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.The market may be returning to an uptrend. The Bitcoin demonstrates confident growth, executing a reversal pattern. The aim of the growth may be the area near $12400. Other coins are also trying to rise. The leader here is the Bitcoin SV that has escaped a flat. As a rule, at such moments the...
Read More »Two Plaintiffs Drop Lawsuit against Tether and Bitfinex
Eric Young and Adam Kurtz suddenly revoked their lawsuit against the Bitfinex exchange and Tether founders. The two previously claimed market manipulation and fraud.The plaintiffs said they are crypto traders who suspect that Bitfinex and Tether fed the market with fake data about their volumes, operations, and deals. However, on January 7 both filed a document saying they demand voluntary dismissal for their claims:“The Court having considered the Notice of Voluntary Dismissal Without...
Read More »Salah Zalatimo Becomes CEO of Block.One’s Decentralized Media Network Voice
On Thursday, January 9, Block.One appointed Salah Zalatimo as the CEO for its decentralized media network Voice. As per the announcement, Zalatimo will join the company and his new role on January 20..@VoiceSocial_ welcomes @Salafel, former @Forbes global Chief Digital Officer as CEO. https://t.co/kjzR2Acnbr— block.one (@block_one_) January 9, 2020Previously, Salah Zalatimo was working as the chief digital officer for Forbes. He joined Forbes four years back in 2015 after the acquisition of...
Read More »Binance Futures Is Launching Litecoin Perpetual Contracts Today
Starting today, the Binance Futures platform is launching another perpetual contract with Litecoin. This time, Litecoin (LTC) is being paired with USDT making it the sixth perpetual contract on the platform.Binance Futures Litecoin ContractAccording to an official announcement from Binance, the LTC/USDT perpetual contract opened trading today at 8:00 AM (UTC). The recent announcement has a few similarities with previous ones. For example, just like the previous offerings, users are allowed to...
Read More »Binance Futures Launches Fifth Perpetual Contract with EOS/USDT Pair
Major crypto exchange giant Binance has announced that it is launching a new perpetual contract product through its futures trading platform – Binance Futures. The new contract, which pairs EOS with Tether’s USDT is the platform’s fifth one.According to an official announcement on the Binance website, the new contract launched at 8:00 AM (UTC) on Wednesday, January 8. Also, Binance Futures is offering users up to 75x leverage.Binance also put a pricing limit of ±1% on the mark price, to...
Read More »Blockchain Analyst Arianna Simpson Predicts Staking Market Centralization
According to Arianna Simpson, founder and managing partner at ASP, Binance just increased the heat on the staking market. It offers 0% staking fees for the XTZ fans, a week after Coinbase‘s announcement of XTZ support. This is the beginning of a staking war, where centralized players take operational costs on themselves and achieve brand recognition, new clients and centralization of the future market.1/ Coinbase adds automatic staking for XTZ, and less than a month later, Binance introduces...
Read More »Bitcoin Price Is to Hit $250K after Halving, Says Tim Draper
After this week was pretty bearish for Bitcoin, it finally turned its way upwards. Some of the merits go to the crypto derivatives platform ErisX that started with its physically settled Bitcoin futures contracts, launching only the second such product suite in the U.S. However, only after Wednesday it went above the $7,000 mark. At the time of writing, it is trading at $7,179 that came as a welcome change that brought a dash of optimism among traders and analysts.With sentiment going up and...
Read More »Bitcoin Tanks Below $7000 as PlusToken Scammers Cash Out
In yet another major sell-off Bitcoin price crashed below its crucial support of $7000 on Monday, December 16. As per blockchain researcher Chainalysis, this dumping is part of another major scam brewing in the crypto industry.In its report, Chainalysis mentions a China-based Ponzi scheme PlusToken which is dumping its crypto holdings to cash out. PlusToken, a cryptocurrency wallet, trapped investors by promising high returns to those purchasing their native PLUS cryptocurrency against...
Read More »Cryptocurrencies Work Thanks to Key People, Not Blockchains
The outsiders may believe fancy Telegram graphs showing Bitcoin‘s decentralization levels and metrics. However, many of that stats supply data from a parallel reality. Because you cannot claim full decentralization when the majority of the industry is maintained by the same three to five companies. The will of the investors, not the cyberpunk spirit, changes the price of coins or destroys companies.There are at least seven influential people in the crypto space, including investors and...
Read More »Crypto Price Analysis December 11: BTC, ETH, LTC, XRP, EOS
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...
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