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Following the past several days of surging higher and higher, BTC corrected hard in the past 24 hours and even dipped below $60,000 briefly. Most altcoins followed suit, and the entire market cap lost more than $150 billion since its peak earlier this week. Bitcoin Lost $7K in Days The main focus in the cryptocurrency space in the past week or so was on the first-ever Bitcoin Futures ETF going live in the United States on Tuesday. The euphoria for such a long-anticipated...

To say that last week was exciting would be a serious understatement. Bitcoin went on to chart a brand new all-time high at around $67K, we saw the approval of the first-ever futures BTC ETF in the US, a massive flash-crash on BinanceUS, and a correction towards $60K. Let’s dive in. Starting with Bitcoin. The price was trading around $62K last this time last week and even dipped below $60K briefly on Monday. However, the market was propelled higher from then, and this...

The US branch of the leading cryptocurrency exchange explained that yesterday’s severe flash crash that saw BTC’s price dumping from $65,000 to $8,700 in mere seconds was because of a bug in the trading algorithm. CryptoPotato reported yesterday when the price of bitcoin nosedived from its near all-time high level to below $10,000 on Binance US. Other trading platforms, such as Kraken and FTX, also saw flash crashes as BTC dropped more on those two exchanges than it did in...

The American multinational retail corporation – Walmart – will reportedly allow its customers to purchase bitcoin using ATMs installed in some of its US shops. The initiative became possible following a collaboration between the retail giant Coinstar and Coinme. The First Step Last month Walmart’s name got involved in a story, according to which the firm had inked a partnership with Litecoin (LTC) to enable its clients to make payments with the cryptocurrency. While the...

The volatile roller-coaster returned to the crypto markets again after bitcoin’s ATH, and the asset dropped by more than $5,000 a day later. While most altcoins have stalled on a 24-hour scale, Solana has gone on a tear once more by breaking above $200. Bitcoin Lost $5K The news that the US will finally have its own Bitcoin ETF, even if it’s a Futures one, for now, brought significant gains for the primary cryptocurrency. BTC traded below $58,000 last week when the first...

The Houston Firefighters Relief and Retirement Fund (HFRRF) has hopped on the cryptocurrency bandwagon by making a $25 million investment in BTC and ETH. The allocation became possible through a partnership with New York Digital Investment Group (NYDIG). The October 21st press release outlined the partnership between the two organizations, reading that NYDIG facilitated the investment through one of its regulated, audited, and insured funds. It became the first such...

The trustee responsible for handling the Mt. Gox hack and the victims’ claims has updated that the rehabilitation plan was approved by the majority of creditors. Consequently, the creditors could receive roughly $9 billion in BTC by the end of the year. Mt. Gox was once the biggest cryptocurrency exchange responsible for 70% of the transactions in bitcoin’s early days. That all changed after the notorious hack seven years ago when hackers duped 850,000 bitcoins, some of which...

The German-American billionaire entrepreneur – Peter Thiel – praised bitcoin’s recent surge to an all-time high price. According to him, this rise shows that the major financial institutions are struggling to cope with the current economic situation. Underinvested in Bitcoin Peter Thiel – Co-Founder of PayPal and Palantir Technologies – has been a long-standing cryptocurrency advocate, with bitcoin being his most preferable digital asset. In a recent appearance in Miami, he...

There’s been plenty of comaparisons of Bitcoin’s price action now and in April when the cryptocurrency reached its previous all-time high. Research firm IntoTheBlock now points out a staggering difference in Bitcoin’s transactional volume between the two periods. $700 Billion Weekly Transactional Volume According to the research firm, Bitcoin’s on-chain volume reached over $700 billion transacted, which presents an increase upwards of 7x compared to April. In addition, the...

Bitcoin managed to complete a daily close above the previous all-time high at $64.8K at $66K. This is an early bullish signal, but it’s not enough to fully confirm the breakout. For this to happen, we need to see multiple daily closes, as well as weekly ones above $64.8K. This would provide confirmation and further validation. In the near term, we can expect to see multiple retests of $64.8K as a support level. Chart by TradingViewNear-Term Caution for the BTC Price Even...