Bitfinex has responded to the latest amendments in the ongoing class-action lawsuit leveled against Bitfinex and Tether, calling the entire case, “baseless.”Bitfinex/Tether Denounce “Baseless” LawsuitGeneral Counsel for Bitfinex, Stuart Hoegner, labeled the lawsuit an “unproven conspiracy theory.” He said in an official company announcement on June 4:“The plaintiffs’ allegations remain untethered to either the facts or the law. They conflate perceived correlation with causation in an effort...
Read More »Bloomberg: Bitcoin Price To Reach $20,000 In 2020 As Cryptocurrency Market Matures
Bitcoin is on course to reach and possibly break its all-time high level of $20,000 by the end of the year, says Bloomberg’s latest report.It adds that BTC has matured as an asset in the past several months, which is supported by the increasing number of similarities with gold and its performance during the price drops prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic.BTC: $20,000 And Beyond This Year?“Something needs to go really wrong for Bitcoin to Not appreciate,” emphatically starts the report.By...
Read More »Bitmain’s Co-Founder Reportedly Storms The Company’s Beijing Office Using ‘Brute Force’
The drama surrounding one of the world’s largest Bitcoin mining equipment manufacturers, Bitmain, continues. According to recent reports, exiled co-founder Micree Ketuan Zhan used private guards to storm in the company’s Beijing offices today.Using ‘Brute Force’ To Enter Bitmain’s OfficesThe controversy around Bitmain’s leadership continues with full force. A video showing several uniformed men marching in an office building is all over crypto Twitter.According to Dovey Wan, a popular...
Read More »Bitcoin Price Analysis: $9000 Incoming? BTC’s After Another Failure To Break Critical Resistance
This week had been quite volatile, even for Bitcoin. After the primary cryptocurrency broke-up to the 2020 highs near $10.5K, followed by a quicker drop back below the same critical trend-line, BTC is left now at the same levels it was trading at for the majority of the past week.The bottom line is that Bitcoin has hard times dealing with the descending trend-line as can be seen on both charts below – the daily and the 4-hour chart.This trend-line was started forming a month ago when Bitcoin...
Read More »US President Donald Trump Taps Bitcoin-Friendly Hester Peirce For A Second SEC Term
The President of the United States, Donald Trump, has tapped Hester Peirce for a second term as a member of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as her current one is set to expire on June 5th, 2020. Peirce is a vocal defendant of Bitcoin as she opposed the rejections of a Bitcoin-based ETF by the Commission.Hester Peirce For A Second Term At The SECAccording to a Bloomberg Law report from today, the President of the United States, Donald Trump, has nominated Hester Peirce for a...
Read More »Signs of Seller’s Intent? Bitcoin Flooded Exchanges As Price Hit $10,000
The inflow of Bitcoin to cryptocurrency exchanges more than quadrupled on June 2, when the Bitcoin price crossed above the $10,000 price range for the first time since February.Bitcoin Holders Trying to Sell at $10,000?Data courtesy of Glassnode reveals a sharp spike in the volume of Bitcoin transferred to exchanges during BTC’s rise to $10,000. Binance was the favored destination for most of the Bitcoin deposits, as seen on the graph below.Bitcoin inflow to major cryptocurrency exchanges...
Read More »Bitcoin Jesus, Roger Ver: Stop Using ‘Police Money’
The man, known as Bitcoin Jesus, has urged people to start using cryptocurrencies instead of what he calls “police money,” if they want to show their opposition to a corrupt justice system.Founder and Executive Chairman of Bitcoin.com, Roger Ver, said in a YouTube video posted on June 3 that the best way to prevent police injustice is to stop participating in the financial system which supports it. Ver said:“I think the best way anybody can help prevent this sort of injustice continuing in...
Read More »$449 Million Worth of Bitcoin Liquidated During Yesterday’s $1,000 Drop
Aggregated information from the most popular cryptocurrency exchanges reveals that roughly $449 million worth of BTC was liquidated during yesterday’s price crash. Bitcoin reached as low as $8,600 on BitMEX.$449 Million LiquidatedData from the volume monitoring resource Bybt reveals that roughly around $449 million (at the time of this writing) worth of Bitcoin was liquidated during yesterday’s price crash. This happened in the past 24 hours, and it doesn’t account for the short positions...
Read More »Adam Back: Bitcoin Price Could Skyrocket To $300,000 By 2025
Co-Founder and CEO of Blockstream Adam Back believes that Bitcoin could reach $300,000 in five years due to the current economic situation worldwide. In an interview, he also refuted the recent claims that he is the mysterious person behind BTC – Satoshi Nakamoto.Bitcoin To $300,000 By 2025?In his recent interview with Bloomberg, the popular cryptocurrency proponent admitted that he is mining bitcoins, but he’s not selling them. The reason why Back is not disposing of his coins could be...
Read More »Chinese Bitcoin Mining Base Reportedly Caught Stealing Electricity, But There’s a Catch
Recent Chinese reports informed of hidden Bitcoin mining rigs stealing electricity in the northern city of Daqing. Interestingly, the perpetrators were concealing their operation under two mysterious grave mounds in a relatively empty field.BTC Mining Operations In HidingAccording to the recent report, a Chinese oil field company sent a tip to local police asking them to investigate suspicious power losses near Daqing. Upon arriving at the scene, the police officers spotted something somewhat...
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