Category: Bitcoin

The Keep Network has released details for the second iteration of its “trust-minimized” Bitcoin tokenization protocol, tBTC. In an April 11 blog post, Keep Network developer, Evandro Saturnino, outlined several changes the protocol is considering to address it’s past issues with collateralization. tBTC’s second iteration is expected to require stakers to only lock up KEEP

Reddit’s r/Cryptocurrency community revived an interesting piece of Bitcoin (BTC) history on Sunday, with a new thread reminiscing about the time that American software developer Gavin Andresen gave away 19,700 BTC.  A thread started by “uGroundbreakingLack78” took the Reddit community all the way back to June 2010 when Andresen first launched the so-called Bitcoin faucet

Prominent on-chain data analyst Willy Woo says that Bitcoin’s market cap will probably never dip below the $1 trillion mark ever again. In a series of tweets, the widely followed trader posits that Bitcoin’s price action is mirroring similar periods of previous bull runs right before the continuation of an upward explosion. “I’m putting us

Bitcoin (BTC) has been struggling to break the $60,000 resistance for almost a month. But despite the impasse, BTC futures markets have never been so bullish. While regular spot exchanges are trading near $59,600, the BTC contracts maturing in June are trading above $65,000. Futures contracts tend to trade at a premium, mainly on neutral-to-bullish

Aaron Arnold, co-founder and host of Altcoin Daily, says that most investors do not know how massive Bitcoin and the entire crypto market will get as the current bull market matures. In a new video, Arnold tells the channel’s 634,000 YouTube subscribers that BTC is gearing up for a massive breakout reminiscent of its nine-month

For the very first time in a Bitcoin (BTC) bull market, not only long-term investors but also short-term speculators who usually add to the daily sell pressure toward the end of a market cycle have become increasingly confident of higher prices as they hold on to their Bitcoin. This only adds to the already existing

Venture capital funding for crypto and blockchain startups looks set to break records in 2021. As previously reported by Cointelegraph, crypto firms received more funding in the first quarter of 2021 than the whole of 2020. Indeed, three companies in the market attracted $1.1 billion from backers in Q1 202 — a third of the

Ethereum is likely to outperform Bitcoin, at least in the short term, said veteran trader Scott Melker in an exclusive interview with Cointelegraph.  Alt szn is upon us Melker sees this period of Bitcoin’s price consolidation as particularly bullish for the second largest cryptocurrency, that recently reached new all time highs. Melker sees Ether’s outstanding

Hester Peirce, Commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), says that it will be a fool’s errand for the United States government to ban Bitcoin. In an interview with MarketWatch, the SEC Commissioner, who is also fondly referred to as crypto mom for her pro-cryptocurrency stance, says she doesn’t see the US government

The price of Bitcoin (BTC) has surpassed $61,000 on April 10 for the first time in nearly a month. Following the breakout, traders are starting to look at new levels of resistance and support in the short-term as optimism returns to the market. In the near term, besides the all-time high at around $61,800, there