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Last week, SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce (aka ‘CryptoMom’) formally proposed a “safe harbor” for fundraising by token sale. Intended to “bridge the gap between regulation and decentralization,” the proposal would essentially make ICOs legal – with certain requisites. To find out more about this, CryptoSlate spoke to co-founder of Athena Blockchain and adjunct professor at […]

Tezos (XTZ) has been caught within an insane uptrend throughout the latter part of 2019 and the early part of 2020, with its rally kicking off shortly after Coinbase introduced its pool staking with over 5 percent rewards for platform users. This appeared to incentivize investors to purchase XTZ, thus creating some strong buying pressure […]

As crazy as it sounds, there are now Bitcoin maximalists (Bitcoiners) “shilling” Tron, the controversial cryptocurrency of enigmatic Chinese entrepreneur Justin Sun. Yes, you read that right, some of Bitcoin’s biggest proponents are promoting an altcoin. But why? Why would this subset of the community do something seemingly so out of character? Well, that’s a […]

The Ethereum price is up 96 percent in the last 53 days from $116 to $228. Traders foresee ETH to be one of the top performers in 2020 if the current upsurge turns into a full-blown rally. Throughout the past month, Ethereum has front-run the market. Before the Bitcoin price started its run to $10,000, […]

The Bitcoin price has increased from $6,400 to $10,150 in less than two months. Ahead of the block reward halving in May, BTC is likely to see a continuous upward trend. The Bitcoin halving in May reduces the total reward miners get for mining blocks containing transactions on the network. The blocks of transactions that […]

The Bitcoin price surged past $10,000, reaching as high as $10,140 across major exchanges. Since the $8,000-range, many traders expressed their skepticism towards the trend of Bitcoin. The $9,500 level was expected to act as a multi-year resistance area. In 2018, when the $9,500 to $10,000 range was tested, the Bitcoin price immediately went onto […]

Weiss Crypto Ratings updated its rating for Bitcoin, which again surpassed the $10,000 mark and is currently trading at $10,068. Weiss now gives Bitcoin an A- or “excellent” rating because its fundamentals are improving and its price is also surging ahead of the BTC halving event, which will take place in about three months from […]

After struggling to break out of the $9,700 region, Bitcoin has been able to incur some tempered momentum that has allowed it to gain a foothold within the $9,900 region, with BTC now navigating through the heavy resistance that exists between its current price and $10,000. This slight momentum today has led analysts to note […]

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you know Bitcoin has been doing exceedingly well over the past few weeks. The cryptocurrency has bounded past key resistance levels in the $7,000s, $8,000s, and $9,000s, surging some 50 percent higher since the bottom established in mid-December. Although this appreciation has already blown the proverbial socks off […]

Bitcoin (BTC) ended the day on a high note, with the cryptocurrency closing its daily candle above a key support level, eluding to the possibility that it will now begin its ascent to its next critical resistance region. This near-term bullishness may have major implications for Bitcoin’s future, as analysts are noting that the cryptocurrency […]