Bitcoin (BTC)

Ripple price declined below $1.25 and tested the $1.165 support against the US dollar. The price is now trading near $1.21 and the 55 simple moving average (4-hours). There is a key bullish trend line forming with support near $1.175 on the 4-hours chart of the XRP/USD pair (data source from Bittrex). The pair could continue to move up if there is a clear break above $1.235. Ripple price is slowly rising above $1.20 against the US Dollar, unlike bitcoin. XRP price must...

Credit card giant Mastercard has partnered with three distinct companies in Asia and Australia to offer digital currency payment cards to its customers. Mastercard Is Pushing the Crypto World Forward The companies assisting Mastercard’s newfound crypto agenda are Bitkub, a crypto exchange in Thailand; crypto finance firm Amber Group, and Australian trading platform Coinjar. While the payment cards being issued will not allow people to utilize crypto directly for...

Bloomberg recently found that investors are protecting themselves from fears of rising inflation by using Bitcoin. In a tweet, the company even called it “the best inflation hedge around” depending on how one looks at it. Bitcoin Beats Inflation After crunching the numbers, Bloomberg Opinion’s John Authers found that Bitcoin has achieved 99.996% deflation over the past 10 years. What cost one Bitcoin in 2011 now costs just 0.004% of a Bitcoin today. Meanwhile, the CPI has...

Eric Adams – the mayor-elect of New York City – continues to push the region’s newfound crypto agenda and now says plans are underway to establish a new digital asset specific to the Big Apple. New York Is Getting a Cryptocurrency All Its Own While the currency is not stemming from Adams himself, it appears his enthusiasm for crypto is beginning to rub off on other individuals. Plans for the currency were first introduced by a company called City Coins, which works on...

The United States Justice Department has seized more than $6 million in digital currency funds that were allegedly garnered through ransomware attacks. The Justice Department Is Moving Fast The move comes after the Justice Department recently issued new sanctions against both countries and various global exchanges that had potentially been part of collecting ransomware funds and laundering the money. Several arrests of alleged hackers have also taken place as the Justice...

Since the major drop on Wednesday, the bitcoin price mostly traded around the same range of $64K. Today is the last day of the week; this means that on midnight UTC will see a weekly candle close. This candle close is critical for the next short-term. The bulls need to see BTC makes a weekly close above $64.8k for the first step in breakout confirmation. As shown on the following chart, the bullish Cup and Handle pattern breakout was completed, with a back-test of previous...

The results of a global poll carried out by the international financial consultancy firm – deVere Group – revealed that 36% of millennials and 51% of Generation Z would be happy to get half of their paychecks in digital assets instead of fiat. Crypto Is The Future of Money for The Youngsters Seen by many as a financial revolution and a global technological development, the cryptocurrency industry is prevalent among people younger than 40-years-old. With that said, it is no...

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The Bitcoin network made history today as its most ambitious upgrade, Taproot, went live at block 709,632, 5:15 UTC on Sunday – November 14, 2021. Taproot Upgrade is Live The implementation is a milestone for Bitcoin, considering that Taproot is the first significant upgrade in the network since August 2017 after the Lightning Network and Segregated Witness (SegWit) upgrades. While SegWit and the Lightning Network focus on making transactions faster and cheaper, Taproot...

Following the past few days of enhanced volatility, bitcoin has calmed around $64,000. Most alternative coins have also remained untypically stagnant on a 24-hour scale, with the apparent exception of Avalanche, which went on a roll and registered a new ATH. Bitcoin’s Consolidation Rolls On Last week was going quite well for the primary cryptocurrency as it had recovered from its dip to $60,000 and went on to chart new records. It broke the October peak of $67,000 on Tuesday...