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The bitcoin price (BTC) has slipped to $9,900 following the highly anticipated launch of Bakkt, a bitcoin futures market operated by ICE, the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). Traders expected the dominant cryptocurrency to demonstrate large volatility as the opening of Bakkt coincided with a weekly close for BTC. However, the […]

Nischal Shetty, founder of WazirX, shares his story building one of the only crypto exchange left standing in a country hostile to cryptocurrency. By engineering the first auto-matching P2P engine he was able to dodge regulatory pressure that shuttered many other major exchanges in India. Nischal, tell us about your journey starting WazirX? “Nischal: I’ve been […]

Of course, nobody can attend them all, so we’ve profiled five crypto and blockchain conferences that you should keep on your radar. Pick your favorite, and consider making an appearance at your favorite event. 2019 has been a big year for cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. The prices of digital assets have improved considerably, and blockchain […]

The popularity of the keyword Bitcoin on major search engines in China has been on the rise since early 2019 following the strong rally of the bitcoin price. Since January, in merely nine months, the bitcoin price has increased from $3,736 to $10,000 by 167 percent against the U.S. dollar. Alex Krüger, a global markets […]

The Bitcoin price just dropped below $9,900. The $10,000 support level is described as a key psychological support level as the markets retrace. If BTC stays below this level it could foreshadow much larger drops, according to recognized crypto traders. Cryptocurrency traders like DonAlt said that the breakdown of key lower level supports, including $9,600, […]

Everipedia co-founder Sam Kazemian talks about changing DeFi, stablecoins, and banking through his latest startup, Frax. Sam Kazemian is an Iranian-American software engineer, entrepreneur, and cryptocurrency enthusiast. He co-founded Everipedia, the first decentralized online encyclopedia on the blockchain, with Theodor Forselius, Mahbod Moghadam, and Travis Moore in 2015. In June 2019, Kazemian started working on […]

According to James Todaro, a managing partner at Blocktown Capital, a cryptocurrency investment firm, five charts present “insanely bullish” cases that may fuel the long term growth of Bitcoin in the years to come. The five cases are: The steady growth of Bitcoin over the past ten years that dissolve claims of a bubble Every […]

Altcoins are still in the spotlight while Bitcoin continues consolidating. Right now the markets are choppy, giving mixed technical signals. Here is the outlook for EOS, IOTA, and Chainlink. EOS EOS went through a 36 percent rally that took its price from $3.11 to $4.24 in the last two weeks. Now, a number of technical […]

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange Group announced that it will launch Bitcoin options contracts early next year to complement its Bitcoin futures. CME Bitcoin trading instruments CME Group’s Bitcoin futures contracts have been a success. At the moment, they average 7,237 contracts per day representing a 132 percent increase from the same period last year. This […]

The Ethereum network has made significant progress in the past month, with the latest ConsenSys showing that it now has more than 75 million unique addresses. The increase in addresses was followed by more use cases for the network, which was used to settle a $20 million bond and host more than 2,500 dapps. ConsenSys […]