Bitcoin’s price has touched new heights in Q4 of 2020. However, it is easy to forget that Q3 was quite different. The Bitcoin market, along with the altcoin market, was quite a mix of volatility and consolidation this year. The spurts of volatility caused the BTC market and traders to pay close attention to the...Read More
The blockchain analysis firm, Chainalysis, today announced the launch of an asset realization program to help government agencies to track seized cryptocurrencies as well as handle, store, and realize such assets. Chief Revenue Officer, Chainalysis Jason Bonds believed that with cryptocurrencies becoming more mainstream, the likelihood of bad actors using it could increase. On that...Read More
With Bitcoin continuing to hover very close to its $16k-resistance level, many of the market’s altcoins are now having to endure prolonged periods of sideways movement. Such was the case for altcoins such as Binance Coin, Polkadot, and VeChain over the course of the previous week. Binance Coin [BNB] Source: BNB/USD, TradingView Binance Coin’s price...Read More
Disclaimer: The findings of the following article attempt to analyze the emerging patterns in the EOS long-term market and its impact on the price EOS, like some altcoins, has been sinking lower on the charts with every passing day. This, even as Bitcoin and some other major crypto-assets consolidated. However, if one were to view...Read More
Over the past few years, Bitcoin’s popularity has taken flight, with the cryptocurrency a well-known asset in the financial industry today. While it has become fairly common to talk about Bitcoin, fundamentally, it remains dissimilar to any other asset class. One factor that completely distinguishes Bitcoin from other asset classes is its supply distribution that...Read More
The cryptocurrency market has been all the rage lately, given its performance during the COVID-19 pandemic. Now that Bitcoin is once again surging on the charts, it is unlikely that BTC will stay away from the news for long. Owing to this popularity, many countries around the world have been taking regulatory measures, both in...Read More
What are your top 3 answers to the question, “Why would institutions even want to invest in Bitcoin?” Bitcoin has a good track record and it outperforms equitiesYeah, Bitcoin has outperformed almost every asset out there that has a history. It has done this within a span of a decade, give or take 2-3 years....Read More
While most of 2020 meant uncertainty and consolidation for Bitcoin, the past few weeks saw the cryptocurrency in good stead from a trading price point of view. Not only did Bitcoin’s price manage to stay above the crucial $15k-price level, but it also briefly breached the $16k-mark, before falling again. Source: Coinstats While there has...Read More
Bitcoin’s price, at the time of writing, continued to remain close to the much-anticipated $16K-level. Owing to their high correlation to the world’s largest cryptocurrency, many of the market’s altcoins benefited as expected. In fact, popular altcoins like XRP, Synthetix, and NEM saw their prices surge over the past week. However, over the last 24-48...Read More
In a development that has been dubbed an ‘unannounced hard fork,’ Ethereum developers introduced changes to the underlying code earlier in the day, changes that led to the Ethereum blockchain splitting. A new version valid for upgraded nodes was created and was seen as invalid by older ones that did not upgrade. The development gave...Read More
Disclaimer: The findings of the following article attempt to analyze the emerging patterns in Chainlink’s short-term market and its impact on the price Unlike most, Chainlink has not been highly correlated with Bitcoin, with the impact of the same very visible on its market. In fact, the value of LINK has been moving in a...Read More
Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency, after much prevarication, finally breached the $16,000-mark across some major crypto-exchanges. In the last hour alone, Bitcoin hiked by over 1.5%, with the cryptocurrency gaining by over $150 on the charts. Additionally, BTC was up by 4% and 11% on the daily and weekly timeframes, respectively. Source: BTC/USD on TradingView...Read More
Commodities trader and analyst Peter Brandt said on Twitter that XRP would have been deemed a security if the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regulators completely understood the workings of cryptocurrencies. Brandt published his XRP stance in response to a comment by one Twitter user going by the name of Rexiby crypto, who claimed...Read More
In an official announcement, cryptocurrency exchange Binance, said it has offered the promised bounty of $200,000 to certain private investigators, who remain unnamed, for compiling a report that identified one of the alleged attackers and provided information on the specifics of the attack. Earlier, the exchange had decided to reward anyone who “supplies information that...Read More
Bitcoin rose to $15,610 and the Crypto Fear and Greed Index showed a greedy value of 86, in what has been a week of extreme bullish sentiment toward crypto. Binance Coin formed a pattern that could see a breakout imminently, while the coin itself lacked momentum over the past few hours. IOTA could bounce off...Read More
Bitcoin held its ground at the $15,400 level. The king of crypto has not moved in a major way to either side in the past week, and could pave the way for some altcoins to recover. Source: CoinStats Bitcoin SV appeared to be headed for losses as it traded above a region of demand, while...Read More
Disclaimer: The findings of the following article attempt to analyze the emerging patterns in the Bitcoin Cash short-term market and its impact on the price. The value of Bitcoin Cash has been slipping lower and even as the largest crypto asset, Bitcoin consolidates, it has not helped the BCH price. At press time, BCH was...Read More
Trading currently at $15,400, bitcoin isn’t a long way from its recent top; in fact, it is in consolidation and the price might soon make or break. Identifying this make or break could allow one to profit; however, that comes after identifying the direction of the breakout. This article tries to do just that by...Read More
Cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin’s hack never stopped making news, as the culprits involved have been trying to move the stolen crypto onto several decentralized exchanges. But now in its most recent development, KuCoin co-founder Johnny Lyu revealed that 84% of the hacked funds had been recovered. In a tweet published on 11 November, Lyu said: So...Read More
Litecoin formed a bearish pattern and could be poised to drop lower while Tron registered slight gains in recent hours on a bounce off support. Algorand was retracing after a downward move, and a strong rejection at an important level of retracement could signal that its short-term bounce was at an end. Litecoin [LTC] Source:...Read More
China Construction Bank Corporation which is one of the “big four” banks in the People’s Republic of China is reportedly launching the sale of $3 billion worth of debt on a blockchain. The digital bonds can be bought for US dollars or bitcoin and will be listed on a regulated Malaysian digital asset exchange. However,...Read More
MicroStrategy’s Michael Saylor has been in the news since MicroStrategy’s purchase of $500 Million worth of Bitcoin, right off of the company’s balance sheet. The spotlight on crypto Twitter has been on Michael Saylor and recently he tweeted about the debate between Bitcoin and Gold and how one would end the other, his choice of...Read More
At the moment, analyzing Bitcoin’s price chart is like taking aim in the dark. It is an unfamiliar trading range and it was last witnessed during January 2018. With the current market being extremely bullish over the last month, correction still awaits BTC’s market hence we will analyzing a couple of scenarios that may play...Read More
Cardano rose past a region of supply and could be headed further upward to resistance. Cosmos retraced some of its gains from the previous month and was headed higher, but could see a drop in the coming hours while Basic Attention Token was in a long-term downtrend, and the bears were likely to impose themselves...Read More
The outlook for Cardano is bearish both on a long term and a short term basis. As explained in the previous article, there is a drop coming for Cardano and other altcoins; as for ADA, the drop might push it down to the 0.382-Fibonacci level. At press time, ADA was trading at $0.1079 and was...Read More
As the spot market once again began to consolidate, the decentralized finance [DeFi] sector has been witnessing a surge after bottoming out last week. Year.finance [YFI] has been a popular DeFi project that has been witnessing a great surge in the market over the past couple of weeks. Ever since it bottomed at $7,452.49 on...Read More
Four weeks back, prominent cryptocurrency exchange, OKEx had to suspend deposits and withdrawals of all cryptocurrencies due to a brawl involving its investors and users. To users’ relief, the exchange has now enabled its deposits and withdrawal service. Chinese reporter on Twitter, Colin Wu Twitter noted that “OKEx has reopened the legal currency deposit and...Read More
Infura, a hosted Ethereum node cluster that allows users to run applications without the need of an individual node or wallet, is experiencing downtime, at the time of writing. The infrastructure provider noted that it was experiencing a service outage that was causing a delay in the price feed to update for the Ethereum and...Read More
The cryptocurrency space is still considered to be in its early stages as many projects strive to overcome traditional finance barriers. In March, Ethereum-based crowdfunding platform, Gitcoin pledged $50,000 in development grants towards coronavirus-related initiatives and ever since has been aiming to improve the state of the ecosystem from public health projects to projects to...Read More
Monero was in a downtrend that could see the crypto-asset lose a level of support to the bears. Polkadot was trading within a relatively tight range over the past few days and could continue to do so over the next few trading sessions. VeChain had a bullish outlook in the near-term as it flipped a...Read More
