedom to develop new features and opportunities for clients. A New Structure Above BitMEX HDR Global Trading Limited is the company...Read More
Ethereum is currently undervalued and is poised to increase in the long-term, potentially reaching market cap parity with Bitcoin, some analysts claim. Ethereum Might Be Bullish In the Long-Term As Ethereum is getting closer to its 5th anniversary, some market onlookers are waiting for its revival, especially amid the context of the awakening altcoin season....Read More
The first signs of decoupling became evident during yesterday’s trading session as the most prominent US indexes market 1-2% gains, while Bitcoin refused to follow and remained firmly in its $9,100 – $9,300 range. On the other hand, the altcoin market sees lots of double-digit price increases and has reduced BTC’s dominance to 62.3%. News...Read More
If you’ve been paying attention to Bitcoin’s chart against the US Dollar lately, you will have probably noticed how low BTC/USD trading volatility has been over the last three months. In fact, the leading cryptocurrency has been trading in a tight range of 3±% since June 2. This, coupled with the fact that the Bollinger...Read More
There has been very little action on crypto markets over the past 24 hours. The majority of high cap coins are cooling off again following minor movements over the weekend. Bitcoin is no exception, remaining range-bound as the tedium continues. BTC managed to top $9,300 again a few hours ago but has since declined back...Read More
Despite speculations that miners may abandon ship following the 2020 Bitcoin halving, the network’s security has been primarily increasing, and the hash rate reached a new ATH days ago. In response, the network increased the mining difficulty earlier today by almost 10%, reaching a fresh all-time high as well. Bitcoin’s 10% Difficulty Enhancement Upon creating...Read More
Middle East’s Lebanon is a country with well-known economic issues, deepening for years and peaking during the COVID-19 pandemic. With the nation’s unfavorable situation, numerous prominent economists have offered widely-ranging solutions to the depreciating local currency and USD dependence. Nevertheless, a recent report explored the possibility of a more untraditional solution – Bitcoin. Lebanon: How...Read More
Cryptocurrency markets have remained in consolidation over the weekend with little movement from the high cap coins. Total market capitalization has increased slightly to $274 billion, but in general, things have remained in consolidation. Bitcoin prices dipped to a weekend low of $9,150 (Bitstamp), but things had recovered slightly during Monday’s first hours of trading....Read More
