For BitMEX, it hasn’t been the best of years from a popularity perspective. First, it faced massive criticism during the March 13th crash, when traders lost money due to an alleged DDOS attack, and recently Arthur Hayes, CEO of the exchange faced charges over violation of anti-money laundering policies. It hasn’t been smooth sailing and...Read More
When should you buy Bitcoin? The default answer to that should be every day, irrespective of the price, as the simple dollar-cost average (DCA) strategy goes. But, lets be honest, nobody really does that? Why? Because its too simple. Instead, people look at a host of different technical, on-chain and macro-economic indicators. Bitcoin, due to...Read More
Orbit, a new commercialized renewable energy company, announced that it will use the Ethereum blockchain to allow everyday people to get involved in buying and selling solar power. According to reports, special ORBT tokens will be distributed and used to make these purchases and sales. Given the fact that the transactions will take place utilizing...Read More
Ethereum, the biggest of the altcoins, dropped beneath $400 and could signal further, marketwide losses while Bitcoin stayed well above $13,000. Cardano exhibited a bullish divergence, however, bearish momentum held sway and only a bounce can be expected before a move to the downside. Algorand was in a short-term rally that was likely to fade...Read More
Bitcoin fees are soaring again, reaching a level of $12.71 as of yesterday. The recent spike in fees has been particularly steep over the past few days, with the current level reflecting a 540.3% increase. Source: Ycharts Average fees can spike when there is congestion in the network, which currently seems to be the case. Unconfirmed...Read More
Bitcoin defended $13,200 and was trading at $13,486 at the time of writing. The situation for altcoins was decidedly less bullish as most of the rest of the market saw losses and could have further downward to go. Bitcoin SV did not drop below $160 and could hint at recovery if it continued to hold...Read More
Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and others are compared to the traditional asset class to such an extent, that many tend to forget its functionality as digital currencies. While a customer will not be able to order anything on an e-commerce site using Gold or a Tesla stock, Bitcoin and other digital assets can be utilized...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
Disclaimer: The findings of the following article attempt to analyze the emerging patterns in the XRP short-term market and its impact on the price. As the Bitcoin market moved between some tough resistances and support over the past few days and given the strong correlations with the altcoins, XRP, the third-largest crypto has been noting...Read More
Bitcoin Dominance rose to 63.7% and Bitcoin was trading at $13,501 at press time. The altcoin market saw losses, with giants such as Ethereum also registering losses as it closed beneath $400. This could be explained by interest shifting from altcoins to Bitcoin, causing sell pressure on altcoins and buy pressure on BTC. Polkadot and...Read More
The three digital assets, Bitcoin Cash, IOTA, and Basic Attention Token continued to stay in the red zone for the day’s trading session. With over 6% in losses since yesterday, strong selling pressures could last longer in the Basic Attention Token and IOTA market. Bitcoin Cash on the other hand, also witnessing a sell-off, dipped...Read More
Bearish market trends seemed to be supporting a period of sell-off in the three alts, Cardano, Stellar Lumens, and VeChain. Moving averages favored a bearish trend for Cardano. Stellar Lumens too depicted a selling sentiment on its trading charts. Compound (COMP) displayed high levels of market volatility, which coincided with a period of a downtrend, hinting...Read More
In light of the anticipated October 31, which marks 12 years since the Bitcoin Whitepaper was released, many in the crypto community sought to celebrate the occasion. Blockchain cybersecurity firm, Halborn, even produced a video with several celebrities wishing Bitcoin a ‘Happy Birthday’. The list of celebrities celebrating ‘Bitcoin’s Birthday’, included David Hasselhoff, Gilbert Gottfried,...Read More
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
The aggregate open interest in Bitcoin futures is up 43% since the beginning of October. Based on data from Skew, cyclical drops in Bitcoin’s open interest on top derivatives exchanges occur every 45-50 days. BTC Futures Aggregated open interest || Source: Skew In the past year there were 3 peaks of open interest above $5.5...Read More
Litecoin witnessed a drop in its buying volumes amid the market-wide sell-off, with the digital asset plunging below key support turned resistance levels. Tron experienced some strong selling pressure, in the midst of a highly volatile scenario. Finally, the technical indicators for Zcash too suggested a clear bearish outlook for its immediate short-term trading sessions....Read More
While Bitcoin SV must have felt good upon its recent re-test at $180, its quick decline to $163 would have made things a little complicated. As the market followed Bitcoin’s cue, a bearish trend was evident on every altcoins chart and BSV was no different. With a market cap of $3 billion, BSV was back...Read More
Displaying a bearish scenario Chainlink was seen diving below its short- term period moving averages, on its trading chart. Tezos (XTZ) too continued to remain bearish, with a hint of weakening selling pressure for the XTZ market Dogecoin while maintaining a bearish sentiment over the past few days, reflected a flat price movement on its trading...Read More
Binance has announced the issuance of wrapped tokens on Ethereum through its Token Canal program. According to the announcement the first batch of tokens to be wrapped into ERC20 tokens on Ethereum will be Bitcoin [BTC], Polkadot [DOT], Filecoin [FIL], and WazirX [WRX]. “BTC, DOT, FIL and WRX will be the first batch of tokens...Read More
Recording a massive single-day drop, investors woke up to a bloodbath in the Synthetix market. At press time the digital asset recorded a loss of almost 20% Monero was displaying weakness in its buying momentum, as its technical indicators remained fairly bearish. XRP too noted the possibility of a downtrend, post its recent losses, as it...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
According to reports, the Chinese technology giant, Huawei has launched a smartphone that has a built-in hardware wallet for China’s Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). In a recent press conference, Yu Chengdong, Huawei’s CEO for the consumer business group, said that Mate 40 is the first smartphone that enables a hardware wallet for China’s digital...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
BitMEX has been paying special attention to its clients’ needs as it added more coins to its list of derivatives products. It started expanded its list of Quanto Futures in 2020 with the addition of ETHUSD Quanto Futures back in April, and ever since, other altcoins like Chainlink [LINK] and Tezos [XTZ] have managed 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
Disclaimer: The findings of the following article attempt to analyze the emerging patterns in the Ethereum short-term market and its impact on the price. The price of Bitcoin has been forming consecutive crests and troughs, which has been mirrored even in the altcoin market. Ethereum, the second-largest altcoin has also been witnessing its price falter,...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
Cardano just released the Goguen Roadmap, with most parts scheduled for delivery at the end of February 2021. Source: October Cardano monthly update With the rollout of Goguen, Cardano is becoming a smart contract platform. There is a shift from focusing on transactions alone to becoming a utility platform for partnerships, enterprises, and commercial applications...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
Managing to work through the market-wide sell-off today, most altcoins recorded some losses on their trading charts, with Bitcoin too trying to stay just above the $13,100 level at press time. Litecoin was witnessing selling pressure, that pushed the digital asset beneath two of its short-term-period moving averages. Following the negative sentiment, IOTA too remained...Read More
