Following yesterday’s price slide below $54,000, bitcoin has started increasing in value once more and has neared $56,000. Although some altcoins like XRP and DOT have charted notable gains in the past 24 hours, BTC’s dominance has also risen. Bitcoin Aims at $56K The primary cryptocurrency exploded above $50,000 on October 5th and hasn’t looked back since. Just the opposite, it has been mainly on the offensive, which resulted in tapping $56,000 a few days ago for the first...
Read More »BitMEX CEO Gives Three Reasons Why Five Countries Could Legalize Bitcoin in 2022
El Salvador’s decision to officially make bitcoin a legal tender inside its borders has caused some controversy. While some locals expressed their dissatisfaction, many prominent names such as Michael Saylor praised the move as “extraordinary” and “world-shaking.” The world is yet to find out whether this would turn out to be the beginning of a successful monetary revolution or another attempt from a top political figure who aims to win power and support. In a recent blog...
Read More »Bitcoin Price Analysis: BTC Heading for a Critical Weekly Close, Will $52.9k Hold?
BTC had an impressive run this week, managing to push above a key downtrend line and the September high at $52.9k. It managed to hit an intraweek high of $56.1k, digging deeper into the $55k to $58k zone of technical and on-chain resistance. The rally so far has shown profit-taking from much younger coins, while the older cohorts continue to steadily hold. Although many weak hands who bought BTC above $50k earlier this year panic sold during the May liquidation wipe out, we...
Read More »More Than 20 Chinese Crypto Companies to Leave The Country Following The Local Ban
Over 20 Chinese digital asset-related businesses revealed they will halt their operations and withdraw from the local market as the country continues its hostile stance on anything crypto. The Effect of The Chinese Crypto Ban China’s negative stance on the cryptocurrency industry has been known for years, and the local authorities tend to remind investors about it frequently. At the end of September, the country’s central bank published a document indicating that trading and...
Read More »Bitcoin Consolidates as Shiba Inu (SHIB) Explodes 35% Daily Again (Weekend Watch)
After touching $56,000 for the first time in five months, bitcoin retraced slightly and currently stands around $55,000. Most altcoins continue with indecisive moves in either direction, except for Shiba Inu, which has gone on the offensive once more with a 35% daily surge. Bitcoin Stalls at $55K The past week or so showed once more how quickly the landscape could change in the cryptocurrency markets. Bitcoin entered October at around $45,000 after recovering $4,000 in days...
Read More »US SEC Approves an ETF Tracking the Performance of Bitcoin-Investing Companies
Just four months after the application, Volt Equity’s Volt Bitcoin Revolution ETF has received the green light from the US Securities and Exchange Commission. It will provide investors the option to invest in companies with direct exposure to BTC, such as MicroStrategy. Back in early June this year, the California-based firm Volt Equity filed with the Commission documents to launch a different type of exchange-traded fund with indirect exposure to BTC. The filing described...
Read More »Bitcoin Soars 25% Weekly, Taps Mid-May Highs: The Weekly Crypto Recap
It’s been a green week all across crypto land as positive sentiment and big gains returned to the market. Leading the scene is Bitcoin, with an impressive surge of around 25%, once again tapping the mid-May highs. Just earlier today, Bitcoin reached a price of $56,000 – something that we haven’t seen since the middle of May this year, shortly after the all-time high and right before the massive 50% crash. Analysts believe that this move marks the completion of a bear trap and...
Read More »Mike Novogratz: NFT Investors Should Take Profits and Put Them in BTC and ETH
Michael Novogratz – the CEO of Galaxy Digital and a prominent bitcoin bull – thinks that prices people pay for NFT products are not normal “in any way, shape, or form.” As such, they should consider “taking some money off the table” and investing it into the two leading digital assets. Dump NFTs, Go for BTC And ETH Speaking at the London’s Token2049 crypto conference, crypto billionaire Mike Novogratz aired his thoughts on non-fungible tokens, specifically their soaring...
Read More »US Senator Cynthia Lummis Bought up to $100,000 Worth of BTC in August
The Republican Senator Cynthia Lummis has accumulated more bitcoin worth between $50,001 to $100,000 in the middle of August. A spokesperson at her office said the purchase was not disclosed on time due to a “filing error.” Topping up with More BTC As reported by CNBC, the US Senator – Cynthia Lummis – revealed in a recent filing that on August 16th, she increased her bitcoin exposure with another purchase of somewhere between $50,000 and $100,000 worth of the asset. The 2012...
Read More »3 Possible Reasons Behind Bitcoin’s Surge towards $56k
After weeks of struggling and rapidly losing value, bitcoin exploded in the past few days and neared $56k – its highest price line since mid-May. Yesterday alone, the cryptocurrency gained more than $5,000 of value in hours. While the bulls celebrate, it’s worth exploring potential reasons why that might be and could there be more similar developments hiding behind the corner. Reason 1: Whale Purchases Being an asset with a maximum supply of just 21,000,000 tokens with a...
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