Lawrence Lepard, the founder of investment management firm Equity Management Associates, has suggested that following the Federal Reserve’s (Fed) recent initiatives to manage rising inflation, fiat cu...
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Luxor launches Bitcoin-based OTC derivative
Luxor, a Bitcoin mining company, has launched Luxor Hashprice Non-Derivable Forward (NDF), an Over-The-Counter (OTC) derivative product based precisely on BTC mining revenue. Luxor Hashprice NDF and t...
Kenyan Firm Using Wasted Energy to Mine Bitcoin — Business Model Said to Potentially Help Decentralize Mining – Coinotizia
A Kenyan bitcoin mining company, Gridless, recently revealed how it is helping local communities reduce electricity costs by using excess generated power to mine bitcoin. The Gridless model has been h...
Ethereum Merge Highlights Differing Visions For America’s Energy Future
Ethereum has changed its protocol to ‘proof of stake’, in an upgrade known as the ‘Ethereum Merge’. … [+] This update allows the cryptocurrency to reduce its energy consu...
Why Bitcoin Investors – Who Are Paranoid About Hacks
Bitcoin and its fellow cryptocurrencies are on their way to show the world one of the biggest ironies in the field of financial technology. These assets, widely heralded as the future of FinTech, migh...
Bitcoin the best-performing asset class of an ugly Q3
What was the best-performing asset class in Q3? Believe it or not, it was Bitcoin. The world’s biggest cryptocurrency topped the ranks with a boisterous 3.1% return. Hmmm. Are you looking for fast-new...
The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin Maximalism
In hindsight, the Dragon’s Den set the stage for maximalism’s emphasis on adversarial thinking – it is Bitcoin against everyone – where attack is the best defence. You need only look at ho...
Analyst Known for Calling 2022 Crypto Market Crash Predicts Fakeout Rallies for Bitcoin, Stellar and Litecoin
The pseudonymous crypto trader who nailed Bitcoin’s collapse this year is forecasting brief rallies for BTC, Stellar (XLM) and Litecoin (LTC) prior to the resumption of their downtrend. Capo tells his...
Crowd Sentiment towards Crypto Turns Bearish as Inflation Data Looms
The crypto market has not yet been able to find the right footing based on tightened macroeconomic factors and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. As a result, crowd sentiment toward cryptocurrencies has tu...
Luxor launches derivatives product based on bitcoin mining revenue
Bitcoin mining firm Luxor, which runs a mining pool and a hardware trading desk, is launching an over-the-counter derivative product based on bitcoin mining revenues. The new product, Luxor Hashprice ...
Kenyan Firm Using Wasted Energy to Mine Bitcoin — Business Model Said to Potentially Help Decentralize Mining – Mining Bitcoin News
A Kenyan bitcoin mining company, Gridless, recently revealed how it is helping local communities reduce electricity costs by using excess generated power to mine bitcoin. The Gridless model has been h...
Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Sees Massive Spike. These Are Key Reasons Why
Alex Dovbnya Bitcoin’s mining difficulty has experienced its biggest increase of the year, putting more pressure on miners Bitcoin’s mining difficulty recently spiked by a whopping 13.55% and peaked a...
Bottom Formation in Play? Glassnode Looks at State of Bitcoin As Whales Accumulate Over $300,000,000 in BTC
Several metrics indicate Bitcoin (BTC) could be establishing a bear market floor, according to leading crypto analytics firm Glassnode. Glassnode notes in a new analysis that Bitcoin’s accumulation tr...
Crucial Levels Bitcoin Must Hold To Escape Bearish Dominance
There was a significant price surge within the Bitcoin (BTC) price, yet the highs were short-lived. Due to the bearish domination, prices fell sharply, and the market has been highly negative ever sin...
Portugal Plans to Levy Tax Up to 28% on Crypto Gain
Europe’s most crypto-friendly nation is planning to levy taxes on digital-currency gains for purchases held for less than a year. The move is a major policy shift as Portugal currently does not ...
Bitcoin Dipped Below $19K as Negative Sentiment Grows (Market Watch)
Bitcoin dipped below $19,000 for the first time in over a week as the overall sentiment for the crypto space continues to worsen. Most alternative coins have suffered even more on a daily scale. Some,...
Bitcoin mining difficulty jumps to all-time high levels
Bitcoin mining difficulty crossed an all time high of 35.61 trillion hashes on Monday, as miners ramp up their operations or more miners join the network. Bitcoin difficulty is an automatically adjust...
XRP leads losses as Bitcoin holds steady at $19K
The total cryptocurrency market cap saw net outflows totaling $20.53 billion. As of press time, the industry’s market cap stood at $920.62 billion, down 2.23% over the last 24 hours. Bitcoin’s market ...
zkSync Parent Firm Sets to Launch Layer 3 Testnet ‘Pathfinder’ in Q1 2023
Matter Labs has announced its pending testnet launch – a new layer 3 Ethereum scaling prototype called ‘Pathfinder,’ which will be released in the first quarter of 2023 and could turn out to be ...
Cryptocurrency Price Today Oct 11: Bitcoin, Ethereum Plummet
Cryptocurrency Price Today October 11 Latest Updates: The crypto market is in a major rut as sentiments are turning more negative. Bitcoin prices fell by 2% in the last 24 hours and by 3.25% in the la...
Spanish Crypto ATM Company Bitbase Eyes European and Latam Expansion – Exchanges Bitcoin News
Bitbase, a Spanish cryptocurrency ATM company, is planning to keep expanding its services in 2023. The company, which received investments from Dextools and Woonkly, two Web3-based decentralized compa...
Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Jumps 14%, Hitting All-Time High
It’s now harder than ever to mine Bitcoin. Bitcoin miners have been dealt another blow as the network’s difficulty rose 14% to a new all-time high of 35.6 trillion on Monday. Bitcoin mining diff...
BNB Chain Begins Innovation Incubator Program To Boost European Web3 Startups
BNB Chain, the blockchain of the Binance crypto exchange, announced on October 10, accepting applications for its latest development-focused initiative – the web3 European Innovation incubator program...
Bitcoin Whales Accumulating as Bear Market Floor is Established
In its weekly on-chain analysis report on Oct. 10, Glassnode stated that Bitcoin has “remained remarkably stable” in recent weeks when compared to traditional asset markets such as forex, volatile equ...
Bitcoin en Route to 40X Gains, According to Analyst Who Called May 2021 BTC Collapse
A popular crypto analyst known for calling the Bitcoin May 2021 collapse thinks BTC is en route to 40x gains over the long term. The pseudonymous analyst known as Dave the Wave tells his 127,500 Twitt...
Native Token of Bitcoin Exchange Huobi Jumps 18% Amid Fresh Investment
The value of Huobi’s native token has shot up around 18% in recent trading, following the news of fresh investment in the Seychelles-based crypto exchange. Huobi’s founder Leon Li Lin recently sold of...
Technical analysis of the price of Bitcoin- The Cryptonomist
For the queens Bitcoin and Ethereum, weakness over the weekend cooled the positive performance accumulated in previous days. Volumes between Saturday and Sunday record the lowest balance traded on wee...
Transit Finance Convinces Hacker to Return $2m to Protocol
Earlier this month, Transit Finance, a Decentralized Finance (DeFi) protocol, unveiled it was hacked for $21 million, marking the sheet as one of the latest protocols to suffer exploitation this year....
Ark Invest CEO Warns Rate Hikes Could Fuel a ‘Deflationary Bust’ in Open Letter to the Fed – Bitcoin News
Following the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) report that the U.S. Federal Reserve should stop raising rates, Ark Invest CEO Catherine Wood has published an open letter to ...