Ethereum mining difficulty hit an all-time high on 27 November. The mining difficulty jumped to 3,719 terahashes as the second-largest coin was being traded close to $511. Source: Twitter This all-time high was registered on the heels of a two-year high marked at 3,650 terahashes on 21 November, as noted by the data provider Glassnode....Read More
Yearn Finance has been actively integrating with multiple DeFi protocols of late, and Cover Protocol is the latest addition to this chain of partnerships. Yearn Founder, Andre Cronje, announced the Yearn and Cover merger earlier today, stating that Cover will become the backstop coverage provider for the Yearn product suite, as well as for DeFi...Read More
The San Francisco-based payment protocol has filed a document on Friday with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). It reads that Ripple Labs has entered into an agreement with MoneyGram, which entitles Ripple to sell up to 4,000,000 shares of common stock. Ripple’s option to sell these shares will expire “upon the earliest of...Read More
The recently forked BCHA chain is currently under attack by an anonymous miner that is attempting to force whatever is left of the chain into non-existence. The anonymous miner, known as voluntarism.dev has changed the Coinbase rule so that all miners need to send 100% (instead of 8%) of the block rewards to the IFP...Read More
Ripple and MoneyGram announced a strategic partnership in 2019. A year later, Ripple is selling roughly one-third of its stake in MoneyGram. This was the first time Ripple has taken such a step. According to a filing with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC], Ripple owns 6.22 million shares [8.6% of outstanding shares]...Read More
Bitcoin corrected from $19,200 to $16,400 and was trading at $16,900 at press time. This forced alts to shed value quickly as well. Bitcoin Cash dropped 25% from a local high and saw support at $267 flipped to resistance. Vechain and EOS were short-term bearish but they might be able to stay above key support...Read More
Privacy-focused blockchain Beam has announced that it will be integrating Chainlink’s price feeds to help its developers build DeFi Apps. The initial integration will focus on using Chainlink oracles to maintain collateralization of Beam’s confidential stablecoin protocol, while also supporting the Beam-ERC-20 bridge for moving assets between the Ethereum and BeamX blockchains. According to Beam,...Read More
“But, we have a question to discuss. Can it [Digital Renminbi] replace Alipay, WeChat Pay, and bank cards as the main electronic payment tool?” That was the question posed to Li Lihui, former President of the Bank of China, during the 2020 Caijing Annual Meeting about CBDCs. The exec responded that at least for the...Read More
Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency, is in the news again after American economist and popular crypto-critic Nouriel Roubini claimed that it had no intrinsic value, adding that BTC is heavily manipulated. Taking to Twitter on Thanksgiving Day, the crypto-skeptic, in fact, also went on to blame retail investor FOMO for the latest Bitcoin price drop....Read More
Over the course of the past eleven months, cryptocurrencies have emerged to become a serious asset class, one being taken note of by countries and regulatory agencies all over the world. Russia is one of them, with the country’s PM recently directing the development of the local crypto-market. The country is in the news again...Read More
Thanksgiving was an eventful day in terms of the overall market movement, as Bitcoin dropped to $16k levels, witnessing its largest single-day drop since March 12, 2020. Over $1.3 billion was liquidated from exchanges, however, amidst this selloff, DeFi saw its own share of liquidation as DAI prices on Coinbase Pro escalated rapidly, leading to...Read More
With a drop in Bitcoin’s price in the past 48-hours, most of the market’s altcoins have been facing strong corrections. At press time Bitcoin was being traded at $17,058, with a trading volume of $33 billion. Source: CoinStats For popular altcoins like XRP, Monero, Dogecoin this bearish pressure in BTC’s movement has resulted in major...Read More
Disclaimer: The findings of the following article are the sole opinion of the writer and should not be taken as investment advice Bitcoin Cash’s price witnessed a small surge, however, this was only a brief affair. Given the recent price activity in the Bitcoin market, its hard fork has also been witnessing a restricted price...Read More
For the most part of November, the crypto market was filled with strong bullish momentum as Bitcoin inched closer to its ATH, last seen in 2017. However, with BTC unable to sustain its position above the $19K price level and with its current drop on the charts, many of the market’s altcoins are now enduring...Read More
OKEx opened its withdrawals on 26 November, a day before the previously announced date. The exchange had offered compensation to the users who had suffered during the one-month long suspension of certain services, but that did not prevent some to jump ships. As the exchange lifted the withdrawal suspension at 08:00 UTC, nearly 2,822 Bitcoins...Read More
According to a press release received by AMBCrypto, an independent trading platform licensed under the Huobi brand, Huobi Labuan, a localized crypto-exchange for the Malaysian market, is launching with fully regulated trading services for both spot and derivatives markets. The launch of such trading services comes shortly after Huobi Labuan received a digital asset trading...Read More
Big tech and stablecoins could disrupt the European financial system, says ECB Executive Board Member, Fabio Panetta. In a speech at the “Future of Payments in Europe” conference, Panetta stated, “While they could offer convenient and efficient payment solutions, they risk endangering competition, privacy, financial stability and even monetary sovereignty.” He also went on to...Read More
Bitcoin is now trading at $17275, down from $19300, 3 days ago. The price has dropped by 10.49% and Bitcoin longs worth $43.8 Million were liquidated in the past 24 hours on BitMEX vs $6.5 Million shorts. 3 days ago, on November 24, 2020, the situation was a contrast. There were more shorts getting liquidated...Read More
Amidst all the market movement over the past few days, and liquidations observed over exchanges, CME has now overtaken OKEx to become the largest Futures market for Bitcoin. According to data from @skewdotcom, CME is now the largest futures market for #bitcoin! Institutional investors are here🏦💰 pic.twitter.com/6GgQdrMw12 — Arcane Research (@ArcaneResearch) November 27, 2020 Data...Read More
After going back and forth with its digital currency, Facebook has announced the launch of its cryptocurrency, Libra by January 2021. According to reports, three unidentified people involved in the project have disclosed this information and noted that it will launch a single digital coin backed by the dollar. The Geneva-based Libra Association will issue...Read More
Major crypto exchange, Binance, announced that they will be adding DAI and removing EOS from their Peer to Peer (P2P) trading platform. In the announcement, Binance stated that all EOS advertisements should be removed by 4:00 AM on November 27 and all EOS tokens should be transferred from the P2P wallet to the spot wallet....Read More
Disclaimer: The findings of the following article are the sole opinion of the writer and should not be taken as investment advice As the value of Bitcoin faces hurdles in the market, many altcoins have also been falling on the charts. Bitcoin SV has been noting a strong devaluation and at press time, after a...Read More
MicroStrategy’s adoption of Bitcoin as its primary reserve asset took the market by storm, with many arguing that the development was one of the catalysts behind BTC climbing to $19k on the charts. The firm’s Michael Saylor recently spoke about Bitcoin and his company’s decision to invest in Bitcoin, which is now up by over...Read More
Disclaimer: The findings of the following article are the sole opinion of the writer and should not be taken as investment advice Following the lead of Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency, most altcoins have also noted price breakdowns on their charts. Polkadot, one of the industry’s major altcoins, also saw its value crumble under the...Read More
The world’s largest cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, was roaring and climbing towards its all-time high until a few days ago. In fact, BTC climbed to a yearly high of $19,490 after it managed to surge by 42%. At the time of writing, however, corrections were setting in, with Bitcoin down by 16% in just two days. While...Read More
Ripple has been the torchbearer of crypto-related payment solutions using the digital asset XRP. With Ripple expanding its reach globally and connecting niche countries, it has been gaining more and more prominence with every passing year. Interestingly, it would now seem that Ripple’s growing reach has been intimidating existing solution providers like SWIFT. In fact,...Read More
For many, India is a country with a lot of untapped potential, a country that can truly launch the crypto-space to the stratosphere. However, many hurdles stand in the way of these dreams becoming a reality. These hurdles were recently highlighted by a survey reporting the sentiments of investors in India, a survey done by...Read More
Disclaimer: The findings of the following article are the sole opinion of the writer and should not be taken as investment advice The value of Bitcoin had been appreciating without any hiccups for the past one month, until quite recently. In fact, over the past 48 hours, soon after Bitcoin climbed to a local top...Read More
ViaBTC, the world-leading cryptocurrency mining pool, today launches a new cloud mining service. Customers around the world now can purchase Bitcoin and Ethereum contracts with USDT, BTC, BCH, ETH or LTC. ViaBTC will be running top-of-the-line mining machines in different data centers to provide stable and consistent hashrate. A total of 17PH/s for BTC contract...Read More
A lot of numbers for the future price of Bitcoin have been thrown around recently, but most of them have been presented without context. The following article will focus on Bitcoin’s achievements, putting them in the context of traditional world assets. The first thing that comes to mind is gold due to its similarity with...Read More
