Amongst bitcoin and cryptocurrency fund management firms, Grayscale takes the top spot. And so it has proved again by now becoming the owner of 500,000 BTC worth $8.5 billion. This roughly equals 2.4 percent of the cryptocurrency’s total programmed supply. Grayscale Investments Owns Bitcoin Worth $8.5 Billion A few hours ago, Barry Silbert’s crypto fund...Read More
Over the past few weeks, Bitcoin has been leading the crypto rally and is continuing to do so. The world’s largest cryptocurrency has returned to another new high of 2020, as it finally breached the $17,000-mark across some major crypto-exchanges. In the last hour alone, Bitcoin hiked by over 2.2%, on the charts. Additionally, BTC...Read More
Months after the infamous hack on its platform, the social media giant Twitter has appointed a noted hacker as its head of security. Pieter Zatko, also known as “Mudge,” has also testified before Congress, educated President Bill Clinton about DDoS attacks, and worked in Google and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Twitter To...Read More
Disclaimer: The findings of the following article attempt to analyze the emerging patterns in Litecoin’s short-term market and its impact on the price The price of Litecoin has been marching higher every passing hour and reached a value of $74.18, at press time. The surge observed in the Bitcoin market was a driving factor for...Read More
As the value of Bitcoin soars and marks new annual highs, Bitcoin’s proponents have been increasing exposure to the digital asset. Galaxy Digital, the crypto merchant bank with Mike Novogratz as its founder and CEO announced that the company was expanding its services in Canada along with CI Global Asset management. According to the announcement,...Read More
While DeFi tokens such as Yearn. Finance and UniSwap introduced a totally new landscape with their decentralized financial products, a preposterous trend of launching food tokens took off alongside such solid projects. Food-themed coins became a theme for a brief period during the DeFi explosion and developers around the world were quickly introducing these food-meme...Read More
Bitcoin decisively climbed past the $16,000 level as buyers overwhelmed the market in the wake of extremely positive sentiment toward the biggest crypto. Chainlink was unable to perform similarly in the past few days, as its price oscillated about the $12.6 level. Synthetix and Stellar Lumens registered gains in the past few trading sessions and...Read More
As of Tuesday, the Origin Protocol becomes yet another victim of the flash loan hack. This has caused a loss of funds north of $7 million including funds deposited by the founders. The attack was due to a reentrancy bug. The blog stated, “Unfortunately, our contract was safe from reentrancy bugs unless one of our...Read More
Disclaimer: The findings of the following article are the sole opinion of the writer and should not be taken as investment advice For Bitcoin SV, the larger bullish trend in the market did not matter at all. Over the past week, its valuation dropped on the back of BTC’s corrections, with the crypto-asset failing to recoup...Read More
If one were to choose one word to define Bitcoin and its price movement over the past few weeks, it would be Persistence. With the cryptocurrency’s valuation showing no signs of stopping since October, Bitcoin hinted at a price reversal after it dropped down to $15,800 on 14 November. While the crypto’s price was back...Read More
Disclaimer: The findings of the following article are the sole opinion of the writer and should not be taken as investment advice Polkadot’s price surge took the industry by storm when it began in early September. Surging up to $6.89 in a matter of days, the crypto-asset locked in a position in the market’s top-5 in...Read More
After recovering from a drop of nearly 3.5% based on data from CoinMarketCap, many believe that there is little resistance to Bitcoin’s price climbing from $16K to a new ATH on the charts. However, while most people are concerned and excited about Bitcoin finally breaching its ATH, what seems to be lost on most is...Read More
Bitcoin’s dominance, alongside Bitcoin‘s own price, was rising steadily and stood at 65.58%, at press time. While some altcoins posted gains alongside Bitcoin, their performances have not generally been bullish. In fact, Cardano was trading within a descending channel and could lose a level of support shortly. Synthetix and Dash seemed strongly bullish as they...Read More
2020’s crypto-market is very different from the one back in 2017. However, while it has changed a lot over the ensuing years, there remain two constants – Bitcoin and Ethereum. In fact, the two cryptocurrencies continue to retain the market’s top two positions. The constant reshuffling of the pack fuels the question – How will...Read More
The situation around a possible vaccine for the novel coronavirus COVID-19 continues to develop. Today, Moderna Therapeutics, one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies, announced that its preliminary data shows its coronavirus vaccine is more than 94% effective. This sent its stock price higher and major indices, which are all trading in the green following...Read More
While Ethereum was trading above $450 at press time, the ETH-BTC correlation remained tight at around 0.76, based on data from CoinMetrics. In fact, Ethereum’s price has gained by 3.69% over the past week and considering the progress of ETH 2.0’s validator nodes, it may seem obvious that many traders are long on ETH. High...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 transition of Ethereum to Ethereum 2.0 is what the ecosystem is concerned about, especially since ETH did react as expected during the DeFi summer. At the time of writing, Ethereum’s price charts were...Read More
The ongoing assault on money laundering in the Chinese telecoms and crypto industry has seen Bitcoin miners facing difficulties in paying electricity bills as banks freeze cards associated with cryptocurrency transactions. Three-quarter of Chinese Bitcoin Miners Can’t Pay for Electricity According to a local news outlet, in a tweet thread on November 16, 2020, Chinese...Read More
In a bull market, everything is good. With Bitcoin climbing to new highs every month, no matter which indicator, analysis, data-point you look at, everything will tell you to buy or hold. But, what if the markets weren’t so bullish? At the time of writing, Bitcoin was trading at a level a little over $16,000,...Read More
Paxos, PayPal’s liquidity provider, has seen its trading volume move up quite considerably over the past few weeks after crypto-trading went live on the platform to great acclaim. So for anyone looking to track crypto volumes going through PayPal…given Paxos (ItBit) is their liquidity provider, and the exchange was doing ~$3mln a day before, here’s...Read More
The Crypto Fear and Greed Index was registering a figure of 90 at the time of writing, expressing a sentiment of extreme greed in the market. Litecoin and NEM reflected this bullish sentiment as they formed bullish patterns on their charts and found strong buyer interest behind their price rise. Verge, on the contrary, noted...Read More
Bitcoin is the new gold, said Thomas Fitzpatrick – a Managing Director in the giant multinational bank Citibank. He also predicted that BTC could skyrocket to $318,000 per coin in the upcoming 13 months by exploring several historical price cycles and the ongoing economic uncertainties. Bitcoin Is The Gold Of The 21st Century Fitzpatrick has...Read More
Seems like the entire world is taking notice of Bitcoin and the wider cryptocurrency market. The Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan is the latest to do so after the National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic (NKBR) moved to regulate cryptocurrencies, specifically, the activities of entities that provide services for the purchase and sale of cryptocurrencies...Read More
Disclaimer: The findings of the following article are the sole opinion of the writer and should not be taken as investment advice Binance Coin is probably one of the best exchange tokens out there right now. In fact, its year-on-year growth [from 2018 to 2019] was a whopping 522%. In 2020 alone, BNB has noted YTD...Read More
Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin aims to enter the non-fungible token market as its liquidity trading platform Pool-X will open deposits of NFT assets starting November 16th. Pool-X will launch an exchange platform designated for NFT tokens in the upcoming months. KuCoin To Launch An NFT Exchage According to the announcement from earlier today, the...Read More
The United States’ Financial Crimes Enforcement Network released a proposed rule change this October that lowered the threshold for Travel Rule information sharing and retention from $3,000 to $250 for all cross-border payments involving U.S financial institutions. What are the implications of such a rule change? Well, at the very least, as it stands, the...Read More
Bitcoin has overtaken the $16,000 price tag after struggling to remain above it during the weekend. Large-cap altcoins have fallen behind with slight decreases, while the DeFi field sees high volatility once more. Bitcoin Reclaims $16K As reported last Friday, Bitcoin’s impressive performance as of late took the asset towards a fresh yearly high of...Read More
While Bitcoin did dip briefly under $16,000, the sentiment around BTC remained strongly bullish, which is why the buyers were assertive enough to later push the price to $16,117, at press time. Further down the crypto-ladder, Stellar Lumens saw traders take-profit upon a push past the resistance level. Bitcoin Gold was trading within a range...Read More
Running an ETH 2.0 validator node is a lucrative prospect, at least for ETH Maximalists. It takes 32 ETH to run one on your own. Naturally, since 32 ETH is a substantial amount, many have instead turned to pools. In fact, so far, 83,872 ETH have been staked. However, what’s interesting here is that a...Read More
SushiSwap is one of the ‘forgotten’ DeFi projects in the space today, one that everyone certainly remembers. And, not for all the right reasons wither. In fact, in light of the aftermath of the Nomi/Sushi ordeal, SushiSwap has been passed up by many as an ‘investable project.’ However, it would now seem that the protocol...Read More
