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Apr 23, 2020 at 11:55 UTCUpdated Apr 23, 2020 at 12:36 UTCFirst Mover: Bitcoin Catches Almighty Dollar Even During 2020’s Dash for CashAfter swinging wildly for most of this year, the price of bitcoin is now back to roughly where it started 2020 – around $7,100. And since bitcoin is priced in dollars, the flat year-to-date…

Dec 4, 2019 at 09:00 UTCUpdated Dec 4, 2019 at 08:20 UTCClose up of Christmas lights, image from rawpixel.com / Markus Spiske.Bitcoin No Longer Looks Like ‘Digital Gold’ by One MeasureIf "digital gold" means "a safe-haven asset where investors park their money during financial market turmoil," then bitcoin doesn't fit the bill as well as…

BTC slides to lowest since late February, breaching key price support. Early Friday, defunct exchange Mt. Gox moved 47,228 to a new address from cold storage. Bitcoin's (BTC) sell-off continued during Friday's Asian hours as defunct exchange Mt. Gox moved sizeable BTC to a new wallet, potentially preparing for creditor repayments. The leading cryptocurrency by

Jan 30, 2020 at 04:21 UTCStablecoins ‘Flip’ Ethereum’s Native Currency In Transfer ValueA greater share of value is being transferred via stablecoins over the ethereum network than its own native cryptocurrency ether (ETH), according to research conducted by crypto data aggregate Messari.In a recent tweet, research analyst at Messari, Ryan Watkins said stablecoin transfer value…

Dec 9, 2020 at 4:00 a.m. UTCMumbai, India (Shutterstock)India’s State-Regulated Digital Payments Network Is Dominated by Google and WalmartGoogle Pay and Walmart’s PhonePe continue to dominate the digital payments sector in India built on the country’s United Payments Interface (UPI), a shared payments infrastructure initiated by the state and joined by 200 Indian banks. According to…

news The U.S. government may be open again, but don’t hold your breath for regulatory approvals of crypto investment products. The shutdown, which began on Dec. 22, 2018 and ended on Jan. 25, forced federal agencies, including the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), to shutter their doors. This in…

news A technical indicator used to identify the momentum behind asset prices is registering its highest value since the beginning of 2018 when applied to bitcoin, a possible positive sign for the cryptocurrency’s market.  The relative strength index (RSI) takes into account the speed and change in price movements, i.e. momentum, to reveal when the…

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