Tag Archives: Cryptocurrency News

Dmitriy Gurkovskiy, a senior analyst at foreign exchange broker RoboForex, shares his insights into the future scenarios for Bitcoin price movement as well as possible price swings of major altcoins.On all the assets discussed below, reversal patterns are forming on the smaller timeframes. If the bulls manage to push the quotations above the nearest resistance levels, we can expect the beginning of good growth. For the Bitcoin, it is enough to secure above $7700, which may provoke growth to...

Even though Google tracks Santa and seems to be very Christmas-like, it doesn’t seem to care for the crypto community at all. YouTube, the Google-owned video-sharing platform apparently started restricting or even deleting crypto-related videos or those who were flagged to be that way. Some crypto influencers even said their videos or even the whole channels were completely removed. The founder of Skill Incubator, a company that teaches valuable skills to help people thrive in today’s...

XRP is one of the worst performers this year, among the top-ten cryptocurrencies. However, economist Jeffrey Tucker has praised XRP that is actively used by Ripple in its solutions. And he even called it a “brilliant technology”. Tucker, who is currently the editorial director at the American Institute for Economic Research (AIES), expressed his views during an interview on the “Boom Bust” episode on Russia Today.He added that Ripple is currently riding on the failures of the traditional...

Bitcoin Asset manager claims most firms looking to speculate on bitcoin will use derivatives market instead of the underlying asset. The market share of physical oil compared to oil derivatives plummeted when futures trading was introduced. ‘Financialization’ of bitcoin will distort its innate pricing mechanism. Don’t count on a halving pump in 2020. The tendency for bitcoin to multiply in value following regularly scheduled halving events should not be relied on in 2020.That’s according to...

Social network Commun, a fork of Steemit—a decentralized social media network that looks like Reddit, which is created on Web3 technologies base, announced it has successfully launched its mainnet for online communities.The platform is composed of Decentralized Autonomous Communities (DAC) and it is made to act as a web, Android, and iOS portal. Through this, the users can assemble different interest-based forums and groups to share, read, watch, rank, and discuss content with others.Commun...

The new Thomson Reuters tax tool is set to report cryptocurrency taxes within the crypto space. Sources indicate that Reuters GoSystem Tax RRS Products will also include a “Virtual Currency Organizer”. This will enable users of the system to file form 1040 in the United States effectively. The new tool will also serve as a central hub for all things related to cryptocurrency for the users. They include reviews on payments, hard forks, cryptocurrency exchanges and so on.Reuters in a blog post...

Bitcoin has spiked this week, reaching $7,600 on Monday for the first time in almost 14 days, but quickly declined at the upper price level of $7,688.99. This step increased the profit of Bitcoins before the holidays.Investors are encouraged that now Bitcoin is approaching the $8,000 level. And there is an increasing likelihood that traditional non-crypto investors, traditional financial investors, may again begin to look at crypto. This is very important because introducing this new type of...

Tencent, the Chinese technology giant that operates the social media app WeChat, has announced that it is planning to develop a digital currency research group. This research group will have the responsibility of further advancing various blockchain technology research projects. According to fresh reports by iFeng, the company had released an official statement to its employees telling them that it is seeking someone to head the proposed research group.The yet-to-be-established digital...

In its recent crackdown, the Chinese authorities have seized 7000 crypto mining machines alleged for illegally consuming electricity. The local Chinese media publication CCTV reported that the confiscation of crypto mining equipment as part of inspection across the country.Over the last few years, China has been the most lucrative destination for crypto miners. Regions like Sichuan produce an abundance of hydroelectric thereby making electricity available at a very cheap cost. We already know...

Bloomberg Markets editor bashes the Bitcoin Stock-to-Flow model for allegedly mispredicting the cryptocurrency price. Joe Weisenthal says scarcity is not an influential factor in pricing bitcoin in the future. People only need to bid up the price of existing bitcoin to make it more expensive, he argues. A price forecasting model that predicts bitcoin at a $100,00 valuation by Christmas 2021 is complete nonsense, according to Joe Weisenthal.The Bloomberg Markets editor questioned the...