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The Bitcoin SV pump has caught many crypto investors by surprise. A Twitter user has been following BSV’s price action and has a theory as to why the price of the bitcoin hard fork suddenly spiked. If market manipulation is truly the cause of the surge, investors should take caution as a massive dump is possibly on the horizon. While bitcoin maximalists are excited about the king of cryptocurrency’s over 24 percent pump, one bitcoin hard fork is leaving nearly...

PewDiePie’s credibility is in question after he shamelessly plugged a rather dubious cryptocurrency project DLive claims to be blockchain-based but their proprietary currency has some major issues If you blindly trust everything that Felix Kjellberg says you need to re-evaluate your priorities Swedish digital influencer Felix ‘PewDiePie’ Kjellberg is almost certainly not short of cash. But that didn’t stop the YouTube superstar from shilling a rather sketchy...

Bitcoin is possibly becoming a safe haven asset. The top cryptocurrency is rising in tandem with gold as tensions in the Middle East grow. It’s possible that bitcoin may be in the early stages of a parabolic advance. If you think that the turmoil in Iran and the rest of the Middle East has nothing to do with bitcoin, think again. The king of cryptocurrencies has traded bullishly ever since the conflict between the U.S. and Iran started. bitcoin has pushed higher each time tensions were...

Peter Schiff is once again targeting the number one cryptocurrency. His tweets are looking ridiculous as they are no longer based on sound logic. Some bitcoin traders are using Schiff’s tweets to time a possible bitcoin rally. Peter Schiff, the self-professed bitcoin hater, has been talking trash about the king of cryptocurrencies over the last few days. The gold bug has a long history of spewing venom on the asset dubbed as digital gold. Instead of focusing on providing helpful content on...

John McAfee disowned his infamous $1 million Bitcoin price prediction. But past history suggests his latest remark is just an attempt to gain attention. McAfee is also wrong that Bitcoin is “ancient” technology. John McAfee is one of the crypto industry’s biggest clowns. Yes, he may have founded the eponymous McAfee – one of the world’s largest cybersecurity firms – in 1987. These days, he’s best known for predicting that Bitcoin would reach $1 million by the end of this year.Well, his...

The HEX purchase address used 50 ETH to buy more tokens. The tokens were then sent to an exchange to provide liquidity for HEX traders. HEX continues to benefit its founder, to the severe detriment of its investors. Ethereum (ETH) from the flush address of the controversial HEX cryptocurrency is being recycled to buy more tokens, as shown by a breadcrumb trail of transactions on Etherscan.The ETH were then sent to a cryptocurrency exchange with the apparent intention of boosting the...

Infamous “Gym Friend” meme contains lessons for the bitcoin community in 2020. Campaign of frantic censorship and deflection highlights a lack of reasoned leadership at Blockstream. The cryptocurrency space needs more masculinity. The biggest lesson the bitcoin community can carry over from 2019 wasn’t learned on the blockchain, but in the gym.In early December when a meme-maker released the image below onto Twitter, everyone laughed for a minute then moved on.On the left, Samson Mow, CSO...

The bitcoin price surged $538 (+7.8%) on Coinbase overnight and into the morning, pulling back at noon Friday morning. Commentators were quick to link the sudden spike to the U.S. airstrike that killed Iranian General Qasem Soleimani. Are we beginning to see the bitcoin price factor in geopolitical risk? Not likely in this case anyway. Here’s why. The bitcoin price made a swift advance from a 16-day low at $6,853 around 9 pm Eastern Time Thursday night. It reached $7,391 on Coinbase just...

Chief Economist for Lending Tree labels Bitcoin a ‘pyramid scheme’ – and he might just be right. Look closely at cryptocurrency and realize it probably isn’t the savior it’s been erroneously sold as. Cryptocurrency holders share much in common with money-lenders, land-owners and fractional reserve bankers – they just don’t know it. When someone in the mainstream media berates Bitcoin, it often becomes an emotional alarm call for the cryptocurrency news squadron.Suddenly, all the failed...

Bitcoin delivered investors the highest return on investment (ROI) of any security in any asset class in the 2010s. Jack Dorsey’s Square Crypto says, “This decade was just bitcoin warming up.” Here are four reasons to expect even more from bitcoin in the 2020s. Square Crypto, the bitcoin division of Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s Square Payments, rang in the new decade with a prediction.Source: TwitterHere are four reasons why Square Crypto’s assessment holds true.Now why should you take any...