Bitcoin broke $11,000 for the first time since March last year after another major milestone at $10,000 just yesterday. June 22 — bitcoin (BTC) has crossed the $11,000 line for the first time since March last year today, according to Coin360. The leading cryptocurrency had surged past the $10,000 mark less than 24 hours ago. […]
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CNBC host Joe Kernen has been praised by bitcoin advocates for claiming that libra isn’t a cryptocurrency because of how it is pegged to fiat currencies. CNBC’s Joe Kernen claims he is being treated “like a god” on Twitter following a June 19 interview on Squawk Box where he questioned whether Facebook’s libra is a cryptocurrency. In the […]
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The essential metric for bitcoin network security reached more than 65 trillion hashes per second on Wednesday this week. The Bitcoin (BTC) hash rate – the total computing power of the bitcoin network – reached new all-time highs this week, data from monitoring resource Blockchain.com confirmed on June 19. As the Bitcoin price set a […]
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Summary of the first reactions on Facebook’s Libra. Facebook has released its much anticipated white paper for the cryptocurrency Libra. The initial reviews of the highly secretive mega-project are mixed, to say the least. Before taking a look at responses across the cryptosphere, let’s have a quick recap of the Facebook proposal. The Libra coin […]
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The analyst who claimed that TradingView had a bug in its Fibonacci retracement tool has now admitted that it “works perfectly fine.” The CTO of TradingView, a popular chart analysis service, has told Cointelegraph in an email on June 18 that the previous reports of a bug in their Fibonacci retracement technical analysis tool were […]
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Open interest in Bitcoin futures contracts on CME hit a new all-time high of over 5,300 contracts, purportedly due to increased institutional interest. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Group has released data showing that open interest in Bitcoin futures is rising, as per an official Twitter post on June 18. Interest in BTC futures over […]
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TRON announces incoming MainNet upgrade, Odyssey v3.6, promising a more lightweight server among other developments. Odyssey, the mainnet for the blockchain-based platform TRON, will be upgraded to version 3.6 soon, according to an official blog post by the TRON Foundation on June 18. The TRON network aims to be a platform for creating entertainment-focused decentralized […]
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Crypto analytics firm Coin Metrics partnered with Social Market Analytics to provide a social media-based feed of sentiment towards crypto. Crypto analytics firm Coin Metrics partnered with Social Market Analytics (SMA) to collaborate on a feed of real-time sentiment towards cryptocurrency based on social media data, according to a press release on June 17. The […]
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Popular chart analysis service TradingView contains a bug in the Fibonacci retracement technical analysis tool. Popular chart analysis service TradingView reportedly contains a bug in the Fibonacci retracement technical analysis tool, according to a tweet by self-proclaimed certified Elliott wave analyst Cryptoteddybear published on June 13. The Elliott wave principle is a type of technical […]
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The U.S. CFTC has filed a complaint against an alleged $147 million bitcoin scam scheme, Control-Finance Limited. The United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) launched action against a reportedly fraudulent $147 million bitcoin (BTC) scheme, fintech news outlet FinanceFeeds reports June 18. On June 17, the regulator reportedly filed a complaint with the New […]
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