Since its inception in 2009, Bitcoin has emerged as one of the most popular cryptocurrencies owing to its peer-to-peer payment features. People started exploring it to settle payments cheaply and faster without needing a bank. Meanwhile, a large section of bitcoin users also unearthed immense investment opportunities in it, leading to the birth of the…
When bitcoin made the world reassess the definition of currency, it presented all a sneak-peek into the future that would run on decentralized applications – or dapps. Educational utopians see dapps as tools to make everything you see on the internet distributed. Say, if a bank is an application governed by a central authority, bitcoin…
Players in the financial and technology sector have different opinions about bitcoin. For skeptics, the cryptocurrency is reminiscent of Holland’s notorious Tulip bubble of 1637. They generated a wild, speculative mania and disappeared, leaving behind pretty flowers and wrecked investors. Meanwhile, for supporters, bitcoin is the internet: a symbol of decentralization that reached its full…
It has been more than a week since the high-profile launch, but Bakkt’s trading volume remains underwhelming with only 16 BTC as of this time of writing. Meanwhile, the spot rate of bitcoin has plunged massively, rising fears that Bakkt hype has not done well to the crypturrency. Bakkt An Underperforming Horse? Against all the…
Bitcoin jumped by more than 2 percent on the day China announced additional tariffs on $75 billion worth of US imports. The close proximity between the two events prompted traders to show strong correlation between cryptocurrency and global markets. But, according to Peter Schiff of Euro Pacific Capital, there is no need to feel excited….
Bitcoin is giving the People’s Bank of China sleepless nights, according to a new report by the Nikkei Asian Review. The media coverage highlights how people in China have shown a middle-finger to the capital control measures imposed by their central bank and government. They are purchasing bitcoins en masse and using them in offshore…
Pro-Brexit UK prime minister Boris Johnson today instructed the civil service to make arrangements for divorcing the EU without a deal on October 31. “I would very much prefer to leave with a deal — one that must abolish the anti-democratic Irish backstop, which has unacceptable consequences for our country. But I recognise this may…
CoinStats Insights, an analytical tool integrated within the CoinStats cryptocurrency portfolio management app, was correct in predicting today’s bitcoin pump. One of the tool’s features, which catalogues a cryptocurrency’s buying and selling sentiment, noted a spike in buyer’s interest in the bitcoin market at around 08:00 UTC. At close to 59 percent, the bullish bias…
Tezos (XTZ) is returning impressive profits to its investors this week. The world’s fifteenth largest cryptocurrency was up 50 percent yesterday on a 7-day timeframe. It established a higher high of $1.474 according to data fetched by CoinStats’ cryptocurrency portfolio management app. The price slipped this Friday, but a marginal percentage, maintaining the upside streak…
The bitcoin weekend has begun on a sad note. Around $600 wiped in about 15 minutes! That sets the market tone for the next 48 hours. Bitcoin is now recovering from an intraday low of $9,402, now up by a mere 1 percent. But its likelihood of continuing its corrective downtrend is higher thanks to…
