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Bitcoin price failed to test the $8,000 resistance and declined below $7,500 against the US Dollar.The price is now trading above the key $7,060 and $7,000 support levels.There is a key bullish trend line forming with support near $7,160 on the 4-hours chart of the BTC/USD pair (data feed from Coinbase).The pair is likely to bounce back as long as it is above the $7,000 support area.Bitcoin price is approaching a couple of important uptrend supports against the US Dollar. BTC remains well...

Coinbase zählt zu den saubersten Bitcoin-Börsen. Es gibt aber noch andere Exchanges, die ebenfalls in Sachen Geldwäscherei Prävention sowie Sicherheit punkten. Die Krypto-Börse Coinbase erhielt diese Woche ein Patent, mit dem CEO Brian Armstrong die Bitcoin-Szene revolutionieren möchte. Das neue System soll dabei das Versenden von Bitcoin via E-Mail ermöglichen. Neues Patent...

Coinbase zählt zu den saubersten Bitcoin-Börsen. Es gibt aber noch andere Exchanges, die ebenfalls in Sachen Geldwäscherei Prävention sowie Sicherheit punkten. Die Krypto-Börse Coinbase erhielt diese Woche ein Patent, mit dem CEO Brian Armstrong die Bitcoin-Szene revolutionieren möchte. Das neue System soll dabei das Versenden von Bitcoin via E-Mail ermöglichen. Neues Patent...

Ripple – the third-largest cryptocurrency by market cap – has allegedly completed a funding round in which the company got its hands on $200 million. This takes Ripple’s net value to a whopping $10 billion.Ripple Is Heading to the TopThe round was led by Tetragon, an investment company stationed in New York. Other companies to take part in the event include Japan’s SBI Holdings and the venture capital firm Route 66 Ventures in Virginia.Ripple head honcho Brad Garlinghouse comments:We are in a...

Apple esports Mac is taking over the gaming market with a high-end version of its popular line of laptops. Esports in recent years has seen an exponential rise. It has all the chances to become an official sport soon. Reports say that esports may also join the Olympics. Professional gaming is gaining traction and recognition. High schools and even colleges are already launching gaming clubs. This is a sign that this is another professional activity that many young people are going to go...

Even though Google tracks Santa and seems to be very Christmas-like, it doesn’t seem to care for the crypto community at all. YouTube, the Google-owned video-sharing platform apparently started restricting or even deleting crypto-related videos or those who were flagged to be that way. Some crypto influencers even said their videos or even the whole channels were completely removed. The founder of Skill Incubator, a company that teaches valuable skills to help people thrive in today’s...

Bitcoin Asset manager claims most firms looking to speculate on bitcoin will use derivatives market instead of the underlying asset. The market share of physical oil compared to oil derivatives plummeted when futures trading was introduced. ‘Financialization’ of bitcoin will distort its innate pricing mechanism. Don’t count on a halving pump in 2020. The tendency for bitcoin to multiply in value following regularly scheduled halving events should not be relied on in 2020.That’s according to...

The general sentiment among the traditional financial markets is at extremely high levels of greed, according to the Fear and Greed Index. At the same time, the chart suggests mostly fearful feelings among the cryptocurrency market, but could those emotions be an indicator of a trend reversal?Greed Sentiment In The Stock MarketThe Fear and Greed index is a popular monitoring resource that calculates various types of data to provide investors’ current sentiments towards financial instruments....

Data shows that Bitcoin’s hashrate has just hit a new all-time high of 111 EH/s, which represents a 170.73% increase since January 1, 2019. Bitcoin Hashrate. Source: Blockchain.comHash rate measures the amount of computing power used by miners to generate new blocks every 10 minutes, keeping the Bitcoin network running at all times, a process known as mining. The increasing hashrate could suggest that the network is getting more robust and secure, as the chance for a potential attack on it...

Bitcoin has spiked this week, reaching $7,600 on Monday for the first time in almost 14 days, but quickly declined at the upper price level of $7,688.99. This step increased the profit of Bitcoins before the holidays.Investors are encouraged that now Bitcoin is approaching the $8,000 level. And there is an increasing likelihood that traditional non-crypto investors, traditional financial investors, may again begin to look at crypto. This is very important because introducing this new type of...