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Bitcoin and most large-cap altcoins have recovered from yesterday’s price dives. However, most altcoins are still far from their last week’s all-time highs.Bitcoin Back To $11,600The largest cryptocurrency by market cap dipped to the $11,400 support following another unsuccessful attempt to reclaim $12,000. The nosedive seemed somewhat steep, and speculations rose that BTC may be aiming to close a CME gap at $9,600.BTCUSD. Source: TradingViewAs CryptoPotato reported, Bitcoin futures...

Bitcoin futures aggregated open interest hit the $5 billion mark yesterday, but the overall trend seems to be declining.This points to a possibility that BTC derivative traders are quitting the market owing to lackluster price action. Will a gap at the $9700 price level result in a proliferation of short positions?Bitcoin Futures Open Interest Drops Post Topping $5 BillionData from UK based market analytics firm Skew shows that the aggregated open interest in Bitcoin futures trading hit an...

The Barstool Sports founder turned stock trader appears to have been prematurely stung by the highly volatile world of Bitcoin trading.Portnoy, who has recently expressed a lack of knowledge on crypto, tweeted a video on August 21, stating that he was ‘getting killed on Bitcoin right now.’$25,000 LossIn a follow-up tweet, the stock trader added that he just lost $25,000 and needed time to ‘figure it out’ just like the stock market.I currently own zero bitcoins. I will wait and watch. I lost...

Most of the cryptocurrency market is in red today. Bitcoin tanked to $11,400 briefly, but large-cap alts are losing more substantial chunks of value, thus helping BTC to reclaim some ground in terms of market domination.Bitcoin Drops FurtherBTC looked promising yesterday as the asset headed for another face-off with its well-known nemesis at $12,000. It hovered just beneath it for a while, but the bears took control and didn’t allow even to touch that psychological level.In the next few...

Bitcoin’s price had seen a four-day decline of over $1150, while the altcoins suffered even harder.Despite that Bitcoin is currently trading around the consolidation range from a week ago, we cannot ignore this week’s false breakout to $12,500. This turned to be a fake-out, and the bearishness that came out of this is clearly seen on the following days.As can be seen on the 4-hour chart, BTC was forming a bullish triangle ($12K as an upper angle), and even after the above mention false...

Rich Dad, Poor Dad Author, Robert Kiyosaki, has advised investing in precious metals like gold and digital assets like Bitcoin as crisis looms in the banking sector.Earlier this week, headlines on mainstream media revealed that American billionaire investor Warren Buffett dumped US bank stocks to purchase gold mining stocks.Buffett Dumps Bank To Invest In GoldPer the reports, the business tycoon slashed a bulk of Berkshire Hathaway’s holdings in some major Wall Street banks, including JP...

A new report indicated that East Asia remains the most active cryptocurrency market with the most significant number of daily transactions. At the same time, professional traders still account for most of the trading volume, while stablecoins, and especially Tether (USDT), have gained a massive market share.East Asia Dominates Crypto Trading MarketAccording to the recent report compiled by Chainalysis, “East Asia is the world’s largest cryptocurrency market, accounting for 31% of all...

This week has been quite the ride on the cryptocurrency markets, and, of course, Bitcoin was in the spotlight, at least for a while.The price started at around $11,700 and stayed there for a few days until Monday when we saw a significant move forward as BTC reached about $12,500. The cryptocurrency community was ecstatic that the coveted $12,000 mark was broken, but unfortunately, the euphoria was shortlived.Just a day later, Bitcoin started dropping and come Wednesday, the price was already...

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission is reportedly after the owner of a crypto scheme, which misled over a thousand of its investors and clients. It seeks $572 million in financial penalties and restitution.$270M Worth Of BTC Stolen From More Than A Thousand CustomersАs per a recent report, the alleged Bitcoin trading pyramid Control-Finance has reportedly defrauded more than a thousand clients of the firm “since at least May 1, 2017”. Its owner Benjamin Reynolds is included in the...

The US Department of Justice has alleged that Joseph Sullivan, the former Chief Security Officer of Uber, has covered up a 2016 hack on the company that compromised data of millions of users and drivers. According to the DOJ, Sullivan paid the hackers $100,000 in Bitcoin.Uber Former CSO Covers Up A Hack?The announcement from the DOJ informed about a recently filed complaint against Sullivan, who served as Uber’s CSO from April 2015 to November 2017. It charged him with “obstruction of justice...