Crypto news

On Wednesday, Bitcoin jumped 9.92% from the day low of $7,080 to $7,775 during only 5 hours of the trade. However, at the end of the day, the price closed at $7,199. The Bitcoin price seems to be slowing down every time it meets resistance at $7,800 and cannot set a higher high above $8,000. Traders can see that the highest volume happened when the prices were $8,040 and $7,850. However, since prices started to drop as soon as they reached those heights, it can be presumed that the next bull...

The European Union has finally made its position clear on the issue of global stablecoins being deployed and used within its borders. The Council and the Commission explained their position in a joint statement. While the authorities acknowledged the importance of technological innovations which can be of great advantage to the financial sector, they also acknowledged the problems and risks that come from such an arrangement. They include money laundering, cybersecurity, privacy consumer...

As 2019 draws to a close, many analysts and other players in all of the world’s different markets, are taking a hard look at the last eleven months and trying to make a forecast for 2020. All the ups and downs with stocks and investments that have happened in one year are usually used as base points to form a prediction for the following year. While things have not been exactly terrible in 2019, American multinational investment bank and financial services giant Citigroup Inc. has predicted...

Millennials believe in Bitcoin for the long term, as per a recent report from Charles Schwab. According to the report, the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) is the 5th most used investment instrument, even surpassing giants such as Berkshire Hathaway and Microsoft.Millennials, also known as Generation Y, were born between the early years of the 1980s to mid-years of the 1990s.Millennials Choose GBTCThe large brokerage firm, Charles Schwab, recently published a report regarding the investment...

Cryptocurrencies continue to make strong inroads in the global economy as even the global governments and banks have started experimenting with crypto assets. In its latest report dubbed Imagine 2030, Deutsche Bank analyst Jim Reid said that cryptocurrencies will dominate and replace fiat currencies over the next decade. With economic uncertainty brewing up all across the globe, Reid believes that government-backed fiat currencies won’t be sustainable. He said that there is a surge in demand...

With all the advancements currently being made in the crypto industry, there is a constant need for continuous sensitization and education as this is probably the only way to ensure that the sector maintains an increasingly robust growth. This need for important knowledge has been recognized by popular crypto personality Mati Greenspan, who used to be the senior financial market analyst at the eToro trading platform. Greenspan will now begin to make training videos on Bitcoin trading along...

Trials for a French wholesale central bank digital currency will kick off next year.France is responding to the threat posed by Facebook’s Libra to monetary policy sovereignty.The EU country is hoping to be the first to issue a wholesale CBDC.Immediately after Facebook announced its plans for a global cryptocurrency, France emerged as one of the social media giant’s biggest opposition to Libra. One of the arguments that French officials put forward in their case against Libra then was that...

Premier cryptocurrency lending service BlockFi has introduced a new feature. It is trading at no fees for Bitcoin, Ethereum and the stablecoin GUSD. The startup has been known to allow users access to returns on their cryptocurrency holdings by offering loans to borrowers against users’ cryptocurrency holdings and then passing across the returns in terms of interest on the loans while securing the crypto assets that were used as security for the loans.  While this model is known to have been...

In our recent price analysis, we had anticipated a huge move coming up very soon. We couldn’t predict to which direction.The result was a massive $800 move to the upside, followed by an opposite move to the downside, to exactly where the movement began from (roughly $7100). And the winner is? Of course, the exchanges that allow margin trading, who encourage trading volumes.The bottom line is that Bitcoin stays at the same price level, the same confluence price zone, between $7300 – $7400,...

Blockchain startup Ripple has been engaged in a long going battle with complainants claiming XRP as a security. However, it seems that the company wants to put an end to this debate and reach a final settlement. In its latest filing on December 4, with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, Ripple said that the plaintiffs suing the company over the unregistered sale of security tokens (XRP) have brought the case too late. In the filing, Ripple says that even if XRP...