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Ripple price is currently consolidating below the key $0.2500 resistance area against the US dollar.The price must settle above $0.2500 and $0.2600 to start a fresh upward move.There is a major bearish trend line forming with resistance near $0.2420 on the 4-hours chart of the XRP/USD pair (data source from Bittrex).The price could resume its decline if it continues to struggle near $0.2500 and $0.2600.Ripple price is facing a strong resistance near $0.2500 against the US Dollar. XRP price...

The bitcoin price (BTC) has dropped by more than 25 percent in the past two weeks as the cryptocurrency market struggled to see a relief rally. The bitcoin price (BTC) fell below $7,700 as it failed to secure momentum above $8,000 (source: coinmarketcap.com)When the bitcoin price initially dropped to $7,700 on September 27, it rebounded fairly quickly with strength, surging to $8,400 in merely 48 hours. However, as BTC failed to test important resistance levels near $9,000, the dominant...

The bitcoin price (BTC) has dropped from $10,050 to $8,000 in the past week by nearly $2,000 against the US dollar, leading traders to anticipate a larger pullback to lower support levels. According to traders and technical analysts like Josh Rager, the bitcoin price could drop to as low as $6,300 in the short term if the pullback intensifies to a region where large buy demand exists. The bitcoin price (BTC) has been struggling to recover after dropping to $7,700 (source:...

Il y a un peu plus d’un an nous avions réalisé un sondage afin d’établir un classement des banques en fonction de la façon dont elles traitaient les clients qui achètent ou vendent des bitcoins ou d’autres cryptomonnaies. Nous relançons aujourd’hui le questionnaire afin d’affiner notre classement et de mesurer d’éventuelles évolutions dans les pratiques bancaires. Ce sondage s’adresse à tous ceux...

« A l’image d’un Prométhée cypherpunk dérobant le monopole monétaire aux banquiers centraux pour le partager à tous, il y a maintenant 10 ans, Satoshi Nakamoto, cryptographe de génie et économiste apprenti sorcier, créa Bitcoin. Invention incongrue, phénomène déroutant, révolution financière majeure, qu’on s’en réjouisse ou qu’on le déplore, il y aura un avant et un après Bitcoin. Depuis cette invention inattendue, la monnaie est devenue...

Facebook’s Libra is getting some criticism from an unlikely source: Ripple’s Marcus Treacher.Treacher: Libra’s Got to Open Up a BitTreacher is the company’s senior vice president of customer success. According to an interview he did with CNBC his primary complain is that Libra will be a “closed system” or a “walled garden” as he calls it.This basically means that Libra will be largely controlled by a team of executives. The power will not be in the hands of the people who use it, but in those...

Hut 8 is a company that claims to be a new kind of mining firm. As bitcoin’s price crashes this week, some have taken notice of the increased hash rate in the bitcoin mining arena, and some are very curious how new companies are looking to extract new coins.Hut 8: New Ways to Access CoinsAccording to Andrew Kiguel, the CEO of Hut 8, the company’s name is taken from a project led by Alan Turing, a British mathematician who broke the Nazis’ enigma code during WWII. In a recent interview, he...

At press time, the number one cryptocurrency by market cap – bitcoin – has fallen below the $8,000 mark yet again and is currently trading at approximately $7,950.Bitcoin: It’s Ugliest Week in a Long TimeThe currency has had a rather ugly week, falling by more than 22 percent in just a matter of days. The trouble started last Wednesday when the currency dropped from the mid-$9,000 range to about $8,100 in just a matter of minutes. From there, the currency struggled to pick itself back up,...

EOS has struggled this week after dropping by a total of 27%. The cryptocurrency saw a further 3% price fall over the past 24 hours and it sets its sights to re-test the support around $2.64. EOS has lost a significant 50% over the past 3 months and has a long road ahead to recovery.EOS remains the seventh-largest cryptocurrency with a market cap of $2.61 billion.Since our previous EOS analysis, EOS has suffered heavily amid the Bitcoin bloodbath, which caused it to fall beneath the support...

Some say that Silicon Valley is the new Wall Street, but could there be deeper reasons why tech companies like Facebook compete with banks like Goldman Sachs for engineers? It used to be banks that attracted the brightest. Before the financial crisis of 2008, Wall Street loved to hire mathematicians, physicists, and even rocket scientists to create innovative – and often very complex – financial products. They would design new derivatives and investment strategies and run quantitative risk...