Bitcoin (BTC)

The Bitwise proposal for a bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) was recently knocked to the side by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). This was bad news all by itself, but many analysts are seeing the rejection as a sign of how the industry will wind up.Bitwise Rejection Means a Lot to AnalystsSome view this not as just a simple rejection, but as a permanent barricade to blockchain and crypto-based products. They expect that a bitcoin ETF will have a very hard time getting approval...

La startup parsienne Acinq vient d’annoncer la sortie de la version 0.3.2 d’Eclair, son implémentation du Lighning Network. Cette nouvelle version comporte des corrections de bugs et diverses améliorations concernant notamment la synchronisation des données de routage, l’API de paiement, le financement des canaux et la récupération des canaux en cas de défaillance d’une sauvegarde. Cette version...

Times are good at Grayscale Investments, which has had the wind at its back lately. The digital asset investment firm just experienced its best quarter ever, as evidenced by a record-setting $254.9 million flowing into its funds in Q3 2019, which is about three times as much as Q2 results of roughly $85 million.  Much of the funds are being directed toward bitcoin via the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust, with more than $170 million flooding the flagship fund and setting yet another record for the...

Présidée par Franck Montaugé, la commission d’enquête sénatoriale sur la souveraineté numérique a rendu son rapport le 1er octobre 2019. Alexandre Stachtchenko, cofondateur et DG de Blockchain Partner et président de la ChainTech, a été auditionné en juillet dans le cadre dans cette commission. Le texte de son intervention a été publié hier par Blockchain Partner. Nous le reproduisons ici : Les cryptomonnaies sont l’Internet de la...

It looks like no matter how hard crypto and blockchain try they can’t please everybody. The Y Combinator’s top 100 list of startups is out, and to our disappointment and dismay, only two cryptocurrency and blockchain businesses have made the cut.Y Combinator Only Chooses Two?The two businesses to earn spots on the list were Coinbase, the popular U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange (which came in at number five), and SFOX, a crypto dealer for institutional and professional traders. Ah, those...

This week, the market continued to stagnate, but we saw some promising signs in the altcoin arena. While most of the attention was directed toward Bitcoin and whether its price support will hold, many traders’ interest seems to have shifted to altcoins.Bitcoin’s dominance rate declined since peaking at 72%, and other cryptocurrencies finally managed to reclaim some ground.Despite the fact that during the past 3 months Bitcoin’s price has shuffled up, its current price point is still...

BitcoinWe saw an attempt to break down the resistance at around the 200 MA. Support in this range holds at about $8,000. If it fails, we can expect testing lower levels and this will spell bad news for the market. The chart seems to be technically primed for a turning point.EthereumAgainst the USD, we saw attempts to return to the $200 levels. In the meantime, resistance is currently at $190 while support is at $160. The market could be testing it.Against BTC, the cryptocurrency continues to...

In Crypto Twitter (CT), your standing within the community can change very quickly. One day you may feel like you’re on the top of the world but one erroneous call or poor judgment can instantly rob you of your fame. Arguably, no other personality in CT knows this better than trader Tone Vays. The crypto trader has managed to amass a following of over 193,000 followers despite being the target of ridicule and contempt by many big accounts. Before Vays attended the London Blockchain...

XRP saw a price increase of around 1% over the past 24 hours and it currently trades at $0.2926. The cryptocurrency has been on a tear these past two weeks after surging by a total of 17.72%, making it the strongest performing cryptocurrency out of the top 5 in the selected period. The surge has now allowed XRP to retest the $0.30 level which had provided strong support for the market all year until it was broken in July 2019. This price increase is largely a result of XRP surging against BTC...

If you follow some of the best traders on Crypto Twitter (CT), you would think that trading with leverage is the best way to grow your crypto portfolio. After all, some of these traders post tremendous gains in short periods of time. Active trader shows off unrealized PnL of nearly 60%. | Source: TwitterWhile these traders flex their skills, they unwittingly make many of their followers think that trading is an easy game to play. Nothing could be further from the truth. As a result, a lot...