Ethereum (ETH)

Litecoin price started a major decline from well above the $48.00 level against the US Dollar.LTC price traded as low as $41.76 and it is currently correcting higher.There are two bearish trend lines forming with resistance near $44.50 and $45.00 on the 4-hours chart of the LTC/USD pair (data feed from Coinbase).The pair is likely to face a strong selling interest if it recovers towards the $45.00 resistance.Litecoin price is holding the $42.00 support area and recovering against the US...

Cryptocurrencies continue consolidating.Dmitriy Gurkovskiy, a senior analyst at foreign exchange broker RoboForex, provides his vision of the possible tendencies in price changes for Bitcoin as well as for other major cryptos.The major digital asset is stuck inside a Triangle pattern and only a breakout of $10.565 may indicate further growth towards $13.865. However, the bearish pressure is also rising – we haven’t seen any growth in Ethereum, although it earlier demonstrated a nice ascending...

A popular blockchain security company finally revealed who was the sender of last week’s Ethereum transactions with abnormally high fees.Reportedly, it’s a small South Korean cryptocurrency exchange that pays little to no attention to its security protocols.The BackstoryLast week, CryptoPotato reported on two transactions with abnormally high fees that took place on Ethereum’s network. Both of them were sent out from the same address. The first carried 0.55 ETH and paid a fee of 10,668 ETH,...

Imagine paying a monster-sized fee for sending just a small amount of money to another wallet or address. For one Ethereum user, this appears to have been the case not just once, but twice in the past week.Ethereum Transfer Results in Two Massive FeesOn June 10, a user transferred approximately $130 worth of Ethereum to a new address. This isn’t a huge transaction, and yet the fees for the transfer amounted to more than 10,660 ETH which ultimately means that the user wound up paying more than...

The non-custodial, decentralized exchange, Loopring, has listed pBTC – a token that acts as a fully-backed Bitcoin equivalent on the Ethereum blockchain.The addition of pBTC to Loopring – the fastest decentralized exchange (DEX) based on Ethereum – gives Bitcoin users a quick on-ramp to Ethereum’s decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem.Loopring Lists pBTCProvable Things – the developers of pBTC – announced the listing of pBTC against stablecoin Tether (USDT) on June 16. According to...

Ethereum increased by 4% over the past 24 hours as it now trades at $233.The cryptocurrency spiked lower yesterday as it broke beneath a rising trend line, but the buyers quickly regrouped to push ETH above it before the close.Against Bitcoin, Ethereum fell into the support at 0.00243 BTC and rebounded from there.Key Support & Resistance LevelsETH/USD:Support: $225, $215, $205.Resistance: $250, $265, $274.ETH/BTC:Support: 0.025 BTC, 0.0243 BTC, 0.0235 BTC.Resistance: 0.0253 BTC, 0.026...

Ren, the open-source protocol enabling permissionless and private transfers of value between any blockchain, launched its mainnet and a dApp utilizing it within a few weeks.Interestingly, the protocol’s native cryptocurrency REN has gained more than 40% of value in the same period.Ren Launches RenVM MainnetThe blockchain-based company announced the release of its RenVM Mainnet in late May, asserting that it’s the “beginning of a cross-chain era for DeFi,” as it “brings interoperability” to...

Arthur Hayes, the CEO of one of the leading Bitcoin derivative exchanges, BitMEX, has once again slammed a cryptocurrency for being a “shitcoin.” This time it was Bitcoin Cash (BCH) that’s under his radar.BitMEX Listing BCH/USD Perpetual ContractIn an announcement from June 01st, 2020, BitMEX revealed that it’s going to launch a BCH/USD perpetual swap contract with up to 25x leverage. Today, the contract went live.“This is the fourth quanto contract to be launched on our platform and follows...

Das Ethereum Projekt kommt nicht aus den negativen Schlagzeilen heraus. Nicht nur sehen Analysten einen Absturz auf 200 US-Dollar, sondern auch der Höchststand aus dem Jahr 2018 wird nun als Red Herring bezeichnet.Ethereum News: Ethereum Kurs mit weiteren ProblemenAvi Felman von BlockTower Capital hat sich auf Twitter gemeldet und den Höchststand des ETHs von 1.800 US-Dollar als Red Herring bezeichnet. Es seien die ICOs (Initial Coin Offerings) gewesen, die den ETH-Kurs angeschoben haben, da...

A recent survey compiled by the cryptocurrency exchange BitMax indicates that the Japanese are quite fond of Ripple (XRP). Having to choose which their favorite digital asset is, most participants placed XRP close to Bitcoin and well above Ethereum.Japan Adores Ripple (XRP)The popular Japanese exchange posted the survey on Twitter to check among its followers which are their most preferred cryptocurrencies.BitMax Cryptocurrency Survey. Source: BitMaxSomewhat expectedly, the largest...