After yesterday’s price declines, bitcoin has calmed around the $35,000 price line. Most alternative coins are also somewhat stagnant on a 24-hour scale, aside from Polygon (MATIC). The asset has spiked by double-digits to $1.4. Minor Recoveries Among Alts: Polygon 15% Up The weekend didn’t start all that well for the altcoins market. The biggest altcoin, Ethereum, had already retraced from $2,600 to $2,500 before it went even further south to $2,250. Since then, ETH found...
Read More »Taproot is Here: Miners Lock In Bitcoin’s Biggest Upgrade in Years
Bitcoin is finally one step closer to make history with Taproot, a major event perhaps as important as SegWit or the last halving. Taproot, the most ambitious Bitcoin update since 2017, has been finally approved by miners and was locked in for implementation in November this year. Taproot is (Or Will Be) Finally Here! Because of its decentralized nature, the deployment of a Bitcoin update must go through an approval process and cannot simply be released to the world at the...
Read More »Dave Portnoy Disasgrees with Donald Trump That Bitcoin is a Scam
The CEO and founder of Barstool Sports – Dave Portnoy – admitted that at the beginning, he thought Bitcoin was a ”Ponzi scheme.” Eventually, he changed his stance and even opposed Donald Trump, who called the primary cryptocurrency a ”scam.” Trump Is Wrong In a recent interview for ”Varney & Co,” the founder of Barstool Sports – Dave Portnoy – shared his current view on bitcoin and the crypto market. He revealed that years ago, when the primary digital asset was...
Read More »Worrying Sign for Bitcoin in the Short-Term: Exchanges Netflows
Some worrying signs are starting to appear for bitcoin’s price, at least in a short-term time frame. That’s according to a well-known analyst. The price for BTC has been wobbly recently, with it being unable to decisively break out in any direction. Last week, we saw bitcoin dipping as low as $31K only to recover and touch $38,500 days later. Now, however, the primary cryptocurrency is trading at around $35,500 for a 4% loss on the day. Commenting on the most recent price...
Read More »Bitcoin Plunges Below $35K as Crypto Market Cap Loses $100 Billion
After riding high for a few days, the bitcoin bears have regained control and pushed down the asset by a few thousand dollars to around $35,000. Most alternative coins have suffered even more severely, with ETH down to $2,300 and BNB to $330. Bitcoin Falls to $35K Bitcoin performed rather well in the past few days following bullish news from El Salvador, India, and some large corporations wanting to get a piece of the cryptocurrency pie. BTC spiked to a six-day high at...
Read More »The Week The First Country Accepted Bitcoin as Legal Tender: The Weekly Crypto Recap
The past seven days, despite being intensive in terms of important news, were less than exciting when it comes to pricing. Most of the cryptocurrencies experienced substantial losses. Bitcoin, unlike the majority of altcoins, performed relatively well in comparison. It’s still down about 5% on the week, but its market dominance has increased to about 44%, which is a considerable improvement. The downward pressure started last Saturday when the price tanked from about $38K...
Read More »South African Billionaire: Elon Musk Manipulates Bitcoin’s Price For His Own Benefit
Elon Musk manipulates the financial markets, including the cryptocurrency one, for his own personal gain, alleged the South African billionaire Magda Wierzycka. The founder of Sygnia further blamed the recent BTC volatility on Tesla’s CEO. Musk Manipulates the Markets For Personal Gains During an interview on The Money Show, the 52-year old businesswoman accused her fellow countryman Elon Musk of publishing controversial tweets and engaging in other social media channels to...
Read More »The Netherlands Must Ban Bitcoin Ahead of Price Crash, Says a Dutch Official
Pieter Hasekamp, head of the central planning bureau CPB, opined that the Dutch government must ban digital assets. He further stated that a crypto collapse is inevitable. Cryptocurrencies Are ”Neither Money Nor a Financial Product” The director of the CPB Pieter Hasekamp urged the ruling cabinet of the Netherlands to officially forbid trading, possession, and mining of bitcoin and digital assets. The move could protect local investors as, in his opinion, the crypto market...
Read More »Crypto Price Analysis & Overview June 11th: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, Polkadot, & Matic
It was a rather unfortunate week for the entire cryptocurrency market as most of the coins are trading in the red. Bitcoin is no exclusion, though it’s the one the best performer, relatively speaking, compared to major altcoins. Bitcoin Bitcoin is down by a small 4% over the past week as it currently sits above the 20-day MA at $37,000. The cryptocurrency saw an interesting week after testing $39,200 last week. There, it found resistance at a falling trend line and failed to...
Read More »Crypto Attendees Positive for COVID19 Following the Biggest-Ever Bitcoin Event in Miami
Some of the attendees of the Bitcoin 2021 conference that took place in Miami a week back have tested positive for COVID-19. Somewhat expectedly, traditional media was quick to outline the lack of responsibility on behalf of both organizers and attendees. Positive COVID Tests Following Miami Conference Bitcoin 2021, which turned out to be the biggest event centered around the primary cryptocurrency to ever be organized, took place in Miami at the beginning of June. It saw...
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