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Earn Your First Bitcoin Sign up and get $12 Bonus Referral bonus up to $3,000 Sign up Ripple price started a downside correction from the $0.5650 zone against the US dollar. The price is now trading below $0.500 and the 55 simple moving average (4 hours). There is a short-term rising channel forming with resistance near $0.500 on the 4-hour chart of the XRP/USD pair (data source from Kraken)....

Earn Your First Bitcoin Sign up and get $12 Bonus Referral bonus up to $3,000 Sign up Bitcoin endured a bit of a dip in mid-May when it was announced that Binance would briefly halt all withdrawals and deposits due to ongoing congestion and traffic. Binance Came to a Standstill (so Did BTC) Bitcoin had been trading in the $29,000 range prior, and there were many analysts out there who felt the...

An analysis by crypto market data provider Kaiko revealed that USD Coin (USDC) is currently the most liquid stablecoin on centralized exchanges (CEXs), with approximately $38 million bids preventing a .1% price deviation of the asset. USDC’s liquidity is followed by that of Tether (USDT), Binance USD (BUSD), True USD (TUSD), and Dai (DAI). The data compiled by Kaiko includes the .1% bid-side depth across all markets that use USDC as a base asset. USDC – the Most Liquid on...

A new report by America’s largest cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase revealed that the effect of Bitcoin halving events on the asset’s performance is still unclear as several exogenous factors play significant roles in the market’s behavior. While the halving is viewed positively because it is believed to enhance BTC’s prospective scarcity and support its supply-demand dynamics, getting a clear picture of the market’s reaction would require disentangling the effects of U.S....

Bitcoin has finally calmed and remained relatively stagnant on a daily scale at around $26,500 after the massive volatility experienced during the business week. Most altcoins are in a similar state with insignificant daily gains or declines, aside from APT, which is up by 6% today. BTC Stalls at $26.5K Last weekend was quite uneventful for the primary cryptocurrency, aside from a brief pump and dump at around $26,000. As such, the asset entered the working week in a calm...

The Texas State Securities Board filed an emergency cease and desist order against crypto trading platform Abra and its Chief Executive Officer Bill Barhydt. The watchdog claimed that the company misled its customers and committed securities fraud by offering some of its products, such as Abra Earn. The regulator added that the firm has been “secretly transferring assets” to Binance, noting that the US SEC has recently targeted the world’s biggest crypto exchange. Insolvent...

Earn Your First Bitcoin Sign up and get $12 Bonus Referral bonus up to $3,000 Sign up Bob Ras is a blockchain executive and the co-founder of the distributed ledger company Sologenic. Bob Ras on Where BTC Will Go In a recent interview, Ras explained his thoughts on the present banking crisis and what outcome it’s likely to hold for bitcoin in the long-term. He said: As big banks have been...

Bitcoin registered two consecutive days of price increases for the first time in a while as it pumped from under $25,000 to just shy of $27,000 within this timeframe. ETH’s performance is rather similar, as the second-largest crypto now sits at $1,750. Most other altcoins are in the green as well. BTC Soars to Weekly High The SEC’s lawsuits against Binance and Coinbase took their toll on the cryptocurrency market, with BTC slumping last week to $25,400, even though it wasn’t...

After several days of depressing price movements, bitcoin finally went on the offensive and shot up by almost $2,000 in the past 24 hours to register its highest price tag since June 8. Expectedly, this has resulted in millions of dollars worth of liquidations, with short positions representing almost 80%. Following the SEC’s lawsuits against the two largest crypto exchanges – Binance and Coinbase – as well as the CPI numbers from Wednesday and the Fed’s pivot from its...

Binance is also preparing a BNB Chain layer-2 scaling solution to improve network transaction speeds and costs. Separately, the firm announced on June 15 that Binance Pool has launched a “Bitcoin Transaction Accelerator.” The new solution will allow users to confirm their transactions on the Bitcoin network quicker regardless of any potential network congestion issues, it noted. Binance Pool is the exchange’s service platform dedicated to improving the income of BTC miners....