As Bitcoin recovered to over $5,200, the crypto market has found new momentum, pushing others like Ethereum to recover. Year-to-date, the price of Bitcoin (BTC) is up 40% against the United States dollar, and other major cryptocurrencies such as Ethereum and Litecoin have also demonstrated strong gains in the past four months. Performance of crypto […]
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Blockchain security firm BitGo will provide its custody and multi-signature wallets to a newly launched digital asset trading platform. Blockchain security firm and wallet service BitGo has provided a newly launched digital asset trading platform, LGO Markets, with its custody and multi-signature wallets, according to a press release published Tuesday, April 9. LGO Markets, which […]
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Bitcoin is at its most overbought level since its record highs in December 2017, Bloomberg analyst Mike McGlone claims. Bitcoin (BTC) is at its most overbought level since its record highs in December 2017, Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Mike McGlone claimed in an article published on April 5. Per the report, Bitcoin’s GTI Global Strength Indicator […]
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Some cryptocurrency exchange platforms are inflating their Bitcoin trading volumes to earn higher listing fees, but the market’s liquidity is still due to trading activity on tightly regulated exchanges. In mid-March, Bitwise Asset Management issued a damning report on Bitcoin (BTC) trading figures. The San Francisco-based index fund provider declared that up 95 percent of […]
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Algorithmic trading funds might have triggered the recent market recovery, Bloomberg reports. The recent crypto market jump could be linked to algorithmic trading, Bloomberg writes on Wednesday, April 3. Algorithmic trading — a method that uses automated software to detect trends and determine when trades should be made — has been on the rise in […]
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Offchain Labs has raised $3.7 to disrupt major problems in blockchain such as privacy and scalability. Offchain Labs, a blockchain startup co-founded by a professor at Princeton University, has raised $3.7 million in a seed round led by crypto hedge fund Pantera Capital, TechCrunch reports on April 3. The new funding round was also supported […]
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Bitcoin is now hovering around $5,000, as the cryptocurrency markets are on their third day of gains. Wednesday, April 3 — Bitcoin (BTC) has tested the $5,000 mark for the first time since November 2018, as crypto markets are on the rise for the third day in a row. While some major cryptocurrencies are seeing […]
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How a user gaming the Augur network led to the debate on the validity and effectiveness of decentralized networks. According to a Reddit thread on March 19, traders on Augur, a decentralized oracle and peer-to-peer protocol for prediction markets, are being scammed. The Reddit user claims that “some people” in the Augur community are exploiting […]
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What are the United States tax reporting obligations for those who held, donated or sold/exchanged crypto. Last year was a bear market for cryptocurrencies. Many investors who did not know how to hedge their cryptocurrency investments saw these investments lose value from the market highs of 2017. Facing the deadline to report their taxes by […]
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Experts said that the Ethereum network is losing ground to other projects like EOS, Tron and Stellar. The Ethereum network is losing ground as developers switch to other projects, various experts told Bloomberg on March 28. Ethereum, which debuted in 2015, initially provided a platform on which developers could build decentralized apps (DApps), conduct initial […]
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