Even as Chainlink and Bitcoin steal the limelight, one cannot forget Litecoin. The world’s first altcoin is currently in the 8th spot on the coin market, ahead of resurgent coins like Cardano and Binance Coin, trending with a daily gain of 7.13 percent, second only to Chainlink. Litecoin’s market cap was a strong $4.03 billion...Read More
Bitcoin was trading at $11,800 and showed signs of heading lower due to the formation of a bearish pattern. While some altcoins have seen a good surge in the last 24 hours, some haven’t been so lucky. BTC falls under the latter category with a 0.68% decline. Bitcoin 4-hour chart BTCUSD TradingView From the above...Read More
The case of the ‘hodling of Bitcoin’ is a curious one. At first, it would seem that those who would be more inclined to hodl the cryptocurrency would be average everyday people who heard about it before the 2017 bull-run, and not the corner-office institutions who jumped in only after 2018, but reality is quite...Read More
How does one identify if a market is healthy or not? Well, that is a question with no right or even one answer. What can be expanded upon here, however, is the nature and attitude of the investor class – a crucial characteristic of a healthy market. How has that changed over the years and...Read More
If one were to take a survey, chances are that most would agree that the last few weeks and months have been pretty good for the cryptocurrency market. Bitcoin, and with it, the rest of the crypto-market, seem to be on the up, with the memories of Black Thursday well behind it. However, that’s not...Read More
The crypto-market, at the time of writing, was going through a tricky phase. Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency, was continuing to trade sideways on the charts, with BTC looking to strengthen and consolidate its position around the present price level, before it attempts to breach its psychological resistance of $12,000. Source: Coinstats This, however, has...Read More
The overall investor confidence could propel Stellar and BAT to breach stiff resistance facing them. EOS saw strong gains in the past week and is ready to target the next resistance. Stellar Lumens [XLM] Source: XLM/USDT on TradingView Stellar Lumens held rank 14 with a market cap of $2.2 billion. XLM was perched on the...Read More
Ethereum was headed to a weekly close that would interest long term investors, with a good potential to post further gains in the coming weeks. Monero found its momentum waning, while Zcash showed some initial signs of strength. Ethereum [ETH] Source: ETH/USD on TradingView ETH traded with below-average volume over the weekend. This could have...Read More
The spirit of the current market has been reminiscent of a healthy bull market. However, this time the focus has been majorly on altcoins. Altcoins like Chainlink [LINK] and Tezos [XTZ] have been marching to the beat of their own drums and have proven to be among the handful of resilient altcoins. LINK reported gains...Read More
The cryptocurrency market has for long tried to emerge as a savior from the web of complicated and somewhat flawed, traditional financial systems. Alas, the system that was supposed to lead by example by pushing forth a decentralized and open alternative hasn’t always convinced, with some crypto-users picking and choosing the moments to follow these...Read More
Bitcoin is now trading close to $12,000, a level which it breached and broke below two times over the past two weeks. Will it be third time lucky for the world’s top cryptocurrency? Since breaking over $12,000 on 2 August, for the first time since June 2019, it has been subject to a ‘bull trap.’...Read More
Many of the market’s cryptocurrencies, at the time of writing, were going through an upheaval of sorts on the charts. Binance Coin was in a general uptrend, before noting a retracement. On the other hand, TRON and IOTA gave significant signals regarding the direction of their future price movements. With Bitcoin attempting to breach $12,000,...Read More
Over the past decade, the crypto-market has diversified significantly and today, the average crypto-user has a wide variety of options in terms of coins and derivatives products to choose from. However, this growth hasn’t translated well when it comes to addressing issues pertaining to regulatory and tax compliance. Tax laws and the IRS’s guidelines for...Read More
XRP’s price recorded substantial gains on the charts as the month of July came to a close. Surprisingly, since the start of August, this trend has reversed slightly, with the price failing to break key resistances a few times. However, the price of the market’s fourth-largest cryptocurrency may be gearing up for yet another surge...Read More
Disclaimer: The findings of the following article will attempt to analyze the impact of emerging patterns in the long-term Litecoin market The volatility in the market has been pushing the price of most cryptocurrencies around and at present, this trend is forming lower. In fact, Litecoin [LTC] has been one of them, having broken out...Read More
Lumens, Steem, and Decred have been flashing strong signals recently, after being held back by their resistance levels for weeks. The mid-cap coins, DCR and STEEM, in particular, might witness a major surge in price, especially when compared to their performances over the past few weeks. Stellar Lumens [XLM] Source: XLM/USDT on TradingView XLM has...Read More
With Bitcoin once again inching closer and closer to $12,000, some are hopeful of the rise while others are fearful of a fall. Depending on which side of this equation you’re on, you’re either a hodler or a seller. Each side has an equal tug on the market as while hodlers are hodling on expecting...Read More
Ethereum has been enjoying one of its most active days in the market, with the crypto-asset’s price spiking on the charts after some time. Despite an active spot and derivatives market, however, the crypto-community on social media seemed to be besotted by one question only – Ethereum’s circulating supply. According to Ethereum’s founder Vitalik Buterin,...Read More
Owing to Bitcoin’s market dominance, the impact of its price performance on the rest of the market is often overwhelming. Since breaching its previous resistance level, Bitcoin’s charts seem to have plateaued, with BTC holding firm under the $12,000-mark for a few days now. However, Bitcoin’s consolidation meant that the rest of the market was...Read More
DeFi’s ecosystem has come a long way over the past few months. From a Total Value Locked (TVL) figure of $539.8 million right after the market crash in March, it has recovered extraordinarily well to climb to $5.77 billion, at the time of writing. In the eyes of many, DeFi is the hot property of...Read More
Ethereum, Synthetix, and Zcash seem to be going into the weekend hopeful of upward price movement since, at the time of writing, these three cryptocurrencies were showing signs of potential. The weekly close of Ethereum for last week can be great news for what could be in store ahead. Ethereum [ETH] Source: ETH/USD on TradingView...Read More
Bitcoin Cash‘s price movement since the beginning of the month has been stuck between the $290 – $320 price level. While the coin did manage to stay above the $300-level for a while, the past week saw BCH slump even further on the charts. At the time of writing, Bitcoin Cash was being traded at...Read More
It feels like just a few weeks ago we were talking about Bitcoin’s $10,000 breakout, and now the cryptocurrency is positioned to go past $12,000. This wouldn’t be the first time Bitcoin has broken over this level in the past few days, but if it manages to stay above the same for at least a...Read More
Over the last few months, it would seem that much of the altcoin market has been driven by its own momentum and the organic developments in its own ecosystem. This is a good thing as such movement has given credence to those who believe that one day, these alts may, to a great extent, move...Read More
After doing well to surge past its previous resistance on the charts, Bitcoin, at the time of writing, seemed to be gaining strength. While it did so, most of the market’s altcoins were reacting differently to the same. Many of these alts seemed to lack momentum on the charts, which is why many of them,...Read More
Ethereum has been indicating strong signs of bullish momentum in the cryptocurrency market. The second-largest digital asset has been on an upwards journey since mid-July and witnessed another boost in terms of its price on 13 August. As the price of Ether surged by 18.55% within a day, the value of ETH peaked at $432.94....Read More
Leaving aside the fact that Bitcoin has been a strong ‘buy’ for a number of years [except 2015 and 2018, if we’re being picky] short-term traders get very anxious looking at the immediate price movement of Bitcoin. In times like these, it is better to be a hodler than a trader, but what if there...Read More
Apart from the value of the second-largest asset, another feature driving people’s attention towards it was the spike in its gas price. The amount of fees being spent on the Ethereum network has reached an all-time high. Data from Glassnode suggested that over 17,500 ETH [USD $6.8 million] were currently being spent on fees daily...Read More
Disclaimer: The following article attempts to analyze the short-term impact of emerging patterns in the Ethereum market along with its price. On late 13 August, the Ethereum market rallied by at least 10% within 5 hours, as the price of the second-largest digital asset surged from $391 to a peak of $432. The sudden boost...Read More
With 2020 proving to be a year quite unlike any, there is a lot of debate around how cryptocurrencies can emerge quite successfully amidst the extreme uncertainty that has taken over the economy. For Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency, 2020 was important as it underwent its third block reward halving, an event that reinforced its...Read More
