Ethereum 2.0 is still in the works after many delays. And yet, it is still receiving a lot of praise from the likes of CFTC Chairman Heath Tarbert. While the ETH community is stoked about this, others have critiqued ETH’s timeline to deliver ETH 2.0. At press time, there were many ETH competitors, but none...Read More
Bitcoin climbed well past $11,500, before a minor drop pulled its press time trading price to $11,504. Its strong defense of the $11,200-level and its subsequent rise to $11,500 could lend bullish impetus to the altcoin market in the coming days. As for the altcoins, Cardano moved above a short-term moving average as its momentum...Read More
Bitcoin was trading above the price level of $11400, at press time, with BTC having successfully negotiated a stay above $11k for most of the previous week. In fact, despite several notable developments recently, the cryptocurrency recorded a 5% hike over a 3-week period. This is interesting because, until 2020, the prevailing perception was that...Read More
Capitulation, more popularly known as the death spiral, is usually thought of to arrive when investors surrender, and HODLers give up all future hope in an asset and sell. A discussion about capitulation is relevant right now because institutions like MicroStrategy and Square are buying and there may be a point when they flood exchanges...Read More
Disclaimer: The findings of the following article are the sole opinion of the writer and should not be taken as investment advice Between 13 August and 24 September, Tezos registered a 58 percent sell-off, with the cryptocurrency dropping all the way down to $1.91. While the decline was certainly not pleasurable for many of XTZ’s investors,...Read More
Cardano dropped down to $0.0753 in the 3rd week of September. While its valuation seemed down and out, the cryptocurrency soon rallied and made its way into the top-10 of the market again. Climbing from a low of $0.0753, ADA was noting a value of $0.106, at press time, having been on a positive run...Read More
The news of Filecoin’s mainnet launch has been anticipated by both crypto businesses and the entire crypto community at large, no doubt. With several major exchanges listing Filecoin’s native FIL token ahead of launch, crypto payment gateway NOWPayments has done its best to keep up with the crypto giants. The company has announced that we...Read More
In what is a significant development, Jerome Powell, Chair of the U.S Federal Reserve, today revealed that the Fed is looking into the benefits of digital currencies. The Fed Chair was speaking at a seminar organized by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) titled “Cross-Border Payments – A Vision for the Future,” a seminar that involved...Read More
Chainlink‘s charts highlighted two important levels that could determine its long-term movement, while on the shorter timeframe, the crypto-asset lacked any momentum. Cosmos‘ buyers showed some interest, but it was unclear if it would be enough to propel ATOM higher. Decred has been volatile lately, but its movement underlined the possibility of gains over the...Read More
The Crypto Fear and Greed Index was noting a figure of 55, at the time of writing, the same reading as the previous day. Monero was retracing recent gains made, but it did show some signs of heading north. Further, while Ontology formed a bearish pattern on the charts, DigiByte looked to be resolutely heading...Read More
Disclaimer: The findings of the following article are the sole opinion of the writer and should not be taken as investment advice With new IEOs and DeFi products being launched continuously, Binance Chain and Binance coin have both been doing well. The token has evolved from being just another ERC20 token on ETH to a coin with...Read More
Stellar Lumens was approaching its resistance level and appeared to possess the bullish momentum needed to flip the level to support. Further down the crypto-ladder, Basic Attention Token attempted to break out to the upside, but was denied by the market’s bears. Enjin, on the other hand, was heading towards a period of low volatility....Read More
24 hours after the launch of Filecoin, a majority of its miners have gone on strike. The main reason for the same is that miners actually have to buy $FIL, in order to mine $FIL, as it currently stands. To begin with, Filecoin is very complex and requires high-end hardware including 128GB memory. In fact,...Read More
Another update disclosed by IOTA’s development team has revealed news of several existing projects being deployed, as well as many other noteworthy projects in the pipeline. IOTA 1.5 (also known as Chrysalis) is the mainnet’s intermediate stage. Chrysalis Phase 1 components were deployed to the mainnet in August. The engineering team is now working on...Read More
Litecoin, like many altcoins in the market, has seen its price drop on the charts. At press time, a consolidation after the aforementioned drop seemed to be ongoing, following which, LTC may be due for a small pump. Overall, Litecoin’s price was observed to be up for a small pump, one that could turn bullish...Read More
Simply put, velocity is a measure of how quickly money is circulating in the economy. For Bitcoin, the figure is calculated by dividing the on-chain transaction volume (in USD) by the market cap, i.e. the inverse of the NVT ratio. The value for the same has risen significantly in 2020, relative to 2019. In fact,...Read More
Bitcoin was trading at $11,416, at press time, and commanded a dominant share of 59% in the market. Its fork coin Bitcoin Cash exhibited a bullish signal as it traded just under an important level at $252. NEM, on the other hand, invalidated a bullish pattern at the behest of steady selling pressure on the...Read More
Disclaimer: The findings of the following article are the sole opinion of the writer and should not be considered as investment advice Bitcoin‘s price movement over the previous week seemed to have formed a curve, one perhaps hinting at a potentially bullish pattern that could push BTC to $11,700. At press time, Bitcoin was trading at...Read More
Bitcoin’s hashrate hit a new ATH recently. In fact, the total hashrate has hit quite a few ATHs this year, with the same noted to be $144.03M TH/s, at the time of writing. However, while historically this points to a price hike in the future, it may not be the case this time. Bitcoin’s hash...Read More
Reports from Hungarian news outlet hvg have revealed that a prominent Hungarian politician was allegedly involved in the illegal act of stealing electricity from public offices, while also operating a Bitcoin mine from his premises. The individual in question, Tamás Borka-Szász, is the Chairman of the District Finance and the District Development Committee. He has...Read More
At the time of writing, Ethereum, the world’s largest altcoin, was trading within a range, and a close outside the range would give traders clarity on the next direction for the crypto-asset. At the time, the Crypto Fear and Greed Index was noting a figure of 55, a figure that might be an indicator of...Read More
DeFi’s total value locked [TVL] figures seem to be holding above $10 billion, however, scams are crawling out of the shadows, one project at a time. While ‘scam’ is a strong, blanket word, not all projects are scams per se. This weekend, the COVER project seems to have caught the attention of this label. Riding...Read More
For the Bitcoin world, December 2017 was the glory days and the nightmare, all wrapped in one. Over that month, and the pullback that followed, the world saw what could happen if the hype around cryptocurrencies gave way to reality. Now, nearly three years on, Bitcoin’s press time price requires a 75 percent jump in...Read More
Bitcoin SV has noted quite a lot of volatility in its valuation over the past few weeks. Although it failed to note a trend in the short-term, it might be forced lower on the charts in the coming weeks, unless the bulls stepped in. Augur was trading within a price range, but might be able...Read More
According to a tweet by Whale Alert, part of the funds stolen during the KuCoin Hack last month are now moving around again. The blockchain tracking platform reported that 1,814 ETH ($665,980) of the aforementioned funds were moved from the wallet in question, a wallet dubbed ‘Kucoin Hack 2020,’ to an unknown wallet earlier today....Read More
At the time of writing, Tron was sliding down the charts, despite the fact that it lacked momentum to the downside. It should be noted, however, that the aforementioned slide might pave the way for a period of consolidation over the next few weeks. Further down the crypto-ladder, Synthetix was in a similar situation, although...Read More
The figures for Bitcoin flowing into exchanges were below their 90-day average this week, with a drop in supply seen as a bullish sign for the world’s largest cryptocurrency. Further down the crypto-ladder, however, EOS could not hold on to the recent gains it made, while Algorand was forced to drop to a region of...Read More
Vietnam’s Orient Commercial Joint Stock Bank is in the news after it joined RippleNet as a strategic partner on 16 October. Phong Nguyen, Head of Fintech at OCB, described the strategic partnership as the result of a “10-month effort in mobilizing multi-division resources and aggressively exploring business use cases.” According to Nguyen, Ripple’s technology will...Read More
Zcash and Maker although still not bullish enough, were definitely displaying signs of short-term positive price reversals, as the selling pressures for the two digital assets continued to weaken. Bitcoin SV however, seen making a bearish breakout below its trendline, could witness a few more bearish sessions, as the bulls were yet to solidify a...Read More
Binance Coin was retracing some gains as BNB bulls took profit, and was likely to resume the uptrend in the coming days. IOTA was headed downward, as was Basic Attention Token. However, both the assets might be able to effect a short-term bounce in the coming days. Binance Coin [BNB] Source: BNB/USDT on TradingView Binance...Read More
