Showing posts from January, 2021
Bitcoin prices finished the last week slightly higher despite a rebound in the US dollar. The flagship cryptocurrency ended 2.63 percent hig...

Bitcoin Weekly Outlook: Market Looks to Capitalize Wall Street Chaos

Long in the making, Zurich’s Crypto Broker AG announced Monday it has been granted a securities house license by the Swiss Financial Mark...

Switzerland’s Crypto Broker AG Wins Securities House License From FINMA

Dogecoin rallied by more than 85%, suggesting Wall Street Bet’s crypto wing may have decided that they weren’t done with DOGE yet.

85% Dogecoin rally shows Wall Street Bets aren’t done with DOGE yet

Bitcoin has done extremely well over the past few months in terms of its price action. The cryptocurrency shot to all-time highs above $40...

Mr. Beast Tweets About Bitcoin to His 10 Million Twitter Followers

More than 200,000 Redditors joined the page last week.

Bitcoin subreddit hits 2M subscribers following GameStop controversy

A Melvin Capital client claims that the firm has "massively de-risked" its investment portfolio following the controversy involvi...

Hedge fund behind shorting GameStop reports 53% loss in January

It’s hard to do justice to the symbolism and significance of the Reddit-Robinhood-GameStop drama of this past week. That’s not to say...

Crypto Long & Short: GameStop, Dogecoin and a New Market Paradigm

Bitcoin price fell back into the descending triangle but this dip may attract buyers to altcoins and DeFi tokens in the short term.

Top 5 cryptocurrencies to watch this week: BTC, ETH, UNI, ATOM, COMP

In 2020, holding the top 100 altcoins equally was a more lucrative investment than Bitcoin up until Dec. 18, according to eToro.

‘When alt season?’ eToro may have some answers

XRP rallied hard on Saturday in a move similar to a crowd pump recently observed in out-of-favor stocks such as GameStop.  The cryptoc...

XRP Posted Biggest Single-Day Gain in 3 Years in a Coordinated Buying Attack

Even Elon Musk’s power has its limits, apparently, as bitcoin gave back all its gains from a nearly 20% pump that coincided with commotio...

Bitcoin Falls Back to $32K as Elon Musk’s Bio Change Fades Into Memory

The only way for DeFi to realize its potential is through an omni-chain approach, enabling assets of any kind to flow freely through all pl...

The future of crypto trading will be omni-chain

It has been a rocky past few days for Bitcoin, with the crypto seeing mixed price action that has muddied the clarity that investors previo...

Bitcoin Price Plunges as Bulls Fail to Break One Crucial Level; What’s Next?

Kumar Gaurav said "there is no way any government" can outright ban crypto given its nature as a global and decentralized system.

Indian government looking to crack down on crypto scams with proposed ban: Cashaa CEO

MSTR stock has surged by roughly 113% since Dec. 8 when it was downgraded by a Citigroup analyst.

Thanks Bitcoin, MicroStrategy stock is up 113% since being downgraded by Citigroup

In the digitizing world, identity is everything and blockchain is to make it safe for everyone: users, businesses and governments.

Decentralized identity is the way to fighting data and privacy theft

The GameStop short squeeze and Bitcoin have a lot more in common than appears at the surface, according to Paolo Ardoino.

Bitcoin ‘ascendant’ as GameStop saga unfolds, Bitfinex CTO says

As another $2-trillion stimulus package looms in the U.S., institutions will continue to look at BTC as a hedge against inflation.

Institutional demand for crypto isn’t subsiding, but impact will be gradual

The time has come to make decentralized finance more P2P-oriented than it has been so far.

DeFi has to be improved by embracing its peer-to-peer aspect

A reading of Dalio’s first long-form essay on his thoughts about bitcoin and cryptocurrencies.

What Ray Dalio Really Thinks of Bitcoin

In the future, owning unique art won’t be restricted to the elites, but will everyone have digital art on their walls?

How much is too much? Crypto art market brings together deep pockets and big artists

Bitcoin is slowing down and weakening on-chain metrics are forcing traders to turn cautious in the short term.

Is the weakness of Bitcoin after the 'Elon Musk pump' hinting at a bull trap?

For managers, entrepreneurs and builders working with blockchain, performing a cost-benefit analysis of DLT implementations is crucial.

Blockchain is not a panacea, but where needed, it’s the savior

Public trust in banks and bankers never fully recovered after the Great Recession, and DeFi has ground to cover in this particular area.

DeFi is the future of banking that humanity deserves

The governance tokens for Uniswap and Compound reached new 2021 highs as altcoins and DeFi tokens pushed higher today.

Uniswap (UNI) and Compound (COMP) hit new highs as DeFi TVL reaches $27.6B

In the last 30 days, FTX Token rallied 105% as its exchange surpassed BitMEX and Deribit's open interest, but is there room for further...

FTX Token (FTT) rallies 105% as interest in derivatives trading grows

Virgil Griffith’s motion to dismiss the charges against him claiming that he violated U.S. sanctions law in North Korea was denied late ...

Judge Rejects Virgil Griffith’s Motion to Dismiss Charges of Aiding North Korea

The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — one week on Cointelegraph in on...

GameStop mayhem, Robinhood scandal, Musk tweets, DOGE explodes: Hodler’s Digest, Jan. 24–30

XRP price rallied 86% as members of a Reddit-based investing group shifted their focus from Dogecoin.

XRP price gains 86% after Wall Street Bets’ crypto wing says 'pump it'

Bitcoin has seen some wild price action throughout the past few days, with the crypto seeing a “pump and dump” rally that led it to $39,000...

Bitcoin Reclaims Key Level Following Yesterday’s Wild “Pump and Dump”

The payments giant is bullish on stablecoins, but may be overlooking the potential of DeFi

Visa reaffirms commitment to crypto payments & fiat on-ramps

India’s cryptocurrency investors were caught off-guard and left confused after news broke that the country’s Parliament will be consider...

India’s Proposed Ban of ‘Private’ Cryptos Has Many of the Nation’s Investors Nervous

Amazon and eBay don’t appear to be in a hurry to start accepting crypto. Does the digital assets sector need to create a platform of its ow...

Why the crypto world needs to build an Amazon of its own

On this episode of the ‘On Purpose’ podcast, independent registered investment advisor Tyrone Ross digs into the thorny topic of bitcoin ...

Are Financial Advisors Missing Crypto?

A speculative wave is now receding, and more than one trader regrets the ride.

Traders, influencers lick their wounds after vicious Dogecoin dump

As long time Bitcoiners, we are not shocked by the ongoing confusion around the nature of the bitcoin market. The reality is that, unlike ot...

Debunking Misconceptions From “The Bit Short: Inside Crypto’s Doomsday Machine”

Visa CEO Al Kelly said the payments giant is in a position to make cryptocurrencies more “safe, useful and applicable” and may add them t...

Visa May Add Cryptocurrencies to Its Payments Network, Says CEO

The price of Bitcoin has shown weakness after failing to clear $38,000

Bitcoin price chart shows 'Elon Musk' pump was an outlier — So what happens now?

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io . In this edition of the Breakdown’s weekly recap, NLW looks at: Image credit: Tiffany Hagler...

GameStop, Robinhood and the Failure of Un-Free Markets

Tim Draper, the billionaire Bitcoin investor who is also an early investor in Tesla, reacted to Elon Musk's Bitcoin moment.

BTC billionaire Tim Draper to Elon Musk: I'd buy the Tesla Cybertruck with Bitcoin

Now it’s up to the crypto industry itself to start engaging with and accepting regulations.

To see eye-to-eye? Crypto industry should start embracing regulation

A summary of the events that marked 2020 in the Spanish crypto space and opinions from different people of the industry who lived it from t...

Regulatory sandbox and DeFi boom: How Spain pushed crypto adoption despite the pandemic

Low-cost, low-latency and highly scalable blockchain infrastructure — that is what will lead crypto and DeFi to real mass adoption.

Run, blockchain, run! DeFi adoption needs faster block times

In this episode, Anna Baydakova , Tanzeel Akhtar and Danny Nelson discuss what the GameStop stock market chaos can teach crypto, why th...

The Small Guys Rebel Against their Big Brother Hedge Funds

Institutional investors have arrived at the cryptocurrency table, but does that mean that Bitcoin has now become a safe investment?

Risk it for the Bitcoin: Has BTC matured to be a safe investment play?

With hundreds of millions of dollars in daily volume, Bitrue is one of the industry’s busiest cryptocurrency exchanges. In order to maintain...

Bitrue Launches Trading Pair to Support NFT Integration with Gala Games

Bitcoin is struggling to retake the $35,000 level as one analyst predicts miners will continue selling BTC ahead of the Chinese New Year ho...

Analyst says Bitcoin price sell-off may occur as Chinese New Year approaches