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Bitcoin’s enhanced volatility resumed in the past 24 hours as the cryptocurrency fell to its lowest price level in five days beneath $35,000. Most alternative coins also experienced similar dips and increased BTC’s market dominance to above 43%. Bitcoin Dipped Below $35K After recovering from its most violent losses to $30,000, the primary cryptocurrency was riding high for a few consecutive days. The asset challenged $40,000 on a few occasions and even briefly jumped above...

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed a lawsuit against five individuals in connection with BitConnect for promoting and selling unregistered securities. BitConnect is a notorious cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme that stole billions of dollars from investors, making it one of the biggest scams in the crypto industry. The SEC alleges that the defendants helped market BitConnect’s global unregistered securities sales, raising over $2 billion from...

U.S. chain of convenience stores Sheetz, has become the latest company to adopt cryptocurrency, as the firm is planning to include bitcoin and other crypto-assets among its payment options. Sheetz Adopts Bitcoin According to a press release on Thursday (May 27, 2021), Sheetz will become the first convenience store retailer to accept bitcoin as a payment method. The family-owned business founded in 1952 operates over 600 stores in different locations in the U.S. The latest...

Bitcoin, and the entire cryptocurrency market, saw yet another choppy week where prices failed to recover substantially and continued to struggle. The past seven days didn’t exactly go according to the intentions of bulls as the price of BTC is down about 9%, currently trading around $37,000. It all started last Friday when the price dropped from above $40,000 down to about $35k. In a sequence of choppy actions, the price attempted to take back the important psychological and...

Although the organization he runs is significantly more opened to the cryptocurrency world these days, JPMorgan’s CEO, Jamie Dimon, advised people to stay away from digital assets. Nevertheless, he admitted that institutional clients of the bank have shown a high demand for such products in recent months. Stay Away From Crypto, Says Dimon The Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of JPMorgan Chase and Co has a somewhat controversial history with bitcoin and the rest of the...

It was another tough week in the cryptocurrency market where almost everything is trading in the red. Here’s how some of the major coins performed over the past seven days: Bitcoin Bitcoin is down by a total of 10.3% over the past seven days of trading as it currently sits around $36,000. The cryptocurrency had spiked as low as $31,185 (downside 1.618 Fib Extension) on Sunday, but the buyers managed to close the daily candle at $34,760 (downside 1.414 Fib Extension). From...

Brett Heath – precious metal company Metalla Royalty & Streaming CEO – opined that crypto ”will lead the charge in the next financial crisis.” Furthermore, he compared the industry to the tech crash of the early 2000s alongside the mortgage collapse in 2008. Crypto Will Cause The Next Crash The head of Metalla Royalty & Streaming warned in an interview for the financial newspaper Kitco News that global cryptocurrency adoption will have a damaging impact on the...

If investors can cope with the massive double-digit price swings in the cryptocurrency markets, they will eventually prevail, asserted the President of Bianco Research, Jim Bianco. He also admitted to owning ether instead of bitcoin, as he sees more potential of surging higher. The Volatility in Crypto Markets is to Be Expected The cryptocurrency space is known for its enhanced price fluctuations. Doubled-digit percentage drops and increases are nothing new, and the past...

The Biden administration plans to submit a $6 trillion spending budget proposal later this week. Right after the news broke out, bitcoin’s price increased to above $40k but failed to sustain it as of writing these lines.  According to a report from The New York Times, this budget is part of Biden’s two-part federal agenda and will be spent in the 2022 fiscal year. The total spending could rise to US$ 8,2 trillion. Bitcoin broke $40,000 shortly after the announcement but has...

Bitcoin is now up 25% from Sunday’s low of $31,100 as it is attempting to reach the $40K resistance level once again. Quick recap: following last Wednesday’s liquidation drop to $30K, the primary cryptocurrency recovered to $42K, just to plunge once again to $31,100 on Sunday, but again – it quickly managed to recover. At the end of Sunday, it closed above $34,760 (downside 1.414 Fib Extension). Since then, BTC managed to break above a descending price channel, as shown on...