The cryptocurrency space has repeatedly taught us that with time anything can be valuable, even a collection of ordinary, digital rocks with no “real” value or purpose. For the past few months, the entire industry has been raving about non-fungible tokens (NFTs), which are digital collectibles stored on the blockchain and can represent anything from art to music and real-world assets. The craze has seen Investors pay mad money just to acquire NFTs like the infamous Beeple’s...
Read More »Bitcoin Adoption Continues: UWM, Quorum Holdings, and SafeGold Plan to Accept it as a Payment Method
The US mortgage lender – United Wholesale Mortgage – intends to accept cryptocurrencies as a payment method by the end of 2021. While the company would first adopt Bitcoin, it would explore other digital assets such as Ethereum shortly after. Additionally, the South African property investment firm – Quorum Holdings – and the Canadian jewelry exchange – SafeGold – also vowed to enable clients to use the primary cryptocurrency as a means of payment. The First American Mortgage...
Read More »Cardano (ADA) Sets New All-Time High as Bitcoin Reclaims $49K: Weekend Watch
Following a sharp retracement below $49,000, bitcoin has rallied up and reclaimed that particular level. Most altcoins have stalled since yesterday, except for Cardano. ADA has painted another fresh all-time high above $2.6. ADA’s Latest ATH; Alts Calm The alternative coins were all covered in green yesterday with impressive gains across the charts. Ethereum briefly exceeded $3,300 but has retraced slightly since then and currently sits below that level. Binance Coin, which...
Read More »Bitcoin Neared $50K: Highest Since May and 51% Monthly (Weekend Watch)
Bitcoin initiated another impressive leg up in the past 24 hours resulting in breaking above $49,000 for the first time since mid-May. The alternative coins have joined the ride with notable gains, including an 8% surge from BNB and 10% increases from Polkadot and Solana. Bitcoin Neared $50K It was just two days ago, on August 19th, when the situation in the bitcoin landscape seemed rather negative. The asset had lost several thousand dollars of value in hours and had fallen...
Read More »Crypto Price Analysis & Overview August 20th: Ethereum, Ripple, Cardano, Polkadot, & Solana
Ethereum Ethereum saw a 5.4% price hike this week as the coin sits around $3200. It surged above $3200 last Friday to meet resistance near $3350, provided by a bearish .618 Fib Retracement level. Unfortunately, it could not overcome this level and ended up rolling over from there. Throughout the week, ETH headed lower as it slipped beneath $3000 until support was found on Wednesday at $2960, provided by a .236 Fib and bolstered by the 20-day MA. It has since bounced higher...
Read More »Ethereum Will Outperform Bitcoin Within Five Years, Says DeVere Group’s CEO
Nigel Green – CEO of the financial advisory firm deVere Group – believes Ethereum would surpass Bitcoin and become the leading digital asset within five years. He argued that the former has more tech advantages than its rival, which would be the key to its rally. ‘Ethereum Is More Useful Than Bitcoin’ According to Nigel Green – the founder of the digital service provider deVere Group – Ethereum would exceed Bitcoin’s value by 2026. The chief executive pointed out that Vitalik...
Read More »Ethereum Whales Are Depositing More ETH to the Ethereum 2.0 Contract Amid Protocol Upgrades
Over 95,000 ETH – over 287 million – have been staked in the ETH 2.0 contract in a day, as per data from on-chain and market data platform CryptoQuant. It seems the number of new depositors is fewer compared to the number of deposits, which, according to Young Ju, CEO of CryptoQuant, is a firm sign that whales are bullish on ETH by staking more tokens to the contract. Another evidence that $ETH is bullish in the long term. It seems whales who staked a lot of $ETH to the ETH...
Read More »Ethereum Price Analysis: ETH Backtests Important Support, What’s Next?
ETH/USD – Ether Returns To 20-day MA Support Key Support Levels: $3000, $2960, $2890.Key Resistance Levels: $3170, $3360, $3540. After surging by almost 94% over the past three weeks, Ethereum has finally seen a meaningful retracement. The coin is now down by a total of around 8% since hitting $3350 at the start of the week. The cryptocurrency met resistance at $3350 (bearish .618 Fib) over the weekend and failed to establish momentum above that. There were signs of bearish...
Read More »Correction Time: Bitcoin Slips Below $45K, $110B Wiped Off the Total Cap (Market Watch)
The bears have returned to the crypto market and have pushed bitcoin south to around $45,000. The alternative coins, which flew high recently, have struggled even more. ETH is close to breaking below $3,000, ADA is just above $2, and BNB is down to $400. Bitcoin Dropped to $44.5K Ever since the Saturday retracement in which bitcoin dropped below $46,000, the cryptocurrency’s price performance seemed rather healthy. In fact, BTC jumped and touched $48,000 on Sunday for the...
Read More »What are Layer 2 Scaling Solutions?
Blockchain’s moon race is on as the ecosystem grapples with developing scalability solutions to meet demand without sacrificing security or decentralization – the classic blockchain trilemma. The rapid growth in decentralized finance, NFTs, and gaming has seen adoption congest the Ethereum network, in particular, leading to bottlenecks and high transaction fees given its capacity for processing only a few transactions per second, rendering many dApps usable at times....
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