Bitcoin’s price collapse creates opportunity to buy more BTC, but how much? When AngeloBTC, BitMEX‘s ex-top trader tweeted that Bitcoin would dip into the $6,000 zone on October 15, most of the traders were skeptical and asked him to delete the tweet, stemming from disbelief that BTC wouldn’t dive that deep. 38 days later, BTC...Read More
Internal Revenue Services [IRS] released a 2019 criminal investigation report celebrating its 100 years of law enforcement. The report entailed the fight against criminals using advanced technologies to evade taxes and commit other crimes. The report specifically mentioned the success it has had over the past year in curbing and apprehending criminals who used cryptocurrencies....Read More
Benefitting from innovation in the maturing cryptocurrency ecosystem, decentralized exchanges or DEXs have become the next big wave that has exhibited positive figures over time. 2019 was indeed the year of DEXs. Decentralized financial services or DeFi has been touted as a potential growth catalyst for DEX. Most DeFi services rely on decentralized exchanges for...Read More
The term digital gold has been used on Crypto Twitter after several influencers pointed out similarities between Bitcoin and gold. While some thought that it was good to view Bitcoin as digital gold or store of value asset, a few others highlighted the fact that this was defying Bitcoin’s use case as digital cash. The...Read More
While the perception of cryptocurrencies has changed for the better since the crackdown of Silk Road, the outlook on privacy-enhancing cryptocurrencies has not seen much change. Governments continue to tread cautiously towards them compared to Bitcoin and Ethereum. The wariness has impacted the growth of fungible cryptocurrencies such as Monero as more and more centralized exchanges...Read More
Over the past few months, Ethereum community had been gearing up for its eighth network update, Istanbul. Earlier today, Istanbul went live on the network at block number 9,069,000. Several developers of the Ethereum network along with Vitalik Buterin live-streamed the “Istanbul Upgrade Countdown Party!” Buterin revealed that the fork block was mined by SparkPool....Read More
Can cryptocurrencies ever replace fiat? This has been a subject of debate for many years now. According to Deutsche Bank’s latest study, the answer could be yes. Deutsche Bank’s analyst Jim Reid’s new study, titled ‘Imagine 2030‘, stated that Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies could eventually replace the established Fiat currency system by 2030. “Overcoming regulatory...Read More
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies emerged as a reaction to the inefficient traditional financial system and a growing crisis of confidence in these systems. Bitcoin has been used as an “escape valve” in countries with oppressive regimes like Venezuela and Zimbabwe and more than a decade since the creation of the Bitcoin genesis block, it can...Read More
In an Ethereum Q&A session conducted on YouTube, Bitcoin and open blockchain expert, Andreas Antonopoulos spoke about the proposed Ethereum 2.0 hard fork, the ‘first-mover advantage’, and whether or not he thought Ethereum would become the next Bitcoin. Antonopoulos explained how Ethereum and Bitcoin store accounts and code in fundamentally different ways. Where Bitcoin uses...Read More
After touching an 8-month low on November 25, the Ethereum community saw the flagship coin make some modest gains, including a brief move up to $156 two days before December began. Since then, ETH has been consolidating between the $150 and $146 marks, with a value of $148 at the time of writing. CoinMarketCap shows...Read More
A Bloomberg article published on December 4 cited a study conducted by the San Francisco-based ‘Crypto Fund Research’, which stated that nearly 70 crypto-focused hedge funds catering to pensions, family offices and wealthy individuals had closed down this year. It also claimed that the number of new funds launched this year is less than half...Read More
Bitcoin’s journey through 2019 has been extremely volatile; starting at $3,000 and reaching a high of $13,800. Bitcoin’s price seems to be stuck in the $7,000 range for more than two weeks and the pattern formed since then indicated an incoming bearish move. BTC is in an ascending channel forming higher highs and higher lows....Read More
The largest privacy-oriented cryptocurrency, Monero, recently upgraded its network in order to make the network ASIC-resistant. Prior to this upgrade, the network used to see a constant algorithm update to ward off ASIC miners; however, the recent change from CryptoNightR to RandomX promises to keep the network ASIC resistant for a much longer duration. Along with...Read More
EOS, the seventh-largest cryptocurrency on the market has seen its ratings downgraded to “C” by the crypto rankings company, Weiss Crypto Ratings. In a tweet, published on December 6, Weiss stated that the Block.one cryptocurrency has seen a “Failure to decentralize,” and hence it has been handed this setback. Their tweet read, 1/6 We’ve had...Read More
Ethereum-based decentralized exchange, Uniswap has been one of the few projects in the Ethereum ecosystem that has been making constant developments. Even Vitalik Buterin chose the platform as one of the top three dApps making headway in terms of adoption. Buterin had stated, “I mean in terms of things that people are using, Maker, Augur,...Read More
BDCenter Digital Insights recently published its ‘Crypto Exchanges’ report, which covered the occurrence of cryptocurrency exchange names in specialized media outlets over the world. By analyzing the headlines of 2,500 resources on these crypto exchanges, forex investments, and businesses, the report discussed the most mentioned exchanges in the news, and which media outlets have the...Read More
China is setting the wheels in motion to reduce the dominance of the US dollar. According to a recent report, it was revealed the Asian country was looking to amplify usage of its native fiat currency yuan over the US dollar in the digital asset industry. US dollar had a major dominance over the global...Read More
Just over a week ago, Bitcoin touched the $6500 mark, which was last seen in May, earlier this year. BTC has made a respectable recovery since then, valued at around $7365 at the time of writing. Bitcoin has a market capitalization of nearly $134 billion, and almost $17.8 billion worth of BTC was traded in...Read More
Major cryptocurrency exchanges, Binance and Coinbase, have slipped in the revised version of a cryptocurrency exchange ranking list. The data, compiled by crypto-asset data provider CryptoCompare, was titled ‘CryptoCompare Exchange Benchmark Q3 2019,’ and used a new metric for the latest edition. The tool, dubbed the ‘Exchange Benchmark,’ rested on 30 factors, including the team...Read More
Litecoin noted a sharp fall on 15 November, a fall that caused its price to fall from $59.97 to $55.63. This 7.24% fall was followed by the price of the coin climbing up. However, it fell soon after the rise. The price of Litecoin at the time of writing hovered at around $58.07 with a...Read More
Litecoin noted a sharp fall on 15 November, a fall that caused its price to fall from $59.97 to $55.63. This 7.24% fall was followed by the price of the coin climbing up. However, it fell soon after the rise. The price of Litecoin at the time of writing hovered at around $58.07 with a...Read More
Bitcoin had its hands full dealing with the bearish market, while DeFi gained popularity and provided significant earnings in mainstream finance. However, according to the report provided by Token Analyst, hodling Bitcoin [BTC] or Ethereum [ETH] garnered more revenue compared to crypto lending. The report highlighted the difference in returns offered by investing $1,000 at...Read More
Managing Partner and Head of Research at Fundstrat Global Advisors, Tom Lee, recently made an appearance on CNBC‘s ‘Street Signs Asia‘ segment to talk about Bitcoin price movements in the future. Lee also spoke about why he thinks Bitcoin will touch $25K by 2022. According to Lee, for an industry that’s over a decade old,...Read More
2019 has seen large-scale blockchain adoption. With China trying to beat the world to its central bank-backed digital currency, the United Arab Emirates [UAE] too, has begun drafting regulations. According to reports, UAE has been preparing for a rapid expansion in light of increasing demand for cryptocurrencies. According to Google trends, the terms with an...Read More
Ethereum’s price maintained a volatile trajectory over the past few months after repeated price swings in the market. On 25 October, the 2nd largest crypto-asset recorded its most recent price pump, hiking by 16 percent in a single day and recovering most of the losses suffered a couple of weeks prior. At press time, Ethereum...Read More
Monetary Authority of Singapore [MAS] recently revealed that it had collaborated with banking giant J.P. Morgan in order to develop a blockchain-based prototype. J.P. Morgan has always been bullish toward blockchain tech and cryptocurrencies. The banking giant went on to launch its native digital currency, JPM. Its latest partnership with MAS would allow payments of...Read More
Coinbase recently released a blog post on Proof-of-Work titled ‘How Coinbase views proof of work security.’ However, this blog post failed to appease the Monero community, with some of its proponents highlighting the lack of research done about the privacy-enhancing cryptocurrency. This was in light of the fact that the post had a case study...Read More
The Monero community has been gearing up for the network’s hardfork which is scheduled for 30 November, 2019. RandomX, a new proof-of-work algorithm, will be the result of the imminent hard fork. A code freeze was scheduled for 24 October, followed by the release of version 0.15.0.0 on 31 October. It has now been revealed...Read More
Over the past couple of months, Ethereum has been in the bears’ territory. The 2nd largest asset slumped by 42.65 percent since July 8th and the coin ended up breaching key supports which were active resistances at press time. However, there may be an imminent trend reversal for the coin in the future as the...Read More
Programmatic Proof-of-Work aka ProgPoW is undoubtedly one of the most discussed topics in the Ethereum community. The protocol proposed by developer team, IfDefElse, is a GPU-tuned extension of ETHash and its main purpose is to reduce the control of ASIC miners on the network by making graphic cards more competitive. This protocol was introduced to...Read More
