Fraudulent projects within the cryptocurrency field are occurring rather often, and the latest one comes in the form of Bitgrin (XBG), according to a recent report. It reads that the project creator has minted 5 billion tokens while advertising that the total supply is capped at 21 million. Bitgrin’s Creator Scammed Investors? Bitgrin launched as...Read More
Bitcoin investors have been transferring their assets outside of specific exchanges lately, new data shows. Ultimately, the BTC balance on platforms has reached its lowest point in over a year by decreasing with more than 320,000 coins since Black Thursday. Bitcoin HODLers Mentality On The Rise During the notorious Black Thursday event in March, when...Read More
Another week has passed, and it has been nothing short of exciting on the cryptocurrency market. Bitcoin went on to lose a serious chunk of its value as it plunged below $8,700 only to recover a few days later and touch $9,600. However, BTC is relatively indecisive over the past couple of days as it...Read More
The latest debacle of social media giant Twitter flagging tweets of the US President Donald J. Trump resulted in the draft of an executive order on Preventing Online Censorship. If anything, this highlights one of the core principles behind Bitcoin’s technology – censorship resistance. Twitter Flagging President Trump’s Tweets The riots in Minnesota’s largest city,...Read More
Bitcoin Bitcoin saw a small 3% price increase over the past seven days as it currently trades around the $9,433 level. The cryptocurrency had started the week off by dropping beneath $9,000 and reaching the support at the rising trend line. Luckily, the buyers managed to defend this support to prevent BTC from slipping into...Read More
If you were into Bitcoin and crypto for at least five years, the name Chris Dunn would probably sound familiar to you. The 35 years old Texas boy was one of the first crypto YouTubers. As of writing these lines, his popular channel has more than 200,000 subscribers since its first uploaded video, somewhere in...Read More
One of Bitcoin’s most vocal proponents and early adopters, Tyler Winklevoss, took the opportunity to comment on Goldman Sachs’ most recent conclusions on the cryptocurrency. ‘Probably’ Rebranding to Goldman Stacking Sats As CryptoPotato reported yesterday, the large multinational investment bank Goldman Sachs hosted a conference call talking about Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Somewhat unsurprisingly, the...Read More
The past few days have been relatively exciting in the cryptocurrency market. Bitcoin managed to reclaim the $9,000 level but it appears that bulls might be running out of steam. At the same time, despite the fluctuations in its price, large-cap altcoins failed to make any serious advances as most of them remain more or...Read More
The digital asset management company, Grayscale Investments, has increased its Bitcoin buying speed recently. According to a researcher, the firm’s accumulation levels have jumped to about 150% of the freshly mined coins since the third halving. Grayscale Buys A Lot of Bitcoin As CryptoPotato reported recently, Grayscale had increased its Bitcoin holdings by 60,000 coins...Read More
The Square Cash app owned by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey will go to great lengths to smooth the onboarding process for its Bitcoin users. When a Cash app user sent 12 different transactions worth $1 each, the app covered the $6 fees required to get his transaction included in the next block – each time....Read More
Discussions around Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, in general, have reached the high seats of investment banking. This becomes clear as the behemoth multinational investment bank Goldman Sachs hosted a conference call headlined US Economic Outlook & Implications of Current Policies for Inflation, Gold, and Bitcoin. Perhaps somewhat expectedly, the banking giant used its platform to bash...Read More
Popular cryptocurrency analyst believes that Bitcoin’s price is heading towards $7,200 based on an inverse Head and Shoulders pattern. Interestingly, if BTC is indeed trading within the inverse H&S, the breakout could hand Bitcoin a target of $16,000. BTC: $7,200 Followed By $16,000? The inverse head and shoulders technical pattern is identified when the price...Read More
Legacy markets have almost entirely recovered from their sharp downturn in the middle of March. It appears that the adverse effects of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 are well behind. Despite the doom-and-gloom predictions of many economists, major indices are going up steadily. The S&P 500 Down Just 10% From Its February Levels The S&P 500...Read More
Quick recap: A week ago, after failing to break the $10,000 benchmark, Bitcoin price had dropped back to the $9200 – $9300 support, where lied the critical ascending trend-line, the one that started developing since the March 12 price crash (colored blue on the following daily chart). Last Sunday, Bitcoin failed to hold the mentioned...Read More
An unknown person has tampered with some of the Bitcoin addresses that Craig Wright has previously claimed to own in his ongoing legal case against the Kleiman estate. The person has used the private keys for the addresses to sign a message in which he called Wright a liar and a fraud. CSW Is A...Read More
The Switzerland government has rejected the 100 million Swiss Francs ($102.7 million) funding request made by the country’s famous Crypto Valley, according to a local media report. Located in the heart of Zug, Crypto Valley is a fintech friendly region with favorable regulations for cryptocurrency and blockchain startups, making it a much-celebrated blockchain hub. Despite...Read More
Over the past two days, Bitcoin was trading between the range of $9200 – $9300. As we mentioned here on our previous BTC price analysis, that area had transformed from being stronger support to being even stronger resistance. We mentioned the fact that a failure in breaking above the mentioned area will result in a...Read More
Users of the two leading cryptocurrency hardware wallets could be at risk after a hacker offered to sell personal details of thousands of the companies’ customers. Hacker Offers HD Wallet Users’ Details As per multiple screenshots posted to Twitter, the hacker offered to sell personal details of customers from a wide range of financial services...Read More
The gap between Bitcoin’s hashrate and its mining difficulty has led to a miners capitulation – which could result in a major Bitcoin price dump. As pointed out by trader and popular YouTuber TheMoon, large discrepancies between hashrate and mining difficulty have typically resulted in a sudden departure of Bitcoin miners in the past. This,...Read More
The past 24 hours have been relatively calm for the leading cryptocurrencies by market capitalization. As of writing these lines, Bitcoin is trading today in a tight range around $9,200. From a technical standpoint, the range between $9,200 – $9,300 is the first significant resistance level for the primary cryptocurrency. If it breaks it successfully,...Read More
The large American multinational investment bank Goldman Sachs will host a conference call regarding Bitcoin, gold, and inflation. While precise information on the call’s content is limited, the massive bank appears to be the latest Wall Street-based entity to acknowledge the primary cryptocurrency. Goldman Sachs To Talk About Bitcoin According to the invitation, the event...Read More
Upon printing billions of fresh USDT in the past few months, the most widely adopted stablecoin has become the third-largest cryptocurrency by market cap. Tether has now surpassed Ripple (XRP) with its nearly $9 billion market capitalization. In the meantime, Ripple, which was among the top three cryptocurrencies for the past years, had seen its...Read More
While most community members are focused on exploring the correlations between Bitcoin and traditional financial assets, Google Trends indicated rather compelling inverse correlations involving the primary cryptocurrency and some popular culinary dishes. Firstly, a digital asset proponent brought up BTC’s comparison with the traditional Japanese dish – Ramen. Literally translated as “pulled noodles,” it consists...Read More
New information suggests that local government authorities in the Chinese province Sichuan are seeking to ban cryptocurrency mining operations in the region. Contrary, sources familiar with the matter claim that these notices are misunderstood, and crypto mining will not suffer major negative consequences. A Region In China Clamps Down On Crypto Mining? The story began...Read More
Following our Thursday price analysis, Bitcoin had lost almost $1000 in one and a half days. This came straight after 3-4 failed attempts to break the $10,000 mark over the past two weeks. When you’re not breaking, and the attempts are losing strength, you will dump hard. This was the bad news; however, the good...Read More
Bitcoin kissed the $10K mark goodbye this week as the cryptocurrency dropped to as low as $8,800 on Thursday, reaching the trend-line that was forming since the massive drop in March. As expected, BTC received strong support in that area, and its price quickly recovered to around $9,200, where it’s currently trading. The dump started...Read More
Maker DAO just received an influx of almost 2,500 Bitcoin in the past 48 hours, as the number of Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) locked in the decentralized finance app increased by 1,921%. Maker DAO is a decentralized lending protocol on Ethereum, which issues the stablecoin Dai (DAI) in return for ETH-based collateral. Since BTC can be...Read More
Bitcoin Bitcoin saw a 4.4% price decline over the past seven days of trading as the coin trades at $9,115. The cryptocurrency was at the $9,815 resistance level for the majority of the week as it continuously failed to close above it. Bitcoin went on to slide lower from there on Wednesday as it dropped...Read More
The veteran Bitcoin margin trading exchange BitMEX went down for over an hour a few days ago. While the community speculated on several plausible reasons, BitMEX published a post today explaining what happened, how they can prevent similar occurrences in the future, and assuring that all customer funds are safe. Why BitMEX Went Down The...Read More
In our recent analysis from Tuesday, we had mentioned the fact that the attempts to break the $10,000 mark are getting weaker over time. In soccer, when you don’t score despite many chances, the other team will score and win. During the recent hours, Bitcoin was slowly losing momentum, and as of writing these lines,...Read More
