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Even though the past week was positive for Bitcoin, the recent price action could raise some question marks for the bulls. After starting the week below $10,500, Bitcoin was able to break above the old tough resistance and reach back to the $11,000 area. However, while BTC gained 5% over the past week, most of the leading cryptocurrencies lost market cap. LINK  at -18% and even Ethereum at -2% are only two examples. The trending DeFi tokens suffered even harder. This tells us...

When it comes to the question of mainstream or enterprise adoption of blockchain technology and Bitcoin, much of the discussion tends to focus on barriers such as scalability. However, a valid concern for any organization considering the use of blockchain in transaction processing is that of finality.You could think of a Bitcoin transaction like the process of a fly becoming trapped in resin. When the transaction is processed, the fly is embedded in the resin. However, the overall process is...

In the crypto industry’s formative years, Bitcoin faucets allowed interested parties to passively earn BTC to get some skin in the game. Although Bitcoin was virtually worthless at the time, developer Gavin Andresen’s idea to distribute coins as widely as possible was both novel and prescient.Fast forward ten years, and cryptocurrency is easy to source but, at least where Bitcoin is concerned, costly to acquire. Although many faucets still exist, the payouts are derisory, forcing nocoiners...

A bitcoin wallet containing a little over 69,000 BTC is doing the rounds in hacking communities all over the internet. The reason? It’s obvious.Everyone (read seasoned hackers and self-professed bitcoin wallet crackers) wants to break it open and take it all. Or at least, a slice of the almost $750 million pie. For the last two years, however, no one has been able to ‘strike it lucky.’Hackers Tried Cracking The 7th Largest Bitcoin Wallet In The WorldAccording to cybersecurity expert Alon Gal,...

Bitcoin took another swing at $11,000 but got rejected, and trades just shy of the coveted level. Most alts are retracing slightly, while UNI continues to attract attention, and its price has increased to $7.Bitcoin Stopped At $11KAfter yesterday’s relatively calm price performance, the primary cryptocurrency initiated another leg up towards $11,000. The move began from about $10,900, and in just a few hours, BTC topped at $11,020 (on Binance).However, the bears intercepted it and drove the...

This week was nothing short of exciting. Bitcoin started trading at around $10,300 but was on a positive note throughout the entire time. It increased gradually, without any sharp and somewhat surprising movements, and managed to add about 6.5% to its value.The cryptocurrency tapped the important psychological and technical resistance at $11,000 but failed to conclusively close above it. Still, Bitcoin regained a serious portion of the total market capitalization as its dominance increased by...

MicroStrategy’s CEO Michael Saylor continues to dig deeper into Bitcoin after his company purchased $425 million worth of the cryptocurrency. In a recent podcast episode with long-time BTC proponent Anthony ‘Pomp’ Pompliano, Saylor claimed he’s ready to HODL Bitcoin for a century and said it’s 1,000 times better than gold.Saylor On His Change Of Heart Regarding BitcoinMicroStrategy’s CEO has a compelling history of Bitcoin. He completed his one-eighty transformation from predicting its death...

Bitcoins are being tokenized at a rapid rate for use on the Ethereum blockchain. Just ten days back, BTC supply’s on the world’s largest smart contract development platform was 73,000. Now that number has hit 100,000. Consequentially, the valuation of Bitcoin’s supply on Ethereum has topped $1 billion.Bitcoin Supply On Ethereum Tops 100,000As per data from Dune Analytics, a free Ethereum analytics provider, the tokenized bitcoin number on the second-largest blockchain network has hit the...

Most of the cryptocurrency market has been relatively calm in the past 24 hours. Bitcoin trades around $11,000, and Ethereum jumps by 2% to $385.Most of the attention went to Uniswap’s governance token (UNI) that launched yesterday. After listings on the most prominent digital asset exchanges, UNI trades at $5.3.Bitcoin Remains Below $11KAs reported yesterday, the primary cryptocurrency attempted to overcome the $11,000 mark. It seemed successful initially, but the move rapidly reversed,...

In the past month, the NASDAQ-listed company MicroStrategy bought $425 million worth of Bitcoin. CEO Michael Saylor brought out BTC’s unique qualities to serve as a hedge as the primary reason.However, not too long ago, Saylor’s opinion differentiated substantially as he claimed that Bitcoin’s “days are numbered.”MicroStrategy’s CEO expressed his rather adverse verdict regarding BTC on Twitter in December 2013. When forecasting the asset’s upcoming demise, he argued that Bitcoin’s fate would...