Economist Nouriel Roubini has criticized online payments giant PayPal Holdings Inc for allowing its customers to buy, sell and hold BTC and other altcoins, from next year onwards. In a tweet published on Monday Roubini shared an article titled how PayPal has brought “crypto gambling,” to customers in the U.S. – which is “bad” for...Read More
An anonymous user just made what seems to be the largest fiat value transaction using Bitcoin. In a single transaction, the user sent a total of 88,857.2449 BTC, which, at the current rates, is worth around $1.15 billion. Being well-known for its low fees, the entire thing cost the user less than $4. Large Bitcoin...Read More
Disclaimer: The findings of the following article are the sole opinion of the writer and should not be taken as investment advice Ethereum has been the most-relied upon smart contracts platform since ‘smart contracts’ became a thing. Despite ICOs raising billions and many projects promising the world, none of them have come close to competing with...Read More
Following Bitcoin’s price rally, all eyes are now on Ethereum. The altcoin is only second to Bitcoin in its market capitalization and it has been in the spotlight for a long time this year owing to developments around ETH 2.0. The latest edition of the Bad Crypto Podcast discussed the “Building of a Better Ethereum”...Read More
Toyota Systems, a wholly-owned IT subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation announced today that it is experimenting with a digital currency solution as part of a new pilot project with DeCurret, a Japanese cryptocurrency exchange. This new project involves automating payments with its private digital currency to its 2,500 staff at Toyota Systems. The payments made...Read More
Bitcoin Cash, while it shared some of the positive sentiment around Bitcoin, could be set to retest a support level, before moving north on the charts once more. Further down the crypto-ladder, IOTA formed a bullish pattern, but failed to break out upwards and it could be set to register losses over the next days. Finally,...Read More
Disclaimer: The findings of the following article are the sole opinion of the writer and should not be taken as investment advice While Bitcoin rallied above $13,000 once again, at press time, a few other altcoins were also making a dash for their immediate resistance levels. 10th-ranked Bitcoin SV’s price rose by 12.46 percent over the...Read More
CEO of crypto payments firm Ripple, Brad Garlinghouse today said that his firm did not plan on following major crypto exchange Coinbase’s new change of policies that does not allow political distractions at work. Coinbase’s new policy, which received much attention, required its employees to avoid getting distracted by political and social issues, and instead...Read More
With Bitcoin rallying and staying above the $13000-mark for a few days now, on its way towards a new ATH, the trade volume on spot exchanges has dropped dramatically. While the said volume was high when the price breached $13000 for the first time, since then, the figures for the same have dropped consistently. BTC...Read More
XRP/USD – Bulls Trade Sideways After Triangle Break Key Support Levels: $0.25, $0.245, $0.237.Key Resistance Levels: $0.261, $0.271, $0.28.. Last week, XRP managed to break free from a symmetrical triangle pattern but has since moved sideways since the breakout. The coin seems to remain supported at the $0.25 level but struggles to break the resistance...Read More
Disclaimer: The findings of the following article are the sole opinion of the writer and should not be considered investment advice Tezos has struggled to relive itself from the vice grip of the market’s bears, and bullish periods for the token have been few and far between since the 2nd week of August. With a market...Read More
Bitcoin’s price remains stuck under the key 0.618 Fibonacci level at $13,360 going into this week after little bullish momentum arrived during the opening of the US traditional markets. Wall Street, meanwhile, is painted in red. Over shorter timeframes, it’s clear that the general sentiment is still bullish as the leading asset continues to print...Read More
Ripple partner Terrapay has announced its intention to strengthen its entry in North America with an approved FINTRAC Canada MSB License. This is big news, especially for a sector that is seeing blockchain technology revolutionize itself, especially since as per the World Bank’s data for 2018, the outward remittance value from Canada was as high...Read More
Industry leaders including Ethereum co-founder Anthony Di Iorio, serial entrepreneur Erik Voorhees, investor, and founder William Quigley, and Atari CEO Fred Chesnais will discuss the latest investment trends, including DeFi, NFTs, dapps, DEXs, and the current bitcoin bull market. Source: CoinAgenda Global 2020 LAS VEGAS – October 23, 2020 – CoinAgenda (www.coinagenda.com), the premier global...Read More
PayPal’s decision to enable its users to interact with cryptocurrencies directly on its platform continues to attract popular individuals’ attention. The latest to acknowledge the significance of this move were the Head of Facebook Financial, David Marcus, and Social Capital CEO Chamath Palihapitiya. Banks Will Follow PayPal, Says Marcus Arguably the most significant piece of...Read More
DeFi protocol RAI Finance is in the news after it announced that it raised $1.5 million worth of strategic investment led by global crypto-funds including GBIC and Alphabit. RAI Finance aims to build a DeFi ecosystem with a higher amount of liquidity and a diverse set of financial use cases through an integration with the...Read More
Tron rose above a descending trendline on its charts, but it would need to register further gains before the bulls can wrest control of the market from the bears. Cosmos was retracing its recent gains and appeared to be headed towards the $5-level once more. Finally, Crypto.com Coin could not find significant buyers after registering...Read More
Disclaimer: The findings of the following article are the sole opinion of the writer and should not be taken as investment advice Binance Coin has taken long strides in the industry over the past year, not just as an exchange token, but in many ways. The most recent one was its entry into DeFi, which, since...Read More
Bitcoin’s bullish momentum was not shared by the altcoin market. Stellar Lumens was noting bearish momentum in the short-term and it could touch $0.82 over the next few trading sessions. Algorand retested a level as resistance and could be set to see further losses on the charts. Further down the crypto-ladder, Enjin Coin strengthened its...Read More
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse is the latest popular individual to criticize the apolitical approach recently taken by the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase. Just the opposite, Ripple has offered employees paid time off to vote and volunteer in the upcoming US Presidential elections. Ripple CEO Disagrees With Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, the Chief Executive Officer of the...Read More
The fiasco with Harvest Finance continues with full force. The team has put a $100,000 bounty for the first person or team to reach out with information about the hacker. It’s also important to note that the attacker has decided to return $2.5 million to the deployer contract of Havers Finance. However, given that the...Read More
[Featured content] The cryptocurrency field is growing at a considerable rate as more companies and individuals get involved. As CryptoPotato recently reported, Google searches for the ‘buy crypto’ key phrase have surged to their highest point since all the way back in January 2018 – during the peak of the ICO bubble. Google traffic is...Read More
A recent survey compiled by Real Vision revealed quite a few interesting observations about the present-day crypto-market. The survey in question, while evaluating market sentiment across different asset classes, found that by and large, there is an extremely bullish sentiment around Bitcoin. In fact, it found that 65% of all market participants believe that Bitcoin...Read More
Founder and former executive chairman of the multinational technology conglomerate Alibaba Group, Jack Ma, believes that world regulators need to improve the legislation around digital currencies as they could create value. Ma: Digital Currencies Could Create Value In a recent speech reported by Bloomberg, the Chinese billionaire criticized the current global financial regulatory framework for...Read More
After marking two consecutive yearly highs in the span of a few days, Bitcoin has calmed but still hovers over $13,000. Most alternative coins have remained relatively stable, and the market cap is yet to break above $400 billion decisively. Bitcoin Stays Above $13k Although Bitcoin started the weekend with apparent stagnation, the asset entered...Read More
Bitcoin’s dominance was as high as 61.85, at the time of writing, with the figure remaining resolutely above 60 for a few weeks now. This indicated that the altcoin market was not seeing as much growth as Bitcoin, which was trading at $13,149. EOS registered higher highs over the past couple of weeks, but the...Read More
A few hours ago, reports from users on Harvest Finance’s Discord channel claimed that they had lost 10-15% trying to unstake fusdc, with many in the community soon voicing their concerns about a potential rug pull. In fact, $FARM was down by over 70%, at the time of writing. With over $500 million at risk,...Read More
Details are thin on the ground at the moment as the situation is unfolding, but DeFi yield farming protocol Harvest Finance appears to have become the latest victim of an exploit by a malicious actor. The team is currently updating via their twitter feed but it appears that an ‘economic attack’ was carried out on...Read More
