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Following the highly volatile few days in which BTC displayed $6,000 price moves in both directions, the cryptocurrency has calmed around $34,000. At the same time, XRP and a few more altcoins have exploded in value and reduced BTC’s dominance to 62.5%. Uniswap’s UNI token even hit $20.XRP’s Massive Surge Reclaims #4th SpotThe past few days have been anything but boring in the cryptocurrency space – from the retail-driven hype for Dogecoin and up to four-digit gains, through the Elon...

Ray Dalio is calling bitcoin “one hell of an invention.”Ray Dalio Wants to Offer Crypto to New FundsTraders from all over the world have fallen for the world’s number one digital currency by market cap. While the asset has recently lost about $10,000 off its price, the currency ultimately hit the $40,000 mark in early January, striking a new all-time high for itself, and as a result, Wall Street traders, institutions and some of the biggest financial players around are looking at bitcoin...

Anthony Denier – the CEO of a company called Webull – is predicting that bitcoin, the world’s number one cryptocurrency by market cap, is likely to hit a price of $55,000 by the end of this year.Denier: BTC Will Grow To an Even Higher PointThe bitcoin price has been in a bit of a rough position over the past several days. While the currency was trading for around $42,000 during early January – a new all-time high for the coin – it has since sunk by about $10,000. While the currency is still...

Bitcoin has taken a bit of a dip in recent days. While the currency is stronger than where it was 24 hours ago, the asset is still short of its recent $40,000+ all-time high. However, there’s no denying that the world’s number one digital currency by market cap has surged like there’s no tomorrow, and according to Lloyd Blankfein – a former Goldman Sachs chief executive – the government could really try and get in the way of bitcoin’s growth should it continue to surge like this.Lloyd...

There are no boring days on the cryptocurrency market, and that’s particularly true for this week. After the GameStop saga, Dogecoin’s pump, and Elon Musk putting Bitcoin in his bio, it appears that it’s now XRP’s time to shine.The price for Ripple’s native cryptocurrency, XRP, has increased by as much as 80% in a few short hours. Less than 12 hours ago, the coin was trading at around $0.28 but has since surged to an intraday high of $0.51 for an increase of about 80%.The price has since...

The attack had a rather strange outcome, as the Hacken CEO stated that this “was not a typical hacking”, and he plans to discuss the project with the hackers.Recently, the homepage of the First Grey Hat Hackers Ideas Competition website was hacked by malicious actors who left a message on their homepage announcing and promoting a new product that “will change the DeFi market”.The First Grey Hat Hackers Ideas Competition is a project launched by Hacken community, a cyber-security consulting...

The Grayscale Ethereum Trust, which offers its institutional and accredited investors to take advantage of private placements on several occasions throughout the year, has reopened the initiative of its shares.Grayscale announced resuming the Ethereum Trust private placement earlier, thus enabling accredited investors to allocate funds into the company’s product following the second-largest cryptocurrency.Private placement means a sale of an asset to a pre-selected number of investors and...

After a highly volatile day prompted by Elon Musk’s Bitcoin engagement on social media, BTC has retraced back to around $34,000, as of writing these lines. Most alternative coins also went along the ride, and the total market cap has sustained the $1 trillion mark.Bitcoin’s 24 Hours Wild RideThe primary cryptocurrency was struggling in the past several days as it even dipped beneath $30,000 on a few occasions that were quickly bought by the bulls. As a result, Bitcoin dominance was fading,...

Shyft Network will bridge this gap to facilitate institutional adoption of blockchain-based solutions through its opt-in infrastructure.Blockchain-based identity verification network Shyft Network has unveiled its native cryptocurrency, the SHFT token together with its planned use case. The news comes as a timely reminder of the network’s relentless effort to provide an ideal platform for reclaiming trust, identity, and credibility for humanity.SHFT TokenThe SHFT token, being the native...

This week will probably go down in history. Not for the cryptocurrency market but for Wall Street. Of course, this doesn’t mean that Bitcoin didn’t do its thing – it did, and this time it was Elon Musk responsible.First things first, though, a few days ago, Redditors took Wall Street at its own game. To be precise, Wall Street Bets, a group that exploded in popularity on the forum and quickly gained millions of followers, decided to open long positions on a legacy stock – GME. This is the...