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Yesterday’s inflation news from the US pushed bitcoin to $50,000 once more, but the asset failed and dropped by several thousand dollars. Most altcoins are also in the red on a daily scale, as ETH slid to $4,000. Bitcoin Rejected at $50K The past several days didn’t go all that well for the primary cryptocurrency. It tried to recover from last week’s massive crash and challenged the $50,000 mark on several occasions but to no avail. Its inability to break above had driven it...

Poker fans in the US are now able to access the global poker market after a 15-year streak from the Department of Justice (DOJ). This happens as Virtue Gaming introduces the first P2E (Play-to-earn) offering in the country. Reviving the Poker Field in the US With Blockchain The Play-To-Earn business model relies on blockchain technology. Some of the most successful titles have amounted to record-breaking valuations of over $2 billion, like the famous Pokemon-inspired,...

Options Market Analysis Bitcoin price is now sub $49,000, about 27% below the ATH ($69k). Options traders set different hedging strategies during the previous weeks to protect against the market downside. Next Friday, December 17th, about $630 million worth of bitcoin options contracts will expire in Deribit. The max pain scenario for this expiry is if the price is at $50K. Calls at 60k strike price have the highest open interest with 1005 contracts. Options traders have sold...

There’s no sugarcoating it, the past seven days have been very tough throughout the entire cryptocurrency market, with a few small exceptions. The total capitalization dropped to $2,375 billion, which represents a loss of about 13%. Let’s start with Bitcoin. The primary cryptocurrency is down 14% on a seven-day scale. It started the week at around $56K, but bears weren’t having it anymore and crashed the price during the early Saturday trading session when BTC dropped to...

Bitcoin cash price started a fresh decline from $585 against the US Dollar. The price is now trading below the $500 zone and the 55 simple moving average (4-hours). There is a major bearish trend line forming with resistance near $500 the 4-hours chart of the BCH/USD pair (data feed from Coinbase). The pair must gain pace above $500 for a fresh increase in the near term. Bitcoin cash price is showing bearish signs below $500 against the US Dollar, similar to bitcoin....

On November 8, the EOS community elected to stop ongoing payments to BlockOne – the company behind the project. The decision comes after continuous debates within the community over the reliability of BlockOne, saying the company has plagued the network with centralization. ENF vs. BlockOne The conflict between the EOS Network Foundation (ENF) and BlockOne has been heating up in the last few weeks. The ENF said that BlockOne has been drifting away from the network’s interests...

Nikhil Rathi – CEO of UK’s top financial regulator FCA – proposed that the British government should not pay compensations to individuals investing in cryptocurrencies in case of a loss. Digital assets have been employed in criminal activities, and investors dealing with them “must be ready to lose all of their money,” the top exec opined. The UK Needs to ‘Draw Some Pretty Clear Lines’ The Chief Executive Officer of the FCA – Nikhil Rathi – addressed his proposal to the...

Constitution DAO may have lost its bid on a piece of American history last month, but this has helped to launch the company into the digital spotlight. Its meme currency is now up by 900 percent, marking one of the largest surges to occur over the span of just a few weeks. Constitution DAO Is Still Accomplishing Something Big Coin Market Cap was one of the first sites to report on the data. The currency has been dubbed the “people token” given that it is offered to those...

The government of India has announced in a statement that despite submitting a bill to regulate crypto and recognize it as an asset class rather than ban it, it will not engage in any marketing or promotion of the cryptocurrency industry. India Is Not Looking to Market Crypto Not long ago, crypto investors in India got some good news when the country announced that its previous plans of banning all digital currencies were likely to become null and void. Rather,...

Key Support levels: $4,000  Key Resistance levels: $4,566, $4,868 (ATH) ETH rallied after touching the key support level at $4,000 and came close to reaching $4,500, where bears stepped up. It appears the resistance at $4,566 will be a hard one to crack, as the bulls don’t seem to have sufficient momentum at the time of this writing. On the ETH/BTC chart, the situation is looking better, and the price made a new local high at 0.088 BTC before retracing. Bitcoin’s market share...