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On Wednesday, July 15, Twitter accounts belonging to prominent individuals, including Elon Musk, Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and a number of crypto industry executives, were commandeered by hackers who allegedly gained access to internal content moderation tools.A scam was posted requesting Bitcoin to get double the returns. The news went global, and the uninformed crypto detractors blamed Bitcoin once again, though markets did not react, and the price of the asset was...

Der BTC ist in den letzten Tagen gestiegen, wenn auch nur leicht. 9,500 US-Dollar sind es aktuell und die optimistischen Investoren sehen ihre Prognosen bestätigt. Doch während einige einen Bullen-Run kommen sehen, warnen Analysten vor dieser unteren Marke.Bitcoin News: Dieser Bitcoin-Preis könnte den Kurs fallen lassenDie untere Marke von 8,800 bis 8,900 US-Dollar ist laut Analysten entscheidend, um einen Bärenmarkt zu prognostizieren. Bleibt der BTC in der aktuell schwierigen Phase darüber,...

EOS price is gaining momentum above the $2.550 and $2.600 resistance levels against the US Dollar.The price is now trading well below the $2.550 pivot level and the 55 simple moving average (4-hours).There is a major ascending channel forming with support near $2.620 on the 4-hours chart of the EOS/USD pair (data feed from Coinbase).The pair could continue to move higher above $2.700 as long as it is above the $2.550 pivot level.EOS price is trading in a positive zone above $2.550 against the...

Undoubtedly, 2020 will go down in history as the year Decentralized Finance (DeFi) has started to assert its control over the cryptocurrency industry. This development has been underscored by the rise of Compound as the leading DeFi lending platform, surpassing MakerDAO in value locked. Looking at the DeFi market as a whole, the total value locked in DeFi smart contracts rose almost fourfold since the turn of the year.Next to COMP, many other DeFi tokens such as Aave (LEND), Kyber Network...

Bitcoin price is currently gaining traction above the $9,400 and $9,440 resistance levels.A new monthly high is formed near $9,567 and the price is now above the 55 simple moving average (4-hours).There was a break above two key bearish trend lines near $9,200 on the 4-hours chart of the BTC/USD pair (data feed from Coinbase).The pair might correct lower in the short-term, but dips remain well supported near $9,420.Bitcoin price is trading in a decent uptrend above $9,400 against the US...

It’s been about a week since the incident occurred, and yet news outlets still can’t seem to get enough of the Twitter bitcoin hack that took place last Wednesday.The Twitter BTC Hack Just Gets Bigger and BiggerThe incident is one of the most profound and notorious in bitcoin’s short, yet significant history. Several high-profile Twitter accounts belonging to politicians, celebrities and musicians such as Bill Gates, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Kanye West and Elon Musk were hijacked by cyber...

National banks and federal saving associations can now offer crypto custody services to customers following approval from regulators in the country.OCC Okays Crypto Custody Operations for US Federal BanksAccording to a letter issued by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) on Wednesday, U.S. Federal banks can now offer crypto custody services. The decision follows last month’s request by the OCC for public input on the matter.As part of the letter, the OCC explained the...

Open interest for Bitcoin Futures on major derivatives crypto exchange BitMEX reached an all-time-high (ATH) as it crossed the $1 billion milestone. The record high happened for the first time since the crypto market crashed back in March 2020.Bitcoin Futures Open Interest on BitMEX at 4-Month HighAccording to data from crypto derivatives market data provider Skew, the open interest on Bitcoin Futures on BitMEX crossed the $1B landmark for the first time since Black Thursday. Across the...

There is a lot of worry and concern surrounding bitcoin’s price as of late. While the asset has done well these past two months and maintained its position above the $9,000 mark, some analysts and industry leaders – such as Changpeng Zhao, the chief executive of Binance, the world’s largest and most popular cryptocurrency exchange by daily volume trading – are warning that BTC’s price is in a shaky position, and in danger of enduring another crash like the one it experienced in March of this...

AVA Labs, the team behind Avalanche, an open-source platform for launching decentralized applications in a highly-scalable ecosystem, recently raised $42M in a 4.5 hour-long token sale last Wednesday. The sale marks one of the largest ICO’s out of the U.S. since 2017.Avalanche’s Recent Key HiresAVA Labs, founded by Cornell Ph.D.’s and led by Professor Emin Gun Sirer, initially completed a $6M Series A in 2019 backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Initialized Capital, Metastable, Polychain, and angel...