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Uh oh. It looks like many of the people who invest in bitcoin know little or nothing about it. What does that say about the industry? Bitcoin Investors Don’t Always Seem to Know What They’re Doing Bitcoin is shaping up to be one of the biggest and most popular assets in history. The currency is reaching unprecedented levels, and recently shot beyond the $50,000 mark for the umpteenth time, though it has since incurred a small dip that has brought it back down into the...

This week was tough across the board, not just in the cryptocurrency market. It was marked by a serious correlation between Bitcoin and the S&P 500, as well as the entire legacy market, in general.As CryptoPotato reported, the abovementioned correlation reached a 5-month high. While this seems to be bearish in the short term, given that the stock market slumped following government bond yield that gave the market a jolt, there’s also a bullish argument to be made.Last weekend, the US...

PAID Network, one of the most popular Initial DEX Offerings (IDOs) that took place on Polkastarter’s platform a while ago and brought tremendous returns to private sale investors, is going through what seems as a massive attack.PAID Network, one of the most popular and heavily promoted IDOs that brought massive returns to private sale investors, seems to have been exploited.Multiple reports on social media point towards the exploit.It appears that over 59 million PAID tokens were minted and...

Kraken CEO Jesse Powell is taking a page out of Jack Dorsey’s book and claiming that bitcoin will some day be a global currency. Jesse Powell: BTC Will Beat All Fiat Back in 2018, the CEO of both social media giant Twitter and payments company Square claimed that bitcoin would be a global currency. Rather, he stated that it would be the world’s only currency within ten years, and that it would replace all known forms of fiat. While bitcoin hasn’t quite reached this level...

BitcoinBitcoin is more or less trading at the same level it was last week around the same time. The cryptocurrency had dropped as low as $43,000 on Sunday, but it quickly bounded higher to close the daily candle above $44,750.On Monday, Bitcoin started to show some promise as it surged higher from $44,750 to reach as high as $49,600. Over the following three days, the cryptocurrency managed to spike back above the $50,000 level. However, it met resistance at $52,480 (bearish .618 Fib) and...

Yearn Finance (YFI) and Cover Protocol (COVER) announced today that the merger process between both, initiated last November, will come to an end. The breakup between both has resulted in a big hit for the price of COVER.Yearn Finance Breaks up With Cover ProtocolIn November 2020, Yearn Finance’s founder and arguably one of the most influential figures in the field of decentralized finance (DeFi) announced that they will join forces with the market coverage provider Cover Protocol.Today,...

The first consequences from the FCA ban on crypto derivatives trading in the UK are evident for the popular digital asset exchange Bybit. The company announced earlier that it will suspend its services to all customers based in the United Kingdom. Established in 2018, Bybit is a cryptocurrency exchange headquartered in Singapore with a reported user base of over one million registered clients. However, the firm will seize offering its services to UK-based customers, according to a recent...

Ripple’s CEO Brad Garlinghouse told Reuters in an interview today that the company is still conducting and growing its business in the Asia Pacific region despite the SEC legal case against Ripple and its executives. The last four months have been some of the toughest for Ripple after the company was slammed with a $1.3 billion lawsuit by the United States Security and Exchange Commission (SEC). The regulator alleged that Ripple and its executives, including Garlinghouse, conducted an...

Less than a year after launching its IOHK-owned network of federated nodes, Cardano is on schedule to reach full decentralization at the end of March 2021. At that point, the already established network of over 1,800 community pools will be responsible for producing all new blocks.Cardano Goes for Full DecentralizationWith the approaching so-called D (=0) day, IOHK, the company behind the popular blockchain project Cardano, published a post highlighting the latest milestone in its...

Polkadot’s DOT went through a major flash crash on Binance’s COIN-margined futures platform which saw its price reduced to $0.20.The past couple of days have been somewhat challenging in the cryptocurrency market, as the entire capitalization saw around $150 billion wiped off.The adverse developments followed Wall Street’s slump as legacy markets suffer throughout the entire week.Meanwhile, Bitcoin’s realized correlation with the S&P 500 sits at a 5-month high which, naturally, reflects...