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After failing to reclaim the $9,300 mark yesterday, Bitcoin’s price went on a negative spiral down to $8,950 on some exchanges.As it typically happens, most alternative coins followed the adverse move and have charted losses in the past 24 hours.Bitcoin Dips Below $9kAs reported yesterday, the primary cryptocurrency made an indecisive attempt to reconquer the $9,300 level. Although it failed, the asset managed to hover around $9,200.In just a few hourly candles, however, BTC went on a sharp...

A Fifth Circuit panel of three judges ruled against Richard Gratkowski’s appeal that Fourth Amendment rights should protect Bitcoin data. The panel ruled that the FBI agents who subpoenaed cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase to track Gratkowski’s payments to a child pornography website acted according to the law.4th Amendment Doesn’t Hinder US Law Enforcement to Track Bitcoin TransactionsOn Tuesday, a US court compared Coinbase to a traditional bank, citing the US Supreme Court’s decision in the...

Bitcoin bears appear to have come out of hibernation today. According to the latest data from Glassnode, Bitcoin hourly addresses hit a 2-year high today and hourly active addresses set at a new yearly high.While these figures might sound promising, they have coincided with a steep $300 crash in Bitcoin’s price over a 2.5 hour period. So far, the leading crypto’s market cap has fallen by over $4 billion over the past several hours.Bitcoin Price Levels to Watch in the Short-termBTC/USD 4-hour...

After a podcast with popular Bitcoin proponent Anthony “Pomp” Pompliano, the famous comedian Bill Burr said that he will buy BTC. Fellow comedian and co-host Bert Kreischer regretted not buying Bitcoin before but seemed more interested in purchasing mining equipment.Current Economic SituationCo-founder and partner at Morgan Creek Digital Anthony Pompliano recently appeared in a podcast jointly hosted by two popular comedians – Bill Burr and Bert Kreischer.Bill Burr (left) and Bert Kreischer...

The last few weeks were quite stagnant for Bitcoin in terms of price movement, considering the cryptocurrency is famed for its price action. However, while BTC price is looking pretty unexciting in recent times, Bitcoin is fundamentally strong as the network activities continue to record new highs.Positive On-Chain Market ActivitiesAccording to insight first shared by Glassnode CTO Rafael Schultze-Kraft, on-chain market metrics including transaction counts, new addresses, active addresses,...

A recent poll by the popular gold proponent Peter Schiff indicated that most of his followers believe that the price of the bullion will never surpass Bitcoin’s.One BTC > Ounce Of GoldPeter Schiff is a prominent US economist and a famous gold-bug. However, he is also a well-known Bitcoin basher and rarely misses an opportunity to lash out against the primary cryptocurrency.He recently published a rather compelling poll on his personal Twitter account, asking, “how long do you think it will...

Bitcoin attempted to conquer the $9,300 but to no fruition. The price pulled back and failed to breach the level. Meanwhile, the DeFi market continues to boom, with numerous projects marking double-digit daily increases.Bitcoin Price Fails at $9,300Bitcoin didn’t manage to claim $9,300 yesterday and has since retraced to its current trading level at around $9,200.As CryptoPotato reported, this is a vital level to watch in the short-term and should provide a good indication of how confident...

On the 1D BTC/USD chart, we can see that the leading crypto-asset remains range-bound between the daily $8,600 and $10,000 levels.Rumors earlier in the week regarding PayPal possibly adding support for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies on its platform, sparked a small rally but failed to fuel a much-needed breakout above a key resistance level at $9,780.The pump was subsequently followed by a sharp sell-off below the previous weekly open at $9,300 (white line on the following chart), which...

Bolt Labs announced today that it plans to integrate its off-chain Bitcoin private payments protocol called zkChannels to the Tezos blockchain. The company is working with teams at Nomadic Labs and Metastate to complete the integration via an amendment proposal to be done by 2021.zkChannels To Build On TezosOriginally called BOLT, zkChannels v1 protocol saw the light of day earlier this year when Bolt Labs announced that it “enables private payments via zero-knowledge proof of knowledge...

Following an increase of 42% during Q2 2020, Bitcoin’s closing price of $9,140 was the third-highest position the asset has seen at the end of a quarter, trailing only to Q2 2019 and Q4 2017. On a yearly scale, BTC is also outperforming the S&P 500, WTI, gold, and the US dollar.Bitcoin Goes Up In Q2 2020The end of June marked the closing of the second quarter of 2020. As such, the popular cryptocurrency monitoring company Skew explored various aspects of Bitcoin’s performance during that...