While Binance is slowing becoming one of the most important names in the cryptocurrency industry, its native token, Binance Coin, is also gaining a lot of traction and interest this year. One of the market’s top performers in 2020, Binance Coin has flipped its objective as just an alternative to avoid transaction fees. Source: BNB/USD...Read More
Hodling Bitcoin has a whole different meaning in 2020. It is no longer associated with optimistic novice traders who entered the space a gazillion years ago, all hoping for a profitable return. Instead, the trend has been taken over by huge business entities that are eyeing Bitcoin as a long-term investment strategy and as a...Read More
The crypto industry is evolving rapidly. Today, entire countries are investing in digital coins, because they are the future. And you can be at the forefront of technology today. You only need to choose a reliable, promising, and interesting project. Let’s have a look at exactly what criteria will allow us to classify this or...Read More
It seems that not everybody from the crypto community has warmed up to PayPal’s decision to venture into the crypto market. In a tweet calling out the payment giant’s move into crypto, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse said he was disappointed with Paypal’s upcoming crypto integration since he believed this would spur the benefits of crypto...Read More
Blockchain research and development startup IOHK, and Ethereum Classic Cooperative today announced a collaboration to provide ETC community with solutions that aimed to improve security of the network, especially after ETC had been 51% attacked three times already. In a release shared with AMBCrypto on Tuesday, the two entities analyzed the vulnerability of the ETC...Read More
Bitcoin, Gold, and the S&P500 have collectively shared the center stage when it comes to market movement in 2020. While the crypto-asset has periodically taken sides, at the moment, Bitcoin is more correlated with the traditional stock market. Source: Skew Source: Skew When comparing recent Skew charts of Bitcoin’s relationship with Gold and the S&P...Read More
Amid talks of forking Filecoin because of miner unrest, Juan Benet, the entrepreneur behind the decentralized storage network, dismissed the claims and said their storage network was “just fine.” In a tweet, Benet called the miner strike “nonsense” and that there has been no “power loss” as such on the network. Benet said in a...Read More
Bitcoin was trading above the price level of $11400, at press time, with BTC having successfully negotiated a stay above $11k for most of the previous week. In fact, despite several notable developments recently, the cryptocurrency recorded a 5% hike over a 3-week period. This is interesting because, until 2020, the prevailing perception was that...Read More
In what is a significant development, Jerome Powell, Chair of the U.S Federal Reserve, today revealed that the Fed is looking into the benefits of digital currencies. The Fed Chair was speaking at a seminar organized by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) titled “Cross-Border Payments – A Vision for the Future,” a seminar that involved...Read More
24 hours after the launch of Filecoin, a majority of its miners have gone on strike. The main reason for the same is that miners actually have to buy $FIL, in order to mine $FIL, as it currently stands. To begin with, Filecoin is very complex and requires high-end hardware including 128GB memory. In fact,...Read More
Simply put, velocity is a measure of how quickly money is circulating in the economy. For Bitcoin, the figure is calculated by dividing the on-chain transaction volume (in USD) by the market cap, i.e. the inverse of the NVT ratio. The value for the same has risen significantly in 2020, relative to 2019. In fact,...Read More
Bitcoin’s hashrate hit a new ATH recently. In fact, the total hashrate has hit quite a few ATHs this year, with the same noted to be $144.03M TH/s, at the time of writing. However, while historically this points to a price hike in the future, it may not be the case this time. Bitcoin’s hash...Read More
DeFi’s total value locked [TVL] figures seem to be holding above $10 billion, however, scams are crawling out of the shadows, one project at a time. While ‘scam’ is a strong, blanket word, not all projects are scams per se. This weekend, the COVER project seems to have caught the attention of this label. Riding...Read More
For the Bitcoin world, December 2017 was the glory days and the nightmare, all wrapped in one. Over that month, and the pullback that followed, the world saw what could happen if the hype around cryptocurrencies gave way to reality. Now, nearly three years on, Bitcoin’s press time price requires a 75 percent jump in...Read More
I get it. It’s always an either-or decision between Bitcoin and gold, as a pure investment play. Since the commodity and the cryptocurrency each have similar attributes of – a hedge, limited supply, and safe haven, these assets are used to balance the bottomless assets that are stocks, bonds, and cash. But does one edge...Read More
As institutions line up to buy Bitcoin, its origin story comes into focus. Most argue that Bitcoin was created in response to the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy and the Global Financial Crisis that followed. However, it is the result of decades of work on peer to peer payments. Since prices are driven by inflow and volatility...Read More
Coinbase has published a “transparency report” that also revealed how the leading crypto exchange has received 1,914 “legitimate government” requests in 2020. According to Coinbase, these requests mainly came in the form of subpoenas and sometimes included search warrants and court orders. About 90% of these “transparency” requests were sent from the U.S., the U.K.,...Read More
Chief Security Officer at cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, Nicholas J. Percoco alerted users today about a scam that was targeting crypto users, which involved a homograph phishing attack and “multiple” people who were pretending to be Kraken employees. Percoco further alleged that people named Liz Cohen, Darin Zumberi or Jing Kang were posing as Kraken employees and...Read More
The bullish rally at the end of July was pretty significant for Ethereum. The valuation jumped above $250, $300, $350, and eventually surpassed $400 after more than 2-years. Ethereum’s rally was so dominant that options trader expected Ethereum to impute more volatility than Bitcoin itself. ETH-BTC 3 months realized vol spread on 27th July was...Read More
Bitcoin, despite its recent sideways movement on the charts, has a very positive outlook attached to it. Hodlers of the cryptocurrency have long been optimistic about BTC’s long-term price trend. However, with the MicroStrategy, Square Inc., and Stone Ridge’s news breaking out over the past few weeks, it would seem that institutions, en-masse, are buying into...Read More
Earlier in 2020, The Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC) announced that there were over 300 digital currency exchange providers (312 in February 2020) enrolled with the AUSTRAC. It is fair to say, cryptocurrencies were becoming a popular asset in Australia and amidst such fierce competition, the Swyftx exchange was making a lot of...Read More
Hackers have compromised “almost 2,000” Robinhood Markets Inc trading accounts in the recent cyberattacks spree that have stolen funds from crypto users, according to anonymous sources who provided the estimated figures. While Robinhood has not yet made the news public, it did however send a push notification to its users this week that encouraged them...Read More
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase announced today that it would sponsor at least two Bitcoin developers, who contribute directly to the Bitcoin Core codebase or closely associated Bitcoin projects, through the exchange’s new grants dubbed Crypto Community Fund. Coinbase said it would make the final selections after current Bitcoin Core developers and “important” community members shortlist the...Read More
When we talk about the accumulation of crypto-assets, only one corporation comes to mind this year – Grayscale Trust. In 2020 alone, Grayscale has accumulated more than 300,000 BTC, while also introducing a new digital asset trust associated with Litecoin. In fact, according to reports, the firm has registered over $1 billion in inflows in...Read More
With a press time price of just over $11,300, Bitcoin was attempting to head towards its next high on the charts. In fact, at the time, BTC’s price was nearly 8% higher, when compared to the same a week ago, with 88% HODLers sitting on unrealized profits. With the price climbing, HODLers are spending their...Read More
According to an announcement released earlier today, the Mt. Gox rehabilitation plan that was scheduled for submission on 15 October has now been postponed to 15 December 2020. Source: mtgox.com The deadline was pushed after the Rehabilitation Trustee filed a motion to seek an extension of the submission deadline of the rehabilitation plan, following which,...Read More
Calling it “unfortunate” that U.S regulators did not have a clear approach to cryptocurrencies, Garlinghouse re-emphasized that the lack of a single national regulatory framework was putting US companies, such as Ripple itself, at a disadvantage and that the company yearned for a “level playing field.” Over the last two weeks, CEO of Ripple, Brad...Read More
The financial regulating body, New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) said that the “double your money with bitcoin” scam as a result of the infamous Twitter hack on July 15 led to “weaponization” of major social media companies. The policymakers have called for strong cybersecurity to curb such events. NYDFS claimed that in...Read More
Everybody knows the BitMEX situation after its CTO, Samuel Reed was arrested on October 1. The implications of this are wide, however, this article takes a fresh look at the situation from the traders’ perspective. Open Interest [OI] The previous article covered the OI drop seen on BitMEX long before the fiasco involving authorities. However,...Read More
Cryptocurrency asset manager Grayscale Investments published its third-quarter investment report, according to which the firm has raised $1.05 billion into its investment products, marking this their largest capital inflow in a single quarter ever. Dropping our latest Digital Asset Investment Report this morning…@Grayscale raised over $1 billion into our family of products in 3Q20!! a...Read More
