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There are no boring days in crypto, and this week, like a lot of others, has managed to definitively prove it. The past seven days have been an absolute rollercoaster in the cryptocurrency market, so let’s start with Bitcoin. BTC’s price was sitting comfortably at around $47,500 last Friday and started improving slowly throughout the weekend. On Saturday, we saw an attempt at $49K, which was unfortunately rejected. On Sunday, the price retraced a bit, but nothing spelled...

Ethereum Ethereum is down a sharp 21% this week as the coin sits beneath $3000. The sell-off started on Monday when ETH slipped beneath the neckline of a head & shoulders pattern and the 50-day MA. Initially, the market found support at $3000 but would continue to fall beneath it on Tuesday to find support at $2770 (.786 Fib Retracement). ETH did rebound on Wednesday and Thursday as it climbed back above $3000. However, it lost another sharp 9% today, causing it to break...

Investors have shown a keen interest in the TOMI token since the team decided to launch presale access through an NFT collection. That NFT collection helped bring in funds for the team to reduce its TOMI token supply after the sale. Investors in the presale are looking at a 56,655% increase in value over the past 24 hours, confirming the project’s success. The TOMI IDO Is A Huge Success The Tomi team took an unusual approach to launch its token presale. Instead of doing...

The market suddenly turned red today following what seems to be another wave of regulatory efforts to crack down on cryptocurrencies in China. This left over $400 million liquidated in less than a day. As CryptoPotato reported, China continues with its efforts to further crack down on the entire cryptocurrency market. The country’s national bank issued a statement outlining that digital assets are banned, adding that operating with exchanges will also be prohibited. While a...

Portfolio manager at Los Angeles-based TCW Group, Bryan Whalen, has stated that crypto investors are asking big institutions for loans against their digital assets. The comments came at a Morningstar Investment Conference this week, according to Bloomberg. Whalen went on to indicate that: “The market is starting to knock on the doors of big institutions, even in the bond world.” Borrowers issue bonds to raise money from investors who are willing to lend them money for a...

Following a few days of adverse price developments, bitcoin has started to recover some value and currently sits around $45,000. Most altcoins have stalled in the same timeframe, with a few exceptions from Polkadot and Terra. Bitcoin Taps $45K The start of the week was highly damaging for the bitcoin bulls as the price of the cryptocurrency plummeted on Monday from $48,000 to around $43,000 in hours. The situation only worsened in the following two days as BTC dumped by a few...

Bitcoin cash price started a major decline below the $600 zone against the US Dollar. The price is now trading well below the $600 zone and the 55 simple moving average (4-hours). There is a key bearish trend line forming with resistance near $572 on the 4-hours chart of the BCH/USD pair (data feed from Coinbase). The pair could continue to decline unless there is a clear break above $572 and $600. Bitcoin cash price is eyeing recovery above $580 against the US Dollar,...

El Salvador has been making huge headlines as of late. The country is among the first to declare bitcoin – the world’s number one digital currency by market cap – legal tender, meaning it can now be used to purchase items and services in the same way one might use fiat, credit cards, or even checks. El Salvador Might Be Doing Something Right However, the country has experienced some serious rollout issues, between people protesting that they don’t want life to change to...

A lot can change in the cryptocurrency markets in two months. Avalanche and its native cryptocurrency – AVAX – are prime examples. The token traded around $9 during the market-wide crash on July 20th but surged by triple-digits in this timeframe to reach a new all-time high at nearly $80 earlier today. This came after numerous consecutive records last week, before the market-wide crash. Registering such massive price increases in a relatively short time has caught the...

EOS price extended its decline and traded below $4.00 against the US Dollar. The price is now trading well below $4.80 and the 55 simple moving average (4-hours). There was a break below a key bullish trend line with support near $5.30 on the 4-hours chart of the EOS/USD pair (data feed from Coinbase). The pair could recover higher if there is a clear break above the $4.50 and $4.80 resistance levels. EOS price is trading in a bearish zone below $5.00 against the US...