Traders Big Cheds & Big Chonis offer expert TA on the next move for Bitcoin and altcoins. Will Bitcoin break the next resistance at $12,000? Which altcoins are looking promising (and which aren’t)? Tune in now to this week’s Crypto Markets Live to find out! Trading experts Big Cheds and Big Chonis apply their signature […]
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The funding rate is an essential mechanism to allow derivative instruments to track the spot price of their underlying asset. Since the “digital Sleeping Beauty,” Bitcoin (BTC), woke up about two months after its third halving in mid-May 2020, we have read a lot about the “funding rate” of digital assets futures — from good […]
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Bitmain announces three-month Antminer order delays, citing “external interference on company operation.” Bitmain, the world’s largest Bitcoin (BTC) mining hardware company, is postponing its product orders amid ongoing internal conflicts. As officially announced on Aug. 6, Bitmain will be delaying their June and July 2020 Antminer orders by at least two or three months due […]
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Polkadot is releasing a testnet specifically designed for its sharding implementation. The Polkadot (DOT) project launched a testnet to evaluate its planned sharding implementation based on parachains. The key component that separates shards from being just many independent blockchains is communication. Shards need to be able to communicate with their peers to enable cross-shard token […]
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$12,000 is firmly back on the cards as daily gains top 2.2% and Bitcoin erases the effect of its weekend plunge. Bitcoin (BTC) saw fresh gains on Aug. 6 as bulls refused to rest and the price steamed toward $12,000. Cryptocurrency market daily snapshot Aug. 6. Source: Coin360 BTC price recovers $1,200 crash losses Data […]
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Grayscale Ethereum Trust files to become an SEC reporting company amidst the Ethereum bull run. On August 6, Grayscale Ethereum Trust filed to become an SEC reporting company. Amidst the Ethereum (ETH) bull run, Grayscale Investments voluntarily decided to make its Ethereum Trust an SEC reporting company. The company’s best known investment product is a […]
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OKCoin developer grants total over $500,000 with the latest grant going to Bitcoin’s most active contributor since 2017. Crypto exchange OKCoin has continued to support Bitcoin (BTC) Core developers with a fourth grant being awarded to Bitcoin’s most active contributor since 2017, Marco Falke for an undisclosed six-figure sum. This grant brings the total amount […]
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Investors are in no mood to sell as the number of Bitcoins held in exchange wallets “falls off a cliff” this week. Bitcoin (BTC) exchanges lost 100,000 BTC during the weekend’s price crash, data shows — and that’s a bullish sign. Figures from on-chain monitoring resource CryptoQuant on Aug. 5 tracking exchange balances show a […]
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Forsage members are courting a high risk with the Philippines’ securities regulator. A full month after the Philippines’ Securities and Exchange Commission flagged Forsage as a likely Ponzi, it remains the second-most popular Ethereum DApp on internet rankings. As of Aug. 6, Forsage has 390,000 users and a turnover of $3.11 million per 24 hours […]
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One of the main operators of the now-shuttered streaming site movie2k.to has forfeited over $30 million worth of crypto to German police. After a lengthy joint investigation with the American FBI, German police have seized over 25 millions euros worth of cryptocurrency associated with the illegal movie streaming site movie2k.to. Shuttered in spring 2013 due […]
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