A few brave people in Panama are pushing to move a cryptocurrency bill forward as they work to overcome fear and uncertainty from the majority in Congress and the general population. On June 8, 2021, Satoshi Nakamoto smiled as wide as the horizon that can be seen from the west beach of El Zonte. After all, perhaps not even Satoshi could have predicted a sovereign nation adopting bitcoin as legal tender just 12 years after its invention. Since El Salvador Read more …
“Bitcoin is a bubble” is something that has been thrown around a lot ever since the last bull run began in 2017. A lot of prominent personalities in the finance industry took this stand when the digital asset hit its then all-time high of $19K. The bear market that followed seemed to validate this for the next few years. Then the bull run of 2020 started and a lot of those sentiments were put on the back burner. But now, Read more …
Last Week In Bitcoin is a series discussing the events of the previous week that occurred in the Bitcoin industry, covering all the important news and analysis. Summary Of The Week The week started off great with bitcoin breaching $50,000 on Monday, but it seemed to stagnate as the days went on. While many complained, bitcoin was already up 60% over the preceding month and a short cool-off period is nothing new. In the week, MicroStrategy stacked up and continued Read more …
There is a before and after in one particular Bitcoin indicator that could be signaling bearish price action in the short term. BTC picking up movement to the upside in the daily chart Source: BTCUSD Tradingview As stated by many experts, the current bullish momentum can only be supported by strong demand, otherwise, BTC’s price could move sideways or risk returning to its former range below $40,000. If anything has me concerned it’s this. Where is the demand? pic.twitter.com/id2a7l6tEf — Read more …
This week Blockchain.com CFO Macrina Kgil discussed how the company has surpassed $1 trillion in cryptocurrency transactions and the company may go public with an initial public offering (IPO) in 2023. The cryptocurrency firm is one of the oldest in the industry and Kgil explained that 76 million Blockchain.com wallets have been created since the company’s inception. $1 Trillion in Crypto Transactions Processed, 76 Million Wallets Created In March 2021, Bitcoin.com News reported on Blockchain.com raising $300 million and receiving Read more …
PeckShield reported through a tweet of the new hack on Cream Finance. The blockchain security company said a flash loan attack on the decentralized finance lending and borrowing protocol. #FlashLoanAlert https://t.co/JPW7e368qd — PeckShield Inc. (@peckshield) August 30, 2021 PeckShield explained that the hacking came through a 500 Ethereum flash loan from the attacker. This was used to infiltrate a reentrancy bug in the smart contract of the Flex Network. Usually, flash loans being undercollateralized can be borrowed and repaid within Read more …
There’s been plenty of jibber-jabber about how much the United States stands to benefit from the great hash rate migration from China, but what about the U.S.’s continental cousin, Canada? A few months ago, a news report surfaced that said Bitfarms, one of Canada’s largest bitcoin miners, was quitting Quebec on account of rising energy prices and stringent regulations. In fact this isn’t true; Bitfarms is expanding in Quebec, but it’s just moving moving part of its fleet to South Read more …
press release PRESS RELEASE. AscendEX, a global digital asset trading platform with a comprehensive product suite, is thrilled to announce the listing of the Kava Swap token (SWP) under the pair USDT/SWP on Aug 31 at 1 p.m. UTC. In celebration of the SWP listing, AscendEX will work with the team at Kava Swap to launch two limited-time promotional events, taking place from Aug. 31, 1:00 a.m. UTC to Sept. 7, 12:00 a.m. UTC. By completing tasks and executing trades, Read more …
Bitcoin price is struggling to break through resistance at $50,000, and it could partially be altcoins to blame for the weakness. The most recent technical structure on the highest time frames suggests that not only could alts continue to gain against BTC dominance, altcoin season itself could last a while longer. Bitcoin Dominance And Technical Analysis Using The Metric Technical analysis is a subjective art. The practice has enough naysayers as is, but even those that subscribe to the study Read more …
The Binance NFT Marketplace announced today that the non-fungible token (NFT) platform will launch a premium NFT collection backed by the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The NFT auction will begin on August 31 and run until September 7, 2021. The NFT auction will feature NFT artwork by the world-renowned artists’ Vincent Van Gogh, Claude Monet, and Leonardo da Vinci. State Hermitage Museum and Binance Collaborate to Sell World-Renowned Art in NFT Form It seems that 2021 is Read more …
PlanB, the popularizer behind the Bitcoin S2F method, says the model predicts BTC will break $100k by this Christmas. The Bitcoin Stock-To-Flow Model According to PlanB on Twitter, the BTC stock-to-flow (or S2F in short) model predicts that the cryptocurrency is on its way to break $100k by Christmas. The S2F model is a method to predict the price of an asset based on the ratio of the stock (supply) to the flow (annual production). PlanB is commonly known as Read more …
Approximately 25 days ago, the Ethereum blockchain implemented the London hard fork and a number of features were added to the ruleset. One of the most anticipated changes was EIP-1559 which makes the crypto asset ether deflationary by burning a fraction of coins. Since August 5, over $432 million worth of ether has been burned, and at the time of writing, 136,606 ether has been burned. Over $432 Million in Ethereum Burned The Ethereum (ETH) blockchain is the second most Read more …