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PortuguêsThe price of gold is off from its all-time high while bitcoin is within striking distance of a record. Billions of dollars are flowing out of gold while institutional money…
Continue ReadingBitcoin is trading at fresh 35-month highs above $19,000, having defended the psychological support of $18,000 during the Asian trading hours. The crypto market leader is now just 4% short…
Continue ReadingBitcoin reached fresh 35-month highs above $18,400 during the European trading hours. The cryptocurrency has failed to keep gains above $18,000 in the previous two trading days. It will be…
Continue ReadingBitcoin was flat to slightly lower after briefly climbing Wednesday above $18,000 for the first time since December 2017. “There is a tsunami of buying power up against reluctant sellers,”…
Continue ReadingBitcoin’s ascent continues, with prices scaling the $18,000 mark during Asian trading hours. In a sign of persistent dip demand, sudden pullback to $17,200 seen following the breakout to fresh…
Continue ReadingBitcoin climbed above topped $17,000 early Tuesday for the first time since January 2018, pushing this year’s remarkable rally to 137% on a year-to-date basis. That’s 10 times more than the Standard…
Continue ReadingBitcoin was higher, climbing back above $16,000 on Monday after dipping below the mark over the weekend. “Should we trade back above $16,490, then we expect to see the bulls…
Continue ReadingBitcoin was lower after surging nearly $600 on Thursday to climb above $16,000 for the first time in almost three years. “Investors should plan for volatility as well as price…
Continue ReadingBitcoin briefly climbed above $16,000 for the first time in three years before quickly falling back below the psychological threshold. Digital-asset market traders and analysts say the cryptocurrency is likely…
Continue ReadingBitcoin was higher, pushing toward the upper edge of its recent range between about $14,700 and $15,600. “The positive sentiment towards bitcoin has not gone away,” said Denis Vinokourov, head…
Continue ReadingBitcoin was higher, though barely, appearing to settle into a new range over the past several days between roughly $14,800 and $15,600. “Should bitcoin prices consolidate this week,” wrote Matt…
Continue ReadingBitcoin was higher for a second day, staying in a range between roughly $15,200 and $15,600, as news of progress in developing a coronavirus vaccine appeared to touch off a rally…
Continue ReadingBitcoin was lower, pausing after after a three-day rally that saw prices approach $16,000, their highest since early 2018. The recent rally left the largest cryptocurrency up 116% year-to-date, and…
Continue ReadingBitcoin has now doubled its price in 2020, after surging early Thursday to above $14,900 for the first time since 2018. The cryptocurrency appeared to get a lift from the…
Continue ReadingBitcoin (BTC) was lower, searching for direction as uncertainty over U.S. election results hung over global markets. Prices were down about 2.2% to about $13,700, staying roughly in their range…
Continue ReadingBitcoin (BTC) was lower for a third straight day around $13,500, having fallen back from a fleeting 33-month high of $14,093 over the weekend. In traditional markets, Asian and European shares…
Continue ReadingBitcoin was lower around $13,200, retreating after reaching a fresh 2020 high near $14,100 on Oct. 31. Tuesday’s presidential election in the U.S. “is going to be the driving force…
Continue ReadingBitcoin was lower around $13,400 though on track to gain 24% in October, an impressive performance since U.S. stocks declined 1.6% on the month and gold slid 0.5%. “With the U.S.…
Continue ReadingBitcoin was lower for a second day, even as traditional markets showed signs of stabilization following Wednesday’s sell-off. Cryptocurrency analysts looked for solace in bitcoin‘s October-to-date return, still at an…
Continue ReadingBitcoin was lower, pausing a powerful rally that has seen the largest cryptocurrency jump 25% in October to the highest levels since June 2019. Traditional financial-media outlets like Bloomberg News were writing…
Continue ReadingBitcoin reached a new 2020 high of around $13,420 after rising on nine of the past 11 days. The cryptocurrency’s recent rally despite a stalling of U.S. stocks has rekindled…
Continue ReadingBitcoin was higher, appearing to hold above $13,000 for the first time since January 2018. But the most drama in crypto markets came after an exploit of the decentralized finance…
Continue ReadingBitcoin was higher, just above $13,000 and rising for a seventh straight day – the longest winning streak in six months. “A continuation would probably require more positive news,” Matt…
Continue ReadingBitcoin (BTC) was higher, following through on the upside after Wednesday’s 7.4% jump to a new 2020 high. It was the biggest single-day increase in almost three months. The surge…
Continue ReadingBitcoin blew past $12,000 to its highest price in two months, bringing into view the prospect of a fresh 2020 high. The largest cryptocurrency was changing hands Wednesday around $12,200,…
Continue ReadingBitcoin (BTC) was gaining for a fourth straight day, approaching the $12,000 price threshold the cryptocurrency failed to hold in August when it last rallied past that level. “The market…
Continue ReadingBitcoin was lower, tracking what appears to be a new range between roughly $11,200 and $11,700. It’s a step up from levels that prevailed over most of September, between $10,100…
Continue ReadingBitcoin (BTC) fell 2% Friday, the most in three weeks, after the market was spooked by the announcement that the cryptocurrency exchange OKEx had suspended withdrawals because founder Mingxing “Star” Xu was reportedly taken…
Continue ReadingCryptocurrency markets are sending strong signals right now that the innovations coming from fast-emerging technologies like decentralized finance, or DeFi, could shake up the global order of banks and money…
Continue ReadingLitecoin (LTC), a nine-year-old cryptocurrency whose price returns have chronically underperformed the bigger and better-known bitcoin in recent years, is hitching its wagon to a new star: privacy. The blockchain industry subsector of…
Continue ReadingThe outcome of next month’s U.S. presidential election may not matter much for bitcoin’s price: Economic stimulus in the trillions of dollars is likely no matter who wins, bolstering the largest cryptocurrency’s appeal…
Continue ReadingNot everyone is happy with the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority’s decision to ban individual investors from speculating on bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, and there’s an argument to be made that the agency’s rationale was hollow. …
Continue ReadingPayments company Square’s announcement that it would put some $50 million, or 1% of its assets, into bitcoin has touched off speculation that more corporations might do the same. Jack Dorsey,…
Continue ReadingA slowdown in cryptocurrency trading on so-called decentralized exchanges has helped to alleviate congestion on the Ethereum blockchain, at least temporarily mitigating concerns the network was becoming overloaded. The trading…
Continue ReadingChinese tech companies were once seen as copycats of their Western peers: Alibaba was a knockoff of eBay and Baidu imitated Google. More recently, Chinese firms like TikTok and Huawei…
Continue ReadingA growing number of economists and analysts – and even the Wall Street firm Goldman Sachs – have speculated this year that the U.S. dollar might be on the cusp…
Continue ReadingOne is a Grammy Award-winning musician with lots of spare time. Another is a software engineer with nowhere to go during the pandemic. There’s also an editor for a data…
Continue ReadingU.S. regulators and law-enforcement officials brought charges on Thursday against BitMEX, a Seychelles-based cryptocurrency exchange that has grown in recent years to be one of the industry’s biggest players. According…
Continue ReadingA lot of crypto investors like to think of bitcoin as a bet on higher inflation, or as a futuristic hedge on some imagined economic-armageddon scenario — Gold 2.0, as…
Continue ReadingDeFi deflated. That was the story in cryptocurrency markets in September as prices tumbled for digital tokens from “decentralized finance” (DeFi), the fast-evolving arena of blockchain-based lending and trading platforms.…
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