Bitcoin Dominance stood at 65.7% as Bitcoin made strong gains while many of the large-cap altcoins followed suit. At press time BTC was being traded at $16,918 with a trading volume of $18.2 billion. Source: CoinStats Polkadot exhibited a bearish divergence but that does not necessitate an immediate pullback. IOTA appeared to begin another leg...Read More
Self-claimed Bitcoin pioneer and podcaster, Max Keiser, believes that American billionaire hedge fund manager Raymond ‘Ray’ Dalio, will have to buy Bitcoin soon if he wants to stay in business. In a new episode of the Keiser Report, the bitcoin maximalist looked at the many Wall Street legends entering the bitcoin game, such as Paul...Read More
The Bank of Japan [BoJ] had prioritized the development of a central bank digital currency [CBDC] in July, however, as per a former executive the issuance may take several years. Hiromi Yamaoka, who formerly headed BOJ’s division of overseeing payment and settlement systems, told Reuters that the main hurdle in from the of the bank...Read More
In the past 24 hours apart from making headlines, SushiSwap gained 9.25% based on data from DeFiPulse. The project that earned a reputation as the dead $UNI fork that got hacked by the founder 2 months ago is now working on a strong comeback. The Sushi team has been working in the background. The token’s...Read More
Former Olympic wrestler and mixed martial artist, Benjamin Michael Askren, nicknamed “Funky” took to Twitter today to share his opinion on why he thinks Bitcoin was increasing in value. He implied that the premium cryptocurrency was only going up in value because the US dollar was losing its own. In his 17 November tweet, the...Read More
Bitcoin touched $16,800 in recent hours as sentiment in the crypto space continued to be ecstatic. Some metrics pointed toward a BTC pullback, but it would be anyone’s guess to pinpoint the exact local top for BTC. Some altcoins were strongly bullish in the short term. Binance Coin reversed a bearish pattern with an upside...Read More
Bitcoin is easily the most profitable investment, so far, since November 2020 bitcoin has yielded an approximate 29% in returns. In comparison other assets fall short, they shy away from bitcoin. Source: TradingView Clearly, bitcoin outperforms each and every last one of them. So, not investing in bitcoin is a no brainer. If you do...Read More
After clocking in a new local top at $476, Ethereum’s price has been tepid over the past week. Clocking in a weekly change of 0.96% drop, Ethereum might be indicative of a correction period with Bitcoin but larger market sentiment remained poles apart with respect to the price. Source: Skew According to recent Skew data,...Read More
Bitcoin’s performance could positively influence Bitcoin Cash, which has posted a series of lower highs in the past week. EOS retraced most of its downward move from earlier this month, while Dash formed a bull flag and could be poised to test a level of resistance soon. Bitcoin Cash [BCH] Source: BCH/USDT on TradingView Bitcoin...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
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
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
Economist Nouriel Roubini has criticized the booming decentralized finance (DeFi) economy by labelling the entire sector as“the new crypto fad” and “junk vaporware.” The American economist took to Twitter on 16 November to root for “great cheap” fintech solutions that he believed will not depend on hyped blockchain technology. He said in a tweet: The...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
Major Cryptocurrency exchange Binance announced that it would now discontinue its own BGBP stablecoin, which was linked to the pound sterling. Other than removing the BGBP/USDC pair, the exchange said on Monday that it would remove several trading pairs, including AE/ETH, BLZ/BUSD, KMD/BUSD and NULS/ETH. In its announcement, Binance said that BGBP/USDC is the last trading...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
The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) is reportedly working towards introducing a regulatory framework for cryptocurrencies, according to a new document published this week. The SEC emphasized that this study focused exclusively on non-government or private crypto assets and not on Pakistan’s central bank digital currencies (CBDC). Stating that it welcomed any comments...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
A self-claimed Chinese cryptocurrency reporter, Colin Wu, who has an exclusive focus on the crypto mining industry, regulation and exchanges in China, took to twitter today to share that Bitcoin miners based in China are finding it difficult to pay their electricity bills. Colin Wu found that the Chinese local governments have been cracking down...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
The state-owned bank, Belarusbank launched the first legal cryptocurrency exchange service in Belarus, through its partnership with White Bird, a local cryptocurrency firm. With this launch, citizens of Belarus and Russia can now buy and sell crypto. However, the bank plans to expand the list of countries whose citizens will be able to exchange 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 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
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
