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Bitcoin is reminding of itself. The cryptocurrency saw an impressive increase of more than $2,000 in the past 12 hours. This allowed it to set a new all-time high above $49,000. It also had the BTC dominance index increase as altcoins chart mild drops.Bitcoin Price Eyes $50KThe past few days saw Bitcoin’s price being rather indecisive as the cryptocurrency was unable to follow through on its break to $49,000 and tumbled over.Since February 12th, BTC was trading in a range between $46K and...

Altseason is booming. Data from the popular monitoring resource Coin Market Cap shows that the total capitalization of all alternative cryptocurrencies currently stands just shy of $600 billion. This has reduced Bitcoin’s market dominance to 60%.With this said, we’ve selected five altcoins to keep a close look at in the following week.Yearn Finance (YFI)YFI needs no introduction. It’s the governance token for the Yearn Finance ecosystem, and it’s one that definitely made history....

To say that the last week was interesting in the cryptocurrency market would be a massive understatement. Bitcoin almost reached $50K, Ethereum shot past $1800, BNB peaked at around $150 – these are just some of the highlights.Starting off, a few days ago, Bitcoin received perhaps what might be considered as its major endorsement in the recent years – Tesla revealed a bitcoin buy worth $1.5 billion in January. That’s right – one of the world’s largest public companies allocated around 15% of...

The world’s leading cryptocurrency exchange token by means of market capitalization, Binance Coin, is approaching its ATH. This happens hours before the company goes on with its 14th scheduled BNB token burn.BNB Price Eyes ATHBinance Coin is the world’s leading cryptocurrency exchange token. Over the past 12 hours, BNB saw an impressive increase in its dollar value. It went from a low of about $40.9 to a high of $45 for total intraday gains of 10%.Interestingly enough, the coin also came...

Apart from BNB, Changpeng Zhao, the founder and CEO of cryptocurrency exchange heavyweight Binance has another reason to smile.Yesterday the Binance Smart Chain (BSC) handled 21 percent of Ethereum transactions, at 0.6 percent of the gas fees charged for transfers on the latter. This makes BSC about 35 times cheaper, he said. Also, CZ added that if BSC handles more volumes, it will bode well for BNB price and node operators.Binance Smart Chain Handles 21 Percent of Ethereum...

On September 12, 2020, CZ, the CEO of Binance, the leading cryptocurrency exchange, shared with his followers an unfortunate accident that led to a client losing $20,000 in the blink of an eye.In a tweet, CZ told the story of a user —whose identity he did not reveal— who sent 800BNB (about $20,000) to the wrong address. The transaction was made on the Binance Smart Chain, so the user, in his desperation, “begged” for Binance for help, considering that the exchange is responsible for...

The events of the past days shook the DeFi space in a way that no other project did this year. The lead developer of the project dumped all of his token on the market, crashing SUSHI’s price by over 50%.After that, he transferred the control over the protocol to FTX’s CEO and the price bounced by almost 200%. It’s no doubt that these kinds of swings are likely to be only possible in the crypto field.However, the community also took it upon itself to largely criticize Binance for listing...

After revealing its plans to enter the cryptocurrency debit card segment last week, Binance has officially debuted its Binance Card for users based in the United Kingdom and European countries, the blockchain behemoth told CryptoPotato on Tuesday.According to the release, the debit card allows holders to make crypto payments at more than 60 million merchants across 200 regions globally. Users will also be able to convert their crypto assets to fiat with ease.At launch, the Binance card will...

BitTorrent Inc users can now purchase goods and memberships on the platform with the USD-backed stablecoin of the leading cryptocurrency exchange Binance – BUSD.BUSD And BNB Changes On BitTorrentIn a press release shared with CryptoPotato earlier today, the popular decentralized peer-to-peer company announced the introduction of the newest cryptocurrency asset on its platform – Binance’s USD-backed stablecoin (BUSD).This becomes possible with the assistance of the integrated payment gateway...

The leading cryptocurrency exchange Binance officially announced the acquisition of the Visa debit card platform Swipe.Binance has also listed Swipe’s native cryptocurrency (SXP), which registered a massive price boost of 21%.Binance Buys SwipeFollowing days of speculation, the popular exchange officially announced the acquisition earlier today for an “undisclosed amount.” Binance and Swipe plan to work together to “further mainstream adoption of cryptocurrencies by bridging the gap between...