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Bitcoin Black Friday is coming back for 2020 with over 200 merchants and over 250 product deals! Bitcoin Black Friday has returned this year with 350 deal listings from over 300 companies to date, and…
XRP has been on a roller-coaster of a ride throughout the past few days and weeks, with the crypto randomly breaking out of a multi-year trading channel earlier this week that allowed its price to…
Bitcoin price over the last 24 hours saw an over $3,000 crash and more than 15% wiped out from its price tag. Despite the downside, the cryptocurrency is undeniably in a bull market. But bull…
It has been a rough past few days for Bitcoin and the entire crypto market. Following BTC’s tests of its all-time highs in the mid-$19,000 region, the benchmark digital asset faced a massive influx of…
Crypto exchange Coinbase was hit Thursday with a prolonged outage that took down most of its services, and isn’t yet fully back. This time, however, the connectivity issues weren’t related to intense trading volumes or…
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The price of Bitcoin dropped below $16,400 on the day following a massive short-term correction. On-chain analyst Willy Woo attributed the pullback to an overheated bull run. Before the pullback happened, the Bitcoin derivatives market…
The price of bitcoin and a great number of digital assets plunged in value during the early morning trading sessions on November 26, 2020. Bitcoin’s price dropped from a high of $19,319 on Wednesday evening…
Bitcoin plunged on Thursday, stalling a price rally driven by fears of the US dollar debasement and higher inflation. The benchmark cryptocurrency fell to $16,200 a token, a multi-week low, ahead of the New York…
Bitcoin (BTC) has been seeing significant momentum in previous weeks as its price was approaching the precious $20,000 all-time high. However, an abrupt end came to this glorious rally with Bitcoin price crashing severely over…
Bitcoin (BTC) price fell by a whopping 16% to $16,334 on Nov. 26 since achieving its peak at $19,484 the previous day. Data suggests that cascading liquidations were the driving force of the massive correction.…
Bitcoin fell Thursday as a plethora of negative fundamentals catalyzed selling sentiments across the entire cryptocurrency market. #1 Overbought The BTC/USD exchange rate was trading at $16,200 during the early morning session in London, down…
All eyes have been on Bitcoin and Ethereum over the course of the last week as both coins shot for the moon: Bitcoin saw an impressive push to nearly $20,000, while Ether was on a…
Bitcoin (BTC) has continued falling on Nov. 26 as selling pressure transforms into the biggest losses — in terms of U.S. dollars — since March. Bitcoin price sheds over $3,000 in 24 hours Data from…
After a five-week-long suspension of all user withdrawals, cryptocurrency exchange OKEx resumed normal services at 8:00 am UTC on Nov. 26. Having announced the re-opening last week, OKEx then indicated it would be launching a compensation and rewards program…
PRESS RELEASE. xSigma Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of ZK International Group (NASDAQ:ZKIN), was launched in 2018 as a blockchain research and development lab to solve real-world infrastructure challenges. After two years of intensive research…
Ripple retested the $0.7500 resistance level before a sharp decline against the US Dollar, similar to bitcoin and ETH. XRP price is holding the $0.5500 support, but it might even test $0.5000. Ripple started a…
Bitcoin (BTC) dropped $1,000 in minutes on Nov. 26 as a long-awaited pullback hit the market at close to $19,500. BTC price hits $17,250 lows Data from Cointelegraph Markets and TradingView showed BTC/USD experiencing major…
Ethereum formed a short-term top near $620 and started a sharp decline against the US Dollar. ETH price is correcting gains and it could revisit the $500 support zone. Ethereum started a downside correction after…
Despite Bitcoin’s surge to re-test its 2017 highs, a combination of low on-chain transactions and diminished retail speculation has seen transaction fees remain low. The current fees of around $3.50 per transaction starkly contrast with…
On November 25, the asset manager Vaneck announced the launch of an exchange-traded product (ETP) called the “Vaneck Vector Bitcoin ETN.” The exchange-traded note is physically-backed by bitcoin and listed on the trading exchange Deutsche…
Bitcoin price formed a double top pattern near $19,500 and corrected lower against the US Dollar. BTC is now trading below $18,500 and it could test the $18,000 support or $17,600. Bitcoin failed again to…
Bitcoin very well has the potential to be the successor to the dollar and the next global reserve currency. For now, the store of value narrative and acting as a hedge against inflation has drawn…
The crypto market has been in a strong bull run over the past few days, and that has pushed Bitcoin (BTC) to its second-best day ever. Almost every trader now seems to be fixated on the magical…
The price of gold is off from its all-time high while bitcoin is within striking distance of a record. Billions of dollars are flowing out of gold while institutional money is pouring into bitcoin. The…
Coinbase cuts margin trading. Binance sweeps out U.S. customers. OKEx offers rebates to clients affected by its five-week pause. Top shelf Tax changeCoinbase will no longer send customers 1099-Ks, the U.S. tax form that led…
The unexpected five-week-long suspension of OKEx’s crypto withdrawal service has left many of its users, largely based in China, disappointed and determined to leave or reduce holdings on the exchange when withdrawals resume sometime this…
The number of billion-dollar spot volume days in the bitcoin market is increasing, pushing prices higher. Ethereum’s transaction fees are also increasing as general cryptocurrency interest fuels demand. Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $18,883 as of…
The hunt for the mysterious Bitcoin inventor, Satoshi Nakamoto continues to this day, as new data-driven research has been recently deployed in order to figure out the creator’s location while he/she or they worked on…
XRP has been caught in the throes of volatility as of late, with much of this greatly favoring bulls The crypto saw a parabolic upswing earlier this week that caused its price to multiply over…
A billion-dollar Australian investment management firm has gotten into bitcoin, citing that the cryptocurrency is superior to gold. Many of the firm’s clients have been asking about investing in bitcoin. “We have been positioning in…
Lithuania’s tax authority has sold the cryptocurrencies it previously seized for 6.4 million euros (approximately $7.6 million). The three cryptocurrencies confiscated were bitcoin, ether, and monero. This was the first time the tax authority sold…
Over the summer months, Ethereum transaction fees ran hot, causing the DeFi trend and Uniswap token swapping boom to finally run out of steam. But as transaction fees begin to pick up again after a…
Makers of 3D-printed guns operate by the motto, “Free men don’t ask permission.” They don’t ask the State for permission to bear arms. They don’t rely on gun manufacturers to make a gun that they’d…
Bitcoin Black Friday was started by Jon Holmquist in 2012 as a way to co-opt a mainstream celebration of consumerism and help Bitcoiners promote their favorite technology. By encouraging merchants to offer discounts on their…
Listen To This Episode: “The Bitcoin Standard” by Saifedean Ammous is a fan-favorite book among Bitcoiners that is constantly recommended to newbies and veterans alike. It serves as a fantastic reference to learn about the…
Bitcoin (BTC) traders are pinpointing the order books of major exchanges that show the $19,500 level is a near-term resistance level. Bitcoin rejects $19,500 for now On Nov. 25, Bitcoin price was rejected at $19,500…
A billion-dollar Australian investment management firm has gotten into bitcoin, citing that the cryptocurrency is superior to gold. Many of the firm’s clients have been asking about investing in bitcoin. “We have been positioning in…
The ongoing Bitcoin rally brought investor interest back to altcoins in a big way, but as soon as the top-ranked cryptocurrency made it above $19,000, it has been nothing but carnage for Ethereum and the…
Activity in bitcoin’s options market shows investors are eyeing more gains for the top cryptocurrency, which is now just 2.8% below a record high. Bitcoin‘s one-month implied volatility, which is influenced by demand for call…
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is disabling its margin trading product in order to comply with the new rules set by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). CFTC’s Rules Affecting Margin Trading Offerings Coinbase’s chief legal officer,…
Bitcoin rose Wednesday, right ahead of the release of the Federal Open Market Committee’s minutes from their November meeting. The benchmark cryptocurrency climbed 0.13 percent to $19,198, with its rally slowing down as traders weighted…
CNBC Fast Money trader Brian Kelly sees three potential signs of a price top as Bitcoin (BTC) hits $19,000. Both fundamental and technical factors suggest a pullback could be imminent as the rally becomes overextended.…
Bitcoin rallied to over $19,000 in the same week that saw President-elect Joe Biden’s decision to appoint Keynesian economist Jenet Yellen as the next US Treasury Secretary. Anthony Pompliano, the co-founder/partner at New York-based Morgan…
On November 19, Hive.one, a project that maps the community clusters of Bitcoin and Ethereum social status using mathematics, announced the launch of a new algorithm version. Since the last time Hive.one published a list,…
Nearly every corner of our collective lives has been affected by the pandemic this year: our homes, our families, our jobs, and our dreams. On an external level, it is also dramatically affected the content…
News in September 2020 that Nigeria’s Securities and Exchange Commission had pushed through landmark rules to treat crypto assets as securities herald the start of a fascinating period for the fintech sector on the continent…
Ripple rallied significantly above $0.6000 and $0.7000 before correcting lower against the US Dollar. XRP price is now consolidating above $0.6200 and eyeing the next crucial break. Ripple started a strong rally after it settled…
Sean Ono Lennon, the son of the Beatles’ John Lennon, says bitcoin gives him optimism amid the “ocean of destruction” this year. He believes that the cryptocurrency empowers individuals the way they have never been…
Ethereum started a downside correction from the $620 zone against the US Dollar. ETH price is now trading near a major support at $580 and the 100 hourly SMA Ethereum started a downside correction after…
On Tuesday the bulls showed that they are in full control of the crypto market as Bitcoin (BTC) rallied to $19,418.97 and several top-10 altcoins went on a double-digit rampage to new 2020 highs. Notable…
Bitcoin price broke to the upside and traded close to $19,500 against the US Dollar. BTC is currently correcting gains, but the previous resistance near $18,800 could provide support. Bitcoin traded above the $18,700 and…
Decentralized finance (defi) protocol Pickle Finance was hacked for $19.7 million of the stablecoin DAI over the weekend, as the defi industry appears to be turning into a hackers paradise. Pickle’s native token (PICKLE) plunged…
Bitcoin price is less than a few hundred dollars away from setting a new all-time high. The closer the top-ranked cryptocurrency gets to its former peak, the more bullish altcoins respond. One crypto analyst has…
Today Bitcoin (BTC) price extended its rally toward a new all-time high as the price surged to $19,412 in the morning trading session. Daily cryptocurrency market performance. Source: Coin360Determining the actual all-time high for BTC…
The highly anticipated launch of Ethereum 2.0, or Eth2, is scheduled to take place next week. Specifically speaking, Eth2’s proof-of-stake blockchain known as “the beacon chain” has been confirmed to run alongside the Ethereum network…
How high can bitcoin’s price go? Analysts say the higher the price, the more investors will plow in. Meanwhile, increasing ether options volume on Deribit is likely making derivatives more expensive. Bitcoin (BTC) trading around…
The Ethereum network’s ETH 2.0 contract has crossed the threshold needed to initiate the upcoming upgrade. Currently, there’s more 694,368 ether worth over $422 million resting in the contract, as developers hope the proof-of-stake launch…
Yearn.finance’s YFI token has been consolidating within the mid-$20,000 region throughout the past few weeks, with its recent parabolic surge from lows of $7,500 getting slightly overheated after it approached $30,000. It has since been…
After spending three years of the crypto bear market as the butt of all jokes, being compared to sheep manure, and much more, XRP has shocked the entire industry with a 225% single-month explosion. But…
Chainlink has been incredibly strong over the past few days, fully exposed to the upside seen across the aggregated cryptocurrency market as bulls take full control. Its price has surmounted multiple key resistance levels that…
Listen To This Episode: The guest for this episode of Bitcoin In Asia is Alejandro De La Torre, vice president at Poolin. De La Torre and Poolin have launched taprootactivation.com to improve on the communication…
The price of Bitcoin (BTC) hit $19,469 on Coinbase, reaching its highest point since its December 2017 peak. Although the dominant cryptocurrency is close to surpassing its record high, there are some warning signs to…
Bitcoin (BTC) mining continues to ramp up following the successful May 11 halving, but growing industry concentration could undermine the “democratization of hash rate,” according to a panel presentation at this year’s Mining and Investment Summit.…
More than 500,000 ETH have been locked and loaded into Ethereum 2.0’s deposit contract, kick-starting the network’s major, multi-year development phase. JPMorgan analysts say institutions are piling into bitcoin. And the IRS has again sent…
During the course of the week digital currency markets have seen colossal gains and one crypto asset, in particular, XRP, has jumped significantly in value over the last seven days. The distributed ledger token XRP…
XRP has surprisingly been one of the best performing altcoins throughout the past few days, far surpassing the gains seen by Ethereum over the past month and even outperforming Bitcoin’s gains seen over the past…
Listen To This Episode: On this episode of the Bitcoin Magazine Podcast, host Christian Keroles and Zach Herbert, the CEO and co-founder of Foundation Devices, sit down to discuss the company’s launch and its first…
Bitcoin (BTC) mining continues to ramp up following the successful May 11 halving, but growing industry concentration could undermine the “democratization of hashrate,” according to a panel presentation at this year’s Mining and Investment Summit. Hosted…
Bitcoin is trading at fresh 35-month highs above $19,000, having defended the psychological support of $18,000 during the Asian trading hours. The crypto market leader is now just 4% short of testing the record high…
Bitcoin price is trading well above $19,000 and it is the last stop before reaching $20,000 and setting a new all-time high. With no further resistance above the former peak, will the cryptocurrency go fully…
Higher Prices Mean More Giving. More Giving Means More Adoption Bitcoin has left every other asset class in the dust. And that outperformance didn’t just take place this year — it’s outperformed every asset over…
Bitcoin (BTC) is currently having its second-highest trading day ever as BTC/USD hitting a new multi-year high of $19,330. Data from Cointelegraph Markets and TradingView provided a cause for celebration on Nov. 24 after Bitcoin…
In remarks that highlight flaws of the fiat currency system, the European Central Bank (ECB) president, Christine Lagarde, says the institution cannot go bankrupt even if it incurs losses running into trillions. According to Lagarde,…
Bitcoin mining-focused media company HASHR8 has launched the first report in its “Bitcoin Mining Index,” a planned series on the world’s prominent mining regions that offers detail on how the practice is taking shape and…
Amid an ongoing parabolic bull run, Bitcoin (BTC) is breaking another major milestone in terms of its market capitalization against American banking giant JPMorgan. On Nov. 24, Bitcoin surpassed the $19,000 price mark for the…
Bitcoin (BTC) has topped $19,000 in a fresh bullish surge, but traders are all about altcoins on Nov. 24. In what many are heralding as the beginning of “altseason,” large-cap cryptocurrencies are seeing their biggest…
Ripple Labs’ native cryptocurrency XRP experienced a brutal sell-off on Monday after its price rallied to a multi-year high. The XRP/USD exchange rate reached $0.79 for the first time since April 2018, after rising four…
The price of Bitcoin (BTC) surpassed $19,000 on Nov. 24 for the first time in nearly three years. It followed an XRP flash crash on Coinbase, which trembled the crypto market. The two incidents could…
In a surprising turn of events, Ripple’s XRP is up 140% this week, making it the biggest top ten gainer of the past seven days. There’s no denying that XRP is a divisive token that…
How do we fund Bitcoin developers, and how do we ensure there are enough of them in the first place? Former Chaincode Labs developer John Newbery and Blockstream alumnus Mike Schmidt are launching a nonprofit…
Bitcoin rose above $19,000 on Tuesday after Donald Trump said his administration would assist President-elect Joe Biden’s transition to the White House, easing investors’ concerns about a prolonged period of election uncertainty. The BTC/USD exchange…
Eth2’s beacon chain genesis has been confirmed for Dec. 1 following the transfer of 524,288 Ether (ETH) from 16,384 validators into the Eth2 deposit contract since it went live on Nov. 4. Despite early concerns…
Amid an ongoing parabolic bull run, Bitcoin (BTC) is breaking another major milestone in terms of its market capitalization against American banking giant JPMorgan. On Nov. 24, Bitcoin surpassed the $19,000 price mark for the…
For some, it must be almost frustrating–after a push past $18,000 Bitcoin seems to be in a healthier place than ever before. The last time that Bitcoin was over $18,000 in 2017, it had been…
The price of Bitcoin (BTC) hit $19,000 on Nov. 24 for the first time since the historic rally in December 2017. Three key reasons are behind the dominant cryptocurrency’s strong momentum. The main factors buoying…
XRP price spiked to over $0.90 on U.S. cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase on Nov. 24 only to crash back down by roughly 30% in seconds. This was the highest price level since May 2018. XRP frenzy…
If history serves us well, 2020 is likely a precursor to a long and dreadful economic depression throughout a myriad of countries worldwide. During the last year, economists and analysts have been discussing how specifically…
Stellar (XLM) surged over 70% in the past three sessions and it broke the $0.1800 resistance against the US Dollar. XLM price is likely to continue higher towards $0.2000 or $0.2200. There was a sharp…
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Ethereum is trading nicely above the $600 resistance against the US Dollar. ETH price seems to be preparing for more gains above the $625 and USD $630 levels. Ethereum settled nicely above the $600 level,…
Cryptocurrency intelligence firm Ciphertrace has filed two patent applications for tools and systems to trace monero transactions. The company aims to enable the detection of criminal uses of privacy coins like monero. Monero Tracing Patents…
Bitcoin price failed again to clear the $18,800 resistance against the US Dollar. BTC is trading in a range and it could correct lower sharply if there is a break below $18,200. Bitcoin is still…
ETH 2.0’s beacon chain genesis has been confirmed for Dec. 1, following the transfer of 524,288 Ether from 16,384 validators into the ETH 2.0 deposit contract since it went live on Nov. 4. Despite early…
XRP has surprisingly been one of the best performing major altcoins throughout the past few days, seeing parabolic gains as bulls take full control of its price action. Its rally shows few signs of slowing…
Bitcoin (BTC) has been leading the current crypto rally for the past few weeks, and this has boosted its dominance from 56% on Sep. 3 to 67% on Nov. 18. However, as Bitcoin nears its…
In the past month, the price of XRP rallied 91% as the digital asset at last found some spark and is now playing catch up with Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH). The likely catalysts for the…
In the last few days, Bitcoin (BTC) price has underperformed Ether (ETH) by almost 20%. Even though BTC seems to be struggling to break the $18,800 barrier, both cryptocurrencies display the same bullishness according to…
Bitcoin price broke above its 2019 high, and after that, took off another $5,000. The reason why the level was so critical to confirming a reversal back into a bull market, was due to the…
Bitcoin dipped below $18,000 before recovering on higher-than-average spot volume. Meanwhile, ether’s price performance is showing a divergence from bitcoin. Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $18,374 as of 21:00 UTC (4 p.m. ET). Slipping 0.85% over…