The cryptocurrency market in 2019 underwent a rough journey, with major cryptos riding the tides one moment, and collapsing the other. Bitcoin, that noted triple digits YTD returns until earlier this year, remained profitable with 86% yield, at press time, to the investors. The price of the coin peaked in 2019 at $13,880 on 26...Read More
Despite Litecoin dropping by 16% in a little over a day on December 16, it has made considerable headway in crossing above the $40 mark, valued at nearly $43 just two days ago. At the time of writing, LTC’s $40 price-tag is still better than the December low at $35, which was last seen in February...Read More
Looking back at 2019, it is quite evident how Malta-based cryptocurrency exchange Binance paved its way across various sectors and geographies. With global expansion as one of its major goals this year, the Changpeng Zhao-led exchange focused on other developments as well. Throughout the year, the platform ventured into several other countries in order to...Read More
Crypto YouTubers expressed their disappointment after YouTube decided to take down their videos. Popular influencers of the crypto space, utilize YouTube to educate people about cryptocurrencies. YouTube, however, has taken down cryptocurrency-related videos further categorizing them as “harmful content” and some of the YouTubers have been temporarily banned from the platform. Popular YouTuber, Chico Crypto...Read More
Maker Foundation has evidently established its presence in the DeFi ecosystem after it rolled out the Multi-Collateral DAI [MCD] along with Dai Savings Rate [DSR]. The release of MCD was via a voting system and the Foundation is continuing to do the same for every other release or update. In its latest blog post, the...Read More
Looking back at 2019, the cryptocurrency industry witnessed the entry of several mainstream companies into its ecosystem. However, Facebook’s Libra project was the one that garnered the most attention. Even though the buzz around the project seems to have sobered down, it still is a hot topic of discussion. China wasn’t far behind, as the...Read More
Other than the bullish movement earlier this year, where ETH reached its 2019 high at around $360, the coin spent most of the year under the $220 mark. The recent Ethereum Istanbul upgrade also didn’t do ETH any favors, dropping to a value of $128 at the time of writing. Ethereum 1-day chart Source: ETHUSD on TradingView...Read More
The Ethereum network is undergoing upgrade spree; just days before Istanbul, developers of the network revealed Muir Glacier. Named after a receding glacier in the United States, Muir Glacier was put forth to delay Ice Age which is also known as the difficulty bomb. This hard fork would delay the difficulty bomb for another 4...Read More
Every four years, the block reward for Bitcoin miners are cut by half. The previous halving took place in July 2016 and the next halving is expected to take place in May 2020. While the price of Bitcoin has been moving sideways without any major surge or fall, the community believes that the halving could...Read More
After a ~26% rise in value between the 17th and 18th of September, XRP’s 33% crash over the next 6 days shook the community, as the coin saw lows last seen over two years prior. Despite a relatively impressive boost from $0.22 to more than $0.31 over the next month and a half, it’s safe...Read More
We’re almost in another halving year. The third Bitcoin halving is slated to be one of the biggest events since the inception of the cryptocurrency. Scheduled for 14, May 2020, the reduction of the block rewards is expected to lead to a price increase owing to the principles of supply and demand, but on the...Read More
Bitcoin’s daily close yesterday confirmed that there will not be any more upside, at least, nothing above $7,600. Moreover, the indicators that exhibited bullish trends have slowed down; they are on the verge of a reversal. Moreover, the price also got rejected by the centerline of a major descending channel seen on the daily time...Read More
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin recently posted an alternative proposal for an early transition to Ethereum 2.0 that “achieves the goal of getting rid of the PoW chain and moving everything onto the beacon chain on an accelerated schedule.” According to Buterin, this proposal will require stateless clients, but not stateless miners and web assembly, meaning...Read More
Since yesterday, Bitcoin’s price movement has been flowing downward in a series of waterfalls, with some sideways movement in between. The daily close yesterday being rejected at the two-year moving average at around $7529 caused Bitcoin to flip from being slightly bullish to majorly bearish, causing a flurry of liquidations on BitMEX Bitcoin longs. Source: BTCUSD...Read More
Not so long ago, crypto exchanges came under fire for allegedly facilitating wash trading and trade volume manipulation. Following Bitwise’s report about exchanges faking volumes, popular data site, CoinMarketCap faced backlash for reporting false volumes. TradingView’s General Manager, Pierce Crosby explained spoofing in the equities market is similar to creating fake volumes in the crypto...Read More
According to Vision Hill Group, a trend notably observed throughout 2019 has been the major shift of crypto-asset from a currency sentiment, towards utilization of tokens for financial applications and utility. Bitcoin‘s portrayal as a store-of-value has been one of the most popular narratives in 2019 as other assets such as Ether carved a different utility...Read More
The launch of Bakkt, launch of Galaxy Digital’s brand new BTC funds, Fidelity‘s bitcoin product and TD Ameritrade’s bitcoin trading service on the Nasdaq via its brokerage platform marked some of the marquee events over the past 12 months, but according to Vision Hill’s recent report, constructive participation is yet to enter the space. Capital...Read More
In another boost for the XRP ecosystem, Bitrue, a Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange announced that it will soon list 27 new XRP pairs on its platform. With XRP as the base pair, the first 14 coins to be paired with it will be opened for deposits and withdrawals starting on 23rd December. The official blog post...Read More
EDEN is the EPCIS Decentralized Network, a blockchain-as-a-service providing supply chain visibility tools. Multichain Ventures created EDEN as a solution to the challenges of proving the provenance of goods throughout supply chains for legal cannabis businesses. For the peace of mind of responsible customers and complying with strict regulations, EDEN provides stakeholders with an easy...Read More
While 2020 is just around the corner, everyone from the cryptocurrency industry has been speculating Bitcoin’s price movement for the next year. Former Wall Street trader and a prominent influencer in the industry, Tone Vays joined the bandwagon and went on to reveal what 2020 has in store for Bitcoin. Over the past few months,...Read More
A question that has been debated since the Dot.com bubble is the emergence of the online marketplace. One of the most publicized flameouts of the internet bubble was Pets.com, an online pet store. Soon after its IPO in 2000, that raised $82 million, the company ran out of money and joined the list of some...Read More
“Privacy is not something that I’m merely entitled to, it’s an absolute prerequisite” ~ Marlon Brando Privacy in itself is a spectrum; the meaning differs from one person to another. There are people who are absolutely fine with being completely surveilled on, there are people who are okay with partial surveillance, and there are also...Read More
In the latest update, Bakkt has just appointed Mike Blandina as the CEO of Bakkt, the crypto venture, majorly backed by ICE. Adam White will now serve as the President of the company. This news was revealed following the departure of founding CEO Kelly Loeffler, who was appointed to the United States Senate to fill...Read More
Ripple’s ODL corridor to Australia was tested for over a year before its CEO, Brad Garlinghouse announced the gateway will go live Via FlashFX, an Australian Exchange. However, the ODL service has been noting minimal transactions, pointing out that the corridor has not been activated yet. Meanwhile, Flash FX expanded its ODL service to the...Read More
Upbit, a South Korean exchange woke up to a major hack on 27 November, resulting in the loss of $51.7 million worth of Ethereum. Ever since the hack, many exchanges came forward to freeze the movement of the stolen funds; however, that has not stopped hackers from trying to move these funds to various unidentified...Read More
Staking seems to be doing rounds in the cryptocurrency industry and the CZ led platform rolled out Binance Staking back in September. The platform started off staking services for just Algorand’s ALGO and Stellar’s XLM; the platform has witnessed the addition of several other currencies ever since. More recently, Binance’s research platform shared a post...Read More
Ethereum Foundation officially announced that the network will be undergoing a scheduled upgrade on block number 9,200,000 for Muir Glacier. This upgrade which follows Istanbul is expected to be activated on the mainnet around January 01, 2020, at Block number 9,200,000 Ethereum Foundation’s tweet read, “[IMPORTANT] Upgrade your nodes for the Muir Glacier upgrade happening...Read More
Several analysts speculated that the sideways movement Bitcoin has been displaying was nothing but a mere set back; venture capitalist, Tim Draper, however, is bullish about the king coin as he reportedly said that the price of Bitcoin could go to a high of $250,000 in the next two years. Discussing the same, Fundstrat’s Tom...Read More
Unlike traditional ones, cryptocurrency wallets store a lot of relevant information such as the secure private key used to access Bitcoin addresses and carry out transactions, etc., And while there are many ways in which users can store their Bitcoins, it’s important to fully understand the drawbacks of each type of wallets. With the growing...Read More
It’s almost the end of the year, and this end would also mean that Bitcoin would successfully be stepping into its 11th year of existence. Over the decade, the largest cryptocurrency has gone through the phase of being a digital currency that’s used by criminals to a currency that has been viewed as a store...Read More
