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The cryptocurrency industry, in general, has grown tremendously in the past couple of years. This became especially evident and expressive throughout the massive bull run that we witnessed in 2021 when Bitcoin’s price almost touched $70K. Despite the prices going down quite a bit and the market depressing to its current state, there are many industry participants who went on finding new ways and venues of both investing and trading. Covesting is amongst them. The Covesting...

This week, we take a closer look at Ethereum, Ripple, Cardano, Binance Coin, and Dogecoin. Ethereum (ETH) This past week Ethereum broke below its uptrend, which was a major bearish signal, and lost 9.4% in the process. Moreover, today, the bears dominated the charts, and Ethereum lost almost 8.5% of its valuation in less than an hour when the market suddenly crashed. At the time of this post, bulls have managed to stop the downtrend at the $1,700 support level, but bears...

Bitcoin cash price started a fresh decline from the $148 zone against the US Dollar. The price is now trading below the $140 zone and the 55 simple moving average (4-hours). There is a key bearish trend line forming with resistance near $139 on the 4-hours chart of the BCH/USD pair (data feed from Coinbase). The pair remains at a risk of more losses below the $125 and $122 support levels. Bitcoin cash price is moving lower below $135 against the US Dollar, similar to...

On August 18, MercadoLibre Inc, a multinational e-commerce company based in Latin America, announced the creation of a new cryptocurrency called MercadoCoin, which will be implemented in its loyalty program. As reported by Reuters, the cryptocurrency will run on the Ethereum network as an ERC-20 token priced at $0.10 each. It will be used primarily for cashback and purchases inside MercadoLibre’s platform. The developer team also hinted at opening the token to the secondary...

Analysts of prominent investment bank JPMorgan believe that Coinbase will be meaningfully benefitted from the upcoming Merge. In a note to the clients on Wednesday, analyst Kenneth Worthington said that the San Francisco-based crypto exchange has taken concrete measures in a bid to maximize the value of ETH staking for its clients. This is expected to result in higher revenue generation itself. Worthington asserted, “We see the staking revenue opportunity bigger...

Brian Armstrong – CEO of Coinbase – stated on Thursday that he would refuse to censor the Ethereum blockchain using his platform’s concentrated stake in the protocol.  If compelled by the government to do so, he’d rather shut down the service. Armstrong made his intentions clear in response to an Ethereum developer’s question concerning the centralization of staked ETH. According to Dune Analytics, 66% of ETH staked on the beacon chain is held by entities that are regulated...

The nation of Sri Lanka is warning citizens and telling them to avoid using or trading digital currencies whenever possible. Sri Lanka Appears to Be Very Anti-Crypto The warning comes at a moment when the whole world seems to be rethinking its attitude towards crypto. At the time of writing, the digital currency space is experiencing a period of suffering unlike any other. Bitcoin, for example, the world’s number one digital currency by market cap, has lost more than 70...

Sustainable bitcoin mining and energy company Clean Spark, Inc. has announced a new acquisition that has garnered the firm an additional 1,061 Whatsminer machines ready to extract new BTC units from the blockchain. Clean Spark Is Building Its Mining Capabilities The machines are located at a mining plant hosted by Coin Mint. They will give Clean Spark an additional 93 peta-hashes per second of computing power, thus boosting the firm’s abilities tenfold. Zach Bradford –...

Ripple has been experiencing a sideways trend below the stiff resistance for nearly three weeks and has remained range-bound between 0.36$ and $0.39 for the largest part. Technical Analysis By Grizzly The Weekly Chart: It appears that neither side is able to take assert convincing dominance in the market for XRP. The bulls need to flip the horizontal resistance at $0.39 (in red) to start a rally. The intersection of this resistance with the descending line (in yellow) has...

Bitcoin’s relief rally from the $20K area seems to be coming to an end, as the $24K resistance level is rejecting the price once again. The 100-day moving average also acts as a resistance near the same level. Technical Analysis By Edris The Daily Chart: The 50-day moving average, which is currently located around the $22K level, could provide some support and initiate a rally above the $24K resistance level. In this case, a rapid rise towards the $30K supply zone would be...