Key metrics show this week’s $4B Bitcoin options expiry favors bulls
A record $4 billion worth of Bitcoin options expire on January 29 and multiple indicators suggest bulls have the upper hand. Over the past two weeks, Bitcoin price appears to have lost momentum and some analysts are suggesting that bears will be in control for the...
How This Digital Artist Made $370,000 in Crypto on Their 18th Birthday
Non Fungible Tokens—cryptocurrency tokens that are provably unique—are all the rage right now. They have become for many artists an exciting new medium of expression—and an impressive source of income that have thrived from Bitcoin’s bull run. Established artists like...
Harvard Economics Professor: Governments Will Not Allow Bitcoin on a Big Scale and They Will Win
Harvard Professor of Economics and former Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Kenneth Rogoff believes that governments will not allow bitcoin to flourish on a large scale. “The regulation will come in. The government will win,” he said. The...
BOE’s Bailey, Western Union CEO Part of Davos Panel on Digital Currencies
The session will focus on the diminishing role of cash and the emergence of central bank digital currencies, moves accelerated by the pandemic. Source: coindesk
Breach at Indian exchange BuyUCoin allegedly exposes 325K users’ personal data
BuyUCoin initially denied the reports of a data breach, but added that all user funds are safe. Users of Indian crypto exchange BuyUCoin have reportedly been affected by a breach compromising personal data of more than 325,000 people.According to a report from Indian...
Ethereum will become the main asset for investors in 2021
The potential of Ether greatly exceeds Bitcoin, and the community is beginning to understand the value of ETH. During the second half of 2020, we saw a growing interest in cryptocurrencies from institutional investors and big capital. However, all the attention of the...
Top 5 cryptocurrencies to watch this week: BTC, ETH, DOT, AAVE, SNX
Select altcoins are rallying to new all-time highs while Bitcoin remains pinned below $33,000. As Bitcoin price trade sideways, traders are keeping an eye out for new purchases from institutional investors in order to gauge whether BTC's correction is over....
WEF Davos 2021 has Cryptocurrency on the Agenda
Cryptocurrencies are on the agenda as government and business leaders from across the globe prepare to gather for the famous WEF annual meeting in Davos. Crypto a Hot Topic The agenda at this year’s World Economic Forum (WEF) Davos meeting includes a discussion on...
Famed Investor Bill Miller Explains Buying MicroStrategy Debt: It’s the Bitcoin
"Not owning any Bitcoin has been a massive mistake, and we expect that will continue to be true," the famed value investor wrote to clients. Source: coindesk
Crypto ETF Race Heats Up in 2021- Valkyrie Bitcoin Trust Files to List Shares on NYSE
2021 has been an explosive year for bitcoin as the crypto asset has touched new all-time price highs as cryptocurrencies have seen increased demand. Meanwhile, a number of crypto proponents expect the first exchange-traded fund (ETF) to be approved this year as a...
XRP is a Security, Says Prominent Crypto Lawyer
Anderson Kill partner Stephen Palley tweeted that XRP is a security and shared other crypto insights. To XRP or not to XRP Hindsight is highly variable. I mean, it's not like in the moment you saw everything clearly. So the hindsight is 20/20 platitude always...
SEC vs. Kik Interactive: A status update on the Kin ecosystem and Kin tokens
A deep analysis of the actual final judgement in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission versus Kik Interactive case. Much has been written about the Sept. 30, 2020, decision by Judge Alvin Hellerstein of the Southern District of New York in the U.S. Securities...
Flare Community Approves DOGE
The Flare Community has voted on Twitter that they like DOGE. Could the memecoin become the next asset to enter the Flare ecosystem? #Doge $Doge— Flare (@FlareNetworks) January 21, 2021 Doge Added to Flare? The team behind the long-awaited XRP airdrop over December...
Anthony Scaramucci says holding Bitcoin as safe as owning bonds and gold
Scaramucci’s SkyBridge Capital introduced a new Bitcoin fund in early January. He says that improved infrastructure and regulation have made BTC investments "as safe as owning bonds and commodities like gold." Anthony Scaramucci, the head of SkyBridge Capital and...
Puff Bar Implements Vechain, ETH, and BCH
Puff Bar, one of the largest disposable vape companies in the US, announced the integration of cryptocurrencies into its product offering. Puff Bar announced on Jan. 23 that it was implementing a variety of blockchain solutions in its business. The first of these...
No more pushes and pushbacks: Digital ID solves the privacy dilemma
The need for secure, privacy-centric, fraud-proof digital identities that allow us to demonstrate our credentials has never been greater. A year unlike any other, when much of life went online, created a compelling case for digital identity. Talk of “immunity...
Why Polkadot Is The Hottest Crypto In China
It’s not a secret that in China, Polkadot resembles a newer, better EOS, the public blockchain that swept the Chinese crypto ecosystem in 2018. Both projects have inspiring foreign—in particular Caucasian leaders—who frequent China’s blockchain conferences and...
The United States updates its crypto AML/CFT laws
The U.S. Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism laws: Where will these updates lead the crypto space? Against great push back from the crypto industry and as the price of Bitcoin (BTC) reached new all-time highs several times during the last...
Banned Vape Company Uses Crypto to Fight Counterfeits
Vaping and crypto: name a more Gen Z duo. Today, Puff Bar, a vaping brand that sells fruit-flavored nicotine huffers, said that it will use crypto to stop people from selling knock-offs of its devices. The brand posted on Reddit this week that it will be “using...
Global Chip Shortages Disrupt Bitcoin Mining Rig Production: China’s Dominant Position as Hash Rate Leader Under Threat
The ongoing global shortage of chips that are used in the production of bitcoin mining rigs is now causing manufacturing disruptions. According to one report, these disruptions are causing a shortage of rigs on the market and subsequent price increases. Already, the...
DeFi Coins Boom as Crypto Market Recovers
Hoooorrayyyy!!! Profit for everyone in the crypto market today, which today is a sea of green in these choppiest of choppy waters. Coins that power decentralized finance protocols performed the best, but in a day of profit for all that concludes a week of heavy...
It’s time for Hollywood to move to blockchain. Yes, you read that right
With inspiration from past decentralized success, other industries are following suit — and the film industry should be next. The greatest empires over the course of history have come and gone — the Romans, Greeks, Babylonians, Mongols, Persians, Egyptians, Ottomans...
AAVE Hits New All Time High Price
With the continued rise of decentralized finance (DeFi), some of the top applications are seeing major price growth. As the total value locked (TVL) in DeFi hovers around $25 billion, some of the top DeFi projects are seeing record prices. AAVE is one such project....
A Reading of Satoshi’s Bitcoin White Paper
The document that started it all, in audio form. Source: coindesk
The impact of Bitcoin hacking incidents in the crypto market
Studying the question of how Bitcoin hacking incidents affect the uncertainty in the overall crypto market. In the 2013–2017 period, 29 hacks occurred in the Bitcoin market where a total of 1.1 million Bitcoin were stolen. Noting that the average price for Bitcoin...
Why one Bitcoin on-chain analyst is short-term bearish on BTC price, for now
Several prominent on-chain analysts and traders have turned short-term neutral to slightly bearish on Bitcoin as BTC struggles to reclaim $33,000. Ki Young Ju, the CEO at CryptoQuant and an on-chain analyst, says Bitcoin (BTC) is neutral to short-term bearish for the...
ETH Mining Difficulty and Google Searches Reach ATH
Bitcoin many have started to cool off after breaking its all time high price of over $40,000, but it seems that Ethereum isn’t ready to call it quits yet. Two extremely positive metrics representing the health of the network, Ethereum mining difficulty and Google...
Retail traders, not hotshots like MicroStrategy, made Bitcoin in 2020
Without the global retail trader base, the Bitcoin market would not be what it is today: The investment champion of 2020. The twists and turns of 2020 made it arguably the best year on record to be a trader, especially if you were involved in cryptocurrencies. May’s...
Nasdaq-Listed Crypto Firm Sued, Accused of Defrauding Investors With Fake Bitcoin Mining Business
A class-action lawsuit has been filed against a Nasdaq-listed bitcoin mining company. The suit cites a report claiming that the business is “completely fraudulent,” with nonexistent bitcoin mining operations. Lawsuit Alleges Crypto Firm’s Bitcoin Mining Business Is...
DeFi Deep Dive: MakerDAO — ETH’s Longest Running Project
As part of BeInCrypto’s decentralized finance (DeFi) deep dive series, we’ll take a look at one of the first and oldest DeFi protocols, MakerDAO. DAO stands for Decentralized Autonomous Organization, and Maker was one of the first, founded by Rune Christensen in 2014....
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