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Bitcoin’s price action has rebounded significantly while testing key support levels. The next few days could determine whether the market would start a mid-term recovery or the gruesome downtrend would still continue. Technical Analysis By: Edris The Daily Chart: Looking at the daily chart, the correction has been halted over the last couple of weeks above the $16K support level. Regardless, bullish momentum is still lacking, and the price has failed to retest the $18K level....

The latest figures show that the first eleven months of 2022 have seen the installation of 6,100 new crypto automated teller machines (ATMs). The temps have significantly slowed down due to the ongoing bear market. In comparison, over 20,300 crypto ATMs popped up in 2021 (when bitcoin and many altcoins charted their all-time high prices). Change of Trends The skyrocketing prices of most digital assets last year and the huge investor interest have prompted the planting of...

Over a year after the first Bitcoin futures ETF went live in the States, Bitwise has filed to launch its own such product. This comes despite the ongoing bear market, which has seen prices decline and investor interest evaporate. Citing a filing with the US regulators, the Bloomberg report informed that Bitwise’s product would be called Bitcoin Strategy Optimum Yield ETF, under the ticker BITC. Similar to the previously approved ETFs in the US, this one would not hold the...

Ripple is on the verge of closing its second green weekly candle. However, there is a horizontal obstacle on the way to higher levels, which will be discussed further below. Technical Analysis By Grizzly The Daily Chart: XRP managed to recapture the 200-day moving average line (in white) on the daily chart after struggling since mid-November. Technically, this pattern denotes a positive psychological momentum in the market.Although the bullish sentiment is observable on the...

Unlike Bitcoin and many other crypto assets, Ethereum is forming a new low while testing a significant resistance level. ETH should be monitored closely, as the price action in the next few days could provide useful hints for the mid-term market trend. Technical Analysis By: Edris The Daily Chart: Looking at the daily chart, the price is still trapped between $1250 and $1000 levels but could soon break out. The $1250 resistance level is currently being tested, and if broken...

Bitcoin continues to display little-to-no price swings and stands still around $16,500. Some altcoins, though, have significantly outperformed BTC, including Dogecoin and Binance Coin, both of which jumped to multi-week highs. DOGE, BNB Soar The altcoins were slightly in the red yesterday, but the landscape is quite different now, at least for some. Binance Coin is among those. Amid the latest rumors around the world’s largest crypto exchange, BNB has jumped by 7%. As a...

The cryptocurrency winter has been colder for some than others. While some cryptocurrency exchanges are forced to conduct massive employee layoffs to weather the bear market, others like Bitget continue to make massive hires to improve their services. On November 25, the cryptocurrency and crypto derivatives exchange Bitget announced its registration in the Seychelles, Africa, as a means to facilitate its global expansion. As reported by The Cryptonomist, Bitget plans to...

Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, will remove multiple trading pairs for the DEX protocol Serum (SRM), which is known to have deep ties to both FTX and Alameda Research.  The token will no longer be tradeable for Bitcoin (BTC), Tether (USDT), or Binance’s native BNB token.  What is Serum? Binance revealed Serum’s trading restrictions, alongside a handful of other pair removals, in an announcement on Friday. Other restricted assets include the BTC hash rate-backed...

Belgium’s financial regulator does not consider crypto-assets such as Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) to be securities. The Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA) released a statement in which it said cryptocurrencies that are issued solely by computer code do not constitute securities. The regulator’s response comes after receiving an increasing number of questions about the application of financial rules on the asset class. Win for BTC, ETH With a prominent...

The past week was somewhat positive for the entire cryptocurrency market, both in terms of pricing and overall developments. While the meltdown of FTX looms over the industry and most market participants are still afraid of contagion, the total capitalization added over $10 billion amid ongoing developments. First things first, this week’s overall increase doesn’t come on the back of Bitcoin, which is actually down about 1% over the period. The cryptocurrency attempted a push...