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As the economic turmoil in Argentina continues to harm citizens and devaluate the peso, it appears that residents are turning to Bitcoin, instead. Recent data revealed that Argentinians are consistently increasing their purchases of the primary cryptocurrency.Argentinians Buy BitcoinArgentinians are spending more and more pesos on buying Bitcoin, indicated new information provided by the cryptocurrency analysis resource, Arcane Research. More specifically, the weekly volume on LocalBitcoins...

David Clifton was recently appointed Interim CEO of Bakkt by the board replacing previous CEO Mike Blandina who has only held the CEO position for less than four months.The move comes after Blandina replaced former CEO Kelly Loeffler during last December, as she opted to take a Senate seat for the state of Georgia.Mike Blandina had come into his role with high expectations having previously held roles at PayPal and Google. However, he didn’t hold in the position at the popular Bitcoin futures...

Bitcoin made a serious move in the past few hours as its price soared up to above $7,720 in just a few minutes. Legacy markets followed as the S&P500, the Dow, as well as gold and oil are all trading in the green.Bitcoin Price Surges to $7,700In a few quick hours, Bitcoin’s price marked a massive increase, surging up above $7,700 from about $7,060. The price has since retraced a bit as it’s currently trading around $7500, which is still about 5% on the day.BTC/USD. Source: BinanceAs it...

Bitcoin accumulation is on the rise in the past few weeks, according to new information. BTC hodlers are stashing more coins daily now than they did at any time in the last year.The question remains if the upcoming Halving scheduled to take place in May is the primary reason behind this, or is it something more.BTC Hodlers Increase Their PositionsPer data provided from the monitoring resource, Glassnode Insights, the primary cryptocurrency has seen lots of accumulation phases in the past...

Over the past days, after getting rejected at the $7300 price level, Bitcoin followed the global markets 2-day drop and fell straight to the $6800 support.Looking at the Bitcoin chart, we can see that the latter is also a significant 61.8% Golden Fibonacci level, as mentioned in our most recent BTC price analysis.Bitcoin nicely held that support, along with the 50-days moving average line – marked pink on the following daily chart. Yesterday, following the deep-green on Wall Street, Bitcoin...

Having suffered losses due to the COVID-19 led market onslaught, both Bitcoin and the United States stock market have had a good month. However, one analyst has pointed out how Bitcoin’s recovery has been entirely driven by market forces, while stocks have been rallying on the back of government intervention. Bitcoin Recovered Without External Intervention “Take a step back [to] think about how $BTC has almost completely recovered from the 50% drop in March. No limit down or trading halted,...

The real identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the anonymous creator of Bitcoin (BTC), remains one of the unsolved mysteries in the cryptocurrency industry. However, a recently discovered email from 1999 suggests that Nakamoto might have spent ten years to implement his idea of a peer-to-peer electronic cash system.  The 200-words email, which was shared by Blockstream CEO Adam Back, is similar to the modern Bitcoin’s idealogy, including the anonymity of the creator. This perhaps suggests that it...

Bitnomial is the latest cryptocurrency exchange to receive the green light from the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) for offering US Bitcoin futures and options as designated contract markets (DCM). Announced on April 20, the derivatives contracts are to be margined and physically delivered, which means that traders will get Bitcoins after the final settlement of the contract. User Acceptance Testing Scheduled For This Month Even though the launch date of derivatives trading is...

Prominent American economist and full-time Bitcoin slammer, Peter Schiff, used the recent oil slumps to bash against the primary cryptocurrency. He believes that the events have still not validated Bitcoin as an asset class, but that the downside risk it provides is “only” 100%. Schiff: BTC’s Risk Is Limited To 100% It seems today that Schiff, the CEO, and CGS of Euro Pacific Capital, uses almost all current economic events as an opportunity to talk down the largest cryptocurrency by market...

The current crisis, largely induced by the unexpected spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), took its toll on oil prices. For the first time in history, crude oil trades below zero, meaning that producers are paying the buyers for disposing of their supplies. While this is undoubtedly an event to be remembered, it’s unlikely that this will have a severe impact on Bitcoin’s price. Crude Oil Prices Tank Below $0 Benchmark US crude oil prices sank to below $0 on Monday for the first time...