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October 31, 2008, marks the birth of Bitcoin as we know it today after Satoshi published a paper titled: Bitcoin: “A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System.” The Bitcoin whitepaper explains the problem with centralized electronic payment systems like banks and financial institutions while also proposing how a tamper-proof, decentralized peer-to-peer protocol solves the issue. Put simply, Satoshi’s solution in the paper was to completely eliminate the centralized third-party...

After another failure at $63,000, bitcoin has headed south and is close to testing $60,000 once more. Most alternative coins have also bled out in the past 24 hours, including a substantial drop for Dogecoin and Shiba Inu. Will BTC Retest $60K? The primary cryptocurrency went through a roller-coaster on Thursday when it plummeted from $61,500 to $56,500 in minutes. This came after recovering from the latest sub-$60,000 price slump. However, the asset bounced off just as...

After another day of enhanced volatility, bitcoin touched $63,000 but has retraced with a few thousand dollars since. Ethereum marked another all-time high above $4,400 before correcting as well, while Binance Coin has surged to north of $500. ETH’s Latest ATH: BNB Up 8% Ever since BTC tapped its new all-time high last week at $67,000, all eyes in the cryptocurrency community were on the second-largest digital asset whether it could do the same. And it took ETH more than a...

There are no boring days in crypto. This week was the definitive proof of this. We saw something insane happen literally every day from the past seven, so let’s start with Bitcoin. This time last week, there were already some signs of indecisiveness in bitcoin’s price, which was approaching $60K. On Sunday, though, bulls stepped in and pushed the price up to $64K, where it stayed for about a day. On Wednesday, we saw two consecutive drops, which led to the price testing the...

Bitcoin dipped below $60,000 once again in the past 24 hours but has recovered and currently stands above it. Most altcoins are also untypically calm this weekend, with ETH sitting north of $4,000. Shiba Inu, though, charted a new all-time high hours ago. Bitcoin Remains Above $60K All crypto eyes in the past few weeks were on the launch of the first-ever Bitcoin Futures ETF in the United States. After years of waiting, the Securities and Exchange Commission finally allowed...

Following the past several days of surging higher and higher, BTC corrected hard in the past 24 hours and even dipped below $60,000 briefly. Most altcoins followed suit, and the entire market cap lost more than $150 billion since its peak earlier this week. Bitcoin Lost $7K in Days The main focus in the cryptocurrency space in the past week or so was on the first-ever Bitcoin Futures ETF going live in the United States on Tuesday. The euphoria for such a long-anticipated...

To say that last week was exciting would be a serious understatement. Bitcoin went on to chart a brand new all-time high at around $67K, we saw the approval of the first-ever futures BTC ETF in the US, a massive flash-crash on BinanceUS, and a correction towards $60K. Let’s dive in. Starting with Bitcoin. The price was trading around $62K last this time last week and even dipped below $60K briefly on Monday. However, the market was propelled higher from then, and this...

The volatile roller-coaster returned to the crypto markets again after bitcoin’s ATH, and the asset dropped by more than $5,000 a day later. While most altcoins have stalled on a 24-hour scale, Solana has gone on a tear once more by breaking above $200. Bitcoin Lost $5K The news that the US will finally have its own Bitcoin ETF, even if it’s a Futures one, for now, brought significant gains for the primary cryptocurrency. BTC traded below $58,000 last week when the first...

Bitcoin has broken its former all-time high and is now officially looking at price discovery. This comes on the back of serious developments in the industry – just today, the first-ever SEC-approved futures-backed Bitcoin ETF started trading. The previous all-time high of Bitcoin’s price was set on April 14th, 2021 and it was at $64,895 trading on Bitstamp exchange – exactly 6 months and 6 days ago. As of writing these lines and shortly after breaking the ATH level, Bitcoin...

The talk in the crypto town for the past several days has predominantly been the potential launch of a Bitcoin ETF in the United States. After all, the country’s Securities and Exchange Commission has been reluctant to approve such a product for years, while other nations, like Canada and Brazil, did so earlier this year. The pressure on the SEC is mounting, and the appointment of Gary Gensler, who previously had experience with blockchain, was regarded as a promising step in...