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
For the first time in a decade, central banks around the world are selling off their bullion stocks. Economists have opined that this is a direct result of the coronavirus pandemic led fiscal stress. If the trend continues, gold prices are in for some serious freefall rides. The question is, will central banks start stockpiling...Read More
Occurring every four years, the US Presidential elections gain attention not only from US citizens but from the entire world. Being the largest country by nominal GDP and the US dollar serving as the global reserve currency, the consequences of elections’ results will be felt in the next (at least) four years everywhere. That “everywhere”...Read More
Bitcoin finally broke the 2019 high after a brief spike that took it above $14,100 yesterday (Bitstamp). With its impressive leg up, BTC has continued to increase its dominance over the altcoins, most of which keep decreasing in their value against the primary cryptocurrency. Bitcoin Price Is Trading Around The June 2019 High Ever since...Read More
Bitcoin is censorship-resistant… The hashtag #Bitcoin is not. Over the past days, Facebook has been busy censoring all posts that include the #Bitcoin hashtag in the description. There are no distinctions: Videos, photographs, and even messages have been censored, blocking the public from accessing any information related to the cryptocurrency. Upon entering the hashtag, users...Read More
Owning to the Bitcoin and the aggregated cryptocurrency market’s recent roaring rally, BTC, and crypto hedge funds have reportedly registered profits upwards of the 100 percent mark. This comes amid the rising sentiment of sidestepping banks to avail quick loans through digital assets. What does this say about the cryptocurrency industry? Bitcoin And Cryptocurrency Hedge...Read More
Bitcoin price has broken over $14,100 for the first time since January 15, 2018 – a staggering 1,020 days ago. The move has coincided with the 12-year anniversary of the first release of the Bitcoin whitepaper and $7 billion flooding back into the market during the start of the US trading session. Is this the...Read More
Bitcoin’s roller-coaster continued in the past 24 hours with significant fluctuations resulting in a few $500 moves and it finally breaking the previous 2019 high. The altcoins have taken a breather with some green charted, and the market capitalization has increased by around $15 billion. Bitcoin Goes On A Wild 24H Ride It’s safe to...Read More
Bitcoin is having a good year despite the coronavirus panics and the nervousness of the markets. After reaching an annual high of about $13863 on Oct. 28, the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization underwent a sharp correction of almost $1000 before rebounding and stabilizing at $13281. From that point on, it began a stable...Read More
During the past week, Bitcoin continued to increase in value as it managed to break the former 2020 high. More interestingly, though, this happens as Wall Street stocks are currently taking a beating. While BTC was appreciating, all the prominent US-based indices such as the S&P 500, NASDAQ Composite, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average...Read More
Bitcoin The Bitcoin price surge continued this week and it managed to increase by 4.5% to reach $13,60 at the time of this writing. The coin was trading slightly above $13,000 last Friday and moved sideways along this level over the weekend. On Tuesday, Bitcoin started to surge higher as broke resistance at $13,415, climbed...Read More
A 27-year old British citizen had appeared before a local court because of allegations that he had used Bitcoin to send money to help ISIS members escape Syrian prison camps. The man, Hisham Chaudhary, has reportedly been a member of the Islamic State for over four years. Terrorist Prison Breaks Funded By Bitcoin According to...Read More
After purchasing a sizeable amount of bitcoins for himself and his company, Michael Saylor said that the firm he operates, MicroStrategy, has been running a full node of Bitcoin’s latest core version for over a month. MicroStrategy Runs A Full BTC Node Bitcoin nodes are an essential part of the Bitcoin blockchain peer-to-peer network. Running...Read More
After a sharp price jump towards $13,650 intraday, Bitcoin has retraced and trades around $13,200. The alternative coins continue to bleed out, and the total market capitalization has dropped below $390 billion. Bitcoin To $13,650 And Back On ECB Stimulus News Following the latest 2020 high, Bitcoin got rejected and lost nearly $1,000 of value...Read More
