Crypto news

The last 24 hours have been undoubtedly going in favor of the bears. That’s according to data concerning the total liquidated positions in the past day as Bitcoin’s price is seemingly headed towards $30,000.In less than a day, the cryptocurrency derivatives market saw a total of $900 million worth of both long and short positions liquidated.Given the nature of the market, it’s no surprise that most of the volume comes from liquidated long positions, which account for 80.77% of all or roughly...

EOS remained in a range below the $2.950 and $3.000 resistance levels against the US Dollar.The price is currently trading near the $2.720 support and the 55 simple moving average (4-hours).There is a major ascending channel forming with support near $2.700 on the 4-hours chart of the EOS/USD pair (data feed from Coinbase).The pair could start a strong rally if it clears the $2.950 and $3.000 resistance levels.EOS price is trading in a key range below the $3.000 resistance against the US...

Litecoin price struggled to clear the $165 resistance and corrected lower against the US Dollar.LTC price is trading close to the $140 support zone and the 55 simple moving average (4-hours).There is a major rising channel forming with support near $140 on the 4-hours chart of the LTC/USD pair (data feed from Coinbase).The pair could either start a fresh increase towards $165 or decline heavily below $140 in the near term.Litecoin price is struggling to gain bullish momentum above $150...

Bitcoin made history these past few months. It broke its historical record, flirted with a 10x ROI in one year, its realized price also reached ATH, and it became the best performing asset of the decade.But is it a good investment overall? It all depends on the crystal you look at it with. For example, Gerald Moser, chief market strategist at Barclays Private Bank, thinks it’s not.Don’t Invest in BitcoinFor Moser, the price fluctuations associated with Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are...

DeAndre Cortez Way, better known by his stage name as Soulja Boy Tell’ Em (or just Soulja Boy), has initiated a Twitter conversation with prominent crypto individuals and hinted that he could explore launching his own digital asset.Interestingly, the rapper created a song dedicated to Bitcoin in 2018 in which he bragged about “stacking” and making “100 racks” in BTC.Soulja Boy To Create His Own Crypto?The Chicago-born rapper, songwriter, record producer, and actor asked the crypto community...

The second-largest cryptocurrency might reach even higher summits, according to strategists from Fundstrat Global Advisors. They envision a bright future for Ethereum by predicting a five-digit price tag.A Possible Price Surge Up To $10,500 For ETH?According to a recent Bloomberg report citing Fundstrat Global Advisors LLC, the largest altcoin could multiply its value seven times.Analysts at Fundstrat consider this week’s rise of ETH as a sign that it may even jump to the five-digit scale....

The end of January is likely to be a crazy time for bitcoin and its many fans. The asset will see approximately $3.7 billion worth of options expire on January 29, and many analysts are wondering what this will potentially do for the asset’s volatility. Will the currency spike like we’ve never seen, or will the price falter in some way?What Will Happen to Bitcoin When So Many Options Expire?As it stands, the many open contracts options available in the bitcoin space add up to just over $9...

At the time of writing, the price of bitcoin is going for just over $36,000. This is about $4,000 less than where it stood just over a week ago, and according to many analysts, unless bitcoin can strike the $40,000 mark again soon, things aren’t looking too good for the world’s number one digital currency by market cap.Bitcoin Needs to Jump Back Up… Or ElseStrategists at JPMorgan Chase & Co. suggest in a new report that many investors are only getting involved in the bitcoin and crypto...

The world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock, may start trading cash-settled Bitcoin futures. This is according to new filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).BlackRock is the world’s largest asset manager, with almost $8 trillion worth of assets under management last year. To put it in perspective – that’s almost 8 times the current capitalization of the entire cryptocurrency market.Now, the Wall Street giant has filed two Prospectus documents with the United States...

Mark Cuban hasn’t been a huge fan of bitcoin or the crypto space, but in a recent interview, he believes that anything based in decentralized finance (Defi) could potentially prove to be a gamechanger.Mark Cuban: Our Only Hope May Be in DefiIn the past, Cuban has often stated that he’d rather have “bananas” over bitcoin, claiming that the latter is not a store of value like so many other people think and that it wasn’t likely to serve as a problem solver during “doomsday” scenarios. Now, he’s...