Category: Bitcoin

Bitcoin (BTC) is getting compared to late 2020, but this rally in fact has several major differences that make it “not normal.” According to Pete Humiston, manager of Kraken Intelligence Research, Bitcoin in Q3 2021 is a different beast when compared to Q4 2020. GBTC keeps its steep discount Despite going from $29,000 to $48,000

The cryptocurrency market has successfully rebounded from the two-month slump it had gone into from late May to the end of July. Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) have been leading the charge, posting impressive gains over the last two weeks. The market is seeing price levels that it had reached back in May of this

Fitch Ratings has become the latest global credit rating agency to warn El Salvador against adopting Bitcoin (BTC) as legal tender, expressing concerns that crypto assets could cause systemic risks for the Latin American nation. Citing the country’s lack of clarity in Bitcoin’s implementation in mainstream markets, Fitch Ratings warned about the inherent volatility and

Columbia Investment Management Company president and CEO Kim Lew thinks that cryptocurrencies are here to stay.  “I think it will have profound effects,” she said in a recent interview, adding, “There are many different avenues that it can go.” Lew explained that people could build many new things within the crypto ecosystem, such as stablecoins and

Bitcoin (BTC) is replacing gold even as United States’ regulators attempt to disrupt its advance, said Mike McGlone of Bloomberg Intelligence on Monday. The senior commodity market strategist credited the “digitization of money and finance” behind the Bitcoin market’s superior growth against gold, noting that the same factors helped the U.S. dollar gain dominance “rapidly

A prominent crypto strategist and trader says he’s expecting Dogecoin, Solana and one more altcoin to ignite huge rallies while Bitcoin and Ethereum take a breather. The pseudonymous trader, known in the industry as Pentoshi, tells his 291,000 Twitter followers that Dogecoin (DOGE) is poised to rally to $0.42 after taking out resistance at $0.23

Bitcoin (BTC) touched $47,000 on Tuesday as ranging behavior continued to hint at an attack on major resistance. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView Volatility narrows for Bitcoin Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD attempting to exit the $46,000 range on Tuesday after heading lower as the week began. The area between

A study conducted by cryptocurrency exchange and custodian Gemini says Cardano is one of the most popular crypto assets in Southeast Asia’s city-state Singapore.   In a report titled “The State of Crypto in Singapore 2021,” Gemini surveyed 4,348 Singaporean adults, ages 18 to 65, across varying income brackets. According to the report, 67% of

A man from Maryland has been charged with laundering 2,933 Bitcoin (BTC), worth around $139 million, from a US prison cell. Ryan Farace, 37, has been accused by federal prosecutors of laundering money while serving a 57-month prison sentence for selling drugs on the dark web.   Originally convicted in 2018, Farace was previously ordered

The double-digit rallies seen from many altcoins shows traders are becoming increasingly bullish with the passing of each day, but maintaining this momentum will to some extent depend on Bitcoin’s (BTC) short-term price action. Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView shows that after touching the $48,000 price level during the early morning trading hours