Get the weekly summary of crypto market analysis, news, and forecasts! This Week’s Summary The crypto market ends the week at a total market capitalization of $2,17 trillion. Bitcoin continues to trade at around $62,300. Ethereum experiences no changes and stagnates at around $2,400. XRP is down by 2%, Solana by 1%, and Dogecoin by 3%. Almost all altcoins are trading in the red, with very few exceptions. The DeFi sector decreased the total value of protocols (TVL) to around…
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I Paid Thousands of Dollars in Bitcoin Transaction Fees, Says Roger Ver
Roger Ver is a renowned supporter of Bitcoin Cash. He has claimed payment of thousands of dollars in Bitcoin fees many times on the Bitcoin network. The information was provided in a video on Twitter by Bitcoin Meme Hub. In the video, Ver said he paid the sum in Bitcoin uncountable times. https://twitter.com/BitcoinMemeHub/status/1250840996985933824 The Bitcoin fork, which happened in 2017 brought about differences in fees and speed. The fork split due to disagreements regarding the asset which eventually divided the community. Big blocks supporters desire faster transactions…
5 years ago
WMA: Bitcoin doesn’t flinch to bad news while China is Launching Digital Yuan
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 $208 billion. Bitcoin returns to trade above $7,000 less than a month before the halving Ethereum ends the week trading above $183 XRP continues its struggle to overcome the $0.20 barrier The OPEC announces the largest historical cutback of crude oil production in history. COVID-19 has now surpassed over 2 million cases worldwide Crypto…
5 years ago
Bitcoin and Ethereum Needs to Work Together To Prevent Centralization
Despite being around for a long time now, numerous individuals still consider cryptocurrencies to be undergoing experimentation. However, Bitcoin has been able to gain some form of importance in the financial domain. This is such that governments and central banks worldwide are planning towards the regulation and introduction of their own digital currencies. We have numerous cryptocurrencies in the market but Bitcoin remains the leader despite its remarkable shortcomings. At press time, the dominance of Bitcoin was 62.97 percent, while its…
5 years ago
Bitcoin May Not Make Any Remarkable Near-Term Movements
Bitcoin has been trading on the sideways and has once again failed to close its daily candle over $7.2k. Hence, it is vulnerable to more downside this weekend and in the coming week. Bitcoin may fail to make any notable trend defining moves in the days ahead either. According to an analyst, its direction will be influenced by the direction the United States stock market trends next week. That is, its performance this weekend will be dull such that it…
5 years ago
Bitcoin Holdings on Bitfinex Reduce by One-Third Within a Month
Reports have it that Bitcoin holdings on one of the renowned cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex have reduced by 66k over the previous four weeks. As of Mar. 17 this year, the number of Bitcoins held in the exchange was 200,140. However, the number declined by 33 percent to only 134,091 Bitcoin by Apr. 13. This huge decline is similar to the experience with another exchange BitMEX, which recorded a 38 percent reduction in its number of Bitcoin holdings following the massive flash crash that…
5 years ago
Bitcoin Miners are Back as Price Recovers
There has been a large recovery in Bitcoin network’s computing power following its second biggest fall in history. Coin Metrics revealed that the network’s total computing power (also called the hash rate) has returned to normal 2020 levels after a substantial decline in March 2020. The hash rate stands for the miners’ aggregate computing power on Bitcoin network. When the hash rate is high, it is a sign of more miners’ harder efforts towards finding new Bitcoin blocks, together with the sustenance…
5 years ago
Between Scalability and Centralization of Bitcoin
Many cryptocurrency market participants and Bitcoin enthusiasts are looking forward to wide usage of Bitcoin as currency. However, scalability is among the greatest challenges hindering the achievement. Bitcoin’s proof of work consensus algorithm is exceedingly essential based on immutability viewpoint; however, it has not been able to do as expected regarding transaction speeds when in competition with other forms of payments. People argue that Bitcoin is suitable as a store of value asset and not as a medium of exchange.…
5 years ago
Bitcoin Analyst Says Stock-to-Flow Model Not Appropriate for Price Prediction
Many Bitcoin enthusiasts have robust support for the Stock-to-Flow (S2F) model used for the prediction of Bitcoin prices. According to the model’s forecast, Bitcoin price will become more than $100k by 2021. Nevertheless, according to some analysts, the model use for Bitcoin is untoward. Their argument is that Bitcoin’s supply is fixed; hence the model is unable to dictate market movements. An analyst known as Hugo Nguyen on Twitter tweeted about the statements by Coinmetrics founder Nic Carter on the viewpoint. According to the S2F model’s…
5 years ago
Bitcoin: 100 SMA May Bring About A Fresh Upsurge; Ethereum Remains Upside Over $145
BTC/USD Pair Price Analysis Over the previous week, the attempt by the BTC/USD pair tried to surge over two barrier levels ($7.4k and $7.5k) failed. The pair attained $7,470 and in recent times began to fall. It was able to break the $7.2k support level to land in a declining area. The pair’s 4-hour chart shows a break beneath a key bullish trend line with support at $7.2k. Currently, the pair is close to a critical support at $6.7k and…
5 years ago