Cryptocurrencies and their proponents take a lot of pride in the former’s decentralized nature. In fact, if you ever hear someone pitching Bitcoin to someone else, you can be pretty sure that decentralization and a lack of central authority will be one of the first features he/she will highlight. A pitch like that is well...Read More
Bitcoin dipped to $11,200 zone after reaching $12,500 in the past two weeks. This downward move caused losses across the market, with some coins seeing much of their recent gains wiped out. As Bitcoin regained strength, so did many of the major altcoins. Bitcoin Dominance was at 61.03 at the time of writing and trending...Read More
Bitcoin SV had been on a downtrend for the better part of August; Algorand showed signs of lowered volatility and pointed toward consolidation. Steem registered large moves both upward and downward, and indicated where good trading opportunities were. Algorand [ALGO] Source: ALGO/USDT on TradingView ALGO set a local high at $0.75, but was forced back....Read More
Growing institutional interest has been a driver for Bitcoin’s price since July 2020. However, in what is being termed as the bull run of the season, other drivers of growth such as increasing liquidity, demand by new buyers, and Bitcoin’s volatility on spot exchanges, are also rearing their heads. For Bakkt, institutional interest has contributed...Read More
Disclaimer: The following article attempts to analyze the emerging patterns in Bitcoin Cash’s long-term market and its impact on the price While the Bitcoin Cash upgrade has been scheduled for 15 November, there has been a longstanding debate about the fork coin’s difficulty adjustment algorithm [DAA]. Despite the many controversies BCH seems to be embroiled...Read More
At the time of writing, Bitcoin seemed to have briefly reclaimed the $11,500-mark, before dipping into the mid-$11,400’s, again. The world’s largest cryptocurrency showed some bullish signals on the charts, however, and could reclaim $11,800 if buyers seize control. Similarly, IOTA appeared to have broken out of its downtrend and looked ready to initiate an...Read More
Disclaimer: The following article attempts to analyze the emerging patterns in Litecoin’s long-term market and its impact on the price Litecoin’s price had been consolidating between $40 and $50 for a long time, post the Black Thursday crash in March. Despite being the 7th largest cryptocurrency by market cap, the coin did, however, note quite...Read More
Ethereum’s growth in the year 2020 has been quite astounding. Not only has the decentralized finance platform built on top of it prospered, but the integration of prominent stablecoins like Tether [USDT] has contributed to the same too. While the onboarding of projects did attract a lot of interest from crypto-users, it also highlighted cracks...Read More
The expiry of contracts worth $80M on 28 August 2020 was accompanied by a 3.29% change in Ethereum’s price on spot exchanges. Usually, major expiry events such as this affect the price of Ethereum since they bring about change in liquidity, Open Interest, and Put/Call ratios. However, off-late, the relationship between the expiry of contracts...Read More
At the time of writing, Ethereum was trading just beneath a level that could be pivotal for setting an uptrend. Failure to breach this resistance might consign Ethereum to testing lower ranges on the charts for a while. Further, Algorand and Decred were noting very little momentum in the market, with traders watching from the...Read More
Disclaimer: The following article attempts to analyze the emerging patterns in XRP’s long-term market and its impact on the price Despite being the market’s third-largest cryptocurrency, the price of XRP has failed to sustain the growth it registered during its most recent market rally. XRP’s yearly peak was observed back in February, a time when...Read More
Binance Coin regained most of the losses following its most recent pullback, with BNB prepping for another upward move on the charts. At the time of writing, VeChain was showing strong bearish signals, while also exhibiting signs of a potential reversal that could play out in the coming days. EOS was another cryptocurrency that was...Read More
A recent report released by Chainalysis revealed how U.S officials including the FBI, among other agencies, investigated the recent case of cryptocurrencies stolen by the Lazarus Group, a North Korea-affiliated hacker group. It was published soon after the U.S. Department of Justice forfeited 280 crypto-accounts involved in the laundering of approximately $28.7 million worth of...Read More
Tezos and Monero seemed to be caught in a downtrend from mid-August. However, while Tezos showed signs of continuing bearish momentum at press time, Monero might just have turned a corner by showing signals of bullishness. Dogecoin remains the Internet’s favorite memecoin, but traders and investors seem to have lost their interest in the asset....Read More
Neo, a public blockchain and smart contracts platform announced that it has integrated with the Coinbase-led open-source project Rosetta. Neo integrates with #Rosetta, an open-source project led by Coinbase. We look forward to work together with Rosetta improving protocol integration processes in order to build the next-gen Internet.https://t.co/Nl8nF3OW4G — Neo Smart Economy (@Neo_Blockchain) August 28,...Read More
Bitcoin’s on-chain fundamentals grew stronger post its second halving in 2016. However, while most traders have historically been focused on the world’s largest cryptocurrency’s price action, there is a degree of ignorance when it comes to studying metrics for building a trading strategy. Here are just a few of them that highlight such growth in...Read More
The U.S Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged two Maryland based companies over a Ponzi scheme that allegedly defrauded approximately 1,200 investors, of more than $27 million by promising to trade their money on crypto exchanges. SEC charges Ponzi scheme targeting African immigrants https://t.co/lyrs3RSViJ — SEC_News (@SEC_News) August 28, 2020 The illegitimate companies involved in...Read More
The international energy company, Equinor plans to repurpose gas flaring from U.S oil fields to support Bitcoin (BTC) mining, according to a new report from Arcane, a cryptocurrency market research hub. Arcane Research said that it received screenshots from Equinor’s blog that detailed the company’s plans to use natural gas, instead of flaring it, in...Read More
SBI Holdings, a financial services company based in Japan announced addition of CFDs for premiere cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and XRP. The trading will begin on 31 August on SBI FX which is SBI Holdings’ retail forex brokerage platform. These contracts for differences or CFDs allow traders to settle the differences between the...Read More
Disclaimer: The following article expands on what might be expected from Bitcoin SV’s price movement over the next few weeks Bitcoin SV’s downtrend started the day it registered its high of $260 on the 2nd of this month. While the forked asset managed to recover from $197 mid-month, over the last week, the bearish pressure...Read More
Halvings are important events in Bitcoin’s price cycle, especially because a lot of expectations are tied to these events. However, while Bitcoin’s price did end up higher post the first two halvings, it did take quite a few months for the price to do the same. Post the first halving, the price rose by over...Read More
Ethereum has been the leader of the market’s altcoins for a long time now, with the cryptocurrency marking out its own route for the season with its own rallies. However, while it did follow a similar trend as Bitcoin, it also managed to report greater growth, with traders supporting its high price on the charts....Read More
Bitcoin‘s price was once again consolidating yesterday as many of the market’s traders awaited the Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s speech. The market anticipated the Fed to raise the inflation rate, but Powell introduced new plans to target inflation averaging at 2% over time. However, while the Fed Reserve chair shared his insights, Bitcoin’s spot...Read More
A persistent market downtrend has been the norm over the past few days, with Bitcoin’s price fortunes having a ripple effect on the rest of the market’s altcoins. This was the case with Chainlink, Zcash, and Ethereum Classic as well, and it is likely that these altcoins will continue to note significant corrections on the...Read More
Disclaimer: The following article attempts to analyze the emerging patterns in the long-term Ethereum market and its impact on the price Etheruem has gotten off its rallying horse, with the cryptocurrency noting a significant dip in value over the past week. There have also been issues related to the gas price due to congestion on...Read More
After weeks of bullish movement, it would seem that the larger crypto-market has come to a grinding halt, with bears ruling the roost now. When Bitcoin gradually fell on the charts after having failed to sustain a beach of $12k, so did the market’s altcoins. At the time of writing, most of these alts, including...Read More
With another month coming to an end, it is important to note that month-ends are generally associated with the expiration of Bitcoin derivatives products. With the Futures and the Options market noting great interest from traders, there are now nearly 66,400 BTC Options set t0 expire on 28 August, as per data provider Skew. Source:...Read More
U.S. officials like the FBI, US Treasury, US Cyber Command, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued a warning against North Korean hacker group ‘BeagleBoyz,’ which have resumed its attacks on banks and ATMs around the world. The officials also revealed that the hacker group was behind lucrative cryptocurrency thefts. The alert said that...Read More
The cryptocurrency market has provided an alternative to the age-old banking system, with the year 2020 at the fore of showcasing its ability to swiftly bounce back after the pandemic hit global markets. More and more people have been shifting their focus to Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as a hedge against global events. Joining Bitcoin...Read More
Circle, a peer-to-peer technology that enables payments in cryptocurrency and San Fransisco based exchange Coinbase announced that they have upgraded the USDC stablecoin protocol and its smart contract. Both Circle and Coinbase are members of the Centre Consortium that manages USDC. Together, the firms aimed to make the payment process easy for people who use...Read More
