Tagged: btc

December 2, 2020 @ 9:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

During the past few weeks, Ari Paul, CIO at BlockTower Capital, and Luke Martin, a prominent digital asset trader, have noted that Bitcoin’s (BTC) upward price movements since late October 2020 have mostly taken place during US market hours. A report from Coin Metrics points… Read More

December 1, 2020 @ 8:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Coinrule, a cryptocurrency trading startup that recently secured over £410,000 in funding through its Seedrs round, notes in a blog post published by crypto futures and options exchange Deribit that Investors now have a new option they can add to their investment… Read More

December 1, 2020 @ 7:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

London-based CoinShares, a company that aims to expand access to the digital asset ecosystem while serving as a trusted partner for its clients, has noted that the Bitcoin (BTC) price has been closing-in on the “very psychological” all-time-high (of nearly $20,000) “coupled with momentary fears… Read More

November 30, 2020 @ 10:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at HASHR8 Inc., a cryptocurrency mining and media firm that aims to support the “decentralized growth” of hashrate (or computing power used to secure digital currency networks) while enhancing the security of blockchains, has published a report titled, The State of Bitcoin Mining… Read More

November 30, 2020 @ 6:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin (BTC) mining difficulty, which aims to measure the amount of resources needed to compete for mining newly minted BTC, had increased by around 9% in the past 24 hours (at the time of writing). According to data from Glassnode, an on-chain market analysis provider,… Read More

November 29, 2020 @ 5:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance, the world’s largest digital asset exchange, notes in its latest crypto market overview report that it hasn’t seen prices this high since December 2017 (which was during the historic bull market that led to Bitcoin surging to nearly $20,000 and Ethereum reaching a price… Read More

November 28, 2020 @ 2:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin (BTC), the flagship cryptocurrency, is considered a legitimate store of value (SoV) by many investors, as it allows them to hedge against “expansionist monetary policies,” according to a blog post by Ledger Vault, a digital asset security solution for financial institutions, powered by Ledger… Read More

November 28, 2020 @ 1:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The TokenInsight team notes that once again (unsurprisingly), we all received a “big gift” from the digital asset market for Thanksgiving with Bitcoin (BTC) crashing – which came right after it surged past the $19,000 mark for the first time in around three years. The… Read More

November 27, 2020 @ 1:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BTCPay Server, a self-hosted, open-source digital currency payment processor that claims to be secure, private, “censorship-resistant” and free to use, recently expanded its ability to bring Bitcoin’s (BTC) values to global digital commerce with a Shopify integration The BTCPay Server team, which is one of… Read More

November 26, 2020 @ 9:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ahead of the upcoming Ethereum 2.0 upgrade, ETH has been experiencing “significant momentum,” according to a report from OKCoin. The digital asset exchange notes that during the past week, the Ethereum price surged 30% to a high of over $600, but it has corrected sharply… Read More

November 25, 2020 @ 6:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin (BTC), the flagship cryptocurrency, is approaching its all-time of nearly $20,000 which it set back in December 2017 during the historic crypto market bull run. Bitcoin peaked at $18,950 this past week, and has begun to move higher toward its new year-to-date highs at… Read More

November 23, 2020 @ 7:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Paypal (NASDAQ: PYPL) has reportedly acquired as much as 70% of all the newly mined Bitcoin (BTC) since the payments company began allowing users to purchase digital currencies. These estimates have been provided by Pantera Capital, a prominent hedge fund management firm. The company published… Read More

November 22, 2020 @ 2:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Antminer S19 Pro price has surged around 30% since October 2020 after the Bitcoin (BTC) price began to rise. As confirmed by the HASHR8 team, the Bitcoin price increases have “widened profit margins for miners but capital expenditure costs are also rising.” John Lee… Read More

November 22, 2020 @ 11:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin (BTC), the world’s leading digital currency that’s trading at over $18,000, has become less volatile than many S&P 500 stocks. The team at VanEck, a New York-based investment management firm, has noted: “Historically, Bitcoin has been discussed in the news and among investors as… Read More

November 20, 2020 @ 1:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Bitcoin (BTC) price has been hovering around $18,000 for the past few days. According to blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis, this means that we’re in the midst of a significant price surge that has not been seen since the bull run of late 2017 and… Read More

November 17, 2020 @ 9:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance, the world’s largest digital asset exchange, notes that between October 15 and November 15, 2020, the total market cap for crypto-assets surged from $359 billion to as high as $468 billion toward the end of the latest week – which represents a 34-month high…. Read More

November 16, 2020 @ 8:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

US-based crypto exchange Kraken recently published its Bitcoin volatility report covering the month of October 2020. Kraken Intelligence, which is the exchange’s team of in-house research professionals, has noted that each month, they take an extensive look into the fundamental and technical factors that impact… Read More

November 15, 2020 @ 7:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Kevin Rooke, a digital asset analyst who’s well-known for his insightful tweets, recently noted that Grayscale, one of the largest institutional investors in the crypto space, is “on fire.” Rooke revealed that Grayscale’s Bitcoin (BTC) Investment Trust now holds around 506,000 BTC, which is about… Read More

November 15, 2020 @ 4:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance, the world’s largest digital asset exchange, says it hasn’t seen Bitcoin (BTC) this “expensive” since December 2017. The leading blockchain firm along with the rest of the crypto industry is now wondering whether Bitcoin will be setting another all-time high (after trading for nearly… Read More

November 14, 2020 @ 4:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

After experiencing a strong correction earlier this month, leading decentralized finance (DeFi) tokens have been able to recover strongly, OKCoin reports. The San Francisco-based crypto exchange notes that DeFi tokens crashed in late-October 2020 and were performing poorly earlier this month as investors appeared to… Read More