Tag Archives: Cryptocurrency News

The number of bitcoin traders going long on BTC is approaching an all-time high. That sounds bullish, but it’s actually an extremely bearish signal. Is the bitcoin price on the verge of another plunge? Bitcoin longs are nearing record highs on margin trading platforms like Bitfinex. The last time the number of long positions to reached this high, a fourth-month bear market followed, suggesting that another price crash may be on the horizon. The number of bitcoin long positions is growing at...

New cryptocurrency “Designed for 10,000x Returns” draws crypto community ire. Critics say the coin’s creator will hold 45% of the entire coin supply after the first year. Not a Ponzi, not a pyramid – a new breed of scam coin. A new cryptocurrency is attempting to pick up where BitConnect and OneCoin left off – enter HEX (formerly BitcoinHEX). According to the HEX.win website, HEX has been “designed for 10,000x returns”. While you ponder why your own favorite cryptocurrency wasn’t designed...

Ethereum’s search decline is slightly worse than Bitcoin’s. Roughly 96% of search interest originating from the United States has disappeared. A glance at ETH’s developer count reveals a silver lining for Ethereum. Nearly two years on from Ethereum’s all-time high, Google search interest for the No.1 altcoin has plunged 96%. Ethereum Popularity Nosedives Along with the ETH Price Search interest for the most well-known alternative to Bitcoin peaked during January 2018’s bull-run. The price...

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.Judging by the charts of the main crypto instruments, the bears are still at the wheel. However, it should be noticed, that the angle of the decline is becoming less and less steep every day, which means a certain weakening of the trend. The picture on the charts may be hinting that the long but...

Mark Cuban attacks bitcoin and says that the cryptocurrency has zero chance to become a reliable currency. Cuban made his billions by investing early in the internet. It would seem that the billionaire has the wrong idea on the security and value of the top cryptocurrency. Mark Cuban caught the attention of the cryptocurrency community after he criticized bitcoin in a Forbes article. The self-made billionaire said the number one cryptocurrency has “no chance” of becoming a reliable...

Napoleon AM, a France-based asset management company, has launched a new cryptocurrency fund dubbed the “Napoleon Bitcoin Fund” tied to the cash-settled Bitcoin futures offered by the Chicago Mercantile Group (CME).As per the report by French publication Les Echos, this is the country’s first fully-regulated cryptocurrency fund. Last week since December 6, the crypto fund is available for trading for France-based professional investors. Note that the fund is local to France only and cannot be...

For some time now, Japan’s banking sector has faced many challenges arising from money laundering. This problem has been in the limelight since the Financial Action Task Force found “numerous and serious deficiencies” back in 2014. Japan has long been blamed for weak measures that it has set up against money laundering and terrorism financing.In that context, the U.S. banking multinational, JPMorgan Chase & Co, is looking to launch an Interbank Information Network (IIN) in the East Asian...

Ethereum prices this year were lower in growth than Bitcoins, as the second-largest cryptocurrency this year increased less than 5%, notwithstanding BTC in spite of that maintains a staggering 95% increase since the beginning of the year, despite previous selling.In light of the successful introduction of the latest network updates in Istanbul hard fork and the growing popularity of DeFi, does catching up with ETH means a viable strategy for investors? From a macroeconomic point of view,...

Ripple has done it again when it updated its recently launched Xpring developer platform to accept two new programming languages Python and Go. The new XRP developer platform (xpring.io) allows both cryptocurrency developers and non-cryptocurrency developers to be able to create applications that run within the XRP ecosystem. The new features include customer service, a new developer-friendly wallet, technical documentation and another set of cool tools.The platform was launched in October...

Yesterday, authorities in New Jersey arrested three men for running a cryptocurrency scam called BitClub Network, which defrauded unsuspecting investors of about $722 million. The announcement was made by U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito in an official press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the District of New Jersey.Initially reported by Bloomberg, Matthew Brent Goettsche, 37, of Lafayette, Colorado and Jobadiah Sinclair Weeks, 38, of Arvada, Colorado, are both facing charges of...