Bitcoin witnessed an extraordinary surge in transaction volume in the past week, coinciding with a mild increase in its price, which broke away from a constrained trajectory. According to recent data by IntoTheBlock, the number of reported transactions for Bitcoin rose to nearly 703,000, representing the largest number recorded not just in 2023 but also...Read More
Asset management giant BlackRock expects the Federal Reserve to keep its policy interest rate flat at its next Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC) meeting on Wednesday. The prediction is in line with market expectations and is suspected by analysts to offer Bitcoin (BTC) a meaningful short-term price boost. BlackRock’s Fed Forecast According to Marilyn Watson...Read More
A dormant Bitcoin address has suddenly become active after six long years. Blockchain intelligence company PeckShield revealed through a tweet that the previously inactive address “13RLtG…PXs,” which held approximately 2,100 BTC, has been reawakened. According to data from BitInfoCharts, this Bitcoin address initially received the stash of BTC on October 19, 2017, when its value...Read More
Investor sentiment remained sour as digital asset investment products witnessed yet another week of extensive outflows. However, Bitcoin was still the most loved investment product according to the latest edition of CoinShares’ report. In the past week, digital asset investment products experienced outflows totaling $54 million, marking the fifth consecutive week of such withdrawals. In...Read More
The largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization is pre-determined to have 21 million coins ever mined. Many BTC proponents believe this anti-inflationary feature should make the asset more scarce and valuable in time. The total amount of Bitcoin produced as of today stands at almost 19.5 million, with over 15% owned by ten individuals or organizations....Read More
Bitcoin has done very little over the weekend, hugging the $26,500 price level with minimal volumes and volatility. Market analyst and chart guru “PlanB” has been tweaking his pricing models since the infamous stock-to-flow model has been potentially invalidated by this extended bear market. With the new market phase naming, BTC is still in the...Read More
Bitcoin miner F2Pool has successfully reversed a recent erroneous bitcoin transaction that resulted in an excessively high transaction fee of $510,000, almost 480,000 times the average network fee of $2.176. The responsible party, Paxos, acknowledged its error and identified it as a bug in a single transfer. According to on-chain data from Mempool on X,...Read More
Darewise Entertainment, a subsidiary of Animoca Brands, has partnered with Horizen Labs to launch the first-ever metaverse ecosystem token on the Bitcoin blockchain. This partnership aims to usher in a new era of possibilities for gaming, brands, and real-life experiences within the Bitcoin ecosystem. Bitcoin’s First Metaverse Ecosystem Token Darewise Entertainment, known for its visionary...Read More
Delio, a South Korea-based Bitcoin lender, is reportedly planning to launch an administrative lawsuit against local financial regulators, citing poor and incorrect interpretation of the law. This new lawsuit comes after an investigation and fine imposed on the Bitcoin lending firm by the South Korean watchdog. Delio to Sue South Korean Watchdogs Earlier this month,...Read More
Data from the Artemis Terminal reveals that Ethereum (ETH), the second-largest blockchain network by market capitalization, has surpassed Bitcoin (BTC) in terms of daily active addresses. According to the latest statistics, Ethereum boasts 1.03 million daily active addresses, while Bitcoin stands at 743,800. Santiment’s Insights into Ethereum’s On-Chain Activity According to a report by market...Read More
Following a significant sell-off triggered by FTX’s crypto liquidation news, Bitcoin is now showing signs of a recovery rally. In recent hours, the price of BTC has been climbing steadily, fueled by renewed investor interest in buying the dip. Additionally, current on-chain data points toward the potential for a sharp upward trend for Bitcoin by...Read More
The pseudonymous X (Twitter) user “Shib Informer” believes that the price of Shiba Inu will go up once investors display a huge appetite for the memecoin. According to them, such a demand could be triggered by lowering the fees on Shibarium and increasing its utilization. “Shib Informer” thinks that having “really low” transaction fees could...Read More
Liquidity across the crypto market continues to dry up, with both on-chain and off-chain volumes reaching historical lows. These were the findings from analytics provider Glassnode in its latest weekly report on Sept. 11. Moreover, a “significant proportion” of the BTC supply is teetering on the edge of falling into a significant unrealized loss, it...Read More
A Newport resident who accidentally disposed of a hard drive containing 8,000 Bitcoin (BTC) is looking to file a lawsuit against the city’s local council for refusing to accept his request to dig up a landfill site for the lost crypto treasure. The investor has been trying to get his Bitcoin excavated for a decade,...Read More
The crypto community on X (Twitter) was baffled recently after an anonymous Bitcoin user paid a whopping 19.89 BTC (over $500,000) in transaction fees to move just 0.074 BTC (worth less than $2,000 at current rates). The payment went to the Bitcoin mining pool F2Pool that generated the valid block. The team behind the entity...Read More
Bitcoin (BTC) clings precariously to its critical support level of approximately $25.6k as it faces a looming threat of a daily death cross between the 50 and 200 Moving Averages (MA). The cryptocurrency closed the previous week with an indecisive Doji candlestick, leaving traders and investors on edge. This impending death cross is likely to...Read More
On Wednesday, U.S. accounting standard authorities unanimously approved long-anticipated guidelines for valuing digital assets. These new rules will provide crypto companies and other businesses with substantial digital currency holdings a standardized method for assessing the value of their Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other cryptocurrencies. This research report aims to explore the impact of new crypto accounting...Read More
Bitcoin received a minor push just before the previous day’s close and almost reached one of the interim resistance levels but failed to surpass $26,500. Nevertheless, the BTC price continues to trade above $26,200 at the moment. While the bulls manifest some strength, the traders remain pessimistic about the markets. Despite the minor jump, Bitcoin...Read More
Blockchain analytics firm Arkham Intelligence has found that on-chain wallets tied to the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) hold more than $16 billion in BTC. In a recent tweet, the crypto data tracking platform said that the trust’s issuer, Grayscale Investments, is the second largest global bitcoin holder, with the assets spread across more than 1,750...Read More
The Bitcoin network is currently overwhelmed with a backlog of unconfirmed transactions, with the average confirmation time hovering above 10.4 minutes. According to Mempool, there are around 560,000 transactions waiting to be confirmed on the Bitcoin protocol, whose memory usage has surged past 300 MB to 1GB, and transaction fees spiked to 20 satoshis per...Read More
Bitcoin’s price is well known for its four-year price cycles, which coincide with its “halving” schedule that reduces its inflation rate every four years. But is one phenomenon truly related to the other? Some analysts believe that the asset’s cyclical movements are related to macro conditions. and that the halving schedule’s congruency is pure coincidence....Read More
Outflows have significantly slowed down, with bitcoin products showing resilience amidst a flatlined market trend. According to the latest edition of CoinShares’ Digital Asset Fund Flows Weekly Report,’ there is a glimmer of hope that negative sentiment may be starting to shift, as highlighted by the firm’s Head of Research, James Butterfill. Butterfill observed that...Read More
Jay Clayton – former Chairman of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) – thinks the regulator will sooner or later approve the launch of a spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF). The agency recently decided to delay the applications of BlackRock and numerous other finance giants who displayed ambitions to introduce such a product. Clayton...Read More
The total adjusted on-chain volume for the leading two crypto assets decreased by 6.3% to $176 billion in August. Bitcoin volumes fell by 6.7% and Ethereum by 5.7% for the month, according to research from The Block. Furthermore, it is the fifth month of declines since March, and on-chain volumes are down 56% from the...Read More
Bitcoin wallet address that accumulated $3 billion worth of BTC in three months to become the 3rd largest wallet address belongs to the investing and trading platform Robinhood. The wallet had attracted attention dividing the market observers into speculating whether it belonged to Winklevoss-led Gemini or asset management giant BlackRock. However, Arkham Intelligence data showed...Read More
The latest edition of the weekly report from crypto exchange Bitfinex has revealed that Bitcoin’s mining difficulty reached a new peak as BTC hovered around the $26,000 price level. The “Bitfinex Alpha” report disclosed that the mining difficulty hit an all-time high of 55.62 trillion hashes. Bitcoin’s Mining Difficulty Hits New High The mining difficulty...Read More
Crypto markets pumped $65 billion following the news that a court ruled in favor of Grayscale in its lawsuit challenging the SEC’s decision to deny conversion of its GBTC fund to an ETF. The big move has reversed the recent bearish sentiment as market analysts and observers are now eyeing the next bull cycle. On...Read More
Long-term Bitcoin holders have proved to be highly resilient but data suggest that this cohort of market players had the inkling of a favorable outcome. Bitcoin received a major push following the Grayscale court victory against the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). However, preceding this event, there was significant accumulation amidst a period of...Read More
Miami’s mayor – Francis Suarez – announced his withdrawal from the US Presidential race without providing an exact reason for his decision. He is known as an outspoken proponent of bitcoin who has invested some of his wealth in the primary digital asset. Suarez also became the first American politician to receive his salary in...Read More
The Japanese subsidiary of Binance will reportedly provide trading services with additional digital currencies in the near future. The crypto behemoth re-entered the Land of the Rising Sun earlier this summer after departing in 2018 due to regulatory problems. According to a Bloomberg coverage, Binance Japan will soon increase the number of supported cryptocurrencies on...Read More
