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A cryptocurrency investor is telling the rest of the trading world that bitcoin could be headed for a downhill slope if things ease up in China. Omer Ozden – the CEO of Rock Tree Capital – claims that if problems like the coronavirus calm down, we’re likely to see less trading activity in the coming months.Omer Ozden: If the Virus Goes, Crypto Trading Could GoThe coronavirus has been running through areas like China for the past several weeks. Over 1,000 deaths have been recorded, and the...

Crypto investor Mike Novogratz says that big things will happen for bitcoin this year.Mike Novogratz: BTC Will Hit a New All-Time HighIn a recent interview with CNBC, he commented that the currency could exit 2020 having hit a new all-time high. The previous record for bitcoin is just shy of $20,000, which the world’s number one cryptocurrency by market cap reached at the end of 2017. He’s confident that in approximately ten months, the currency will strike an even higher range.He...

Uh-oh. Is bitcoin suddenly beginning to lose its momentum?Could Bitcoin Be Heading for Oblivion?The world’s number one cryptocurrency by market cap has started the day off at just over $9,900. This means that the currency has dropped by more than $400 over the past 24 hours. It’s got a lot of people worried considering just how well bitcoin has been doing for the past week.Not long ago, BTC jumped beyond the $10,000 mark. Many believed that this was a sign of great things to come – that...

This week alone, gamers, virtual reality enthusiasts, and the cryptocurrency community have invested nearly a million dollars worth of real world currencies into virtual real estate generated and maintained by blockchains.The three largest blockchain generated virtual world games, The Sandbox, Decentraland, and Cryptovoxels, all saw the total trading volume of their digital tokens surge above $940,000 USD. That’s according to data compiled by Nonfungible, the largest database of blockchain...

“It was the intelligence coup of the century.” That’s the assessment of the CIA in a classified report obtained earlier this month by an investigation of the Washington Post. The Post made stunning revelations in a report headlined, “How the CIA used Crypto AG encryption devices to spy on countries for decades.” Crypto AG was a Swiss encryption company. It made millions of dollars since World War II selling encryption devices. The governments of over 120 countries bought Crypto’s devices well...

Bitcoin expert has compared coronavirus trends with the possible Bitcoin price movement and claimed that the stochastic modeling and other tools work perfectly in this case.Balaji Srinivasan, who used to work at Coinbase and now writes for Nakamoto.com, claims that Bitcoin price can hit $100,000 after striking twice the important psychological level of $10,000.The Nakamoto.com analyst claims that Bitcoin’s rally is pretty predictable if you look at the stats under a certain angle. Whether...

What happens when a lot of people talk about possible Bitcoin price movement? Right – the price indeed starts moving. And now BTC seems to be gaining momentum ahead of May’s halving event.Some experts start predicting the next price move. They see a dramatic scenario of Bitcoin price rushing up to $18,000 and even $20,000 in the short-term and up to $100,000 in the long-term. Such data is based on calculations of previous price action. It appears that Bitcoin can gain up to 80% in profits...

The spread of the coronavirus continues, and more countries appear to take serious measures for its containment.  Amid the tragic effect on people’s health, the cryptocurrency space recently saw the birth of the CoronaCoin – a coronavirus-backed token.The Creation of CoronaCoinEarlier today, the discussion of the new coronavirus-backed coin was published in a Reddit post. It informs that CoronaCoin (NCOV) will be an ERC-20 token.Its primary purpose, according to the website, is to spread...

Just a quick weekend recap: Following our most recent BTC price analysis from Friday, where we had stated that the correction is likely to test lower levels, we can see Bitcoin breaking below $10,000 after failing to break above the crucial resistance at $10,500.As can be seen on the following daily chart, after getting rejected by the long-term ascending trend-line (started forming on July 2019), Bitcoin broke down the significant 38.2% Fib level at $10,200, along with the marked 4-hour...

Wells Fargo is making a major “donation” to the cryptocurrency community. The venture division of one of the world’s largest and most prominent banking institutions is putting $5 million into a startup called Elliptic, which is dedicated to providing risk management solutions for cryptocurrencies.Wells Fargo Is Pushing Crypto FurtherIn a statement, James Smith – the CEO of Elliptic – explained:We are proud to announce Wells Fargo’s investment in Elliptic. The partnership with our bank...