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The past week has been overall very favorable for the cryptocurrency market. The total capitalization grew to $2.15 trillion, which is a 17% increase. Most of it came from altcoins, however. At the time of this writing, bitcoin’s price trades at around $56,000 following a quick spike. It’s up 9% on the week and managed to recover some of the losses of the previous seven days. In general, the overall trajectory for BTC has been quite positive. It started the week at slightly...

The decision by ICE to offload its stake was strategic and came at a time when Coinbase reported Q1 revenue of $1.8 billion amid the ongoing crypto market boom.Intercontinental Exchange Inc (NYSE: ICE), the owner of the New York Stock Exchange has revealed it has sold its stake in the recently listed cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Global Inc (NASDAQ: COIN). As revealed in the company’s earnings call on Thursday, Chief Financial Officer, Scott Hill said the company’s 1.4% stake was sold off...

Nestle expects to finalize the acquisition of The Bountiful Company during the second half of this year. Nestle SA (Swiss Exchange: NES.N-CH) announced on Friday that it has acquired core brands of The Bountiful Company for USD 5.75 billion. As part of the acquisition, Nestle noted that the transaction will include high-growth brands Nature’s Bounty, Solgar, Osteo Bi-Flex, Puritan’s Pride as well as the company’s US private label business.The Bountiful Company is well known as a manufacturer,...

Coinbase is to purchase the UK-based crypto resource firm Skew to enhance its efforts for providing real-time actionable data analytics to traders and institutions. Both parties said that Skew’s platform will be integrated with Coinbase Prime.  Founded in 2018 in London, UK, Skew is a cryptocurrency-oriented data analytics company providing investors with “modern, credible, and regulatory compliant tools.”  The firm announced that Coinbase has agreed to acquire it and...

The crypto market recovered this week, but bitcoin seems unable to catch up with the momentum that alts are currently getting. This is perfectly visible in the below chart, showing that large-cap altcoins outperformed it, dollar-wise, substantially. Bitcoin Bitcoin saw a small 5.4% price hike over the past seven days as it currently sits around $54,300. It found support at $47,000 (.5 Fib) on Sunday and rebounded from there to close the daily candle around $49,000. On...

The Ripple CEO has decried the lack of proper crypto regulation as the company fights the SEC about the classification of XRP as a security.Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has said that authorities in the US do not have clarity on cryptocurrency regulation in the country. The CEO describes the situation as “frustrating” amid legal battles between Ripple and the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). In a recent conversation with CNBC’s Squawk Box Asia, Garlinghouse compared the crypto...

Following another drop to $52,500, bitcoin reacted positively and regained $2,000 of value in the following hours. However, the asset continues to be outperformed by most alternative coins, and its dominance is down to 48%. Ethereum reached yet another ATH yesterday, while BNB spiked well above $600. ETH’s Latest ATH; XRP Surged 15% Most alternative coins have been on a roll lately, with Ethereum leading the pack. After dipping below $2,000 a few weeks back, the...

Bitcoin cash price remained supported near $720 and started a fresh increase against the US Dollar. The price is now trading above the $850 support level and the 55 simple moving average (4-hours). There was a break above a key bearish trend line with resistance near $850 on the 4-hours chart of the BCH/USD pair (data feed from Coinbase). The pair is likely to accelerate higher above the $900 and $920 resistance levels in the near term. Bitcoin cash price is showing...

While bitcoin is sinking into oblivion as of late (the world’s number one digital currency by market cap fell from around $64,000 two weeks ago to roughly $49,000 at the time of writing), it looks like Dogecoin continues to spike like there is no tomorrow, and many of its investors are raking in some serious profits. One is Glauber Contessoto, who recently became a Dogecoin millionaire. Contessoto Made a Valid Investment Decision Contessoto first began investing in the...

Billionaire investor and former hedge fund manager Mike Novogratz has always been a big fan of bitcoin along with other forms of crypto. In a recent interview, he commented about what has made the world’s primary form of digital currency last so long, and he talked about what was potentially causing the asset to surge the way it has. Mike Novogratz: This Is Just a Small Correction At the time of writing, the price of bitcoin has fallen by more than $15,000 from its...