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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 $254.6 billion. Bitcoin ends the week trading past $9,000 Ethereum increases by 13% to trade well over $200 XRP price breaks beyond the 0.20 barrier after a 12.5% boost COVID-19 is still out there, but governments are looking into easing restrictions in May Crypto Trends 27th of April - 03rd of May 2020: PERFORMANCE…

Bitcoin’s price incurred an upsurge above $9.5k yesterday while the U.S. Fed. Reserve left benchmark lending rates close to zero and talked about the provision of another stimulus. Bitcoin rose by more than 4.98 percent yesterday thereby attaining $9,233, following the warning by the U.S. Federal Reserve regarding a medium-term economic disaster prompted by the current COVID-19 pandemic. The price of Bitcoin has been on the upside by over 30 percent in the past seven days as halving is imminent.…

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…

If you are new to investing in the crypto market, you've likely heard people talking about crypto bull/bear markets or crypto whales, but you might not be sure what they mean. The truth is that it's possible to make money in both bull and bear markets, but there are different strategies for each. That said, investors should be cautious when putting their money into cryptocurrency markets, no matter what type of investing environment we are experiencing, because there are serious…

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…

Like regional currencies such as the US dollar, Bitcoin is a digital currency with a finite, limited supply like Gold or Silver. Since it is based on new technology and nearly unregulated and borderless, it is highly volatile, featuring wild fluctuations in its purchasing power, which can happen intermittently over a short time. Volatility is the main reason seasoned investors in traditional markets tend to be wary of Bitcoin. However, it is also why other investors embrace it due to…

Digital currencies pegged to traditional assets such as fiat are known as stablecoins. Based on their design, they are capable of holding a steady value and provide cryptocurrency traders an easy means of escaping the high volatility of the cryptocurrency markets. On April 17, the CEO of blockchain database startup Messari tweeted about the value of stablecoins on exchanges. Ryan Selkis said the massive sum of cryptocurrency capital are on the sidelines but ready to move into BTC, ETH, XRP and…