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El Salvador president Nayib Bukele has announced another Bitcoin purchase amid the current crypto market turmoil. Over Twitter, Bukele claimed to have bought exactly 500 Bitcoin for an average of $30,744 dollars each on Monday. The president, who has admitted to making Bitcoin buys from his phone using the country’s money, referred to the purchase as “buying the dip”. As of today, Bitcoin has closed its 6th consecutive red weekly candle for the first time since 2014. It’s...

The Otherdeed NFTs drop caught massive attention from the industry last week as high demand triggered unprecedented Ethereum fees. Otherdeeds are the NFT collection for claiming virtual land in Otherside, the metaverse space created by Yuga Labs – the parent company behind Bored Apes Yacht Club (BAYC) and Mutant Ape Yacht Club (MAYC) However, as the crypto bloodbath continues with Bitcoin dumping to the lowest point since last July, the transaction volume for blue-chips NFT...

Fort Worth, Texas has become the first city government in all the United States to mine bitcoin. The city is employing three Antminer S9 rigs that will run all day, every day in a technology wing of the region’s city hall. Fort Worth, Texas Is at the Heart of BTC Mining Per city estimates, each rig will require about as much energy as a standard vacuum cleaner. Officials assure residents that the process will be clean. In addition, all three machines will be run on a...

More carnage swept through the crypto markets today, with another $300 million worth of trades liquidated within an hour. This happened as Bitcoin’s price plunged as low as $31,000 – its lowest level since July 2021. According to Glassnode, exactly $314.3 million in trades have been cleared within the last hour and $724.99 million within the last 24 hours. Interestingly, about half of the lost positions were on ETH trades ($154 million) while significantly less were lost on...

A new cryptocurrency called $FEM has entered the market. Designed for women by women, the asset was built to bring more ladies into the crypto space, which is still allegedly dominated by men. Will $FEM Coin Help Women Get Involved in Crypto? One of the biggest complaints about the crypto space is that it has reportedly become rather exclusive, and when one says exclusive, they mean it is largely geared towards male traders – no one else. Currently, only about five...

Fortress Protocol – an algorithmic money market and defi lending protocol – has been drained of all funds following an oracle manipulation attack. The stolen crypto has since been bridged from Binance Smart Chain to Ethereum and mixed using the privacy protocol Tornado Cash. Buying Out the Protocol Blockchain security firm CertiK shared information about the hack with CryptoPotato on Monday. It began with the hacker using ETH to purchase a substantial amount of FTS – the...

The American entrepreneur and founder of Cardano – Charles Hoskinson – opined that ADA (the native token of his blockchain protocol) has been underperforming recently because crypto is in a bear market. In his view, nothing can move the USD valuation up during the current situation. Bear Market is Here 2022 and especially the last few weeks have not been kind to the cryptocurrency industry as the prices of most digital assets are far away from their top levels registered in...

Fear dominates the crypto market, following six weeks in the red. Many large caps have lost their long-term support, and ETH is one of them after reaching its lowest level since February 24, the day of the invasion. Technical Analysis Technical Analysis By Grizzly The Daily Chart The Delta Volume of both Binance futures and FTX perpertuals evaluates the behavior of buyers and seller takers in the market. When green histograms are witnessed, it is interpreted that buyer takers...

Stellar lumen price started a fresh decline from the $0.1880 resistance zone against the US Dollar. XLM price is now trading below $0.1700 and the 55 simple moving average (4-hours). There is a crucial bearish trend line forming with resistance near $0.1610 on the 4-hours chart (data feed via Kraken). The pair could continue to decline if there is a move below the $0.1500 support. Stellar lumen price is trading in a bearish zone below $0.1700 against the US Dollar,...

Ripple price started a fresh decline from the $0.6550 zone against the US dollar. The price is now trading below $0.60 and the 55 simple moving average (4-hours). There is a major bearish trend line forming with resistance near $0.6000 on the 4-hours chart of the XRP/USD pair (data source from Bittrex). The pair could extend declines if there is a clear move below the $0.550 support zone. Ripple price is struggling below $0.6000 against the US Dollar, similar to bitcoin....