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The past week has been overall very favorable for the cryptocurrency market. The total capitalization grew to $2.15 trillion, which is a 17% increase. Most of it came from altcoins, however. At the time of this writing, bitcoin’s price trades at around $56,000 following a quick spike. It’s up 9% on the week and managed to recover some of the losses of the previous seven days. In general, the overall trajectory for BTC has been quite positive. It started the week at slightly...

The crypto market recovered this week, but bitcoin seems unable to catch up with the momentum that alts are currently getting. This is perfectly visible in the below chart, showing that large-cap altcoins outperformed it, dollar-wise, substantially. Bitcoin Bitcoin saw a small 5.4% price hike over the past seven days as it currently sits around $54,300. It found support at $47,000 (.5 Fib) on Sunday and rebounded from there to close the daily candle around $49,000. On...

Following another drop to $52,500, bitcoin reacted positively and regained $2,000 of value in the following hours. However, the asset continues to be outperformed by most alternative coins, and its dominance is down to 48%. Ethereum reached yet another ATH yesterday, while BNB spiked well above $600. ETH’s Latest ATH; XRP Surged 15% Most alternative coins have been on a roll lately, with Ethereum leading the pack. After dipping below $2,000 a few weeks back, the...

The Federal Service in the USA arrested a Russian-Swedish citizen Roman Sterlingov on suspicion of laundering nearly $336M in bitcoin for the last 10 years. The criminal will appear in court and face three charges – money laundering, money laundering without authorization, and unlicensed money transmission. The Fraud Over The Last 10 Years According to a recent report, US officials have arrested the leader of Bitcoin Fog – Roman Sterlingov. The Russian-Swedish admin of the...

During Visa’s Q2 2021 earnings call, the company showed interest in fully integrating a cryptocurrency payment system into its current infrastructure, with several interesting elements that would push the boundaries of the bridge between legacy finance and the crypto world as we know it. Most notably, Visa’s CEO Alfred Kelly stated that the company viewed Bitcoin and other crypto assets as ‘digital gold.’ Visa’s Growing Interest in the Cryptocurrency Space This has been a...

Despite Ethereum’s increasing price, the Canadian TV personality and well-known investor Kevin O’Leary predicted ”it’s always going to be N.2” to Bitcoin. Mr. Wanderful also opined that the first-ever cryptocurrency will serve as gold, while ETH will be silver. Ethereum’s Rally vs. O’Leary’s Forecast The second-largest cryptocurrency has been blooming recently. Its price reached an ATH today and traded at around $2,800. Relative to bitcoin, ETH has significantly increased its...

Facebook’s quarterly SEC filing has no mention of Bitcoin, let alone of a Bitcoin purchase, defying market expectations. For a few days leading up to Facebook’s earnings reported today, there was talk that the world’s most famous social network was about to purchase billions of dollars in Bitcoins: those rumors turned out to be precisely that – just rumors. Why did people think Facebook was about to buy Bitcoin? Several news outlets, including leading sources such as FOX, ran...

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that had put the VanEck Bitcoin ETF proposal up for discussion in March has made a filing confirming that the decision will be delayed for a 45 day period. The Implications of a Bitcoin ETF As of now, the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust holds a virtual monopoly when it comes to institutional money that is invested indirectly into cryptocurrencies. Grayscale’s trust is used by institutions for various regulatory reasons...

$50 million worth of various cryptocurrencies has disappeared from the automated market maker platform running on the Binance Smart Chain – Uranium Finance. While the team behind the project claims the funds were stolen, the cryptocurrency community speculates of a possible rug pull. $50M Gone From Uranium Finance The DeFi project took it to Twitter today to explain the exploit which targeted its v2.1 token migration event. More specifically, Uranium argued that the hackers...

Bitcoin has become increasingly popular in Turkey. The number of Google queries for the primary cryptocurrency has gone through the roof following the latest developments coming from the country, including a ban on using cryptocurrencies as payment instruments. Turks Love Bitcoin Cryptocurrency-related activities have been on the rise within Turkey in the past several weeks or so. CryptoPotato reported previously that the nation would ban the usage of digital assets as...