Richard Teng, CEO of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, believes the trading giant is past the cultural issues after it settled criminal charges from the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) with a $4.3 billion fine. During an interview with CNBC, Teng said Binance had moved past the early stage of its development, where...Read More
Just as the U.S. regulators approve this new breed of financial product, speculations have been in place about the new game the Bitcoin ETF is! Experts believe that these spot ETFs will empower people with a way to invest in Bitcoin through their brokerage for the first time. Big names like BlackRock and Fidelity have...Read More
Amid the major crypto exchange FTX’s liquidity crisis, two companies closely tied to it – including Alameda Research and FTX Ventures – appear to be inaccessible on their websites. Alameda‘s site has gone private, while FTX Ventures’ site appears to be down entirely. Both have been inaccessible since Tuesday. Alameda is a trading desk launched...Read More
Bitcoin has seen a downfall for the third consecutive day. The Bitcoin price started a major decline from the $47,000 resistance zone and the decline hasn’t stopped since then. The decline below $47,000 saw Bitcoin price dropping below $46,000, $45,000. At the time of reporting, Bitcoin Price is trading at $43,425 after a downfall of...Read More
El Salvador está listo para lanzar sus criptobonos, pero Bukele quiere esperar. Le preocupa la actual situación económica y geopolítica. No quiere que el escenario de la guerra en Europa y las dudas respecto al mercado del petróleo pongan en peligro los bonos. El ministro de economía salvadoreño, Alejandro Zelaya, ha sido el encargado de...Read More
The State of Georgia might become the next hub for cryptocurrency miners as it provides relatively low electricity prices and a large amount of nuclear and solar power, a new coverage revealed. Furthermore, local regulators have shown a friendly stance towards this side of the digital asset industry. Can Georgia Become The Crypto Mining Capital...Read More
Binance Coin continued its uptrend, after a pullback in early August. BNB had important support levels to fall back to if faced with sell pressure. In the case of the market’s altcoins like IOTA and Zcash, both coins faced significant resistance near its current price level. Binance Coin [BNB] Source: BNB/USDT on TradingView Binance Coin...Read More
The latest twist regarding the notorious Twitter hack from July indicated that the 17-year old alleged mastermind of the entire operation owns over $3 million worth of Bitcoin. Graham Ivan Clark faces 30 criminal charges, and his bail was set at $725,000. Twitter Hacker Owns $3.3M Worth Of BTC As CryptoPotato reported in mid-July, unknown...Read More
By Dmitriy Gurkovskiy, author at RoboForex Blog On Friday, May 22nd, the XRP is trying to restore after two days of sales but the impulse is not enough. The cryptocurrency is generally trading at 0.1968 USD. The technical picture of Ripple on D1 has not much changed since last week and is typical of the whole...Read More
The Stellar market on Tuesday opened at $0.067 and the estimated Days closing range is 0.071. Besides Bitcoin, Stellar is the only well-performing among the top 20 digital assets. The Price surged to 2 months high $0.0714 and pulled down to $0.069 by noontime. Even though it hit downside XLM/USD is 11% high in the...Read More
By Dmitriy Gurkovskiy, Chief Analyst at RoboForex On Tuesday, March 31st, the ETH is slightly growing, trading at 132.68 USD. On H4, the correctional phase has acquired the shape of a triangular consolidation. The longer it lasts, the more powerful will be the exit from it. The MACD heading upwards points at the potential breakout...Read More
Changpeng Zhao, the CEO of giant cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, has called out Craig Steven Wright (CSW) as fraud. Besides, he has related his activities to that of the extinct Chinese crypto exchange, Fcoin. Craig Steven Wright is the self-claimed Satoshi Nakamoto, who constantly claims to have invented bitcoin. CZ Calls Craig Wright a Fraud Tweeting...Read More
Towards mid-day of Wednesday, February 19, 2020, CEO of Binance cryptocurrency exchange, Changpeng Zhao (CZ) announced unscheduled system maintenance that Binance was undergoing. And due to the said maintenance issues, trading activities were said to have been paused until further notice. As at the time of writing this piece, the undescribed maintenance effort was still...Read More
Back in the parabolic bull run in 2017, more often than not, a random cryptocurrency would skyrocket and increase by a staggering percentage. In a lot of the cases, however, this was based more on pump and dump schemes rather than on actual fundamental or technical indicators. Over the past couple of days, Futurocoin, which...Read More
Binance has announced the launch of a fundraiser to help remedy the damage caused by the Australian bushfires. Binance to the Rescue The project is led by the Binance Charity Foundation, the philanthropic subsidiary of the exchange giant. Binance is donating $1 million worth of its BNB tokens as an initial boost to the project....Read More
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will prioritize the examination of the cryptocurrency industry throughout 2020. The SEC to Oversee the Cryptocurrency Market in 2020 On Jan. 7, the SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE) unveiled a new list of examination priorities for 2020. It emphasized digital assets as an area of...Read More
DeFi made its claim to fame with lending protocols that offer attractive yields. As these rates normalize, new age financial products could propel the space to greater heights. Stablecoins and Yield in a Volatile Year In the first six months of 2019, Bitcoin spiked from a biennial low of $3,200 to a range high of...Read More
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance announced the introduction of leveraged perpetual swap contracts. Price surged 8 percent a few hours before the official announcement, raising suspicion from the community. XRP Derivatives Gaining Traction Perpetual swap contracts for XRP have been popping up on more and more exchanges in the last few months. The launch of Binance’s XRP/USDT...Read More
Large pools are causing centralization. Cardano’s largest pools are currently over-staked. Though the exact statistics change over time, the issue has been observed for several weeks. AdaPools.org indicates that 18 of Cardano’s 249 active staking pools are saturated as of Jan. 4. In terms of value, 33% of all staked ADA has been allocated to...Read More
Private transactions are closer than ever. Litecoin’s Mimblewimble-based privacy efforts are finally underway. David Burkett, the developer behind the subproject, has announced that he has completed the first month of development. “After months of planning, development of the Mimblewimble extension block has officially started,” Burkett posted to Litecointalk on Dec. 29. This project has been...Read More
The May 2020 Bitcoin halving might not have such a dramatic effect on Bitcoin’s price. According to Meltem Demirors, the chief strategy officer of CoinShares, the popularity of the Bitcoin derivatives market means that the price of the underlying asset is becoming less relevant, which will keep it in check even after the halving. Institutions...Read More
This year will see the second annual Proof of Keys event take place. Those involved will be attempting to demonstrate the monetary sovereignty Bitcoin affords, as well as the solvency (or lack there of it) of cryptocurrency exchange platforms.If you’re new to the Bitcoin space, you might not have heard of Proof of Keys before....Read More
The CEO of Ren protocol, Taiyang Zhang, recently announced the launch of yet another DeFi liquidity solution for the crypto ecosystem. Keeper DAO looks to offer many of the same services of traditional underwriting services but will instead focus on non-custodial crypto markets. Binding the DeFi Community Together The rise of decentralized financial products like...Read More
Another week, another round of Crypto Tidbits. This week has been quite a tumultuous one for the Bitcoin market. As of the time of writing this, the cryptocurrency is effectively flat on the week, posting a slight loss of 1%. But this statistic hides the truth: this week has seen BTC undergo two 10% swings, one to...Read More
Spark will compete with Ethereum’s similar web app. IOTA has released Spark, a web wallet that can be set up in seconds and erased in the same amount of time. The announcement refers to the app as a burner wallet: “The idea is that you use the wallet for small amounts of funds, for a...Read More
If you’ve perused Crypto Twitter at all over the past few months, you’ve likely heard the term “decentralized finance” or “DeFi” tossed around in relation to Ethereum, the second-largest blockchain by the market capitalization of its cryptocurrency.While some see it as a joke, a tokenized home — yes, an entire property — was purported to...Read More
The decision of Circle, Inc. to spin off the Poloniex business and abandon the US market has led to an exodus of deposits from the market’s wallets. BTC and ETH Left the Exchange’s Wallets After Circle Acquisition The Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) wallets of the Poloniex exchange were quickly emptied as traders moved their...Read More
Bitcoin has finally started to show some signs of weakness after stagnating above $7,500 for days on end, recently dipping under the key support in and around $7,400. As of the time of writing this, the cryptocurrency is trading for $7,350 on many major exchanges, posting a 2% loss in the past 24 hours.Related Reading:...Read More
Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by adjusted trading volume, announced on October 10 the issuance of the second digital asset ever on Binance Chain, the exchange’s non-custodial trading platform. The new asset is an XRP variant and it’s listed as XRP-BF2. According to Binance, XRP-BF2 is pegged one-to-one to XRP on Binance’s main trading...Read More
Over the past few months, an odd trend has been seen: the Ethereum blockchain itself has started to gain traction, even as ETH’s price fell, with there being a large uptick in transaction volumes and overall network activity. It got to a point when last month, the fees that Ethereum users paid to use their...Read More
