It’s April, and the Bitcoin price has been hovering around the $28,000 level since Mar 23. That’s a roaring price rally after starting March at the $23,500 handle. Bitcoin started off the new year trading at a measly $17,000. The question for crypto investors and traders now is whether BTC is looking expensive at that price or poised for another leg upward over the next quarter or the remainder of the year. Two Quick Near-Term Price Factors One bullish hint is that the king...
Read More »Missouri Enforces Bill to Protect Crypto Miners’ Rights
The state of Missouri is in line to become one of the most crypto-friendly in the Union given it’s just passed a string of regulatory acts designed to protect the rights of bitcoin and crypto miners. Missouri Seeks to Keep Crypto Miners Protected Missouri legislators recently voted to amend what’s known as House Bill 764. Introduced last January, the bill defines the language and descriptions surrounding cryptocurrency miners. It also says that no crypto miner can be...
Read More »Volatility Incoming? The Major Things to Watch in Crypto This Week
The cryptocurrency market has stalled for the past several days, but all that is expected to change by the middle of the week. This is because of two notable events about to take place – the announcement of the latest CPI data in the United States and the long-anticipated Shanghai/Shapella update for the Ethereum network. CPI Data on the Horizon For the past year or so, the US CPI data has been strongly impacting bitcoin’s price performance, at least for the short term. The...
Read More »DOGE Crashes 20% in Three Days, How Low Can It Go? (Dogecoin Price Analysis)
With DOGE buyers out of steam, the price fell and is now approaching the key support. Key Support levels: $0.07 Key Resistance levels: $0.11 After a significant spike in the price, bulls failed to run it higher, and it lost 20% of its valuation in the last three days. This puts DOGE on a clear path to retest the key support at 7 cents. If it holds, buyers could attempt to reverse the current bearish momentum. The resistance continues to hold strong at 11 cents. Chart by...
Read More »For the First Time: Bitcoin Options Open Interest Higher Than Futures, What Does it Mean?
Bitcoin appears to have hit a ceiling as the price continued to hover below the psychological resistance level of $30,000. This has led some to believe that the rally may soon come to an end since futures OI has been relatively flat throughout the year. But the options market has a different story to tell. Potential Bitcoin Rally? According to the latest chart by Glassnode, the amount of Open Interest in Bitcoin Options contracts has reached $10.3 billion. Its futures...
Read More »Bitcoin Crashed Following News of Silvergate Shutdown
In mid-March, the world’s leading digital currency (bitcoin) fell by more than eight percent and briefly went below the $20K mark. The dip occurred after news got out that Silvergate Bank – a tech-friendly financial institution stationed in Northern California’s Silicon Valley – was being shut down by regulators for numerous failures. Bitcoin Fell Following Bad News of Silvergate Bank Many have called the shutdown of the bank one of the biggest monetary collapses since...
Read More »Terraport Finance Exploited for $2M Barely 10 Days After Launch
Terraport Finance, a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform on the Terra Classic network, has lost over $2 million worth of digital assets through an exploit on its liquidity wallet. According to an announcement from the project’s official Twitter handle on April 10, the Terraport team is still investigating the hack and trying to secure the protocol. Announcement: A breach was detected in the Terraport Liquidity wallet this morning. The Terraport team is currently...
Read More »Stacks (STX) Soars 7% Daily, Bitcoin (BTC) Reclaims $28K: Market Watch
Bitcoin’s price dip below $28,000 seems to be short-lived as the asset has spiked back above that level and even tapped $28,500 hours ago. The altcoins are also slightly in the green. LDO has recovered some of yesterday’s losses, while STX has soared the most. BTC Returns Above $28K After the massive volatility last Monday, which brought BTC south by over a grand on fake news surrounding Binance’s CEO, the cryptocurrency performed slightly better and calmer in the following...
Read More »Binance Futures Users Affected Due to UI and API Issues
Binance notified about an issue affecting its Future users as only USD-Margined contracts were impacted. Nevertheless, the largest crypto exchange quickly outlined that the issue had been solved, and all operations are back to normal. Binance Futures announced fully resuming trading activity for USD-Margined contracts just minutes after the issue. According to Binance CEO CZ, the crypto exchange is seeing several issues with Futures UM Rest service/API, which have affected...
Read More »Stellar Lumen (XLM) Price Turns Green above $0.10, Dips Supported
Stellar lumen price started a downside correction from the $0.115 zone against the US Dollar. XLM price is now trading below $0.1050 and the 55 simple moving average (4 hours). There is a key bearish trend line forming with resistance near $0.1040 on the 4-hour chart (data feed via Kraken). The pair could start another increase if it clears the $0.1050 and $0.115 resistance levels. Stellar lumen price is trading above $0.1000 against the US Dollar, similar to Bitcoin....
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