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July 17th 5 PM PST LIVE- 48 Hours Ends July 19th, 2021 5 PM PST Hooranky, a world-renowned digital media artist in Korea, counts the ultra-high bid on the global NFT auction platform The works of Hooranky Bae belong to abstract expressionism and the dramatic contrast of non-figurative strange shape and coloring gives a strong and unique impression to the viewer. The title of the work indicates production date and time in Arabic numerals. It is reported that this Hooranky...

It was a tough week price-wise in the cryptocurrency market. The total capitalization lost around $100 billion as every single coin from the top 20 is in the red. Some lost more than others, but we’ll get to that later. Kicking it off with Bitcoin. It had a relatively calm week, and even though it’s down about 3% over the period, it’s still not as bad as a lot of the altcoins. BTC was trading at around $34,000 last Friday, and apart from a brief positive spike on Monday, it...

Bitcoin Bitcoin dropped by 3% this week, reaching as low as $31,000. The cryptocurrency popped above the 20-day MA on Sunday but quickly reversed and dropped beneath it on Monday. It found support mid-week at $32,700 but continued beneath there yesterday to reach $31,185 (downside 1.618 Fib Extension) today. The short-term chart provides a closer perspective of what is going on. It shows BTC trading inside a falling price channel since the start of July. When BTC broke the...

[PRESS RELEASE – Victoria, Seychelles, 16th July 2021] A new generation of public chain – KCC officially launched its cross-chain bridge, the KCC Bridge. It provides bridging services to the KCC public chain by allowing native tokens on other chains to interchangeably transact and circulate on KCC. The KCC Bridge will first support stablecoins such as USDT and USDC from Ethereum to KCC. There is no gas fee for users when transmitting assets into KCC, while the gas fee on...

After years of bashing Bitcoin, one of America’s largest banking establishments – Bank of America – seems to have completed its 180-turn. The organization has purportedly approved the trading of BTC futures. Citing two sources familiar with the matter, CoinDesk reported that the Wall Street behemoth will enable some of its customers to trade BTC futures. The plan to allow only a handful of clients to access the new service is because of the large amount of margin required to...

Binance announced earlier on July 16th that it has “effective immediately” halted one of the most recently-released services – trading digital tokens representing equity stocks. This comes amid the exchange’s regulatory issues in numerous countries. CryptoPotato reported in April 2021 when the leading cryptocurrency exchange added support for a new product enabling its users to interact with fully-backed digital tokens representing equity stocks. After initially adding...

THORChain is the latest DeFi project to be exploited, with estimations showing that the hackers might have swooped up to $7.6 million in digital assets. The team behind the decentralized exchange promised to make whole all affected users and requested the perpetrators to contact them to discuss the return of funds. THORChain highlighted the hack on Twitter earlier on July 16th. The amount stolen remains unconfirmed as the initial estimations showed that it was more than...

Jackson, Tennessee, could soon implement BTC for property tax payments, according to the city’s mayor – Scott Conger. He made this statement shortly after bashing the US government for the unnecessary high inflation rates across the entire country. Scott Conger, the mayor of Jackson, Tennessee, since 2019, took it to Twitter to indicate that the local blockchain task force is looking into how the city “can start property tax payments in bitcoin.” Furthermore, he indicated...

[PRESS RELEASE – Singapore, Singapore, 15th July 2021] Unifi Protocol is proud to be the first DeFi platform to create a blended ecosystem of DeFi and blockchain node staking rewards. Exisitng nodes on 6 blockchains will join with Unifi’s existing 7 chain DeFi ecosystem. Blockchain validation is a large industry, and projected to grow substantially larger as Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies adopt Proof of Stake as a security mechanism. Unifi Protocol acquires the assets of...

Bitcoin cash price remained in a bearish zone below the $500 resistance against the US Dollar. The price is now trading below the $475 support and the 55 simple moving average (4-hours). There is a key bearish trend line forming with resistance near $472 on the 4-hours chart of the BCH/USD pair (data feed from Coinbase). The pair could start a decent increase if it clears the $472 and $475 resistance levels. Bitcoin cash price is struggling to move higher above $475...