The first woman to gain more than a million YouTube subscribers is now going all-in on bitcoin to promote financial freedom to her loyal fanbase. “I kind of view bitcoin as similar to YouTube, which…

Ripple (XRP) Defies Gravity: Main Reasons $0.25 or…
Ripple extended its rally above the $0.2200 resistance against the US Dollar. XRP price is showing many positive signs and it could continue to rise towards $0.2500 or $0.2600. Ripple price is up close to…

Ethereum Rally Seems Unstoppable: Here’s Why It Could…
Ethereum is up more than 12% and it broke the $220 resistance against the US Dollar. ETH price is likely to continue higher and it could even test the $240 and $250 levels. Ethereum is…

Artist Vesa Kivinen: Crypto Art Has the Potential…
Speaking at Virtual Blockchain Week in front of one of his colorful yet hypnotic canvas pieces, Vesa Kivinen, the creator of Art For Crypto, suggested crypto art could be just as much of an investment…

Bitcoin Rallies 15% And It’s Now And Primed…
Bitcoin is up more than 15% in a pre-halving rally against the US Dollar. BTC broke the key $8,000 resistance and the 100-day simple moving average to open the doors for $9,500 or $10,000. Bitcoin…

Bitcoin Price Nearly Tops $9,000 Before Dropping to…
On Wednesday Bitcoin (BTC) price blasted through a series of key resistance levels as traders ponied up and set their target on the $9K mark. According to data from Cointelegraph Markets and CoinMarketCap the BTC/USD…

Cryptocurrency Trading Surges in Malaysia as Lockdown Cripples…
Cryptocurrency trading in Malaysia has surged as the country endures an extended lockdown, costing its economy an estimated $550 million a day. Regulated cryptocurrency exchanges are reporting substantial growth in trading volumes and new users…

Binance Sees Record High Trading Volume as Investors…
The crypto market has been able to add on over $20 billion to its total capitalization, with the upswing seen today by Bitcoin and many of its smaller counterparts marking a full erasure of the…

Bitcoin Enters “Buy the Dip” Territory After Surmounting…
The uptrend that Bitcoin has been caught within in the time following its capitulatory decline to lows of $3,800 appears to have reached a boiling point earlier this morning when the benchmark crypto printed a…

Major Crypto Exchanges Suffer Outage During Bitcoin Surge
Two of the major crypto exchanges suffered partial service outages on Wednesday, injecting further turmoil into the market where prices have already seen wild swings in recent days. Coinbase said via Twitter and on its…

Brave Browser Reports That EU Governments Are Failing…
On April 27, Brave browser filed a complaint urging the European Commission to take action against EU governments that fail to adequately protect their citizens. A recent report compiled by the Brave team concludes that…

Binance Trading Volume Reaches All-Time High Amid Bitcoin’s…
As the Bitcoin price skyrocketed close to $9000 on April 29, Changpeng Zhao, or CZ, announced that Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, has hit $11 billion in trading volume over the past 24 hours.…

London Bitcoin Miner Argo Blockchain Reports 1,000% Revenue…
London Stock Exchange-listed bitcoin miner Argo Blockchain Plc said on Wednesday full-year 2019 revenue rocketed 1,000% to £8.62 million ($10.78 million) from £760,000 a year earlier. The company stated that the increase was due to…

Silvergate Adds 46 More Crypto Clients in Q1…
Silvergate Bank added 46 crypto customers in the first quarter and saw fee income and deposits increase from those customers because of “Black Thursday,” according to its earnings report released before market open on Wednesday.…

Market Wrap: Bitcoin’s Price Tear Suggests It’s FOMO…
There’s an old saying on Wall Street that financial markets are driven by two emotions, fear and greed. In the crypto markets, the driver is often a combination of the two: fear of missing out.…

Ethereum is About to See Massive Upside as…
Ethereum, like most other major altcoins, has seen some intense upwards momentum today that has allowed the cryptocurrency to significantly extend its recent uptrend as it begins showing signs of going parabolic again. This latest…

One Big Bearish Pullback Could Send Ripple’s XRP…
Ripple blockchain’s native cryptocurrency XRP hit its seven-week high during Wednesday trade. The gains came as a part of a broader cryptocurrency market uptrend that saw every high-cap token painting fresh local highs. But XRP’s…

VC Believes Link Could Soar Above $25 And…
A venture capitalist believes that Link could soar above $25 and overtake Ethereum (Ether) as number two cryptocurrency by market capitalization. Michael Anderson, co-founder of Framework Venture and an early Chainlink (Link) investor, in a…

Price Analysis 4/29: BTC, ETH, XRP, BCH, BSV,…
The Bitcoin (BTC) whales have not been perturbed by the sharp rallies or the waterfall declines in Bitcoin in the past three years. As Cointelegraph recently reported, some major whales have not moved their Bitcoin…

Bitcoin Price Smashes $8.5K Resistance With $1K Gain…
Bitcoin (BTC) beat out previously unthinkable resistance on April 29 as a one-day bull run propelled markets towards $9,000. Cryptocurrency market daily overview. Source: Coin360 BTC price delivers 12% daily gains Data from Cointelegraph Markets…

Bitcoin Rises Above $8.1K, Clinching an April Gain…
Bitcoin's price jumped above $8,100 on Wednesday, making an April gain for the fifth consecutive year all but certain. The top cryptocurrency by market capitalization rose to $8,191 at 11:15 UTC, its highest level since…

How Blockchains Become Great Big Garbage Patches for…
CoinDesk columnist Nic Carter is a partner at Castle Island Ventures, a public blockchain-focused venture fund based in Cambridge, Mass. He is also the cofounder of Coin Metrics, a blockchain analytics startup. In the Disney…

Blockchain Bites: What the Bitcoin Halving Means for…
Predictions and price models proliferate ahead of Bitcoin's programmatic halving, expected in less than two weeks. While some are turning to esoteric economic models to make the claim that the occasion will be bullish for…

Chinese Kennel Owner Caught Stealing Electricity to Power…
The largest oil field in the People’s Republic of China has been a target for individuals and organizations attempting to mine bitcoins with free electricity. After a bunch of mining farm operators allegedly got caught…

Market Outlook: Crypto Market Prices Rally Ahead of…
Cryptocurrency markets are bullish on April 29, as BTC prices have spiked over 11.8% in the last 24 hours touching a high of $8,740 per coin during Wednesday’s trading sessions. Bitcoin has gained 130% in…

Latest Crypto Rally Kicks Off Day With Nearly…
All across the crypto market, altcoins like XRP and XLM have been going on massive surges, and Bitcoin has once again reclaimed $8,500. However, the latest crypto rally isn’t positive for every market participant, as…

Bitcoin Rises Above $8.1K as Bull’s Eye April…
Bitcoin's price jumped above $8,100 on Wednesday, making an April gain for the fifth consecutive year all but certain. The top cryptocurrency by market capitalization rose to $8,191 at 11:15 UTC, its highest level since…

66% of Europeans Feel Optimistic About Future of…
Europeans are feeling more optimistic about the future of bitcoin. A recent study shows that two thirds of them believe cryptocurrency will remain in existence in 10 years time, with some convinced BTC will become…

Ethereum Near Levels That Sent Price 25% Down…
The Ethereum price hits eight-week high after rising alongside top rival Bitcoin in tandem. The second-largest cryptocurrency faced resistance near $212, but it could close above it owing to a bullish macro narrative. Its real…

Bitcoin Price Sets Longest Stretch of Positive Weekly…
In the early morning hours, Bitcoin price surged above $8,000 for the first time since the historic Black Thursday market collapse. The recent high marks longest stretch of consecutive green weekly candles since the 2017…

Hxro: Crypto Report – The Weekly No. 3
It has been a relatively quiet week in the crypto space as the markets continued to range sideways, albeit with a firm tone. Out of the blue, Ebang, a bitcoin mining chip producer, filed for…

Drawbacks of Cryptocurrency Exchanges – How Non-Custodial Services…
Cryptocurrency exchanges are online platforms where one can buy, sell, or trade cryptocurrencies. The aim of crypto exchanges is to connect buyers and sellers by creating a cycle of supply and demand in one place.…

XRP Spikes 9% as Japan’s 2nd Largest Bank…
XRP is today’s leading high market cap cryptocurrency, having gained 9% over the last 24-hours. This comes as the rest of the crypto markets continue to move sideways. Analysts have attributed this to a collaboration…

Future of Finance: CBDCs Offer the New Architecture…
Despite its nascency, central bank digital currencies and their offshoots have rapidly evolved into a serious alternative to typical bank accounts. A CBDC is electronic money issued by a central bank for use by consumers…

First Mover: For Bitcoin Prices, Inflation Headlines May…
Bitcoin traders love to talk about inflation – especially the possibility that consumer prices might eventually shoot up due to the trillions of dollars of new money injected into global markets this year by the Federal…

Bitcoin Rises Above $8.1K as Bulls Eye April…
Bitcoin's price jumped above $8,100 on Wednesday, making an April gain for the fifth consecutive year all but certain. The top cryptocurrency by market capitalization rose to $8,191 at 11:15 UTC, its highest level since…

Why Bitcoin Hit $8k Ahead of FOMC Update,…
Bitcoin closed above $8,000 this Wednesday, wiping all its Coronavirus-induced losses from mid-March. The cryptocurrency’s move uphill came ahead of Jerome Powell’s press conference at 1430 ET today. The Federal Reserve chairman is likely to…

Circuit Breakers Could Be Coming to Crypto–But Will…
As the bones of the economic structures that our societies rely on have been laid bare, the fragility of the global economic ecosystem has been revealed. This is particularly true for novel markets that…

Bitcoin Hits $8K Erasing Coronavirus Crash — 13…
Bitcoin (BTC) price finally hit $8,000 on April 29 as a solid week of gains continued to buoy markets. Cryptocurrency market daily overview. Source: Coin360 BTC price returns to $8,000 Data from Cointelegraph Markets and…

Bitcoin Pre-Halving Price Rally Continues to $8K With…
Bitcoin (BTC) price has secured another higher high at $7,863 as traders continue to press for a break of the resistance at $8,000. With just 13 days left before mining reward halving investors are hopeful…

Ripple (XRP) Is Surging: Here’s How It Can…
Ripple is up more than 10% and it broke the key $0.2000 resistance area against the US Dollar. XRP price is showing positive signs, suggesting a similar breakout in bitcoin above $8,000. Ripple price succeeded…

Ethereum Highly Bullish And Primed To Surge Towards…
Ethereum is trading in a bullish zone above the $195 level against the US Dollar. ETH will most likely clear the $200 resistance for a run towards the $220 level. Ethereum is showing a lot…

Alyze Sam: Stablecoins Are the “Gateway to Decentralization”
Speaking to attendees at Virtual Blockchain Week from her home in Kansas, Alyze Sam, co-author of a major guide to stablecoins, suggested stablecoins could be the key for big companies like Facebook and JP Morgan…

Bitcoin SV Rivals VISA for Transactions Claims Bitcoin…
The Bitcoin Association, which promotes Bitcoin SV, says the BSV network now rivals credit card processor VISA in terms of transactions per second. It also claims BSV transaction processors (miners) receive “better returns” than on…

Bitcoin Breaking This Single Level Will Spark a…
Bitcoin is showing bullish signs above the $7,700 level against the US Dollar. BTC could start a strong pre-halving rally if it breaks the $8,000 resistance and the 100-day simple moving average. Bitcoin is following…

Indicator Shows Bitcoin is on the Brink of…
Bitcoin has seen some lackluster price action throughout the past few days, generally finding itself caught within a bout of sideways trading within the mid-$7,000 region as bulls struggle to surmount the heavy resistance that…

Data Shows Bitcoin Whales Have No Intent of…
A large Bitcoin (BTC) whale holding 68,000 BTC ($523 million), has not moved the funds for more than five years and on-chain data shows other whales have similarly held onto their BTC for 4.7 years…

1 Cent per Kilowatt-Hour: China’s Sichuan Province Encourages…
The local government of Ya’an city, in China’s Sichuan province, has announced the region is encouraging bitcoin mining in Sichuan if operations leverage the local hydropower plants. The document released by Ya’an city officials is…

These Two Simple Factors Suggest Bitcoin is Highly…
Many investors and analysts have been pointing to Bitcoin’s upcoming mining rewards halving event as a reason for why the benchmark cryptocurrency is fundamentally bullish, and it certainly is a positive event from a long-term…

Stacking Sats? Small Bitcoin Holders on the Rise,…
New data support the assertion that small bitcoin investors are multiplying rapidly. And anecdotal evidence suggests that much of the growth is taking place in the U.S. The number of network addresses holding at least…

Market Wrap: Bitcoin Edges Up to $7.7K as…
Bitcoin's price is on the upswing, and so is the amount of computing power securing the network as a once-in-four-years event known as the halving approaches. The world’s oldest cryptocurrency is up 12% over the…

Ethereum is Gearing Up for a Parabolic Push;…
Ethereum has seen some immense bullishness today against Bitcoin, with the cryptocurrency firmly outperforming its peers as its buyers vie to shatter the resistance that has been firmly established around $198. This latest upside movement…

Kyber Network Activity Surges as DEX Plans Switch…
A planned upgrade that would allow token holders to earn staking income is bringing out users in droves to Kyber Network, a decentralized exchange (DEX) for cryptocurrency trading. The number of addresses with a balance…

Chinese Court Declares Ethereum Legal Property With Economic…
A district court in China has reportedly ruled that Ethereum’s cryptocurrency is legal property with economic value. This ruling follows a couple of other verdicts on the legality of cryptocurrency, including bitcoin, by various Chinese…

Sell Bitcoin in May and Go Away? Ominous…
Bitcoin price action has been positive over the last few weeks, following the Black Thursday collapse last month. Crypto investors have been breathing a sigh of relief that a higher low was set just ahead…

Blockchain Bites: WEF, IBM and a Chinese City…
A Chinese city is encouraging bitcoin mining, a payments processor joins Libra and the World Economic Forum is looking to blockchain to solve supply chain distortions. Situated amid the plateaus of the Szechuan province, Ya'an…

Bitcoin’s Halving Is Irrelevant for Some Large Traders
Bitcoin's third halving is less than two weeks away. Google searches indicate an all-time high level of interest in this event, the third in the life of the world’s oldest cryptocurrency. But some traders say…

Bitcoin Halving Theories: Whale Says Price Rise Is…
In less than two weeks, the Bitcoin block reward halving will take place and BTC miners will receive half the reward going forward after May 12. Since ‘Black Thursday’ (March 12), bitcoin prices have gained…

Bitcoin Price Holds Near 7-Week Highs of $7.8K…
Bitcoin (BTC) was riding high on fresh gains on April 28 as little got in the way of bulls controlling the market. Cryptocurrency market daily overview. Source: Coin360 BTC price closes in on $8K barrier…

Stellar Cryptocurrency’s 190 Percent Rally Could Fizzle; Here’s…
Stellar Lumens’ native cryptocurrency, XLM, hit a fresh local high, up more than 190 percent in just one month. The extraordinary price rally lacks concrete market fundamentals and relies more on macro crypto trends. XLM…

First Mover: Two Weeks From Halving, Bitcoin Rally…
Bitcoin has strung together seven consecutive daily gains, something that hasn't happened since the price shot up to last year's high around $13,000 in July. The cryptocurrency's price now stands at over $7,750, up 8…

Bitcoin Rally Pauses Near $7.8K After Longest Winning…
Bitcoin's bulls are taking a breather, having engineered the longest run of daily gains since last summer. At press time, the number one cryptocurrency by market capitalization is trading in a sideways manner around $7,730…

Flattening Moving Average Puts Bitcoin Price Target at…
The short-term moving average on Bitcoin’s daily chart is flattening out. The phenomenon comes after the cryptocurrency hits the highest level since mid-March sell-off. Coupled with favorable fundamentals, such as halving, the MA indicates an…

Is Europe’s Experience in E-Signatures and Digital IDs…
Europe has been running a legislative framework for electronic signatures and digital identities since 1999. In 2014, the European Parliament introduced a significant upgrade by presenting electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions in…

Last Time Bitcoin Saw This Formation Was Before…
The past few weeks have seen Bitcoin push higher and higher every few days, establishing higher low after higher high after higher low on the back of an influx of buying pressure. But, according to…

New Stock-to-Flow Forecast Puts Average Bitcoin Price at…
The latest version of a popular and thus far accurate Bitcoin (BTC) price model predicts an average price of $288,000 — and it could happen this year. In a blog post introducing the third incarnation…

Bitcoin Whale Suggests BTC Price Will Crash —…
The third Bitcoin (BTC) block reward halving is set to occur in 14 days and this event is usually preceded by a powerful rally that many have long forecast would bring the digital asset to…

Ripple (XRP) Looks Ready For Another Leg Higher…
Ripple is currently correcting lower from the $0.2000 support against the US Dollar. XRP price is likely to start a fresh increase unless there is a clear break below $0.1920. Ripple price is correcting lower…

Ethereum Price Eyeing Downside Thrust Before A Fresh…
Ethereum is following a short term declining pattern from the $198 resistance against the US Dollar. ETH could spike towards the $188 or $185 support before it rallies above $200. Ethereum is slowly moving lower…

CoinEx Announces Global Strategic Partnership with Matrixport to…
Hong Kong, 27 April, 2020 – CoinEx, a global and professional cryptocurrency exchange service provider, is pleased to announce its new global strategic partnership with Matrixport, the one-stop digital asset financial service platform span off…

Bitcoin Buyers Lose Control, But 2 Key Technicals…
Bitcoin is struggling to surpass the $7,800 resistance area against the US Dollar. It seems like BTC price could dip towards $7,600 or $7,400 before a fresh rally towards $8,000. Bitcoin made two attempts to…

Mati Greenspan: Bitcoin’s Correlation with S&P 500 at…
Crypto analyst Mati Greenspan won the title of “father of the year” from the two hosts of Virtual Blockchain Week as he tended to his child while delivering a presentation to the virtual conference’s attendees.…

Grayscale Buys 50% of All Ethereum Mined in…
Digital asset manager Grayscale Investments bought about 50% of all newly mined ethereum so far this year. It now holds the equivalent of 1.1% of ETH in circulation, according to a post on Reddit. Grayscale…

Here’s How Far Ethereum Could Drop if it…
Ethereum, like most of its peers, has incurred a slight amount of selling pressure today that has led it to decline from highs of just under $200 that were set yesterday. This tempered move lower…

The 1.5 Million Wallets That Acquired Bitcoin at…
Bitcoin’s rebound from its mid-March lows has led the cryptocurrency to climb up towards $8,000 – a price point that is proving to be a major resistance level for BTC. This resistance has led the…

Craig Wright Claims Satoshi Nakamoto ‘Never Used Bitcointalk’…
The mysterious Craig Wright, the man who claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto, was recently ordered to produce 11,000 documents and answers after Judge Beth Bloom overruled the defendant’s recent objections. However, the coronavirus outbreak has…

Market Wrap: Ether Up 50% in 2020, Hits…
This year has been terrible for financial markets but good for cryptocurrencies. And while much has been made about bitcoin’s (BTC) gains of 7 percent since the start of 2020, ether (ETH) has been a…

Chainlink Could See Dire Losses as Technical Structure…
Despite being one of the most bullish cryptocurrencies from a macro-perspective, Chainlink has seen an intense decline today that has led it to plummet by over 6%. Today’s downturn marks an extension of that which…

Price Analysis 4/27: BTC, ETH, XRP, BCH, BSV,…
Crypto traders seem to be approaching the Bitcoin halving without any fanfare. Bitcoin’s (BTC) price action has been marginally positive in the past few days but it has only recently overcome the sharp crash of…

Blockchain Bites: Capital-Constraining Compliance and Tether’s ‘Interoperability Bridge’
Dutch regulations are causing capital constraints among crypto startups, a crypto exchange is extending credit lines and Kentucky is looking to blockchain to manage its critical infrastructure. Last week, Bittr, a Dutch crypto exchange announced…

Blockchain Bites: Capital Constraining Compliance and Tether’s ‘Interoperability…
Dutch regulations are causing capital constraints among crypto startups, a crypto exchange is extending credit lines and Kentucky is looking to blockchain to manage its critical infrastructure. Last week, Bittr, a Dutch crypto exchange announced…

TNC IT Group’s Token to Be Listed This…
TNC IT Group (TNC), an international blockchain company, will have its native currency TNC Coin listed on crypto exchanges by April 30. TNC Coin is set to progress fast in the market due to its…

Economists Predict Great Depression II for US Economy:…
Several economists have predicted where the U.S. economy is heading. One said it would take a miracle to keep the recession from turning into another Great Depression. Some believe that a fast or V-shaped recovery…

This Technical Index Forecasts a Bloody Week for…
More than $80 billion have been injected in the cryptocurrency market over the past month. The substantial inflow of capital allowed most digital assets to recover the losses incurred during the Mar. 12 crash. However,…

Crypto Community Fears North Korean BTC Sell-Off Amid…
Following rumors that North Korea’s supreme leader Kim Jong-Un is either in declining health or dead, reports started circulating that the country’s Bitcoin (BTC) reserves will be sold. According to a March 2019 report, at…

The Greatest Wealth Transfer: Economists Predict the Emergence…
The global economy has been feeling the hardships from the mandated lockdowns various nation states have implemented during the last month and a half. Oil prices have dropped below zero for the first time in…

Disbelief? Charts Suggest This Chainlink, Ether Rally Is…
Several altcoins have been showing strength in the past week with some of them seeing surges of more than 100%. One of them is Chainlink (LINK), whose price has risen 156% since Black Thursday, while…

No Visits, No Parole: Ross Ulbricht Is More…
The coronavirus infection spreading across the United States prison system is throwing Ross Ulbricht’s confinement into sharp relief. Last March marked the seventh year the controversial founder of the Silk Road has spent behind bars.…

Overbought Tezos Slips 9% Before Hitting All-Time High;…
Tezos failed to retest its all-time high after finding sellers near its local top. The XTZ-to-dollar exchange rate corrected downwards by more than 9 percent after logging four consecutive bullish sessions. It is now eyeing…

Bullish? Popular Bitcoin Metric Ends Record 7 Weeks…
Bitcoin (BTC) bulls have a reason to celebrate as a classic indicator is emerging from the longest hyper-bearish phase in its history. According to data last updated on April 27, the Crypto Fear & Greed…

First Mover: Ether Trounces Bitcoin as Network Sees…
Ether's price might be getting a boost from the crypto industry's version of the dash for cash. The coronavirus crisis has sent investors in both digital and traditional markets scrambling for U.S. dollars, seen as…

Bitcoin Indicator that Logged 5,378% Average Returns Flashes…
A bullish technical indicator in the bitcoin market flashed for the first time since December 2019. The tool studies the behavior of bitcoin producers – the miners – to identify potential price tops and bottoms.…

Bitcoin Hits Highest Level Since Black Thursday Amid…
Bitcoin's rally is gathering pace with the mining reward halving now just 14 days away. The top cryptocurrency by market value rose to $7,800 early on Monday to hit its highest level since March 12…

AI-Managed Bitcoin Trading Accounts Show Significant ROI
The Halving (sometimes referred to as “the Halvening”) is the predetermined moment when Bitcoin’s block subsidy gets cut in half. The halving of Bitcoin’s block subsidy occurs every 210,000 blocks (approximately every four years) and is a…

CoinJoin’s First Steps: How Dark Wallet Paved the…
CoinJoin. Trustless mixing. Anonymity. Bitcoin Magazine’s September 2013 cover — all black with hints of golden fingerprints — needed only four words to announce a powerful new privacy tool. At a time when industry representatives…

The Bitcoin Mixing Case at the Center of…
A court case is underway in the United States that could become a watermark decision for Bitcoin transaction privacy and compliance law. Larry Harmon of Ohio — who, incidentally, owns the Coin Ninja media site…

Bitcoin Fungibility, Mixing and the Legal Limits on…
On February 13, 2020, Larry Harmon, of Akron, Ohio, was charged with three counts: (1) conspiracy to commit money laundering, (2) operating an unlicensed money transmitting business and (3) conducting money transmission without a DC…

“Your Expectations of Privacy Are Too High” (But…
The Halving (sometimes referred to as “the Halvening”) is the predetermined moment when Bitcoin’s block subsidy gets cut in half. The halving of Bitcoin’s block subsidy occurs every 210,000 blocks (approximately every four years) and is a…

A Treatise on Bitcoin and Privacy Part 1:…
Introduction How one’s focus can shift in just two weeks! While today everybody in the Bitcoin space seems more concerned with price fluctuations in response to the global financial panic (understandably so), it’s important to…