Ripple (XRP)

Jeff Currie – the Global Head of Commodities Research at Goldman Sachs – shared his thoughts on Bitcoin being a gold replacement. According to him, digital assets are substitutes for copper. From Gold to Copper In a recent CNBC interview, Jeff Currie warned that cryptocurrencies are risky and people should not consider them as a gold substitute. He opined that copper is a much more similar asset to be compared to digital assets: ”Digital currencies are not substitutes for...

Brad Garlinghouse – the CEO of Ripple – is rather frustrated with how crypto regulation is dealt with in the United States, and he is upset by how unclear the rules tend to be. Ripple CEO Discusses Lack of Regulatory Clarity Ripple has been under fire for the past few months due to a lawsuit initiated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The company garnered billions through a token sale of XRP – the official cryptocurrency of Ripple – that the SEC says was...

In yet another win for Ripple in its lawsuit against the SEC, the Judge has denied the Commission’s motion to compel the payment processor to produce internal information discussing XRP sales with its legal team. As a result, the price of the XPR token surged by double-digits in 24 hours. SEC Denied From Accessing Internal XRP Sale Docs Earlier in May, the Securities and Exchange Commission asked the Court to order Ripple to produce all relevant documents of legal, internal...

Ripple price is struggling to climb above the $0.95 and $1.05 resistance levels against the US dollar. The price is now trading well below $1.00 and the 55 simple moving average (4-hours). There is a key declining channel forming with resistance near the $0.9240 on the 4-hours chart of the XRP/USD pair (data source from Bittrex). The pair could extend its decline as long as it is below the $1.05 resistance zone. Ripple price is trading in a bearish zone below $1.00...

Following yet another day of high volatility in which the bears had initial control, bitcoin has recovered roughly $3,000 of value from the current 7-day low recorded on Saturday. The altcoins followed suit with similar dips as the market cap had lost about $200 billion at one point. Just like the weekend before, this ongoing weekend is not disappointing in terms of volatility and price fluctuations. Bitcoin Recovers From Yet Another Dip It’s safe to say that the primary...

Bitcoin’s enhanced volatility resumed in the past 24 hours as the cryptocurrency fell to its lowest price level in five days beneath $35,000. Most alternative coins also experienced similar dips and increased BTC’s market dominance to above 43%. Bitcoin Dipped Below $35K After recovering from its most violent losses to $30,000, the primary cryptocurrency was riding high for a few consecutive days. The asset challenged $40,000 on a few occasions and even briefly jumped above...

Bitcoin, and the entire cryptocurrency market, saw yet another choppy week where prices failed to recover substantially and continued to struggle. The past seven days didn’t exactly go according to the intentions of bulls as the price of BTC is down about 9%, currently trading around $37,000. It all started last Friday when the price dropped from above $40,000 down to about $35k. In a sequence of choppy actions, the price attempted to take back the important psychological and...

It was another tough week in the cryptocurrency market where almost everything is trading in the red. Here’s how some of the major coins performed over the past seven days: Bitcoin Bitcoin is down by a total of 10.3% over the past seven days of trading as it currently sits around $36,000. The cryptocurrency had spiked as low as $31,185 (downside 1.618 Fib Extension) on Sunday, but the buyers managed to close the daily candle at $34,760 (downside 1.414 Fib Extension). From...

Garlinghouse’s sentiment is shared by Yoshitaka Kitao, CEO of SBI Holdings Inc. He also said that “after the current lawsuit, Ripple will go public.”Despite the ongoing lawsuit filed by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) against Ripple Labs Inc, the company’s CEO Brad Garlinghouse remains optimistic about Ripple going for an IPO at some point in the future, once the proceedings conclude.Ripple Labs IPOAt the Consensus 2021 conference organized by CoinDesk, Garlinghouse...

XRP/USD – Bulls Battle To Maintain $1 Key Support Levels: $1.00, $0.9, $0.8282Key Resistance Levels: $1.05, $1.25, $1.32. XRP has rebounded by a total of 61% from Sunday’s low, around $0.62 but is struggling to break $1.05. The cryptocurrency closed Sunday’s daily candle at around $0.8 and started to shoot higher on Monday to reach $1.00. Yesterday, XRP managed to penetrate $1 but failed to overcome resistance at $1.05, provided by a bearish .382 Fib Retracement. Today, XRP...