With the Flare Network scheduled to carry out an airdrop of Spark Tokens almost a month from now, it has been receiving support from a host of exchanges including Bitrue, Cred, Uphold, and Bitbns. However, there are many exchanges that have not yet confirmed their support of the airdrop, exchanges like Bitstamp. Bitstamp revealed that...Read More
Chainlink did not have strong buying interest behind it as its price appeared to break out of a continuation pattern, one that invalidated the break. Waves, on the contrary, saw rapid gains and could post more, although it also showed some important levels to watch out for in case the surge north broke down. Finally,...Read More
The largest bank in Belarus – the ASB Belarusbank – has reportedly launched a legal service enabling customers from the country and Russia to purchase cryptocurrencies. Users will be able to exchange digital assets for Belarusian and Russian rubles, US dollars, and euros directly with their Visa payment cards. Belarusbank To Allow Crypto Purchases According...Read More
Stellar Lumens was on its way to flip a level of resistance to support while moving higher on the charts, at the time of writing. On the contrary, DeFi tokens saw a surge after investors piled in on the first sign of strength and Aave doubled in value over the past few days. Finally, FTX...Read More
The famous hip hop artist Akon has announced that the digital asset Akoin has been listed on Bittrex, and trading has started earlier this week. Akon and Akoin’s co-founder and president Jon Karas called the addition a “major milestone” in a recent livestream. The rapper believes that more exchange will follow the example set by...Read More
xBTC is in the news today after it announced its integration with Chainlink to launch a new product type that will use Chainlink oracles to dictate a token’s economics. This integration will create a spot price for a data point that has never before had a spot price – Bitcoin Market Cap Dominance (BMCD). That’s...Read More
Disclaimer: The findings of the following article attempt to analyze the emerging patterns in Litecoin’s short-term market and its impact on the price The value of the cryptocurrency popularly dubbed “digital silver” received a boost after it climbed from $58 to $66 in a matter of hours. In fact, Litecoin‘s price, for a while, had...Read More
Bitcoin induced euphoria in the market’s traders after recently registering a yearly-high of $16,400. Further down the crypto-ladder, EOS seemed to have exhausted its recent bullish outlook while NEM’s chart exhibited a bearish divergence and was likely to see a pullback. Finally, Compound recorded gains recently, but it was yet to show any sign of...Read More
The Bank of England’s deputy governor Jon Cunliffe reportedly said that England’s central bank was not going to ensure that mainstream banking business would remain relevant or not when future digital currencies launch. Cunliffe said in a report: Our job is not to protect bank business models. Banks will have to adjust. Our job is...Read More
Unlike Bitcoin, the altcoin market has not been successful in registering record highs. XRP, even though a major alt, has not been able to follow its 2017 trajectory and has been stuck within its known range, while other coins were still in a state of loss in terms of YTD performance. XRP Source: XRP/USD on...Read More
Tezos, once a major altcoin threatening a position in the top 10, has been unable to take advantage of the recent bullish scenario. While the coin has dropped down to 18th in the market, its long-term charts failed to indicate a lot of positive momentum. While its recent Delphi upgrade reduced smart contract gas fees...Read More
Hacked crypto exchange Cryptopia’s assigned liquidator, Grant Thornton New Zealand shared a follow-up update for Cryptopia account holders stating that “due to an error” by court staff at the Christchurch High Court, certain customer data “had been provided to an unauthorized third party.” The liquidators believed that this third party could try to use this...Read More
There are quite a few unfortunate stories of people that lost their Bitcoin forever as a result of using questionable means of storing their crypto. A notable example being James Howell, who lost $127 million worth of Bitcoin in 2017 and was unable to reclaim it. According to a report, Howell mistakenly placed the drive...Read More
Despite Bitcoin’s share of the market holding steady over the last few weeks, the world’s largest cryptocurrency’s price movement, owing to high correlation stats, continues to exert a lot of influence on the movement of other cryptos. The same was highlighted by the price performances of Tezos and STEEM. However, the same wasn’t evident when...Read More
Founder and CEO of Galaxy Digital, Michael Novogratz announced today that the firm’s OTC Trading business has had its best quarter yet. The CEO said: We’ve taken several key steps forward in the second half of 2020, including making critical senior hires, expanding our capital base, and completing strategic actions to position Galaxy Digital for...Read More
For many, Bitcoin is more than just a cryptocurrency. For most, Bitcoin is THE cryptocurrency. Why is this so? Well, there are many reasons, but the primary reason usually given by proponents is that it is the world’s biggest and its oldest. Fair enough, but is that all there is to that? Well, not quite,...Read More
Bitcoin’s performance over the past few days has had a significant impact on the rest of the crypto-market. While the collective market cap surged, individual tokens on the charts prospered as well. However, this wasn’t the case universally as quite a few cryptocurrencies chose to move in the opposite direction. The cases of Monero, Ethereum...Read More
Offering a high-level summary of progress, Goguen and Cardano project managers, Dimitris Poulopoulos and Volodymyr Hulchenko stated that things were progressing well. Last month’s Cardano update involved a live demo of the ERC-20 convertor and Charles Hoskinson describing the Native Asset Standard as a way of treating tokens on Cardano as ‘first-class citizens’. It seems...Read More
Disclaimer: The findings of the following article attempt to analyze the emerging patterns in the Polkadot short-term market and its impact on the price. Polkadot has been gaining much attention from the crypto community, ever since its launch. Even though Bitcoin has been reaching new highs, the coin has been consolidating in the market over...Read More
Following a period of sideways movement under the $11,000-mark in the month of September, Bitcoin’s price has risen dramatically on the charts. In fact, while October saw the cryptocurrency surge, November has seen BTC touch levels unseen since January 2018. Source: CoinStats Bitcoin’s performance has had a ripple effect on the rest of the crypto-market,...Read More
Two indigenous tribes from the northern region of Brazil have joined forces to create a cryptocurrency to save their future and have access to a decent income after a lack of attention from that country’s government. The two tribes are known for their with ancestral rivalries. Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro is known for his derogatory...Read More
Major crypto exchange BitMEX today announced its partnership with Eventus Systems, a software and compliance firm, which would allow the platform to “bolster” its Anti Money Laundering (AML) and trade surveillance monitoring. According to the announcement the firm said: Through integrating the Eventus Validus technology into our existing trade surveillance and AML processes, we will...Read More
The state electric company of Carabobo, one of Venezuela’s 23 states, has reportedly disconnected bitcoin and cryptocurrency mining equipment across the region. According to an anonymous crypto miner, the state electric company, Corpoelec did this in compliance with “superior orders.” The miner told a local news company that over the weekend Corpoelec had indeed shut...Read More
Akropolis has reportedly come under attack, with hackers draining the DeFi protocol’s savings pool to the tune of $2 million in DAI stablecoin. In a tweet published on 12 November Akropolis stated: We recently identified a hack executed across a body of smart contracts in the “savings pools” that have been audited twice. We are...Read More
Bitcoin’s price has touched new heights in Q4 of 2020. However, it is easy to forget that Q3 was quite different. The Bitcoin market, along with the altcoin market, was quite a mix of volatility and consolidation this year. The spurts of volatility caused the BTC market and traders to pay close attention to the...Read More
The blockchain analysis firm, Chainalysis, today announced the launch of an asset realization program to help government agencies to track seized cryptocurrencies as well as handle, store, and realize such assets. Chief Revenue Officer, Chainalysis Jason Bonds believed that with cryptocurrencies becoming more mainstream, the likelihood of bad actors using it could increase. On that...Read More
With Bitcoin continuing to hover very close to its $16k-resistance level, many of the market’s altcoins are now having to endure prolonged periods of sideways movement. Such was the case for altcoins such as Binance Coin, Polkadot, and VeChain over the course of the previous week. Binance Coin [BNB] Source: BNB/USD, TradingView Binance Coin’s price...Read More
Disclaimer: The findings of the following article attempt to analyze the emerging patterns in the EOS long-term market and its impact on the price EOS, like some altcoins, has been sinking lower on the charts with every passing day. This, even as Bitcoin and some other major crypto-assets consolidated. However, if one were to view...Read More
Bitcoin’s price, at the time of writing, continued to remain close to the much-anticipated $16K-level. Owing to their high correlation to the world’s largest cryptocurrency, many of the market’s altcoins benefited as expected. In fact, popular altcoins like XRP, Synthetix, and NEM saw their prices surge over the past week. However, over the last 24-48...Read More
Disclaimer: The findings of the following article attempt to analyze the emerging patterns in Chainlink’s short-term market and its impact on the price Unlike most, Chainlink has not been highly correlated with Bitcoin, with the impact of the same very visible on its market. In fact, the value of LINK has been moving in a...Read More
