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From its all-time high of $20,000, Bitcoin has fallen by 65 percent, trading far lower than it did at the end of 2017, at the top of the frothy crypto market bubble that has long since passed. But don’t be disillusioned, analysts are coming to the conclusion that despite what may seem like bearish or […]

Ethereum has been one of the best performing cryptocurrencies throughout the past few days, with its recent upswing allowing it to put some significant distance between its current price levels and its recent lows. This uptrend was fueled in part by the bullishness seen in the aggregated market, but was perpetuated by news regarding a […]

Charles Hoskinson, the CEO of IOHK, took to YouTube to provide a detailed explanation of how the launch of the Shelley era of Cardano will go down, diving deep into the two years of work and the million lines of code that will bring about the blockchain’s staking era. Shelley will launch in phases, first […]

Q1 2020 was a record quarter for Grayscale Investment Products, with their crypto funds seeing an unprecedented influx of new capital, suggesting that institutional traders are increasing their exposure to digital assets at a rapid rate. According to this data, the vast majority of this capital came from institutional investors while only a small portion […]

Throughout the past couple of months Bitcoin has traded against a macro backdrop of economic uncertainty for the first time in its relatively short decade-long history. Although the crypto has not been able to match the gains seen by other forms of hard money like gold throughout the past several weeks, it has held up […]

On-chain metrics reveal that the top three cryptocurrencies by market cap—Bitcoin, Ethereum, and XRP—are bound for a bullish impulse, despite the significant gains posted recently. Bitcoin’s holders are becoming optimistic Bitcoin is back above the $7,000 mark as it approaches the “optimism” zone based on Glassnode’s Net Unrealized Profit/Loss (NUPL) indicator. Historical data reveals that […]

Over the past few days, there’s been a strong increase in discussion about China’s national crypto project. As reported by CryptoSlate, it began with a leaked screenshot that depicted an application branded with the logos of the Agricultural Bank of China (ABC) — one of the nation’s “Big Four” banks, which is coincidentally state-owned. The […]

After weeks and weeks of promises, the past few days have seen millions of tax-paying Americans receive their $1,200 (or less if you’re a high-income earner) tax-free checks from the U.S. government. Due to the fact that over 22 million Americans have lost their jobs over the past month due to the COVID-19 outbreak, much […]

Akoin, the cryptocurrency project created by global music star Akon, has secured a deal to become the main currency of the $2 billion technology city in Western Kenya. The Mwale Medical and Technology City (MMTC) is home to over 35,000 people and thousands of businesses, all of which will be using Akon’s Stellar-based cryptocurrency, the […]

Bitcoin’s value proposition, according to many of its investors, is cut and dried: as they say, it’s a scarce, decentralized, borderless, and digital form of money for the world. The value propositions of other cryptocurrencies, however, is a bit more muddied. A case in point of this conundrum is as follows: some say that while […]