Community voting is on for Uniswap’s new governance proposal. The same will see users receive more than 5 million UNI tokens via a proxy contract. As of now, more than 28 million votes have gone in favor of the airdrop. Around 1.3 million votes are against the proposal. Voting Begins For Uniswap’s Second UNI Airdrop...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
Multinational technological giant Huawei announced today that its newly-launched smartphone has a built-in wallet that will allow users to store, send, and receive China’s national digital currency. Announcing the features of the Mate40 series in a Weibo post, the company said that the device is the first smartphone that supports the digital yuan via a...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
Crypto derivatives exchange FTX will give cryptocurrency traders the opportunity to trade tokenized shares of major companies like Apple Inc. and Amazon. The so-called fractional stocks will soon be available on the company’s platform. Tokenized Shares To Some Of The Biggest As per a recent report, FTX will be partnering with German financial firm CM Equity...Read More
Following new sanctions by the United States Treasury Department earlier this week, Iran now hopes to use Bitcoin for cross-border settlements, local media reported Thursday. The Iranian government amended its crypto regulations so that miners can redirect cryptocurrencies to Iran’s finance mechanism for international trades as the country’s fiat currency continues to suffer from both...Read More
XRP/USD – Bulls Battling To Defend 100-days EMA Key Support Levels: $0.24, $0.23, $0.228.Key Resistance Levels: $0.251, $0.261, $0.271. XRP struggled to break a falling resistance trend line at the start of the week – close to $0.26. As a result, the coin started to decline in the past few days. Although it has spiked...Read More
Deepak Chopra’s name is synonymous with meditation, mindfulness, and healing through healthy living. And according to the latest update, the world-renowned author and thought-leader is considering buying bitcoin. Mr. Chopra is also about to launch ‘Love in Action,’ his own blockchain-based token. Deepak Chopra Officially Enters The Blockchain Space It is important to note that...Read More
The popular cryptocurrency lending service Cred has announced that it has temporarily suspended all funds inflows and outflows. Without disclosing many details, the platform said it’s cooperating with law enforcement authorities to investigate an incident. Cred Suspends Deposits And Withdrawals The United States-based crypto lending platform, which recently announced joining Visa’s fast track program, updated...Read More
Fidelity Digital Asset Services (FDAS) has partnered with Stack Funds to enable Asian investors to purchase and store cryptocurrency assets more freely and securely. Based in Singapore, Stack Funds is a regulated fund manager focusing on Bitcoin and other digital assets. According to the Bloomberg report, Stack Funds will make Fidelity’s secure custody services available...Read More
Binance is the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by means of daily trading volumes. In the few short years since its launch, the venue went on to become a leading company in the industry. In fact, launching coins up for trade on the exchange has created the so-called “Binance Effect.” In short, when a cryptocurrency is...Read More
Atypical performance isn’t something new for cryptocurrency assets. Flash crashes and massive positive wicks have taken place in the past. Just yesterday, ETH went through something similar. The price of the asset shot up by almost 50% only to crash immediately down to $197 and settle to where it’s currently trading on Binance. ETH Price...Read More
Cryptocurrencies, in general, will not help for the inclusion of unbanked individuals into payment systems and banks, claims Mastercard CEO Ajay Banga. However, the company is far from ignoring digital currencies altogether. Trying To Get 1 Billion Into The Banking System As per a recent news report, Mastercard CEO Ajay Banga, who’s on a mission to...Read More
Bitcoin went on a roller-coaster ride in the past 24 hours from a new yearly high of nearly $14,000 to dipping below $13,000. Most altcoins mimicked their leader, and the total market cap has dropped by $15 billion. Bitcoin’s Wild 24H Ride As CryptoPotato reported yesterday morning, everything seemed to be going in BTC’s way....Read More
Bitcoin skeptic Peter Schiff has done it again: The notorious gold bug, famous for being the owner of the only Bitcoin wallet capable of forgetting passwords, claimed that this time —unlike his other failed predictions— Bitcoin is genuinely about to die . Shortly before the price correction on Oct. 20, 2020, the investor went on...Read More
Bitcoin bulls are trying to regain lost ground after failing to break the high set back on June 26, 2019, at $13,880. This would’ve been the highest price Bitcoin has reached in over 490 days, however, heavy selling pressure and a weakening uptrend caused prices to tank over 7% in under 12 hours. Right now,...Read More
Now the United States can boast a new crypto bank: Welcome Avanti. Avanti Financial Group, a firm founded by the former managing director at Morgan Stanley, Caitlin Long, announced that it had been granted a license to offer banking services by the Wyoming State Banking Board. Avanti is The Second Crypto-bank Operating in the United...Read More
The largest US-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase announced today the launch of a Visa debit card, allowing customers to spend digital assets for everyday purchases. According to the official statement, the Coinbase Card will provide clients the opportunity to earn up to 4% back in cryptocurrency rewards. It will be available in nearly 30 countries, including...Read More
Former hedge fund manager and CEO of Real Vision, Raoul Pal, believes that the real impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is about to reach the financial markets. By outlining several upcoming cornerstones among traditional financial assets, he highlighted Bitcoin as the “life raft” in this situation. Raoul Pal: Everything Has Changed In a recent Twitter...Read More
Michael Saylor, the founder and CEO of the Nasdaq-listed company MicroStrategy, has revealed that he personally HODLs nearly 18,000 bitcoins. Additionally, he announced that his company has instituted a new Bitcoin-oriented treasury reserve policy and plans to make further BTC purchases. Michael Saylor Owns 17,732 Bitcoins The CEO of MicroStrategy has a somewhat compelling history...Read More
ETH/USD – Bulls Defending .382 Fib Retracement Key Support Levels: $377, $370, $364.Key Resistance Levels: $400, $410, $416. Toward the end of last week, Ethereum surged higher from $370 as it climbed above the $400 level and managed to reach as high as $421 (1.414 Fib Extension). More specifically, it was unable to close a...Read More
There’s never a boring day in the cryptocurrency field. Yesterday, the entire community was ecstatic as Bitcoin’s price made a run for the 2019 highs. Unfortunately, it came inches away from it and started to retrace. Today, the total cryptocurrency market capitalization is down about $15 billion since its most recent peak hours ago. Bitcoin...Read More
Tomochain, the Singapore-based smart contract platform, has taken another stride towards its aim of hosting government and enterprise applications with its acquisition of Lition, a German company that provides public and private blockchain services. Launched on Ethereum in October 2020, Lition represents a bridge between public and private blockchain use-cases with its ability to delete...Read More
Bitcoin’s public and pseudo-anonymous nature has reduced its preference for laundering cash. However, folks still ‘try their best’ to route money using BTC. And often fail. In one such case, justice authorities awarded a prison sentence to a couple from Hilversum, the Netherlands, for moving million euros through bitcoin. Bitcoin Laundering Hustle Busted; 2532 BTC...Read More
Bitcoin painted yet another 2020 high at above $13,850 and came inches away from breaking the 2019 peak as well. In contrast, most altcoins have remained steady or in red, and the Bitcoin dominance has surged above 62.5%. Several Times In a Week: New Bitcoin 2020 Highs The primary cryptocurrency has been on a roll...Read More
An unknown hacker’s group had reportedly compromised one of President Donald Trump’s campaign websites earlier today. The attack appeared as a cryptocurrency scam, in which the perpetrators asked for payments transferred via Monero. Thirty minutes after the hack, the President’s team updated that they had taken back control, and no sensitive information was exposed. President...Read More
Bitcoin prices have made it to the same peak in June 2019 but failed to break higher as the $13,800 level proved to be strong resistance as analysts had predicted. The move has added 5% to BTC prices on the day, and almost 13% since the same time last week. At the time of writing...Read More
