Altcoins

New cryptocurrency “Designed for 10,000x Returns” draws crypto community ire. Critics say the coin’s creator will hold 45% of the entire coin supply after the first year. Not a Ponzi, not a pyramid – a new breed of scam coin. A new cryptocurrency is attempting to pick up where BitConnect and OneCoin left off – enter HEX (formerly BitcoinHEX). According to the HEX.win website, HEX has been “designed for 10,000x returns”. While you ponder why your own favorite cryptocurrency wasn’t designed...

Ethereum’s search decline is slightly worse than Bitcoin’s. Roughly 96% of search interest originating from the United States has disappeared. A glance at ETH’s developer count reveals a silver lining for Ethereum. Nearly two years on from Ethereum’s all-time high, Google search interest for the No.1 altcoin has plunged 96%. Ethereum Popularity Nosedives Along with the ETH Price Search interest for the most well-known alternative to Bitcoin peaked during January 2018’s bull-run. The price...

Dmitriy Gurkovskiy, a senior analyst at foreign exchange broker RoboForex, shares his insights into the future scenarios for Bitcoin price movement as well as possible price swings of major altcoins.Judging by the charts of the main crypto instruments, the bears are still at the wheel. However, it should be noticed, that the angle of the decline is becoming less and less steep every day, which means a certain weakening of the trend. The picture on the charts may be hinting that the long but...

For some time now, Japan’s banking sector has faced many challenges arising from money laundering. This problem has been in the limelight since the Financial Action Task Force found “numerous and serious deficiencies” back in 2014. Japan has long been blamed for weak measures that it has set up against money laundering and terrorism financing.In that context, the U.S. banking multinational, JPMorgan Chase & Co, is looking to launch an Interbank Information Network (IIN) in the East Asian...

Ethereum prices this year were lower in growth than Bitcoins, as the second-largest cryptocurrency this year increased less than 5%, notwithstanding BTC in spite of that maintains a staggering 95% increase since the beginning of the year, despite previous selling.In light of the successful introduction of the latest network updates in Istanbul hard fork and the growing popularity of DeFi, does catching up with ETH means a viable strategy for investors? From a macroeconomic point of view,...

Ripple has done it again when it updated its recently launched Xpring developer platform to accept two new programming languages Python and Go. The new XRP developer platform (xpring.io) allows both cryptocurrency developers and non-cryptocurrency developers to be able to create applications that run within the XRP ecosystem. The new features include customer service, a new developer-friendly wallet, technical documentation and another set of cool tools.The platform was launched in October...

ADA price declined steadily after it failed to surpass the $0.0400 resistance against the US Dollar.The price is slowly approaching the key $0.0355 support area.Earlier, there was a break below a key contracting triangle with support near $0.0382 on the 4-hours chart (data feed via Kraken).The price is under pressure and it seems like it could even struggle to hold the $0.0355 support.Cardano price is showing a lot of bearish signs against the US Dollar and bitcoin. ADA price is likely to...

Most of the cryptocurrency market has been trading in the red over the last 24 hours. However, altcoins are seemingly making a slight recovery when looking at the bigger picture, as Bitcoin’s dominance loses 1%.Bitcoin’s price has been ranging between $7,400 and &7,600 in the last few days, but yesterday it marked a slow descent to the current level of $7,200 on Bitstamp.Taking a look at the technical aspects, Bitcoin could be retesting the next significant support level at $7,000. If it...

Hey Krypto Fans, willkommen zur Bitcoin-Informant Show Nr. 769. Heute sprechen wir über folgende Themen: Bitcoin Halving Dump oder Moon, BitClub Network Betreiber wegen Betrug festgenomme & Solarisbank startet Bitcoin-Verwahrgeschäft. [embedded content] 1.) Bitcoin Halving Dump oder Moon? – Grayscale Umfrage gibt Aufschlusshttps://cryptomonday.de/bitcoin-halving-dump-oder-moon-grayscale-umfrage-gibt-aufschluss/ 2.) US-Justiz geht gegen BitClub Network vor – Betreiber wegen Betrug...

Stablecoins are almost completely banned in developed countries and zones like China or the EU. But BitPay claims that they’re launching a worldwide stablecoin payment solution. BP is one of the world’s largest providers of the BTC and BCH merchant API’s. Ever tried to pay for a DDoS service, a cloud server, or a private VPN? They do accept credit card payments, yes. But if they don’t, they will surely take your precious crypto using BitPay.Now BitPay is allowing the merchants and consumers...