The number of Bitcoin nodes is at an all-time high, with 11,558 reachable nodes currently active, according to Bitnodes.io. Another Bitcoin network statistics tracker, coin.dance, calculates the total number of Bitcoin nodes at 11,613, which is just above the previous [...]
On Tuesday, Ether (ETH) underwent a bullish breakout which propelled the price to a new all-time high at $1,428. While the move may have been technical, the fundamentals for Etheruem continue to improve as less than one month after launch there [...]
Blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis found that cryptocurrency-related crimes fell by more than 53% last year and that crypto activity that was connected to crimes was a mere 0.34% of transaction volume or $10 billion worth of transfers. This is still [...]
They were all hit by ransomware attacks in the last year.Boaz Sobrado is a London-based data analyst and cryptocurrency enthusiast.Ransomware attacks are when hackers gain access to the computer systems of the victim, and threaten to expose them or render [...]
Bitcoin climbed to its new all-time high on 9 January 2021 and at press time, it seemed like it might be Ethereum’s turn to set a new ATH of its own, three years on from its previous one. Beginning the [...]
Can Bitcoin’s (BTC) blockchain handle full mainstream adoption as a store of value, without needing layer-two scaling solutions? Konstantin Richter, founder and CEO of blockchain infrastructure company Blockdaemon, seems to think so.“Bitcoin is the best cryptocurrency suited for store of value,” [...]
A new survey by Deutsche Bank recorded investors’ opinions on Bitcoin. Respondents were asked specifically about the digital asset as well as electric car company Tesla. More than half of people surveyed (about 56%) now think that Bitcoin and Tesla [...]
Bitcoin (BTC) has travelled an eventful path since its creation in 2009. TradingView.com recently unveiled a BTC chart showing major events in the digital asset’s history, alongside the cryptocurrency's ever-changing price.Released on Tuesday, the chart points out potentially significant events [...]
A fresh Bitcoin (BTC) breakout is "imminent" and most likely to the upside, hedge fund Vailshire Capital Management says.In a tweet on Jan. 19, Jeff Ross, the firm's founder and CEO, described the outlook for BTC performance as "wildly bullish."Vailshire [...]
While Bitcoin’s price has more than doubled from its previous all-time high of $19,666 for the first time in almost 3 years, not a lot seems to have changed for India. For a country with 1.35 billion in population and [...]
As reported by The Times, Iran has pointed the finger at Bitcoin miners for causing the latest series of blackouts in several cities, including capital Tehran. One mine run by Chinese-Iranian miners in Rafsanjan apparently gobbled up 175 megawatt-hours of [...]
Bitcoin (BTC/USD) glided lower in today’s North American session as the pair fell to the 36839.23 area after trading as high as the 37550 area during the European session, stopping short of testing the 61.8% retracement of the recent depreciating [...]
In another throwback to the 2017 bull market, a major United States bank fund manager survey, or FMS, has put Bitcoin at the pinnacle of positive investor sentiment.According to Reuters, 36% of respondents identified a long Bitcoin bet as the [...]
advertisement Ethereum finally broke its previous all-time high of $1432 to create a new ATH at the time of writing. The second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap has nearly doubled its price since the start of the new year and many [...]
“Long bitcoin” – a bullish bet on the top cryptocurrency – is now the most crowded trade in financial markets, according to Bank of America’s January survey of fund managers.Published by Reuters on Tuesday, the research is evidence of the [...]
Despite Bitcoin clawing back to regain the $36,000-mark, altcoins such as Monero, Ethereum Classic, and Dogecoin remained cautious and awaited further cues to make a definitive move on the charts. In fact, a bullish scenario could see XMR topple its [...]
Updated: 100 Million Tether [USDT] were earlier moved to an unknown wallet and another 400 Million USDT is reported to be minted from Tether treasury. The movement of 100 Million USDT was followed by a decent pump in Bitcoin price, [...]
A hidden Biblical message has been found embedded in a transaction in block number 666,666 of the Bitcoin (BTC) blockchain. The message is a quotation from the sixth book in the New Testament, the Epistle to the Romans. First spotted [...]
Ethereum‘s price is on a parabolic rally right now, and it is very close to hitting a new ATH on the charts after breaching its previous ATH, a level set back in January 2018. In fact, its surge has been [...]
India’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, CoinDCX, has launched a new app aimed to make it easy to buy and sell bitcoin and other top digital assets in a bid to capture 50 million new users.According to a press release on Tuesday, [...]
advertisement Just as the Bitcoin (BTC) price scales new heights, a lot of world leaders and economists have started speaking about the world’s third-largest asset class after Gold and Silver. Raghuram Rajan, former IMF Chief Economist (2003-2007) who had correctly [...]
It is especially important for countries to become more aware of cryptocurrencies, especially with components like decentralized finance rising in prominence. Now that the Middle East is becoming more mining-friendly, the future suddenly looks bright once again for this region.Pakistani [...]
advertisement Ethereum has broken above the hypotenuse of an ascending triangle, adding credibility to the upswing. ETH/USD will validate the expected breakout to $1,800 on trading above the current yearly high at $1,800. Ethereum is in the middle of a [...]
Tokenized Bitcoin is booming, with the increasing demand from DeFi combined with BTC’s recent meteoric price rise has resulted in three Bitcoin tokenization protocols ranking among the 70 largest crypto markets.According to popular market data aggregators CoinGecko and CoinMarketCap, Wrapped [...]
Digital asset manager CoinShares is launching a Bitcoin exchange-traded product, or ETP, on the SIX Swiss Exchange.According to a report from Bloomberg today, the Bitcoin ETP will go live on Switzerland’s principal stock exchange tomorrow under the ticker symbol BITC. [...]
Cybersecurity research company Gemini Advisory found that Joker’s Stash, a dark web carding marketplace will reportedly shut down by next month. Their blog carried a note from the infamous marketplace’s administrator who claimed that he was now retiring. The reason [...]
The cryptocurrency market had been moving sideways given the lack of momentum in the Bitcoin market. However, on 18 January, the market saw a slight boost, and the prices of most cryptocurrencies suddenly shot up. Major cryptocurrencies like Litecoin [LTC] [...]
The United States Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN, recently proposed a series of new regulations applying to financial institutions dealing with digital currencies, such as Bitcoin (BTC). To summarize the proposed regulations, exchanges would essentially be required to file [...]
Grayscale Investments, the world’s largest digital-asset manager, could hold the key to Bitcoin’s (BTC) short-term price outlook, according to JPMorgan Chase. As Bloomberg reports, strategists led by Nikolas Panigirtzoglou believe Bitcoin could lose its luster over the short-term unless it can [...]
As the price broke out due to a surge in the Bitcoin market, many altcoins mirrored its movement and posted gains. Major altcoin, Binance Coin [BNB] has already been providing good returns to the investors, but other crypto assets were [...]
Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day to our U.S. readers! A former Canadian prime minister said bitcoin could become a global reserve currency, Goldman Sachs is reportedly looking to get into the crypto custody business and MetLife is bullish on [...]
With bitcoin hovering around $36,000 and Iran’s government blaming crypto miners for recent blackouts, CoinDesk’s Market’s Daily is back with the latest news roundup.Add Markets Daily to your Alexa Flash Briefing here.This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io.Prices fell by 6% [...]
advertisement Ruffer, a British fund manager in its half-yearly review lauded bitcoin and its growing influence among institutions as its recently revealed portfolio of $730 million in Bitcoin along with its exposure through MicroStrategy and Galaxy Digital has more than [...]
Throughout 2020, we saw a consistent flow of news about legacy finance, major investment companies and large corporations looking to enter the digital assets industry. The value proposition for investing in Bitcoin (BTC) and other digital currencies started to move [...]
Stephen Harper, an economist and the former prime minister of Canada, said bitcoin could potentially see use as a reserve currency, but it isn’t going to supplant the U.S. dollar’s international role.In an interview with Cambridge House’s Jay Martin on [...]
Bitcoin (BTC/USD) weakened early in today’s North American session as the pair fell to the 34736.46 area after trading as high as the 36860 area during the Asian session, with the intraday high representing a test of the 23.6% retracement [...]
advertisement Former Goldman Sachs hedge fund manager and CEO of Galaxy Digital – Mike Novogratz – has spoken about the most heated topic in discussion, Bitcoin private keys. Speaking to Yahoo Finance, Novogratz said that losing Bitcoin keys is a [...]
Bitcoin (BTC) is still at the “low end” of a 2021 bubble, new data tracking miner and investor behavior suggests. In the latest signal that BTC price action still has major growth potential, researcher Geert Jan Cap showed bullish signs coming [...]
Decentralized oracle network Chainlink’s LINK token and other prominent alternative cryptocurrencies (dubbed altcoins) are charting solid gains as the crypto market leader bitcoin takes a bull breather. LINK set a new record price of $23.68 overnight and is changing hands near [...]
The crypto industry has boomed over the past 12 months. While 2019 began with a total market cap of $200 billion, the explosion in Bitcoin’s value resulted in this figure surging fivefold as 2020 began — and according to CoinMarketCap, [...]
The 2021 bull run of Bitcoin has pushed the digital asset to an unknown territory with regard to price discovery. The current value of the digital asset has been dropping and reached $35k which is still a price level unseen [...]
Bitcoin is up only slightly on Monday after seeing its biggest weekly decline in over four months. At press time, the cryptocurrency is trading 0.2% higher on the day near $35,838, according to CoinDesk 20 data. Prices fell by 6% in [...]
Russian cryptocurrency exchange Livecoin has announced it is shutting down after abruptly halting operations in late December 2020.According to Livecoin’s main page, the exchange is unable to continue operations due to financial and technical damages caused by an alleged attack [...]
advertisement Bitcoin (BTC) remains a hot topic of discussion among top delegates and institutions of the world. The former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers has recently endorsed Bitcoin saying that it is here to stay. During an interview with the [...]
Since 2011, a group of enthusiasts and collectors have been obsessed with the physical manifestation of Bitcoin. On the face of it, physical Bitcoin seems like a contradiction to the key terms that define it, so a trustless, instantly transferable virtual [...]
advertisement JPMorgan analysts state that Bitcoin (BTC) can see a further downside if it fails to make a strong move upwards to $40,000. The analysts said that unless BTC registered a strong “break-out”, it can see consistent profit-booking at this [...]
advertisement Bitcoin revisits $34,000 to allow more buyers to enter the market as upside eyes $40,000 again. BTC/USD is drawing nigh to a massive falling wedge pattern breakout. Bitcoin price revisited support at $34,000 after rising to $40,000 last week. [...]
Over the past two months the open interest on Bitcoin options has held reasonably steady even as the figure increased by 118% to reach $8.4 billion as (BTC) price rose to a new all-time high. The result of Bitcoin’s price [...]
Stephen Harper, who served as prime minister of Canada for nine years, says there may be a place for Bitcoin and central bank digital currencies as part of a basket of reserve currencies to replace the dollar.In an interview with [...]
To think that such a festive concept, one that evokes both sophistication and childlike wonder, could become so financially charged …Last week, Bank of America Securities chief investment strategist Michael Hartnett said in a note that bitcoin looks like “the [...]
