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Bitcoin price retested the $18K support level Friday. That’s the third time in a week, with the crypto failing to pass resistance at $19.5K twice on the 5-day chart. The crypto exchange price for a piece of the world’s original blockchain currency continues to consolidate at around $19K. That has been the trend for Bitcoin (BTC) over the month of September. Over the six-month chart, year-to-date, and one-year view, bitcoin is deeply in the red. It’s the third prolonged...

The price of bitcoin seems stuck around the $19,000 level for the past few days, and the asset has remained there now as well. Most altcoins are also calmer on a 24-hour scale on Sunday, with Chainlink emerging as today’s top performer. Bitcoin Quiet at $19K Although bitcoin is quite stagnant now, this wasn’t the case earlier this week. The asset had jumped from $18,300 to $20,000 in a day ahead of the US Federal Reserve’s latest interest rate hike, but once the increase of...

Dan Morehead – head of the institutional asset manager Pantera Capital – thinks there might be many distressed financial sectors in the years to come, but the digital asset industry will not be among them. Similar to his previous statements, the executive argued that a crypto bull market is on its way, while blockchain technology will be employed by billions of individuals in the years to come. Bullish as Usual In an interview for CNBC, Morehead opined that cryptocurrencies...

Vitalik Buterin – the co-founder of popular cryptocurrency Ethereum, the second largest digital asset by market cap – has stated that as the beacon chain hard fork happened on September 6, all Ethereum-based clients need to ensure their systems are fully updated. Vitalik Buterin Is Warning Ethereum Users Ethereum has been talking about The Merge for months now. The move would move Ethereum from a proof of work (PoW) module to proof of stake (PoS). This would potentially...

INTERNET CITY, DUBAI, Sep. 23, 2022 – LBank Exchange, a global digital asset trading platform, has listed PRIMEZTOKEN on September 23, 2022. For all users of LBank Exchange, the PRIMEZTOKEN/USDT trading pair is now officially available for trading. Aiming to introduce Japan’s world-class contents to Japan and overseas using blockchain technology, Primez provides an NFT marketplace where Japanese contents can be converted into NFTs. Its native token PRIMEZTOKEN has been...

INTERNET CITY, DUBAI, Sep. 22, 2022 – LBank Exchange, a global digital asset trading platform, has listed GTON on September 22, 2022. For all users of LBank Exchange, the GTON/USDT trading pair is now officially available for trading. Based on the cutting-edge achievements of Web 3.0 technology, GTON Capital is building an infrastructure to advance digital capital markets enabling new generation of programmable economy. Its utility token GTON has been listed on LBank...

After the recent volatility and the latest multi-month low, bitcoin has calmed slightly around the $19,000 mark. Most alts have painted insignificant losses today, while Dogecoin has emerged as the top performer from the large-cap ones. Bitcoin Battles for $19K The past several days were quite volatile for BTC, starting with the dip to $18,300 on September 19. At the time, that marked a three-month low for the asset. Bitcoin went on the offensive in the following hours and...

Coinbase – the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the United States – has been slapped with another multi-million dollar lawsuit.  The company has been accused of patent infringement through several of its services, over which the plaintiff is seeking $350 million in damages.  Another Coinbase Lawsuit Veritaseum Capital LLC filed the lawsuit on Thursday in a Delaware court. The firm claims that Coinbase has infringed a patent awarded to the company’s founder Reggie Middleton...

The past seven days were quite painful in the cryptocurrency market as the majority of it is trading well in the red. This resulted in $40 billion being lost from the total capitalization, which is inching closer to $900 billion. The most obvious outlier in this is Ripple’s XRP which soared by 50%. Let’s unpack. Bitcoin’s price is currently sitting slightly below $19,000, down 5.7% in the past week. Seven days ago, it was trading at around $19,500 and even managed to poke...