According to a recent report, a group of international campaigners and campaign groups claiming to work to tackle sexual exploitation have contacted numerous credit card companies to block payments to adult websites.If successful, this could raise the case for cryptocurrencies to replace credit and debit cards, and to serve as payment options.Credit Card Companies To Block Porn Sites?Per the BBC report from yesterday, more than ten campaigners and campaign groups have signed and sent a letter...
Read More »Tether Continues Printing Spree: Mints 480 Million USDT In First Week Of May
Tether is not slowing down in its USDT printing spree. The amount of tokens the stablecoin issuer has minted within the last week now equals what it printed in the first half of April.Tether Prints 480 Million USDT In 5 DaysRecords from Whale Alert suggest that the Tether Treasury has printed five batches of fresh tokens in the last five days, totaling 480 million USDT ($480.4 million), which was the same amount with what was minted within the first 14 days of the previous month.In a previous...
Read More »USDT’s Exploding Supply Signals Another Bitcoin Bull
It is believed to be a correlation between USDT’s market cap and Bitcoin’s price movements. The majority of investors expect a rise in Bitcoin price after a significant boost of Tether (USDT). What can traders do while waiting for the bull?Years later, when we looked back to 2020, we might call it “The Year of Cryptocurrency”, for we get to not only experience the third halving of Bitcoin but also witness an unprecedented surge of stablecoin supply since March. Up to May 3, the total market...
Read More »Analysis: How Does USDT Supply on Exchanges Impact Bitcoin’s Price?
A new analysis implies an inverse correlation between the price of Bitcoin and the total supply of USDT on cryptocurrency exchanges. According to it, the declining amount of Tether sitting on exchanges could soon propel another increase in BTC’s price.Bitcoin’s Price Related To USDT On Exchanges?New data compiled by the cryptocurrency monitoring company, Santiment, relates the movement of Bitcoin’s price over the past three months to the total supply of USDT on exchanges.BTC Price/USDT On...
Read More »Is Tether Responsible for BTC’s Sudden Jump?
Uh oh. Is Tether behind bitcoin’s latest surge?Tether Is At It AgainOver the years, rumors have swelled that Tether has been tied to bitcoin as a way of boosting its price. University of Texas finance professor John Griffin has put out reports in the past suggesting that the 2017 bitcoin burst we all witnessed was actually caused by traders using Tether – a controversial stable currency – to purchase bitcoin whenever it’s price went down.Stable coins are those supported by fiat currencies,...
Read More »TRON Launches New USD-Pegged Stablecoin USDJ Via TRON’s DeFi Platform JUST
TRON, a popular blockchain platform and decentralized content ecosystem have just announced its move into the world of decentralized finance (DeFi), with the launch of JUST – a decentralized lending platform with its associated stablecoin, USDJ.JUST and USDJ are Now LiveTRON’s first DeFi project is JUST, a new platform that allows TRX holders to receive a new stablecoin called USDJ in return for locking up TRX in a collateralized debt position, or CDP.Like Tether (USDT), TRON’s new USDJ token...
Read More »Tether Printer Goes Brrrr: 1.6 Billion USDT Minted In April As Bitcoin Recovers From March Loss
Tether, the issuer of the dollar-pegged stablecoin USDT, is in the limelight again as the company’s treasury minted fresh USDT worth more than a billion dollars in a single month.Tether Mints 1.6B USDT in April.From April 1, 2020, to April 30, accumulated records from Whale Alert, a platform that tracks large crypto transactions from and to exchanges, revealed that the Tether Treasury printed a total of 1.58 billion USDT worth just shy of $1.59 billion.Tether minted 480 million USDT tokens in...
Read More »Tether Doesn’t Inflate Bitcoin Price, New Research Says
Stablecoins issuance is not artificially inflating the prices in the cryptocurrency market, despite some controversial beliefs, suggested new research on the matter.At the same time, the paper acknowledged their vital role in the digital asset field and predicted that it’s only prone to grow in time.Tether Do Not Inflate The Crypto MarketLast year, two academics updated a study and claimed that the most widely used stablecoin – Tether (USDT) – was behind the 2017/2018 parabolic price increase...
Read More »#867 Chinas CBDC Olympia 2022, Private Zoom Call mit ETH zahlen & Tether Burn BTC Price Dump
Hey Krypto Fans, willkommen zur Bitcoin-Informant Show Nr. 867. Heute sprechen wir über folgende Themen: Chinas CBDC-Launch zu Olympia 2022, Private Zoom Call mit Kryptowährung zahlen & Tether Burn und Bitcoin Price Dump. 1.) E-Renminbi – Chinas CBDC-Launch zu Olympia 2022?https://www.btc-echo.de/chinas-cbdc-launch-zu-olympia-2022/ 2.) Zoom Calls werden mit Kryptowährung bezahlt – SmartSession liefert Paywall auf...
Read More »Bitcoin And Ethereum Networks Transfer The Same Value As Stablecoins Grow
The total value transferred on the Ethereum network reached full parity with Bitcoin last week. It’s mainly due to the increasing role of stablecoins in the market as they are responsible for 80% of all transactions on the Ethereum blockchain. Ethereum Network Transfer Value Parity With Bitcoin A publication revealed by Ryan Watkins, a researcher in the cryptocurrency intelligence firm Messari, showcased the comparison in transferred value on Ethereum and Bitcoin. Transferred Value On...
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