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Bitcoin chopped downwards today towards $31K, looking to retest local lows made earlier in the week just around the $30K mark, according to Bitstamp. According to data from Bybt, over the past 12 hours the crypto markets saw liquidations of over $1.2 Billion in trader positions. As of writing these lines, BTC price is decreasing 15% over the past 24 hours, whereas major altcoins were hit even harder, with ETH down 21% to a current daily low of $1730, XRP down 24% to $0.65 –...

Bitcoin’s price has fallen once again following news from China. The Asian country says its regulatory authorities will begin cracking down on all mining and trading activities. China Seeks to Limit Trading and Mining The country has always had a rather up and down relationship with the world’s number one digital currency by market cap. At one point, there was more bitcoin activity occurring within China’s borders than any other region. China is also home to both Bitmain...

ETH/USD: Is Ethereum Losing The $2K Mark? Key Support Levels: $1,888, $1,800, $1,625. Key Resistance Levels: $2,000, $2,275, $2,400, $2,800. ETH is down by a steep 55% over the past eleven days, the day ETH saw its all-time high around $4,400, as the coin dropped beneath $2,000 earlier today. The cryptocurrency suffered a steep decline on Wednesday during the cryptocurrency market crash as it dropped from over $3,400 to reach as low as $2,036, according to Bitstamp. Despite...

Bears continue to take their toll on the cryptocurrency market as the prices are still bleeding out. The total market capitalization lost over $180 billion since yesterday’s peak. It’s worth pointing out, though, that throughout the past few days, Bitcoin’s dominance – the index that tracks BTC’s share relative to that of the entire market – is increasing and now sits at almost 46%. Bitcoin Price Slides Below $35K Yesterday, bitcoin’s price was on the verge of recovery. It...

How could bitcoin have fallen so drastically in this time? Bitcoin Has Dropped Heavily Dr. Marion Laboure – an analyst at Deutsche Bank in London – said of BTC this week: Just as a fashion faux pas can happen suddenly, we just received the proof that digital currencies can also quickly become passe. It took bitcoin a mere three months to go from trendy to tacky. In many ways, it could probably be argued that it took even less time. The world’s largest and most popular...

Tesla’s electric vehicle competitor Fisker Automotive has no plans to interact with bitcoin, said the company’s CEO, Henrik Fisker. During a recent interview, the executive also touched upon the growing environmental concerns and called BTC “not a sustainable solution.” Fisker Won’t Get Involved With Bitcoin Although Tesla and its CEO, Elon Musk, caused massive turbulence in the markets most recently, the electric vehicle maker is actually one of the largest BTC holders....

It looks like millennials are beginning to lose their love for bitcoin. Millennials Are Looking at Altcoins More Than BTC Up until this point, it was widely believed that millennials were big crypto fans, and to an extent, they are. It is just that their tastes are “maturing” so to speak. They are beginning to shift away from the world’s largest and most popular digital currency by market cap and they are turning their attention to Dogecoin and other competing altcoins....

Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (FUD) peaked on Wednesday as bitcoin hit rock bottom of $30,000 due to old “crypto ban” news, which re-emerged from China. Although the crypto market is in a recovery phase from Wednesday’s crash, let’s take a walk through history and see how China’s regulatory issues and crypto ban are the same old song and nothing but a long history of FUD. 2013: The Initial Ban China’s regulatory issues with cryptocurrencies date back to December 2013 when...

Billionaire investor David Rubenstein says that crypto has crossed a line into mainstream territory, and that the likelihood of digital assets disappearing at some point in the future is slim to none. David Rubenstein: Crypto Is Here to Stay Crypto has taken the world by storm over the past year. Bitcoin, for example, is the world’s largest and most popular digital asset by market cap. Trading for approximately $9,000 per unit last May, bitcoin ultimately incurred...

Volatility could be scary for some BTC investors, but it’s the price to pay for overperforming the S&P index 10x over a decade, said MicroStrategy’s CEO, Michael Saylor. He also described Elon Musk as “enthusiastic” about the bitcoin space following the latest criticism from Tesla’s CEO. Speaking on the enhanced volatility that bitcoin faced in the past week or so, Saylor joined others indicating that such dramatic fluctuations could be expected to some extent in the...