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Ripple price started a downside correction below the $0.820 zone against the US dollar. The price is now trading below $0.80 and the 55 simple moving average (4 hours). There is a key bearish trend line forming with resistance near $0.738 on the 4-hour chart of the XRP/USD pair (data source from Kraken). The pair could start a fresh increase above the $0.750 resistance. Ripple price is consolidating near $0.720 against the US Dollar, similar to Bitcoin. XRP price...

The Indonesian government has unveiled the country’s crypto bourse and clearing house to increase monitoring of the cryptocurrency sector and also improve investor protection in the country. The launch of the new crypto asset exchange comes after an initial announcement in 2021. National Crypto Exchange Finally Launches Indonesia’s crypto bourse, which began operations earlier in the week according to the country’s Commodity Futures Trading Regulatory Agency (Bappebti), comes...

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has reportedly put six spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) applications under review, marking the first step before officially approving or rejecting them. Finance giants, including BlackRock and Fidelity Digital Assets, have recently displayed ambitions to launch such ETFs, infusing enthusiasm in the crypto space and positively affecting the market. Waiting for the Next Step As reported by Reuters, the US...

Has justice arrived in the Mt. Gox case? Perhaps that’s the scenario as after nearly ten years, two Russian men have been charged with conspiring to steal more than 600,000 bitcoin units. Is the Mt. Gox Case Coming to an End? The federal government has laid charges out against Alexey Bilyuchenko and Aleksandr Verner. They’re accused of conspiring to launder as much as 647,000 BTC funds stolen from the exchange. At the time of the theft, these units would have been...

Ark Investment Management founder and CEO Cathie Wood – a longtime bitcoin bull – has thrown herself into the Coinbase mess involving the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and is defending the exchange. She also believes bitcoin could jump into $600K territory within the next seven years. Cathie Wood on Where Bitcoin Will Go Wood mentioned she thinks the SEC is going about the situation all wrong. All the agency wants to do is persecute when the rules are...

The Valley Stream, New York resident – Eddy Alexandre – received a nine-year prison sentence for engaging in commodities fraud. He was found guilty of swindling $248 million from over 25,000 investors through his cryptocurrency trading platform called EminiFX. The investigation determined that Alexandre used some of the funds to purchase luxurious items for himself, such as expensive cars. The ‘Brazen’ Fraud The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Alexandre’s punishment...

Merely hours after the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed lawsuits against both Binance and Coinbase – two of the biggest and most popular digital currency trading platforms in the world – the agency’s head Gary Gensler made comments that the entire crypto industry is “built on non-compliance” and that the U.S. doesn’t “need more digital currency.” The SEC Is Mixed Up With that latter comment, it truly becomes clear what Gensler is all about… Getting...

Nassim Nicholas Taleb – the author of the book “The Black Swan” who is among crypto’s biggest critics – launched another bashing manifest against the asset class. He believes the mania surrounding bitcoin and the alternative coins have started fading out because young people have turned their focus toward Artificial Intelligence (AI). The Latest Dose of Criticism In one of his recent tweets, Taleb claimed that the crypto hype is “starting to peter out” due to youngsters’ new...

[Press Release – San Diego, CA, July 22nd, 2023] NFT collection Dimension X has announced that it is to launch on Ethereum on August 8. The Ethereum-based digital cards can be used in a corresponding RPG game. Community members have the opportunity to register for a chance to mint an allowlisted NFT. The allowlist raffle for Dimension X closes on July 31 at 10am PST. The total supply for the collection has been set at 10,000 NFTs comprising 7,197 raffle mints and 2,803...

The cryptocurrency market has been bleeding out slowly throughout the past 24 hours, losing some $9 billion in the process. This comes on the back of losses from altcoins, which have been charting slight declines across the board. Meanwhile, Bitcoin’s price keeps stagnating at the same place it was yesterday. Bitcoin Fights For $30K The Bitcoin price has failed to overcome the $30K level. What is more – it appears that the bears are attempting to take control of the action...