Markets

Ethereum price started an upside correction after trading as low as $152 against the US Dollar.ETH price is currently trading above $175, but it is facing a strong resistance near $185 and $188.There is a crucial bearish trend line forming with resistance near $188 on the 4-hours chart (data feed from Coinbase).The price is likely to struggle to surpass the key $185 and $188 resistance levels in the near term.Ethereum price is climbing towards a major resistance near $185-$188 against the US...

Cryptocurrency investors were left holding the wrong coin after a mix-up over ticker symbols on the Binance DEX. But this simple ticker debacle inadvertently revealed some highly suspicious details about the listing process on the Binance DEX. UPX Ticker Mix-Up on Binance DEX The founders of uPlexa say the UPX ticker symbol is, and always has been, unique to their project. However, Binance DEX recently listed a token by the name of UDAP, which also uses the UPX ticker symbol. At least two...

The battle cry of the cryptocurrency industry has been one of decentralization, or one without any centralized authority. It is this distinguishing feature that sets the blockchain space apart from other sectors and cryptocurrencies like bitcoin from other assets. No central bank, bankers, or government controls it, and unless your Nouriel Roubini it’s hard not to appreciate this push toward democracy and decentralization. When the industry begins to compromise, that’s when the crypto...

Recently Overstock and its former CEO Patrick Byrne have recently made a lot of headlines. The main reason for that is that Patrick Byrne left the company with a big bang, sold all his equities and didn’t keep it a secret that he had invested in Bitcoin and gold.Now, an investor from Canada – Benjamin Ha, has filed a complaint with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) alleging that between May 9 and September 23, 2019, Overstock published “materially false and misleading...

Regulation has been a hard topic in the crypto space as of late. Despite the push for it, however, it has arrived at a rather slow pace, and many major companies and exchanges within the crypto arena are looking to themselves to potentially enhance the safety of their operations. Some of these companies include Coinbase in the U.S., along with DRW Cumberland, Kraken and Grayscale.Coinbase and Others Take Security Into Their Own HandsOne of the primary things these ventures are looking at is...

Chinese social media and gaming company Tencent Holding Ltd. took a 29% stake in computer games maker Funcom.With this step, Tencent became Funcom’s largest shareholder and the shares it bought were from KGJ Capital AS.Funcom went through its most profitable year in history and had signed an exclusive partnership with Legendary Entertainment to create a minimum of three Dune games for PC and consoles.Funcom CEO, Rui Casais said:“We are very pleased to see Tencent come in as the largest...

While today the crypto markets are starting to look a little alive and is seeing a somewhat green pattern, Tom Lee from Fundstrat tweeted a sort of reminder about the rule of 10 best days. He says that the majority of Bitcoin gains come in the ten best trading days. According to Lee, this only happens once a year. Moreover, he claims that when these ten best trading days are excluded, Bitcoin sees a -25% per year. More specifically, in the last bull run of 2017 Bitcoin saw an unbelievable...

Recently we reported that Electrek, a blog for electric vehicle enthusiasts, published an email that probably has leaked from the company in which Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk writes that Tesla might be able to make 100,000 vehicle deliveries in the third quarter, which would be a record.Be it as it may, Tesla is really trying to fulfill these expectations but with only a day left, some sources say that the company is currently “a few thousand” cars short of the delivery goal.In the leaked email,...

After quite a long period of incubation and regulatory pursuits, the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), eventually launched its Bakkt’s Bitcoin futures contracts last week. The platform had always been heralded as the main ingredient that will serve as the proper Bitcoin catalyst but has failed so far. In fact, a day after Bakkt officially launched, Bitcoin shed almost 20% of its weight and dropped to $8,000 price level for the first time in months.Now Bloomberg reports that analyst from...

Binance appears to be using its TRX stockpile to vote for itself as a TRON Super Representative and then scoop up the majority of the TRON block rewards. The TRONSCAN website reveals the No.1 TRON Super Representative (SR) to be Binance’s recently launched staking address. After launching mere days ago, the Binance address has already acquired 60% of all the votes in the TRON ecosystem. Just a few days after launching, Binance’s staking wallet has become the No.1 Super Representative on the...