CoinShares data reaffirms the narrative that institutional investors continue to allocate considerable amounts into cryptocurrency assets. Last week was the second-highest seven-day period with nearly $430 million inserted in the crypto market, driving the assets under management to an all-time high of $15 billion.Record-Breaking Weeks For Institutional Money In CryptoBy citing data from the digital asset manager CoinShares, Reuters reported the significant growth of institutional money...
Read More »Today Marks 10 Years Since Satoshi Nakamoto’s Last Public Activity
The year is 2020, and the world’s leading cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, is trading at above $19,000 – an unimaginable increase in its dollar-value since its inception.BTC has been deemed the best performing asset of the decade, and it shows no signs of slowing down, especially in the current environment of a global pandemic and the potential of a serious financial crisis.Interestingly enough, exactly 10 years ago on this day, Satoshi Nakamoto, the person (or group of people) who started it all,...
Read More »Room For Growth? Only 10% of UK Citizens Have Purchased Bitcoin
Despite growing in price and popularity in the past few months, bitcoin still far away from receiving attention from the masses. A recent study compiled in the UK concluded that only 10% of the participants had purchased BTC, with Londoners being most akin to bitcoin exposure.10% Of UK Citizens Bought BTCFollowing the latest developments in the cryptocurrency markets when the prices started booming once again, Opinium and AltFi conducted a survey to garner people’s perspective on digital...
Read More »Bitcoin Price Analysis: BTC Facing Critical Resistance At $19,400
Bitcoin has successfully bucked the bearish trend that’s been suppressing prices for the past 10 days, following a strong bullish RSI divergence breakout that we predicted in the previous analysis.After briefly dipping underneath the 200-MA on the 4-hour chart for the first time in over 60 days, strong buying momentum returned behind the asset and has since driven BTC up over $1,680 in under 48 hours.Over $40 billion has returned to the market since the trend reversal and has helped lift...
Read More »Bitcoin Soars $1700 In 48-Hours: Trading Over $19K As Market Cap Gains $20B (Market Watch)
Just two days after bottoming at $17,500, bitcoin has recovered the losses and spiked back beyond $19K, as of writing these lines. Most major altcoins are also green, besides Ripple (XRP), which continues to drop in value following the Spark (FLR) airdrop snapshot.Bitcoin Soars Above $19,300: Overvalued?The primary cryptocurrency had a volatile past several days. Last Friday, just two days ago, It went from trading safely around the $19K mark to as low as $17,500.However, after Wall Street...
Read More »13% Of Bitcoin’s Money Laundering Transactions Happened Through Privacy Wallets
A recent report by a blockchain analytics company showed that criminals have started to utilize privacy wallets to hide their illicit bitcoin transactions. The usage of such wallets has skyrocketed since 2019, and now over 13% of all crime proceeds go through them.The Growing Role Of Privacy Wallets For Illicit ActivitiesThe UK-based analytics company Elliptic highlighted in its latest report the increase in the number of money laundering cases using bitcoin. However, it pointed out a...
Read More »Bitcoin Whales And Institutions Buy Low And Sell High: OKEx Report
A recent report posted by the popular cryptocurrency exchange OKEx says that retail investors had chased BTC’s price when it was heading higher in the past few months. In contrast, whale traders and, possibly, institutions were taking profits and primarily buying the dips.Retail Traders Chase The Price; Large Investors Take ProfitsOKEx partnered with the blockchain data company Kaiko to analyze data from the most utilized trading pair on the exchange – BTC/USDT. The two organizations followed...
Read More »Market Watch: Bitcoin Reclaims $18K, Ripple Tumbles 6% Following Spark Airdrop’s Snapshot
Following another dip to $17,600 bitcoin has bounced off and has reclaimed the $18K level. Most alternative coins have taken a breath of fresh air as well, and the market cap has gained about $20 billion since yesterday’s bottom.Bitcoin Reclaims $18KThe primary cryptocurrency began gradually decreasing in value at the start of the week. After a few consecutive days of trading in the red, bitcoin dipped even further to $17,600.Despite bouncing off initially, BTC failed to fully recover in the...
Read More »Bitcoin Gets Away From $20K: The Crypto Weekly Market Update
While Bitcoin has increased by a total of around 400% since the March lows, the picture doesn’t appear as bright in the short-term as it draws away from $20,000.Over the past seven days, the cryptocurrency lost over $1,000 of its dollar value, charting a decrease of about 5%.During the week, BTC managed to increase to above $19,300, but, unfortunately, it was all downhill from there. The cryptocurrency touched a low of $17,650 yesterday before recovering slightly to its current level of...
Read More »MicroStrategy Plans To Buy Another $650M Worth of Bitcoin After Completing a Convertible Note Offering
The NASDAQ-listed business intelligence company has surpassed its previous plans to offer $400 million in convertible notes. Instead, the firm announced today that it has raised $650 million via a senior convertible notes offering and asserted that the proceeds with be invested in bitcoin.The official announcement reads that “the aggregate principal amount of the notes sold in the offering was $650 million, which includes notes issuable pursuant to an option to purchase.”Although the company...
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