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Litecoin price declined heavily below $180 and tested $145 against the US Dollar. LTC price is now trading below $170 and the 55 simple moving average (4-hours). There is a major bearish trend line forming with resistance near $164 on the 4-hours chart of the LTC/USD pair (data feed from Coinbase). The pair must move above the $175 resistance to start a decent recovery in the near term. Litecoin price is recovering losses from $145 against the US Dollar, similar to...

Riccardo Spagni, the former Monero lead maintainer who was recently arrested for charges unrelated to the privacy token, has reported that US officials have released him from custody. CryptoPotato reported in early August when Spagni was arrested for alleged fraud committed between 2009 and 2011. The reports indicated that his crimes had nothing to do with his work for the popular privacy coin Monero, as they were dated long before the inception of the network. Instead, his...

Despite all the bitcoin rollout issues the country has been having as of late, El Salvador is not giving up on its crypto agenda, and the country has recently purchased as much as 150 additional BTC units. El Salvador Has Bought a Lot of BTC At the time of writing, the country boasts a stash of more than 700 individual bitcoin units, which are worth approximately $31 million at press time. This may not sound like much at first but considering that El Salvador is new to...

The United States Department of the Treasury plans to penalize cryptocurrency exchanges that assist in ransomware attacks. The first such sanctioned company would reportedly be the Czech Republic-based trading venue – Suex. Suex to Face Sanctions According to a recent report, Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo alleged Suex of facilitating operations involving “illicit proceeds from at least eight ransomware variants.” On top of that, he added that 40% of the exchange’s...

The bitcoin price is suffering today after the Evergrande Group in China took a hard fall. As the nation’s second largest property developer, the firm has too much debt – more than $310 billion – and is struggling to pay it back. The situation is causing many assets to experience nasty drops, bitcoin being one of them. Evergrande Is Leading to a Drop in Crypto Prices At the time of writing, bitcoin has fallen to roughly $44,000 per unit. Over the weekend, the asset was...

Christine Lagarde – the president of the European Central Bank – has issued a warning about cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and Ethereum, calling them highly speculative and saying that they are “suspicious.” Lagarde: Crypto Is NOT Cash! Bitcoin and digital assets have shot up like crazy over the past year. The idea is that these assets are becoming hedge tools against inflation and other economic problems caused by the current presidential administration and ongoing...

The legendary football player – Tom Brady – once again demonstrated his support towards the digital asset industry. He said he would “love” to receive some of his earnings in Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), or Solana (SOL) tokens. ‘The Digital Age Is Upon Us’ Tom Brady – the seven-time Super Bowl champion and arguably one of the greatest football players – is, by all means, a strong crypto proponent. During a recent interview with Jim Gray on the Let’s Go Sirius XM podcast, he...

Global risk-off, uncertainty over Evergrande’s debt crisis, and large liquidations have been pressuring Bitcoin lately. The near-term chart may look bearish, but the fundamental and on-chain trend remain firmly bullish, making this pullback a potential buying opportunity. In just over two weeks, BTC fell from a high of $52.9k to a low of $39.5k, mainly driven by massive liquidations in derivatives and panic selling from younger coins. It’s easy to look at the chart with a...

ETH/USD – Ether Finds .786 Fib Support. Key Support Levels: $2770, $2720, $2600.Key Resistance Levels: $3000, $3200, $3290. Ethereum is now down a steep 15% on the week as it plummeted beneath $3000. The coin started the week off by falling beneath a rising trend line and the 50-day MA. The trend line also formed the neck of a head and shoulders pattern that could send it as low as $2400. Since breaking the 50-day MA, ETH continued to decrease until it hit yesterday’s low at...

[PRESS RELEASE – Please Read Disclaimer] The rapid recent growth of the cryptocurrency space has enabled large players to enter the industry to provide assistance to emerging projects, whether financial or merely experience and advice. This has allowed numerous projects to take advantage of similar opportunities with the latest one being the Soldex team. The protocol, which aims to be a hybrid cryptocurrency exchange based on the popular Solana blockchain, has secured funding...