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On May 17, the price of Bitcoin plunged from around $7800 to $6700 within minutes in a flash crash on BitMEX. Immediately after, the price of Ethereum dropped from $240 to $190. The abrupt decline in the price of Bitcoin was triggered by the placement of a large sell order on Bitstamp and other major crypto […]

The latest altcoin technical analysis suggested that a correction was on the horizon following a market-wide surge. Now, it looks like the market is, in fact, retracing before there is a continuation of the bullish trend. Stellar In a matter of six days, Stellar moved up 58 percent to shape the right shoulder of the […]

A website that claimed to know the true identity of Bitcoin’s true creator, Got Satoshi, turned out to be a marketing stunt planned and executed to promote a new crypto news outlet. The Satoshi that was revealed wasn’t a real person but instead was an “AI-powered” news anchor. A website claiming to know Satoshi Nakamoto’s […]

IOTA, one of the fastest growing blockchain foundations on the world, announced that it will sponsor the first inaugural Texas Smart Cities Summit, an event that aims to accelerate smart city efforts in the state of Texas. The company will also hold several events throughout the summit, it said in a statement. Smart Cities Initiative […]

The world’s largest cryptocurrency has managed to break the $8,000 mark sooner than expected but has seen a slight dip in value as rumors that have fueled the bull run got debunked. Some believe the dip was caused by eBay and TD Ameritrade shooting down rumors on their expansion into crypto. Rumors and speculation push […]

As the market continues to climb on its rally from December lows, several of the high cap coins have been noticeably quiet—including Ethereum. However, Bitcoin’s recent price surge saw its price increase nearly 50 percent in two days, giving Ethereum and other high-caps the boost they needed to start their climb upwards. This article will […]

A bug was reportedly exploited on Bitcoin Cash during a scheduled hardfork upgrade of the protocol. For an hour and a half transactions went unprocessed, causing fees to skyrocket. A source familiar with the project says the exploit “looks like a timed attack,” while other rumors are circulating that the “attacker” placed a 180,000 BCH short […]

The world’s largest cryptocurrency has gone parabolic in the past week, with bitcoin breaking its yearly high on May 14th by crossing the $8,000 mark. Willy Woo, a cryptocurrency analyst, says that even in modest estimations, data shows that the bull season is 99 percent in. Bitcoin’s 200-day moving average shows we’ve almost entered a […]

The recent hack of the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, highlights the need for heightened security in the crypto space. In what Wired reported as “a ‘large-scale security breach,’ hackers stole not only 7,000 bitcoin—equivalent to over $40 million ($56 million at the time of this writing, just one week later)—but also some user two-factor […]

On May 13, as the bitcoin price climbed from $7,000 to $7,700 within hours and the CME bitcoin futures market recorded a daily volume of over $1 billion. The CME Group tweeted: CME Bitcoin futures reached an all-time record high of 33.7K contracts on May 13 (168K equivalent bitcoin), up nearly 50% from the last record […]