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With bitcoin’s price surging by over $5,000 since the start of the year and reclaiming $20,000, the number of analysts predicting that the asset is out of the woods continues to increase. CryptoQuant is the latest analytics company to offer some insight into the key on-chain signals that could suggest the start of a bull run. Shortly after Santiment informed that the supply of bitcoin held on centralized exchanges had dropped to a multi-year low, CryptoQuant outlined the...

The cryptocurrency market staged an early recovery at the beginning of 2023, but many remain skeptical as to whether the ongoing rally will last. Some exchanges, including Coinbase and Crypto.com, continue with their staff cuts in a bid to weather the macro bear market, but others remain resilient. Case in point – Binance. BNB Coin is the native token of the exchange. It’s a base layer cryptocurrency and operates as the base unit of currency for the Build ‘N’ Build Chain...

The scandal around the cryptocurrency lending platform Nexo has triggered a massive verbal fight between the leading political parties in Bulgaria. GERB (the party that ruled between 2009 and 2021) alleged Democratic Bulgaria and We Continue the Change of having close ties with the distressed entity and even receiving significant donations from it. On the contrary, numerous MPs claimed that members of GERB have intentionally launched such attacks against their rivals to...

Bitcoin’s dominance has recovered more than 2% in the past week or so and tapped a multi-month high as the asset maintains above $20,000. This comes even though the altcoins experienced notable gains yesterday, but many have retraced hard today. BTC Dominance Above 41% Ever since bitcoin finally broke above $17,000 at the start of this week, the landscape around the asset has seemed significantly more bullish than it was at the end of 2022. The past few days saw gains that...

It has taken bitcoin just a little over two months to recover from the damages done by the collapse of SBF’s former crypto empire, as the asset skyrocketed to over $21,000 earlier today. Most alternative coins saw an equally if not more impressive rally in the past week or so, culminating in double-digit price surges on Friday and early Saturday. BTC Topped $21K After a violent year, which saw the demise of former crypto giants such as Terra, 3AC, and Celsius, the end of 2022...

The Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority registered the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange – Binance – as a financial institution for management and trading in virtual currency in the Scandinavian country. This is the seventh EU nation where the platform has received such a license, with the previous six being Italy, France, Spain, Poland, Cyprus, and Lithuania. Binance announced that its Swedish subsidiary – Binance Nordics AB – obtained registration from the...

Shanghai upgrade’s tentative timeline is set for March 2023, and the Ethereum developers are scaling back and targeting early February to launch its public testnets. The high-profile upgrade seeks to enable validator staking withdrawals. This feature is currently lacking in the Ethereum network, and the devs deem it the highest priority for the first quarter of 2023. Following the planned hard fork, the users will be able to access coins that have been staked on the network....

The Federal Reserve and FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) released a joint statement on Tuesday, Jan 3. The paper describes the risks of holding digital assets. But here are some of the ways crypto is addressing those risks with network design and code. The Fed and FDIC say that with crypto, there is a “risk of fraud and scams among crypto-asset sector participants.” But there are also several countermeasures and security techniques in crypto. Furthermore,...

Bitcoin continues to be unable to overcome $17,000, despite briefly jumping above that level yesterday. The altcoins have also calmed following the notable gains charted at the start of the weekend. ApeCoin, though, has marked a near one-month high. Bitcoin Stalls Below $17K 2022 brought little joy for the bitcoin bulls and the end of the year was quite similar, with the asset falling to a multi-week low of under $16,500. After a few calm days around New Year’s Day, the...

After failing to challenge $17,000 for several straight days, bitcoin finally touched that level, marking a multi-week high. The altcoins also turned green on Saturday, with impressive gains from Ethereum Classic and Lido DAO. Bitcoin Touches $17K The end of 2022 was quite calm for the primary cryptocurrency, and the first day of the new year didn’t bring any more excitement either, as it remained at around $16,500. The situation started to change on Monday with a minor push...