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While some traders have panic-sold during the recent market-wide crash, Ethereum whales have continued accumulating massive chunks. As a result, the number of large ETH holders has surged to a new all-time high. Meanwhile, ETH is also charting serious intraday gains against BTC. ETH Whales Keep On Buying The second-largest cryptocurrency entered the new year at just over $700. Whether it was the massive usage of the Ethereum blockchain in DeFi and NFT, the impressive bull run...

Brian Brooks, the acting head of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) under Donald Trump’s administration, noted in a Wall Street Journal report today that he would be working as Binance US CEO on May 1, 2021.  Brooks’ Career at the OCC During his tenure as acting head at the OCC, Brooks was friendly toward cryptocurrencies despite Trump’s public dislike for the asset class, especially Bitcoin.  The regulator’s support for crypto assets earned him the title...

The partnership between Deutsche Telekom and Celo is going to be beneficial for both companies. Deutsche Telekom, one of the biggest European telecommunications companies, has broken new ground by being the first telecommunications company to invest in the cryptocurrency market. Today it has become known that Deutsche Telekom invested a substantial amount in the native assets of the open-source cryptocurrency platform Celo. Deutsche Telekom announced that it had made a “significant...

Dogecoin market cap has overtaken that of well-established companies like Barclays, Credit Agricole and ING despite the 15% pullback. Dogecoin (DOGE), a meme-based cryptocurrency has after grabbing headlines with a $30 billion market cap nearly double that value with a current market cap of $50 billion. The price of Dogecoin is currently around $0.4.This incredible performance has placed the digital asset way above the likes of Bitcoin Cash, Tether, Cardano, Polkadot, and Litecoin to seal...

ADA price started a strong decline from well above the $1.350 level against the US Dollar. The price is now well below the $1.300 support and the 55 simple moving average (4-hours). There was a break below a key contracting triangle with support near $1.305 on the 4-hours chart (data feed via Bitfinex). The price is likely to continue lower below the $1.100 and $1.050 support levels. Cardano price is declining and trading well below $1.200 against the US Dollar, similar...

Ethereum price started a fresh decline from well above $2,400 against the US Dollar. ETH price is currently trading well below $2,275 and the 55 simple moving average (4-hours). There was a break below a major contracting triangle with support near $2,275 on the 4-hours chart (data feed from Coinbase). The pair is likely to find a strong buying interest near the $2,000 and $1,930 levels. Ethereum price is correcting gains below $2,300 against the US Dollar. ETH/USD could...

It has only been about ten weeks since Tesla – the electric car company developed by South African entrepreneur Elon Musk – first purchased more than $1.5 billion in BTC units, and already the purchase appears to be making a serious dent in the country’s finances. Thus far, the company has managed to rake in more than $1 billion in profit thanks to its newfound love of the world’s number one digital currency by market cap. Tesla Is Raking in the Dough Last February, the...

It looks like Turkey is not as comfortable with bitcoin as other nations. The region has decided to put a stop to all bitcoin payments citing concerns about competition to its national currency, and now the world’s number one digital currency by market cap has taken a bit of a stumble. Turkey Won’t Allow BTC Payments In recent days, bitcoin hit a new all-time high of more than $63,000 per unit following news that Coinbase was debuting on the Nasdaq. The asset ultimately...

Coinbase has gone public, and it looks like Wall Street and some of America’s largest and most prestigious banks are feeling the heat. The popular cryptocurrency exchange began trading its new stock last Wednesday on the Nasdaq, letting the financial world know that it was here to stay, and that cryptocurrency is going to continue to attract the attention of investors. Banks Are Really Feeling Pressure as of Late For the most part, cryptocurrencies and banks have not...

The Taurus Securities Platform seeks to serve its potential clients with a diversity of offerings.The Geneva-based tech firm Taurus has obtained the securities license from the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority and is on track to unveil its digital asset trading platform next month. As reported by Coindesk, the company is set to launch its Taurus Digital Exchange (TDX) on May 10 and will seek to provide investors and banks with the ability to trade a number of assets including...