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Tezos saw a sharp increase of 16.66% over the past week and it currently trades at $1.33. More impressively. the cryptocurrency is up by 35% against Bitcoin. Over the past month, XTZ managed to gain more than 70% and it’s the best-performing altcoin amid this rather bearish market. Tezos is now ranked in the 14th position with a market cap of $903 million.Since our last analysis, Tezos fell below the 100-days EMA at $1.10 and continued to decrease to as low as $0.75 in October. However, after...

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Friday released its latest Commitment of Traders report for the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.Futures are derivative products typically aimed at institutional investors looking to get exposure in cryptocurrency. Published weekly, the COT highlights which way traders are positioned in the market.Here is the latest report:The latest CME COT report. | Source: BitOodaThe data may provide some insight into bitcoin’s latest tumble below $7,000. According to...

Bitcoin’s price has continuously been the subject of numerous predictions. Some proponents expect new all-time highs within the next few months, while others take the opposite stand, foreseeing the cryptocurrency’s demise. Naturally, a lot of the predictions seem quite far-fetched, but some well-known and reputed analysts think that Bitcoin might go to $5,000 before 2020.Bitcoin’s Price On A Bearish TrajectoryFor starters, a leading cryptocurrency market analyst, Credible Crypto, recently...

Bitcoin’s price has continuously been a subject of numerous predictions. Some proponents expect new all-time highs within the next few months, while others take the opposite stand, foreseeing the cryptocurrency’s demise. Naturally, a lot of the predictions seem quite far-fetched, but some well-known and reputed analysts think that Bitcoin might go to $5,000 before 2020.Bitcoin’s Price On A Bearish TrajectoryFor starters, a leading cryptocurrency market analyst, Credible Crypto, recently...

The recent week was not the best for Bitcoin’s price, which lost almost 20% in just seven days.The bad thing is that it’s still hard to see the end of those severe declines. However, if you look for a positive sign, you can find it in the fact that yesterday’s daily candle finished green, for the first time following five ugly red candles.Looking at the following daily chart, we can see a secure area of support around $6800 – $7000. After dropping to those levels during last Friday, Bitcoin...

Bitcoin futures platform Bakkt has reached a new all-time high of $20 million or 2,728 contracts. This comes as many have been wondering if the launch of the platform by Intercontinental Exchanges (ICE) was just a fluke or an attempt at trying to take over the crypto space.The recent development shows that this trading volume observed on November 22 is 66% higher than on the previous trading day and about 30% higher than the last all-time high which occurred on November 8.According to the...

What initially started out as an attempt to halt a movie pirate from doing “his thing” has turned into something much larger. A man based in New Zealand named Jaron David McIvor has had nearly $7 million in crypto funds confiscated by local law enforcement after they were tipped off to his illicit business.McIvor Loses His FundsMcIvor – 31 years of age – tried to disguise his job and lifestyle by living in a very modest home with relatives. What was unknown was that the man was sitting on a...

Bitcoin is now in a downtrend after Friday’s technical reversal.Analyst Peter Brandt believes that a cleansing is in order before bitcoin can start a new bull market.He says investors who refuse to be shaken out by the stomach-churning purge could reap ridiculous profits in the future.The world’s dominant cryptocurrency appears to have lost all bullish steam. The momentum that the bitcoin price generated when it printed a 2019 high of $13,880 has vanished, giving way to a rapid downturn.This...

A lawyer involved in the infamous One Coin cryptocurrency scam has been found guilty of both fraud and money laundering. Mark Scott – an attorney who garnered a near $50 million fee for routing approximately $400 million on behalf of the scam’s founder – is now facing 50 years in prison; one year for every million he potentially earned.Scott Faces Jail Time for His RoleLawyers for Scott claimed that he did not realize One Coin had no value, and that he was simply doing a job assigned to him...

Ripple is having an awful 2019 despite unyielding support from the so-called “XRP army.”One widely-followed trader sees more pain for the third-largest cryptocurrency.There might be an opportunity for a relief rally, but ripple remains in a downtrend unless it prints a reversal structure.Ripple is down by over 36 percent this year. No matter how much XRP devotees try to peddle hope for a probable reversal, the cryptocurrency appears to be headed toward more painful declines.And with the Swell...