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It’s been a rather big year for crypto thus far, but what will the future bring? Many analysts are weighing in where bitcoin and its altcoin cousins will be standing in the next five to ten years. Where Will Crypto Be in the Next Few Years? Dave Abner – head of global development at Gemini – said in a statement: There’s tremendous focus and attention being paid to [the crypto industry]. One of the big focuses we have been seeing over the past few months is on regulation....

Bitcoin is and always has been the world’s number one digital currency by market cap, but according to Nigel Green of the deVere Group, Ethereum will soon rise to the top of the crypto ladder. Nigel Green: We Will Soon See ETH at the Top In a recent interview, Green mentioned: Ethereum will continue to outperform bitcoin in 2021 and will, ultimately, exceed its rival’s value. Ethereum is the number two largest cryptocurrency in the world, second only to BTC. This makes...

David Marcus – the head of Facebook’s blockchain department – says that the social media company’s new cryptocurrency wallet Novi is ready to go. David Marcus Is Ready to Unleash Novi Novi has been a long time in the making. The wallet is designed to accompany the firm’s new Diem cryptocurrency, which many fans and anticipators still refer to as “Libra.” That was the name the currency originally traveled under when initially announced in the summer of 2019. As a former...

Stellar lumen price started a decent increase above the $0.3500 resistance against the US Dollar. XLM price is now trading above $0.3700 and the 55 simple moving average (4-hours). There is a major contracting triangle forming with resistance near $0.3880 on the 4-hours chart (data feed via Kraken). The pair is likely to continue higher above the $0.3900 and $0.4000 resistance levels. Stellar lumen price is showing positive signs above $0.3700 against the US Dollar,...

Ripple price gained traction and it rallied above $1.20 against the US dollar. The price is now trading well above the $1.20 resistance and the 55 simple moving average (4-hours). There is a major contracting triangle forming with resistance near $1.25 on the 4-hours chart of the XRP/USD pair (data source from Bittrex). The pair could continue to rise as long as it is above the $1.080 support zone. Ripple price is trading in a positive zone above $1.20 against the US...

Larry Dean Harmon, a 38-year-old man who hails from Akron, Ohio, has pled guilty to cryptocurrency money laundering charges after years of running a platform known as Helix, a darknet bitcoin mixing company. Larry Harmon Will Have to Pay Back Quite a Bit of Money Harmon pled guilty in a federal court. As part of his plea, he is required by regulators to give up as many as 4,400 bitcoin units to the state government, which by today’s standards, are worth more than $200...

A crypto exchange known as Liquid – which is based in Japan – has been hacked, leaving it short of nearly $100 million in digital funds. Liquid Has Lost a Lot of Money The hackers involved in the incident have allegedly taken as much as $97 million in digital currency at the time of writing. Several assets – including bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoin – have been stolen. Liquid has reported that the hacker is allegedly transferring this money to as many as four separate...

Despite a string of heavy financial losses, Mike Novogratz – the head of Galaxy Digital Holdings Ltd – is remaining positive about bitcoin and the growing digital finance space. Mike Novogratz Is Looking to Start a Bitcoin ETF In a recent interview, Novogratz has revealed that his company has applied with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to begin a bitcoin-based exchange-traded fund (ETF), which has arguably been the object of many crypto companies’ affection...

Billionaire investor and entrepreneur Mark Cuban appears eager to clarify some comments he recently made regarding Dogecoin, the world’s fourth largest cryptocurrency. Mark Cuban Seeks to Clear the Air Regarding Doge Just a few days ago, the billionaire stated that he felt Dogecoin was a great “medium of exchange.” He also sang additional praises for the popular meme coin, but he is now taking to social media to clarify some of these statements. On Twitter, he has...

Not long ago, Live Bitcoin News reported a story that the Poly Network had been hacked. The organization lost more than $610 million in digital funds at the hands of a hacker who claimed in a future Q&A session that he was only doing it “for fun.” The Poly Network May Employ Its Hacker In a strange twist, the hacker ultimately returned more than half of the stolen money, saying that he was never about the riches but rather that he was interested in taking advantage...