Bitcoin (BTC)

The Lower House of Russia’s Parliament – State Duma – has reportedly called upon establishing a regulatory framework on cryptocurrencies rather than imposing a blanket ban on them. The authorities joined the likes of the Finance Ministry, which urged for the same thing. The Never-Ending Saga Earlier this year, the Bank of Russia – the central banking institution of the largest country by landmass – reiterated its negative stance on the crypto sector. It called it a pyramid...

Bitcoin’s price continues to consolidate and has failed to produce a meaningful and sustained movement in any direction. Meanwhile, Ripple’s XRP is the only altcoin in the top 10 that’s charting a serious increase. Bitcoin Consolidation Continues Over the past 24 hours, Bitcoin’s price failed to produce any meaningful and sustained move in either direction and is pretty much trading right where it was yesterday during this time – at around $39,000. This doesn’t mean that we...

Joe Biden is slated to sign an executive order on cryptocurrency sometime this week. The executive order will be directed towards the regulation and trading of digital currency. Joe Biden Seeks Further Crypto Establishment Given Biden’s history with crypto, traders should be a little worried about what’s to come. Remember last summer’s infrastructure bill? The document opened the doors to more than a trillion dollars in spending. With a name like infrastructure, one...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) of Britain has ordered that all Bitcoin cashpoints in the country be shut down. ATM providers recently received an order from the watchdog to cease operations, or risk facing enforcement action. Weeding Out Money Laundering Bitcoin ATMs allow holders of cash to independently convert their cash into Bitcoin, or vice versa. Given that cash transactions are private, the proliferation of these machines has raised concerns that they could help...

The line between banks and crypto is becoming a lot thinner thanks to republican politicians in Virginia. A new amendment will be signed into law by the state’s conservative governor Glenn Youngkin that will allow banks in Old Dominion to offer crypto assets and services to their customers. Virginia Is Plowing Headfirst Into Crypto Last week, the state senate of Virginia unanimously voted to move forward with a bill amendment that focused on digital currency custody. The...

La proposition MiCA (Markets in crypto-assets) pour une réglementation européenne des marchés des cryptomonnaies, sera soumis au vote du Parlement Européen lundi 14 mars 2022.  Les 159 pages de la version finale du compromis trouvé par les différents groupes parlementaires est disponible ici. Tel qu’il se présente, ce texte alourdi considérablement la règlementation existante. Pénalisant les nouveaux acteurs et freinant les cas...

Kevin O’Leary said he has allocated millions of dollars in crypto. The former critic of Bitcoin now said investing in it is like investing in giant corporations such as Google and Microsoft. 20% of His Portfolio in Crypto Back in 2019, the Canadian businessman and television personality was among the biggest critics of the crypto industry. At the time, he described bitcoin as “worthless,” “useless currency,” and even “garbage because you can’t get in and out of it in large...

Bitcoin has been trading sideways in the past few weeks. It is still consolidating between the $36K and $45K levels, liquidating both bulls and bears on multiple occasions. With the current economic and geopolitical uncertainty, it would be wise to consider the worst possible case and plan it. Technical Analysis By: Edris The Daily Chart: On March 7th, BTC rebounded from the lower boundary of the range and broke above the 50-day moving average. The next day, it regained the...

The cryptocurrency market went through some massive volatility throughout the past week. This was largely induced by President Joe Biden’s executive order on digital assets, US inflation numbers coming up, and the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine. Let’s unpack. Bitcoin’s price was trading at around $41,000 this time last week but quickly headed south and dropped towards $39K on Saturday. What followed was a few days of choppy sideways action, and BTC even declined to...

A Bitcoin exchange-traded fund is something that the cryptocurrency community is looking forward to for quite some time. Unfortunately, the US Securities and Exchange Commission is not on the same page yet. The United States Securities and Exchange Commission rejected two proposals to list and trade shares of spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds, according to Reuters.  The first one was the NYDIG Bitcoin ETF proposal, and the second one was the Global X Bitcoin Trust. The move...