The CEO of SchiffGold, Peter Schiff, responded to claims by RT news host Max Keiser that he would end up panic-buying Bitcoin when its price hits $50,000. Schiff suggested Bitcoin’s dollar value would drop as low as zero – although implied Keiser might consider selling at $2,000.Shortly afterward, Bitcoin developer and Blockstream CEO, Adam Back, jumped in to claim that Bitcoin will one-day “flippen” the market cap of gold. In the meantime, says Back, it makes sense for goldbugs to allocate...
Read More »Bitcoin Price To $318,500 By October 2021 According To This Model
Popular cryptocurrency YouTuber recently posted a chart illustrating that if Bitcoin repeats its previous significant bull run from 2017, its price could exceed $300,000 by the end of 2021.Interestingly, this highly optimistic prediction corresponds with the well-known BTC stock-to-flow model.BTC To Over $300,000?Bitcoin price predictions are among the most commonly discussed threads in and out of the cryptocurrency community. Such forecasts range from overly adverse ones such as Jim Rogers,...
Read More »Protect Your Bitcoins: Malicious Chrome Extensions Downloaded Over 32 Million Times
A recent report warned that most malicious Google Chrome extensions have come from a single Internet domain registrar – CommuniGal Communications (GalComm) and have been downloaded nearly 33 million times.Such malicious extensions have proven to be alarmingly dangerous to cryptocurrency investors as popular proponent recently lost all of his Bitcoin savings.Suspicious Google Extensions GrowThe research compiled by a US-based network security company Awake Security, informs that out of 26,079...
Read More »Bitcoin Price Analysis: Will The 2015 Historic Support Line Save BTC From a Crash To $7000 – $8000?
Only five days ago, the price of Bitcoin touched $9800, followed by another failure to break up the critical descending trend-line (marked yellow on the following daily chart).Since then, the primary cryptocurrency had been correlating with the plunging global markets, and as of writing these lines, Bitcoin is trading slightly above $9000.The Micro and Macro LevelIf we look at the micro-level, which is the following 4-hour chart, we can see that Bitcoin so-far holds the supporting blue line....
Read More »Bitcoin is Bleeding to $9,000 as Global Markets Take a Beating: The Weekly Crypto Market Update
The last seven days weren’t so fruitful for Bitcoin. After trading in a relatively narrow range for a while before that, the BTC price gradually increased to about $9,700 on Wednesday. On the same day, however, the price tumbled during the same day and started declining.Immediately after that, Bitcoin retraced to about $9,000 before finding support and bouncing off to where it currently trades at around $9,200. The thing to consider about the movements is that they coincided with respective...
Read More »Chamath Palihapitiya: The US Has Become A Socialist Country, Buy Bitcoin To Protect Yourself
Virgin Galactic Chairman and Social Capital CEO Chamath Palihapitiya recently doubled-down on his advice that people should allocate at least 1% of their portfolio in Bitcoin as protection.He believes that if the asset skyrockets in value, it would be because of rather damaging world events and the lack of proper countermeasures by governments.Palihapitiya: BTC’s Lack Of Fundamental Correlation Is PositiveIn a recent podcast, the former Facebook executive noted that the US Fed and Treasury...
Read More »$185 Million Of Bitcoins: This Is the Amount Bought by Grayscale Only Last Week
The popular cryptocurrency investment company oriented toward institutions, Grayscale, has reportedly added another 19,879 BTC to their Bitcoin Trust in the last week alone.The fund continues to increase its exposure to the leading cryptocurrency, as it now manages about 400,000 BTC.Grayscale Buys $185 Million Worth of BTCGrayscale’s Bitcoin Trust continues to grow, according to popular researcher Kevin Rook.“Grayscale added 19,879 BTC to their Bitcoin Trust since last week (53,588 BTC since...
Read More »Convicted Lobbyist Jack Abramoff Pleads Guilty To a Bitcoin Fraud Case
The well-known lobbyist and ex-convict Jack Abramoff had agreed to plead guilty to a cryptocurrency scam. He was operating an alleged Bitcoin fraud case that was violating existing federal lobbying disclosure regulations.Parallel Charges Against NAC, Rowland Andrade, and AbramoffOn Thursday, the U.S. SEC announced its charges against both the chief executive of NAC Foundation, Rowland Marcus Andrade, and Abramoff. The accusations consist of operating a conspiracy scheme making false and...
Read More »Satoshi Claimant Craig Wright: Bitcoin In Grips of Communist Takeover
The man who claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto, Craig Wright, took to his blog this week to warn Bitcoin and cryptocurrency developers that “his” invention is not for communists.Wright bemoaned the current trend in the cryptocurrency space, which sees many coins launch with built-in developers funds or pre-mines. According to Wright, this is tantamount to a communist takeover, and simply places all of the risks on the purchaser of such coins – not the development teams themselves.Craig Wright: Dev...
Read More »Hacking Group REvil Threatens To Leak Information On LeBron James, Nicki Minaj, And Mariah Carey
After hacking a major New York-based law firm, the cryptocurrency-demanding hacking group called REvil has threatened to auction off sensible documents starting from July 1st of celebrities such as LeBron James, Mariah Carey, and Nicki Minaj.REvil To Sell Stolen Documents?CryptoPotato reported in mid-May that the infamous hackers’ group attacked a law firm called Grubman Shire Meiselas & Sacks representing numerous celebrities and large companies in the entertainment business. REvil...
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