Crypto news

The Government of India seems to have resumed its efforts to ban cryptocurrencies after a lull in a political and legal battle.The latest move by politicians came this week when they revealed a bill that could put any activity related to cryptocurrencies in checkmate.If Cryptocurrencies Are Legal, a Law Can Make Them IllegalThe “Cryptocurrency and Regulation of Official Digital Currency Bill” seeks to ban private cryptocurrencies —possibly any token not issued by the state. Such a path could...

Ray Dalio is calling bitcoin “one hell of an invention.”Ray Dalio Wants to Offer Crypto to New FundsTraders from all over the world have fallen for the world’s number one digital currency by market cap. While the asset has recently lost about $10,000 off its price, the currency ultimately hit the $40,000 mark in early January, striking a new all-time high for itself, and as a result, Wall Street traders, institutions and some of the biggest financial players around are looking at bitcoin...

Anthony Denier – the CEO of a company called Webull – is predicting that bitcoin, the world’s number one cryptocurrency by market cap, is likely to hit a price of $55,000 by the end of this year.Denier: BTC Will Grow To an Even Higher PointThe bitcoin price has been in a bit of a rough position over the past several days. While the currency was trading for around $42,000 during early January – a new all-time high for the coin – it has since sunk by about $10,000. While the currency is still...

Visa, the world’s leading payment processor with millions of merchants in its network and hundreds of millions of users, might add cryptocurrencies to its payments network.Visa Jumps on the Crypto BandwagonVisa, the multinational financial services corporation, might be joining the cryptocurrency bandwagon.In the company’s fiscal first-quarter 2021 earning call, the CEO of the company, Al Kelly, said that they are in a position to make cryptocurrencies more “safe, useful, and applicable.”In...

Bitcoin has taken a bit of a dip in recent days. While the currency is stronger than where it was 24 hours ago, the asset is still short of its recent $40,000+ all-time high. However, there’s no denying that the world’s number one digital currency by market cap has surged like there’s no tomorrow, and according to Lloyd Blankfein – a former Goldman Sachs chief executive – the government could really try and get in the way of bitcoin’s growth should it continue to surge like this.Lloyd...

There are no boring days on the cryptocurrency market, and that’s particularly true for this week. After the GameStop saga, Dogecoin’s pump, and Elon Musk putting Bitcoin in his bio, it appears that it’s now XRP’s time to shine.The price for Ripple’s native cryptocurrency, XRP, has increased by as much as 80% in a few short hours. Less than 12 hours ago, the coin was trading at around $0.28 but has since surged to an intraday high of $0.51 for an increase of about 80%.The price has since...

XRP/USD – XRP Breaks Symmetrical Triangle.Key Support Levels: $0.35, $0.34, $0.32.Key Resistance Levels: $0.4, $0.417, $0.45.XRP has been trapped in a symmetrical triangle pattern for the entire period of January 2021. The cryptocurrency was holding support at $0.263 (.618 Fib) for the past three weeks but slipped into the lower boundary of the triangle, around $0.25, on Wednesday.From there, it rebounded higher and spiked above the triangle yesterday. However, by the daily candle close, XRP...

The Grayscale Ethereum Trust, which offers its institutional and accredited investors to take advantage of private placements on several occasions throughout the year, has reopened the initiative of its shares.Grayscale announced resuming the Ethereum Trust private placement earlier, thus enabling accredited investors to allocate funds into the company’s product following the second-largest cryptocurrency.Private placement means a sale of an asset to a pre-selected number of investors and...

The BTC rollercoaster continues. The primary cryptocurrency had started to climb from $30,000 on Thursday as it broke the previous week’s range by pushing above $33,000.On Friday, a Tweet and a bio change from Elon Musk sent Bitcoin soaring as it broke this descending triangle and went as high as $38,620 (Bitstamp).Unfortunately, this push higher was short-lived. Eventually, Bitcoin reversed toward the end of the day as it dropped by a total of $4,400 to close the daily candle inside the...

The veteran U.S. cryptocurrency exchange, Bittrex Global, has recently announced that it will now start offering the tokenized stocks that have been delisted from several trading platforms like Robinhood following the GameStop saga. According to a Friday report, the exchange has decided to list tokenized stocks for Gamestop (GME), AMC Entertainment (AMC), Nokia, BlackBerry, and iShares Silver Trust with plans to list more additional stocks whenever they are delisted from other platforms. “We...