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Get the weekly summary of cryptocurrency market trends, news, and forecasts! This Week’s Summary The Crypto Market ends the week at a total market capitalization of $219,3 billion. Bitcoin almost recovers to trade at its pre-pandemic value of $7,800 Ethereum sees a 10% increase in price compared to last week. XRP price increases by 3% and gets closer to the $0.20 resistance level Crude oil price goes to an unprecedented negative value. China’s digital Yuan attracts the interest of McDonald’s,…

XRP has been weak in the short-term and based on the words of analysts, it could incur a remarkable upside move in the coming days, which may lead to the immediate key barrier close to $0.22. At press time, the performance of XRP was nominal at a price of $0.196. Over the past week, XRP revealed some signs of strength, moving from $0.18 low to its highs established a few hours ago. Bitcoin has performed better as it moved from weekly lows…

There is an inherent lack of trust in the decentralized network and Proof of Work consensus algorithm of Bitcoin. Nevertheless, Bitcoin’s growth turned it to the leading asset worldwide, thereby bringing up issues like scalability. Hence, second-layer solutions such as the Lightning network have been introduced to solve the problem. The question now is about possible depletion of the trustless domain on which Bitcoin is based on by the Lightning network. Lisa Neigut of Blockstream spoke on the Stephen Livera podcast concerning Lightning network…

On April 24, the office of the U.S. Attorney for Columbia District was authorized to seize coronaprevention.org.  The Department was directed to detect, investigate, and prosecute the illicit conduct of the website’s owner which is related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The seizure of coronaprevention.org website was due to the alleged attempt by its owner to sell the domain for Bitcoin. According to the United States authorities, the unidentified owner of the website attempted to sell the domain to an undercover…

The backdrop of current worldwide economic trouble is a concern when it comes to the performance of Bitcoin. However, up till this moment, Bitcoin has done well such that it posted year-to-date gains while the performance of equities market is still well beneath its level in the beginning of 2020. At the moment, there are two swiftly emerging events which may prompt both prevalent adoption and accumulation for Bitcoin. These two events have the potential to bolster the benchmark cryptocurrency…

The cryptocurrency futures market has been experiencing a shakeup since the cryptocurrency market crash which happened on March 12. The market crash led to the decision by BitMEX to lose some of its futures marketplace to Binance, says the cryptocurrency intelligence company Coin Metrics. Reports have it that BitMEX experienced two distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks during the market crash last month. The attacks led to late processing of market orders and 156 accounts sustained losses. Since then, BitMex has lost market volume…

On April 20, crude oil incurred a momentous price decline by 99 percent. This unexpected decline increased the difficulties posed by the coronavirus pandemic. The difficulties are more in nations where fuel is 90 percent of all exports. Due to correlation among traditional assets, the swift decline affected gold and SPX. However, when we examined the cryptocurrency markets, it was discovered that on the same day, Bitcoin incurred a 4.9 percent decline. Bitcoin experienced rejection at $7.2k price level. As at the time…

ETH/USD Pair Price Analysis Yesterday, we mentioned the possibility of the ETH/USD to incur a huge rally above $180. It was able to follow a bullish path over $180 and the 100 hourly SMA. It incurred an upsurge over $188 barrier zone and attained a fresh weekly high close to $193. In recent times, the pair retraced to the downside beneath $188 and $185. Nevertheless, on the way to the downside, it secured support close to $182. A look at…

Scammers have looted thousands of XRP users using fake 50 million XRP giveaway. Numerous posts of the fake giveaway are attached to random tweets on Twitter, with the aim of misleading people into taking part in scam activities. XRP data aggregator (xrplorer.com) noted on Twitter that people withdrew 6 million XRP from exchanges and sent them for giveaway scams. Interestingly, this figure was close to 3 million XRP this year. “Do you want to protect your users against scams? You can! In…