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PortuguêsCredit-card lender Crypto.com has boosted the number of total users by at least 50% in the past two months to 3 million, according to CEO Kris Marszalek. The company’s chief disclosed the…
Continue ReadingCredit-card lender and wallet provider Crypto.com’s Chain (CRO) token surged 33% in June, dominating digital-asset markets as bitcoin, ether and XRP from Ripple all declined. The CRO token’s gains made…
Continue ReadingBitcoin has traded in an ever-tightening range for two months, and digital-market analysts say a new wave of coronavirus cases and emergency measures could provoke the largest cryptocurrency by market cap out…
Continue ReadingSince the end of 2017, the assumed trajectory was that well-heeled financial institutions would take the reins from retail investors, becoming the main driving force and primary investor class in…
Continue ReadingIn the cryptocurrency markets, no two exchanges are alike. Even in major crypto exchanges, trading U.S. dollars for bitcoin can have fairly different order sizes and spreads, according to data…
Continue ReadingThere’s a strange trend in crypto derivatives right now: volumes have dropped precipitously, just as open interest has boomed. What’s going on? Since the May 11 halving event, trading volumes…
Continue ReadingFew investors ever get into bitcoin hoping for stability, but over the past eight or so weeks that’s pretty much what they’ve got. Since the start of May, bitcoin’s price…
Continue ReadingThe cryptocurrency investment fund Three Arrows disclosed earlier this month that it had become the biggest investor in the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust, after buying about $200 million of shares in the publicly traded bitcoin…
Continue ReadingXRP, the fourth-biggest digital asset by market value, has been left out of 2020’s rally in cryptocurrencies, marking the second straight year of underperformance compared with its larger and more…
Continue ReadingThe speculative fervor surrounding the autonomous lender Compound’s new digital token took another notch up Thursday as its already relatively lofty price more than doubled in 24 hours. The rapid…
Continue ReadingCrypto traders are homing in on a pattern that’s becoming weirdly familiar: Stocks fall, bitcoin falls; the Federal Reserve makes a new stimulus announcement, stocks rise, bitcoin rises. No one…
Continue ReadingThis week’s debut of live trading in the autonomous lender Compound’s digital token has provided a new data point on just how frenzied the speculation has become over the future…
Continue ReadingWhether or not the Federal Reserve eventually cuts interest rates to negative levels, it might be a case of heads: bitcoin wins, tails: bitcoin wins. So far this year, the…
Continue ReadingAs Ethereum pushes slowly toward a new type of blockchain technology that some cryptocurrency experts predict could represent the future of decentralized finance, the upstart competitor Cardano is getting ready…
Continue ReadingIn a redux of trading from the early days of the coronavirus crisis in March, bitcoin tumbled Thursday in tandem with a sell-off on Wall Street – rekindling an ongoing…
Continue ReadingThere’s no end in sight to loose monetary policy at the Federal Reserve, and that’s just fine with bitcoin bulls. Officials with the U.S. central bank, led by Fed…
Continue ReadingAs Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell steers U.S. monetary policymakers away from negative interest rates, he risks becoming increasingly isolated among the world’s top central bankers. Officials in the U.K., Europe and…
Continue ReadingFor investors looking to bet on the coming adoption of digital assets, there might be a stock for that: Shares of the cryptocurrency retail broker Voyager Digital are outperforming this…
Continue ReadingThere’s a disconnect between crypto markets and Wall Street. Among bitcoin bulls, a key investment thesis is that the trillions of dollars of money injections by global central banks will…
Continue ReadingBased on a slew of recent predictions, bitcoin prices could more than double this year to $20,000. Or go to $250,000 by early 2023. Or $300,000 within five years. What’s confounding cryptocurrency traders…
Continue ReadingThere, in the midst of a protest against police brutality in Austin, Texas, stood a man holding a makeshift cardboard sign that read, “Bitcoin will save us.” The image, tweeted earlier this…
Continue ReadingAs bitcoin struggles to break out of the range it’s largely been stuck in for more than a month, some investors are looking ahead to Thursday’s European Central Bank meeting…
Continue ReadingBitcoin Satoshi’s Vision, the controversial blockchain promoted by Craig Wright, is winning in digital-asset markets this year, with a token that has brought investors triple the returns of its better-known…
Continue ReadingThe ZRX token from 0x, a developer at the forefront of the fast-evolving landscape for decentralized exchanges, surged 67% in May to become the month’s top-performing digital asset. Basic Attention…
Continue ReadingCryptocurrency traders don’t seem to care that Goldman Sachs is such a bitcoin hater. At least, that’s the signal markets are sending. Bitcoin prices have surged since the Wall Street…
Continue ReadingBitcoin is so speculative and volatile that it doesn’t deserve to be considered an asset class, according to Goldman Sachs. Diving deeper into the realm of the more than 5,000 cryptocurrencies in…
Continue ReadingEOS, a smart-contracts platform, has had its fair share of bother. The blockchain’s launch in 2018 was bumpy: Some users had their accounts frozen, twice. Many more were irritated when they discovered there was…
Continue ReadingBitcoin prices are caught in a downdraft, after a series of rallies in recent weeks that repeatedly fizzled out at the $10,000 mark. “There is no clear understanding where bitcoin…
Continue ReadingEven idle speculation that mysterious bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto might be moving around a small batch of the cryptocurrency appeared sufficient to spook the market on Wednesday. Bitcoin slid 2.3% on…
Continue ReadingBitcoin‘s mining “difficulty” has undergone its first adjustment since last week’s halving, dropping the figure by 6%. Mining difficulty is part of an automatic procedure that takes place on the Bitcoin blockchain every…
Continue ReadingAt its core, the Bitcoin blockchain is a sprawling global machine – a human-created network of human-operated computers. And for bitcoin traders, it’s bullish that key events on the blockchain network over the…
Continue ReadingBitcoin’s rally last week, as the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index of U.S. stocks floundered, served to underscore just how different the conversations are right now in digital-asset markets and traditional finance.…
Continue ReadingBitcoin is rallying again, and some analysts are looking at a potential driver of even higher prices: new data showing that mining pools are hanging onto the cryptocurrency rather than…
Continue ReadingAfter bitcoin’s much-hyped halving failed to generate a price rally, crypto traders are already turning to a new bullish investment thesis: the possibility the Federal Reserve might cut its benchmark…
Continue ReadingChecking CoinDesk’s Bitcoin Price Index, you’d be forgiven for not seeing evidence that one of the largest events in the cryptocurrency industry‘s history had taken place fewer than 48 hours ago. Wizened crypto greybeards…
Continue ReadingBitcoin’s halving, the subject of amped-up buzz, hype and speculation since late 2019, proved anticlimactic on Monday as prices slid for a third straight day and the blockchain network slowed to a…
Continue ReadingWith fewer than four days left till bitcoin’s halving, popular interest in the once-every-four-years event is reaching a fever pitch. Google Trends, a barometer for gauging interest in trending search topics,…
Continue ReadingBitcoiners planning around next week’s “halving” on the blockchain network need to keep checking their countdown clocks: Every time they look, it seems it’s coming a little sooner. Last week, Michael Maloney, chief financial officer of…
Continue ReadingCryptocurrency exchanges based outside the U.S. are pushing to fill what they see as a competitive gap in the world’s biggest economy – offering more leverage to traders who have…
Continue ReadingBillionaire investor Warren Buffett says he’s having a hard time finding attractive investments as the coronavirus ravages the global economy. Maybe he should take advice from professional crypto investors like…
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