Black Friday is the day shoppers anticipate the most. Being regarded as the beginning of the Christmas shopping season in the US since 1952, Black Friday has also infiltrated almost every country with significant discounts on clothing, consumer electronics, home utilities, and more.The cryptocurrency space also provides compelling offers. Perhaps the most attractive one arrived yesterday as most digital assets, including Bitcoin, started an early Black Friday sale.Black Friday On The Crypto...
Read More »The Calm After The Storm: Bitcoin At $17K As DeFi Rebounds
Bitcoin has recovered a bit since yesterday’s massive price drop to $16,250. Most alternative coins have also bounced off their most significant dips, and the total market capitalization has recovered over $30 billion in a day.Bitcoin’s Black Friday SaleFollowing weeks of gradual increases that led to BTC coming less than 3% away from its 2017 all-time high, the primary cryptocurrency plummeted yesterday.Bitcoin went from a high of $19,500 down to $16,250 in a matter of hours. In other words,...
Read More »$80 Billion Wiped Off Total Market Cap as Cryptocurrencies Get Massacred
The cryptocurrency market experienced a massive nosedive today. $80 billion from the total capitalization were evaporated as Bitcoin plummeted below $17,000, while the altcoins had it even worse with notable double-digit price drops.The Red Sea Among The AltcoinsThe alternative coins enjoyed the past few weeks with some remarkable increases. This led to yearly records for many altcoins, including Ethereum reaching $620 and Ripple at nearly $0.90.However, the situation changed suddenly in the...
Read More »Five Reasons Ethereum Has Entered a New Bull Market
Ethereum is currently retracting sharply from its previous and 30-month peak of $620. Even with a decline of around $100 to today’s prices of $525, ETH is still up over 300% since the beginning of the year.The confirmed genesis of the long-awaited Beacon Chain, which is Phase 0 of the even longer awaited Serenity ETH 2.0 upgrade, has no doubt driven momentum but it is not the only strong point for Ethereum.Over 5 Reasons to be Bullish on EthereumDTC Capital’s Spencer Noon has pulled out a few...
Read More »Japanese Giant SBI Group Launched A Crypto Lending Service For Bitcoin
Founded in 1999, SBI Group is a financial services company based in Tokyo, Japan. Apart from offering numerous traditional financial services, the SoftBank Group subsidiary announced today a new cryptocurrency-related endeavor.SBI Group has introduced a digital asset lending service through its cryptocurrency arm – SBI VC Trade.The statement informed that the platform, dubbed VC Trade Lending, will initially support only Bitcoin. However, plans include adding support for Ether (ETH), Ripple...
Read More »ETH Price Analysis: Ethereum Struggles At $600, Is Correction Inbound?
ETH/USD – Ethereum Pulls Back From $620 ResistanceKey Support Levels: $580, $560, $550.Key Resistance Levels: $600, $620, $650.Ethereum cooled off from the 33% price hike it witnessed over the past week, which allowed the coin to break $600 and surge as high as $620. There, it ran into resistance at a 1.414 Fib Extension and was unable to penetrate above it.ETH has since dropped slightly to trade near the $600 level. The buyers are attempting to defend $600. However, a pullback looks...
Read More »YFI’s Andre Cronje Unveils Multi-Purpose DeFi Protocol Deriswap
Andre Cronje, the brain behind the popular DeFi protocol Yearn Finance and the most expensive cryptocurrency YFI, has unveiled yet another DeFi protocol called Deriswap.Obsessed With Capital EfficiencyThe project focuses on capital efficiency, an aspect of DeFi that Cronje said he is obsessed with. The YFI creator is set to change the current segmented liquidity, which only allows users to choose one of Swaps (Uniswap, Sushiswap, Bancor, etc.), Options (Deribit, Hegic, Opyn, etc.), and Loans...
Read More »Altcoin Season Brewing as Bitcoin Price Stalls and Dominance Takes a Beating (Market Watch)
Bitcoin’s volatility continued over the weekend with a few $1,000 moves taking it from a high of $18,800 to $17,700 and back. The altcoins, however, have kept their recent momentum going and have reduced BTC’s dominance over the market to about 63%.Bitcoin’s Volatile WeekendThe primary cryptocurrency displayed increased signs of volatility during the weekend. It started with charting a fresh yearly high on Saturday at nearly $19,000.After coming just inches away from breaking the 2017...
Read More »Ethereum Prices Tear to $585 as Staking Reaches 55%
While Bitcoin briefly dabbled with $19k on Saturday, it found resistance there and has retreated a couple of percent to the mid-$18k range. Ethereum on the other hand has kept the momentum running and has powered to its highest price since June 2018.The green candles for Ethereum just keep coming as it surged from just over $500 on Saturday morning to top out at $585 by Monday morning.Over the past seven days, Ethereum has cranked 26% from around $460 this time last Monday. Since the...
Read More »Ethereum Soars 23% Weekly To New 30-Month High: Is $600 Incoming? (ETH Price Analysis)
ETH/USD – Ethereum Returns To June 2018 Price LevelsKey Support Levels: $550, $521, $500.Key Resistance Levels: $580, $600, $620.Ethereum broke the $500 level for the first time in 2020 last Friday as it surged into the $511 resistance. Yesterday, the bulls continued to drive ETH even higher as they closed the day slightly above the $548 resistance (bearish .618 Fib Retracement).Today, after a retest of the same $511 resistance turned support level, the bulls penetrated $550 to reach as high...
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