Archive for February 2021
Bitcoin Miners Net Position Turn Positive: A Crypto Bull Case?
Bitcoin in Downtrend After another week of turbulent market volatility, the cryptocurrency market saw severe drops with Bitcoin (BTC) and its peers plummeting nearly 25% from recent highs. This selloff caught many speculators and traders off-guard, causing a panic reaction across the market. The Crypto Fear and Greed Index shifted from a weekly high of…
Read MoreThe SEC Releases Compliance Notice on Future Crypto Regulations
As the traditional financial world begins its mainstream adoption of crypto assets, the process of legitimizing digital assets as financial products pose myriad of risks and regulatory challenges. Breaking Down the SEC’s Future Crypto Regulations Today, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released an 8-page document that details the framework in which the agency…
Read MoreFractal From Last Bull Run Says Bitcoin Will Hit $100K By May
Bitcoin price is back over $50,000 after bullish news broke this morning regarding Coinbase officially filing to go public. However, according to a fractal from the last bull market cycle kicking off in early 2017, that number could be merely the halfway point to where the cryptocurrency will trade in just two months from now.…
Read MoreRaise $1bn to Buy Bitcoin, Jim Cramer Tells GameStock (GME) Board
Just as the GameStop Corp. (NYSE: GME) shares exploded higher in the final hours of trading on Wednesday, Jim Cramer advised the videogame retailer’s board to buy Bitcoin to increase its stock prices further. “One last time GME,” tweeted the CNBC’s Mad Money host. “Issue one billion dollars in stock, buy one billion in bitcoin,…
Read More5% Of Bitcoin Supply Expected To Be Used As Collateral By 2023
Only recently has the world of finance open its eyes to the potential of Bitcoin. As the asset’s price climbs, the various use cases it could serve also comes to light. According to new data, as much as 5% of the total BTC supply is projected to be used as collateral by the year 2023.…
Read MoreBitcoin Rebounds as PayPal Rival Buys $170M BTC; Boom Ahead?
Yerevan (Bitcoinist) – Bitcoin underwent a modest recovery this Wednesday after Square, a payment service rival to PayPal, revealed its recent investments into the cryptocurrency. The Twitter-fame Jack Dorsey’s firm purchased $170 million worth of bitcoin tokens at an average rate of $53,125. Combined with its $50 million investment into the cryptocurrency previously, the latest…
Read MoreUnderstanding Two Prominent Second Layer Ethereum Blockchain Solutions
The meteoric rise of decentralized finance across 2020 exposed numerous vulnerabilities with the Ethereum network. While the Ethereum blockchain is one of the most secure and ‘battle-hardened’ infrastructures, high gas costs and scalability issues have led some projects to innovate instead of waiting for the long-desired Ethereum 2.0. Second-layer solutions have gained notoriety lately as…
Read MoreRadix Teams Up With Industry Giants to Bring DeFi to 100 Million
Decentralized finance applications have seen massive growth in the last year, currently storing over 50x times more value than at the start of 2020. The DeFi journey may just be beginning, however, as Radix has partnered with several of the most prominent names in crypto to launch the Goodfi Alliance, a DeFi growth initiative. In…
Read MoreBitcoin Drops Alongside Tech Stocks as Bond Yields Rise
Bitcoin fell sharply on Monday and continued declining into the early Tuesday session as traders feared its excessive valuations after a 100 percent rise this year. The benchmark cryptocurrency lost more than $8,000, or 13.91 percent, to trade below $50,000. At its week-to-date low, it was changing hands for as much as $46,700. Bitcoin’s closest…
Read MoreThe Dark Side of Ethereum
For the last six years, Ethereum has dominated the smart contract landscape and has been arguably the only viable platform for launching decentralized applications (dApps) — due to its sizeable developer community and first-mover advantage. But in the last year, Ethereum’s limitations have begun to show, leading to an exodus of sorts among its once…
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