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...
Read More »Mysterious Bitcoin Whale Moves $933 Million – 0.5% Of All BTC
The tweet by Bitcoin Block Bot on June 27, 2020, reported a large-scale transaction, involving the movement of $933 million worth of bitcoin. Interestingly, the total transaction fee cost was 0.00005271 BTC, which is just meager $0.48.Whale alert! ? Someone moved 101,857 BTC ($933M) in block 636,503 https://t.co/sy099uLVBV— Bitcoin Block Bot (@BtcBlockBot) June 26, 2020A total of 101,857 BTC was split unequally between two separate bitcoin recipient addresses. That’s a total of 0.485% from...
Read More »BitMEX Operator Appoints Financial Expert Dr. David Wong As Non-Executive Chairman
HDR Global Trading Limited (HDR), the operator of the cryptocurrency derivatives trading platform BitMEX, announced today that financial expert Dr. David Wong has joined the company as a non-executive chairman.Joining HDR will see Dr. Wong working alongside three other board members, including co-founder and CEO Arthur Hayes, co-founder Ben Delo, and co-founder and CTO Samuel Reed.30 Years Of Financial ExperiencePer the release shared with CryptoPotato, Wong is a recognized industry leader...
Read More »Police In Spain Tracks Down Alleged Child Porn Organization Using Bitcoin Transactions
The Spanish Civil Guard arrested multiple people across the country who are allegedly involved in the distribution of child pornography. It was an international investigation on a dark-web case where people used cryptocurrency to pay for illegal content.Scheme Busted Through Cryptocurrency PaymentsAccording to a recent report, police in Spain had detected the alleged criminals by following cryptocurrency payments of users who entered the child porn web platforms. In a few operations,...
Read More »Bitcoin Solves This: $2.8 Billion Worth of Gold Counterfeited by Chinese Company from Wuhan
If you thought that the city of Wuhan was done for 2020, well, think again. Reports have it that at least some of 83 tons of gold bars, used as collateral for loans, turned out to be gilded copper. For more than five years, Wuhan Kingold Jewelry has been getting gold-collateralized loans worth over 20 billion yuan ($2.8 billion) with the fake bars. 83 Tons of Fake Gold Bars According to a report by ZeroHedge, Wuhan Kingold Jewelry Inc., a company founded and operated in Wuhan, China, has...
Read More »Bitcoin Price Analysis: The Worrying Sign That Can Send BTC To New Lows Very Soon
During the past two days, the Bitcoin price was trading under a tight range between $9000 and $9200.This untypical stability by Bitcoin is just showing how indecisive the primary cryptocurrency is. What is for sure is that a wild price move is likely to take place over the next few days.Following the Saturday’s price plunge, reaching out to a new 30-days low, we expected a price pullback. On our recent price analysis, we predicted such pull-back, telling by the oversold RSI levels and the...
Read More »Bitcoin Price Could Dive To $6K If It Falls Below $8,500 Soon, According To The Wyckoff Pattern
By examining a well-known technical component, the popular YouTuber The Moon believes that Bitcoin could be heading towards $6,000 in the next few months if it breaks the vital $8,500 level.Bitcoin And The Wyckoff Distribution PatternThe cryptocurrency analyst initially posted the chart on Twitter in which he has inserted BTC’s current position on the Wyckoff distribution pattern. It works as a medium-term technical instrument that begins in a preliminary supply stage (PSY) where the asset’s...
Read More »Tone Vays: Bitcoin Price Won’t Break $10,000 This Year
Bitcoin’s price will continue trading in a tight range between $6,000 and $10,000 until the rest of the year, believes popular BTC analyst Tone Vays. He also thinks that short-term breaches above $10k are insufficient since the asset heads back down almost immediately.BTC Between $6k And 10KThe price of the primary cryptocurrency has been on a roller-coaster since the start of the year. It entered the new century at about $7,200, but the bulls quickly took charge and spiked it to above...
Read More »Someone Immortalized The Birth of His Son Using Bitcoin’s Network
In an exciting showcase of the capabilities of Bitcoin’s network, someone has included a message in a specific BTC transaction, welcoming his newborn son to the world.Hello, Noah!In a rather interesting Reddit thread, a user of Bitcoin’s network demonstrated one of the more compelling use cases of its blockchain.“I immortalized the birth of my first child in the best immutable and decentralized database I know of.”As seen in the picture above, the user has sent 0.00104 BTC, worth just shy of...
Read More »Bearish: Positive Bitcoin Mentions Approach New 2020 Low As Fear Index Surges
Recent data revealed that the number of positive Bitcoin mentions on the popular social media platform Twitter has dropped significantly since the halving in May.At the same time, the fear and greed index has downgraded from its neutral stance in May to a more fearful state in June.Twitter BTC Positivity DropsAccording to the data from the monitoring company Santiment, the number of positive Bitcoin mentions on Twitter reached its yearly high on May 12th – a day after the third halving. At...
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