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...
Read More »KCC Bridge Goes Live to Enable Token Cross-Chain Swap Between KCC and Ethereum
[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...
Read More »Bank of America Reportedly Approves Bitcoin Futures Trading
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...
Read More »Three Months Later: Binance Shuts Down Stock Tokens Trading
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...
Read More »Another DeFi Hack: THORChain Compromised With up to $7.6M Stolen
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...
Read More »Jackson, Tennessee Looking into Adding BTC Payments for Taxes, Said the Mayor
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...
Read More »Unifi Protocol Creates a Combination of DeFi and Blockchain Staking with Acquisition of Multi-Chain Staking Provider
[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...
Read More »Bitcoin Cash Analysis: Can Bulls Overcome Selling Pressure?
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...
Read More »LBank Recruits Global Elites to Share Crypto Growth Dividends
Press Release. Dubai — As an innovative global trading platform for various crypto assets, founded in 2015. LBank officially launched the Global Ambassadors Recruitment at the end of June in 2021. LBank provides its users with safe crypto trading, specialized financial derivatives and professional asset management services. It has become one of the most popular and trusted crypto trading platforms with over 5.6 million users in more than 50 countries around the world....
Read More »PayPal Raises Limit on Cryptocurrency Purchases to $100K Per Week
PayPal’s decision to support operations with cryptocurrencies has brought outstanding results, and a few hours ago, it just hit the gas pedal and increased the limit on cryptocurrency purchases giving its customer more freedom to buy their beloved digital assets. According to an Official PR, duly registered customers will now be able to buy up to $100,000 in crypto per week, without any other monthly or yearly limit. The company assured that the move comes in response to the...
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