Crypto news

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...

After a highly volatile day prompted by Elon Musk’s Bitcoin engagement on social media, BTC has retraced back to around $34,000, as of writing these lines. Most alternative coins also went along the ride, and the total market cap has sustained the $1 trillion mark.Bitcoin’s 24 Hours Wild RideThe primary cryptocurrency was struggling in the past several days as it even dipped beneath $30,000 on a few occasions that were quickly bought by the bulls. As a result, Bitcoin dominance was fading,...

Digital rewards systems are not necessarily new, but they’re far from being the “norm,” and let’s face it. They can be rather hard to keep track of considering how many separate platforms exist. Institutional cryptocurrency trading platform Bakkt is looking to change all that.Bakkt Is Back and Looking to Revolutionize Digital RewardsBakkt first came to “prominence” in late 2019. Following a whole year of advertising, the trading platform experienced several delays in its release and was...

Crypto crime has been a relative constant in the digital space, and in San Francisco, a new digital currency embezzlement case has just made its way onto the roster of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). The instigator this time around is a young man named Jerry Ji Guo, who has been ordered to spend half a year in jail and must pay more than $4 million to the customers he harmed financially.Guo Must Pay Penalties and Spend Time Behind BarsGuo has been found guilty of posing as a...

This week will probably go down in history. Not for the cryptocurrency market but for Wall Street. Of course, this doesn’t mean that Bitcoin didn’t do its thing – it did, and this time it was Elon Musk responsible.First things first, though, a few days ago, Redditors took Wall Street at its own game. To be precise, Wall Street Bets, a group that exploded in popularity on the forum and quickly gained millions of followers, decided to open long positions on a legacy stock – GME. This is the...

Bitcoin has incurred a nasty fall in recent days, dropping from $40,000+ earlier in the month to about $30,000 at press time. Thus, the currency has lost more than $10,000 since reaching its new all-time high, and many analysts – including Agustin Carstens of the Bank for International Settlements – believe that the world’s number one digital asset by market cap may be in a heap of trouble.Agustin Carstens: Bitcoin May Not Last Beyond a Certain PointIn a recent interview, Carstens went so far...