Month: February 2020

Bitcoin (BTC) has in fact already started the bull run, which could spark its run-up to $100,000, two popular social media personalities have said. Speaking in a Market Discussion on Jan. 31, YouTube bloggers The Moon (Carl Runefelt) and DataDash (Nicholas Merten) told Cointelegraph that Bitcoin had been in a bull market “for some time.” DataDash eyes $100K BTC bull target The two form the latest voices from trading circles to go decisively bullish on BTC, cementing positive sentiment from Read more …

It’s been 27 hours since my last meal and my body is starting to eat itself. Autophagy, literally self-eating, is the latest dietary trend in the crypto community. More commonly known as fasting, the idea is to abstain from ingesting food for a set amount of time, ranging anywhere from 24 hours to an entire month or beyond. In doing so, proponents hope to improve their bodily health and mental acuity.  With nine hours left to my own exercise in Read more …

Litecoin was trending higher on Saturday against an otherwise bearish intraday narrative in the overall cryptocurrency market. The seventh-largest crypto by market cap closed above its seven-week high to hit $72.72. The strong move upward brought Litecoin’s intraday rise to more than 6 percent. At the same time, its gains this week notched up to 36.25 percent (data from BitStamp). Litecoin rate continues to climb despite corrective macro sentiment | Source: TradingView.com, BitStamp Nothing Pumped Litecoin Elsewhere in the cryptocurrency Read more …

Advertisment As 2020 is kicking off in earnest it is natural to look to the future for a brighter future. A new car, a better job, promotion, lose that holiday weight, etc. These are common resolutions for people the world over. But what about crypto resolutions? Do you want to become a better trader? Find the next 1,000x gem? Or hang out with your anonymous internet friends and industry insiders?  While I have no idea which coins will pump in Read more …

At the start of 2018, everyone thought Bitcoin was going to the moon, so to speak. 2017 saw the price of BTC surge by thousands of percent, boosted by retail inflows which itself was caused by the hype around altcoins like Ethereum. Thus, when Bitcoin began to rapidly tumble in the months that followed January 2018, analysts began to worry. By around April, it became clear the cryptocurrency market had reentered a bearish state. But the following question remained: how Read more …

On January 30, the software developer Pokkst published a blog post sharing his experience of how he’s been maintaining the Java BCH library bitcoincashj for the last 10 months. At one time Pokkst used to develop BTC applications, but then switched to working with BCH in March 2019. The programmer explained how he put a lot of work into the bitcoincashj library after forking it from Mike Hearn’s original bitcoinj implementation. Also read: Cashfusion Far More Practical Than Other Coinjoin Read more …

There’s no doubt XRP saw poor performance in 2019. During that year, the price of the asset against the U.S. dollar fell by 50%, managing to underperform a swath of traditional asset classes, from stocks and bonds to precious metals and commodities. Because Bitcoin saw a strong 2019, rallying by over 90%, the XRP/BTC pair fell dramatically, even more so than the altcoin’s pair against the dollar and other fiat currencies. One XRP, in fact, is now valued at under Read more …

Slowly but surely, institutional players are moving into the crypto/blockchain neighborhood. According to a 2019 Fidelity Investments survey, about 22% of institutional investors already have some exposure to digital assets, with most investments having been made within the past three years. Moreover, 4 in 10 respondents say they are open to future investments in digital assets over the next five years. “Institutional investor involvement in cryptocurrency in 2019 has been primarily about getting the infrastructure in place, such as the Read more …

Advertisment Unfortunately, we can’t enjoy an ideal social media network that would balance the freedom of speech with political correctness. Besides, behemoths like Facebook can share your private data or carry out secret mood manipulation experiments. Is Block.one’s Voice an alternative? You Have to Share Your Real Identity on VoiceLast year, Block.one, the company behind EOS blockchain, announced its ambition to challenge Facebook and develop a social media platform that will reward users with blockchain-based tokens for voicing their opinions.However, Read more …

Bitcoin had an amazing past decade by every definition of the word. The price of the cryptocurrency surged by literal millions of percent since its birth in 2009, some of the world’s most important people — Elon Musk included(!) — gave a nod to the cryptocurrency, and the broader industry began a mainstream technological trend. Related Reading: Tesla is the Greatest Performing Asset In 2020. It Even Surpassed Bitcoin Bitcoin’s clear outperformance against all other assets in existence has left Read more …

Bitcoin has been having a great year so far for the first month of 2020, up 28.6% since the first of January. The daily chart is looking bullish, and a golden cross is forming, but Bitcoin hasn’t crossed the 10K mark, yet. Let’s take a look at why that may be. Bitcoin bulls have been optimistic for the new year, and the market shows it. The market’s leading cryptocurrency is up almost 30% since the beginning of the year. The Read more …

Ethereum has seen some incredibly strong price action over the past several days and weeks, with ETH’s massive 2020 rally coming against the backdrop of immense bullishness within the aggregated cryptocurrency markets. Ethereum’s bulls have even been able to maintain its newfound position within the $180, in spite of the drop seen today by Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Analysts are now noting that the macro situation for Ethereum is becoming incredibly bullish, and that the rally seen over the past Read more …