Bitcoin price marked exactly one year since the lows of the 2018 bear market. Since then, the coin has improved its shape, despite going through periods of volatility. BTC Escaped Capitulation in December 2018 BTC reached lows near $3,200 on December 15, 2018, following a long slide since peak prices in late 2017. In one...Read More
Recently, digital asset management firm CoinShares published a report titled, ‘The Bitcoin Mining Network’, which spoke about break-even costs for miners, their geographical distribution and the effects of mining equipment on the Bitcoin network’s power draw. The report mentioned how certain segments of miners with the coveted combination of very cheap electricity and brand-new next-generation...Read More
Bitcoin has achieved market capitalization close to some of the biggest corporations, ranging between $100 and $300 billion. But taken in proportion to the size of the world’s financial system, BTC may have a different valuation. Debt Issuance Shows No Signs of Slowing The bloated worldwide debt, fueled by extreme quantitative easing in the last...Read More
Trace Mayer the advocate for the Proof of Keys [PoK] movement appeared on Peter McCormack’s recent podcast to talk about the importance of investors holding their private keys. Mayer noted of his first tweet about the PoK movement was on December 9, 2018, and after a few days after which Coinbase informed the users of...Read More
The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro wants the nation state-issued cryptocurrency, petro (PTR) to have the same usability properties as a physical currency. On December 13, Maduro explained on national television that the Superintendence of Crypto-Assets and Related Activities (Sunacrip) will be airdropping 0.5 PTR ($30) next week to eligible citizens who register with the...Read More
A report on ‘The Bitcoin Mining Network’ was recently published by digital asset management firm, CoinShares, which spoke about the Bitcoin mining space, its growth over the last six months, and events that could affect the industry in the future. According to the report, Bitcoin proof-of-work miners continue to dominate the industry, in terms of...Read More
The Litecoin network has gone through what looks like a series of “dusting attacks”. Multiple addresses received “dust” amounts of LTC on at least two large-scale occasions in August and November, with other unusual spikes in transaction counts and wallet activity. Dust Attacks Connect Multiple Wallets and Addresses An attack of this type is seemingly...Read More
Ethereum’s journey, be it its hard fork or developments around DeFi, has been progressing smoothly. However, the price of Ether seems to be faltering as it keeps knocking off every support it encounters. At press time, price of Ether was $140 and testing another important support level; breaching this would spell trouble. Source: ETH/USD TradingViewEther...Read More
Surely I can get through this introductory paragraph without mentioning the UK election. Must be some other news to cling to. If possible I could also tie in some spurious bitcoin comment… Can you buy a National Health Service with bitcoin? Or I could just mention that Miss Jamaica won the Miss World 2019 competition...Read More
Mankind is a dedicated race and our insatiable thirst for innovation has been evident through history. Humans are obsessed with speed. For us, anything faster is better. Major innovations like telephones and trains, improved our speed of communication and transport, whereas simple developments like food-delivery apps, increased our ability to access a cooked-meal under 20...Read More
Ripple’s On-Demand Liquidity [ODL] platform has been noting a barrage of transactions, especially with the popular MXN corridor. According to the ODL data provider on Twitter, H_M_X, out of the total $108 million ODL flow in the fourth quarter, the MXN corridor was responsible for $100 million in transactions. Owing to the success of this...Read More
Unlike privacy coins, cryptocurrencies like Litecoin do not have inbuilt privacy features. MimbleWimble via extension blocks is yet to be implemented. In the absence of new cryptographic obfuscation methods, the network becomes vulnerable to malicious activities such as dusting, where hackers and scammers try to break the privacy of cryptocurrency users by sending tiny amounts...Read More
Venezuelan government has been working on a state cryptocurrency named Petro which is supposedly tied to the price of the oil. In the latest development, eligible Venezuelan citizens will receive 0.50 Petro token from the government. President Nicolás Maduro announced that whoever wished to receive the giveaway amount, which is equivalent to $30, must register...Read More
Matic cryptocurrency which began its journey at the end of April, crashed to $0.018 earlier this week. Sandeep Nailwal, co-founder and COO at Matic Network called it a nightmare Just woke up to this nightmare due to a distress call by someoneIt will be clear very shortly that we are not behind this, as some...Read More
On the latest episode of the ‘On The Brink with Castle Island’ podcast, hosts Matt Walsh and Nic Carter of Castle Island Ventures spoke about recent ICO scams, Jack Dorsey’s activity with Square Crypto, and the effects of staking on a network. Walsh and Carter first spoke about the ShopIn ICO, where the failing business...Read More
Customers of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania based bank holding company and financial services corporation PNC are having a tough time. But why? It has become exceedingly difficult to connect bank accounts to popular payments app Venmo. PNC Bank and Venmo are at War With Each Other As reported by the Wall Street Journal, a few hours ago,...Read More
According to regional reports, the Russian darknet market Hydra is planning an initial coin offering (ICO) in order to expand the marketplace internationally. The sale is set to start on December 16 and Hydra administrators hope to raise $146 million from the token sale. Also read: Regulatory Roundup – Bitcoin Futures Fund Approved, India’s RBI-Backed...Read More
On the most recent episode of The Scoop Live podcast, The Block’s Frank Chaparro spoke to president of Fidelity Digital Assets, Tom Jessop, a man hailed by CoinDesk as the man who could, “”bridge the gap between Wall Street and Crypto.” During the interview, Jessop spoke about how custody is a base requirement on the...Read More
Trace Mayer, a YouTuber, and host of Bitcoin Knowledge podcast spoke with Peter McCormack on What Bitcoin Did and addressed the upcoming Proof-of-Keys [PoK] and other important aspects related to Bitcoin and the ecosystem. Mayer, the person behind the Proof-of-Keys movement, spoke about the last event and how it helped spread awareness and take back...Read More
On ‘The Scoop Live’ podcast, Frank Chaparro recently spoke to Fidelity Digital Assets’ president, Tom Jessop, to talk about custodial services in the current market, and institutional entrants into the Bitcoin space, support for Ethereum, and the application of blockchain technology in the tokenization of traditional assets. According to Jessop, Fidelity is currently routing more...Read More
Key Takeaways Multiple outcomes indicate a converging bearish case for Bitcoin in the coming week. The 4-hour chart shows a dip below the $7,000 region and a retest of November 25 low, $6,515. Further bearish momentum could slide Bitcoin to $6,200, and possibly to $5,920. As Bitcoin’s price lugs in the $7,000 region for the...Read More
The number of billionaires holding Bitcoin continues to grow. The latest magnate to go public with his BTC purchase is the philanthropist Bill Pulte, who now wants to promote the benchmark crypto’s adoption. Billionaire Bill Pulte: “Cryptocurrency can help the world’s poorest.” Bill Pulte is the head of Pulte Capital Partners, one of the directors...Read More
The Bank of International Settlements, an international body owned by 60 worldwide central banks, published a discussion paper on treatment of crypto assets. The committee is requesting the opinion of all industry participants to develop a “prudential” treatment policy. The announcement comes after the bank’s Committee on Banking Supervision identified the growth of crypto assets...Read More
There are few images as gripping as that of Kolin Burges holding up the placard reading “Mt. Gox, Where Is Our Money,” in the midst of the collapse of the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world. This image of the beanie-headed Londoner on the streets of Tokyo defined the state of cryptocurrency exchanges for much...Read More
Bitcoin has had its share of unnerving time periods – but over the last decade, it has been one of the best investable assets. Appearing as a “black swan”, BTC reached extraordinary valuations. Bitcoin Became a ‘Wild Card’ for Personal Finance Acquiring $1 worth of BTC in 2010 would translate into more than $90,000 today,...Read More
Two years ago, as Bitcoin inched closed to the $20,000 valuation, several altcoins joined the rally. None more so than XRP, the premier payments-centric cryptocurrency enjoyed a massive high in late-2017, and relatively held back its losses in the crypto-winter of 2018. In 2019, the markets have not been too kind to this digital currency....Read More
The founder of now-defunct crypto exchange Quadrigacx may still be alive, even though he supposedly died in India about a year ago. A court-appointed law firm is seeking an answer on behalf of affected users. The firm has requested an exhumation and post-mortem autopsy in Canada of the body of Gerald Cotten, as some 76,000...Read More
Large funds are constrained by rules about profitability and portfolio balancing – hence they may be forced to shed assets like bitcoin that have the potential to return magnanimous gains. Diversification and Profitability Constraints Make Fund Managers Sell So far, stock selection rules and the fact that fund managers need to show profitability in their...Read More
According to a recent statement by Vitalik Buterin, he managed to convince the Ethereum Foundation to sell 70,000 ETH at the height of 2017’s parabolic run, resulting in a $100 million liquidity. ETH is still the second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap. However, its price today is nowhere near what it used to be two years...Read More
Monero Compliance Workgroup published a statement suggesting that “The Funds Travel Rule” does not apply to XMR itself. Such a scenario limits scrutiny of Monero and preserves its privacy-enabling properties. Monero published its stance on regulations that require money services businesses (MSB) to trace user identities. The U.S. Financial Crimes and Enforcement Network (FinCEN) published...Read More
