Cryptocurrency News
After hitting a new ATH for 2019 on May 3rd, Bitcoin is back at it setting a new all time high trading at $5933 on Coinbase. The recent price hike comes amid Donald Trump’s tweets revealing a potential tariff increase on Chinese goods causing the stock market to flash crash. […]
After peaking at $0.0027 on May 3rd, Dogecoin’s price is down almost 4% as the overall cryptocurrency market stabilizes post the bull run last week. Despite the recent price slump, DOGE maintains it’s 29th based on market cap right after USD Coin and before Decred. Dogecoin’s market cap at the […]
Ethereum is up over 6% in the past 24 hours as the market momentum intensifies. After trading in the $160 level the past week, the price jumped over $16 looking for new support in the $170 range. One speculation as to the cause of the recent bullish momentum for Ethereum, […]
After getting listed on Binance last week, $ATOM the cryptocurrency for the Cosmos blockchain is up almost 20% in the pat 24 hours. The recent 18% rise comes amid a bull run led by Bitcoin which is still holding strong at the time of writing. Part of the hype for […]
It has not been an easy year for the top darknet marketplaces. Not entirely surprising when considering how law enforcement agencies are actively cracking down on these illicit services. Wall Street Market, a platform recently thought to have exit scammed, has been taken over by German and Dutch law enforcement […]
In a press release published earlier today, Europol announced that they have shut down the latest darknet marketplace – Wall Street. The market had over one million users and over five thousand vendors and was ranked the world’s second largest dark web market trading drugs, stolen data, fake IDs and […]
GunBroker.com, a twenty-year-old company that sells between $600 and $900 million worth of firearms each year, has a problem. Its customers have only two reliable payment options, and they’re the same two payment options that were available to people who wanted to go see The Beatles play in 1965: cheques […]
2019 is turning out to be quite a positive year for Bitcoin, is the crypto winter finally over? After hitting a low of $3,300 back in December, Bitcoin has been increasing in value ever since. The momentum and volume has been building little by little the past 5 months and […]
22 percent of institutional investors already have exposure to digital assets. This is according to a new report by Fidelity Investments, one of the largest asset managers in the world. The report goes against many crypto skeptics who have been quick to state that institutions are no longer interested in […]
The cryptocurrency community remains subject to a lot of potential scams in this day and age. Although that is nothing new, it would appear some of these attacks are a lot more successful than others. One recently discovered “Electrum botnet” has successfully stolen $4.6m worth of Bitcoin from victims in […]
By Dmitriy Gurkovskiy, Chief Analysis at RoboForex XRP is recovering Friday after the Thursday’s plunge, trading at around $0.2996. On H4, the downtrend reached the long term support, with the price ready to go further down after the test. Currently, the downside momentum has increased, and the XRP is trying […]
Ethereum is the leading smart contract platform globally and it gave rise to the ICO world. The inventor of Ethereum is Vitalik Buterin, and he is in the eye of the storm for proposing new wallet fees. A few weeks ago, a particular news item made ripples through the crypto […]
A botnet that has been targeting Electrum users just won’t quit. If anything, it seems to be picking up more hosts along the way and getting stronger. In the past month, the number of infected hosts has averaged 100,000. On April 24, the number went up to 152,000 according to […]
One more major player is joining the movement to push crypto adoption mainstream. Online trading platform E*Trade is set to offer crypto trading services, a source revealed to Bloomberg. In doing so, the platform will join close competitor Robinhood which has received a significant push among millennial customers by offering […]
A terrorist organization has turned to bitcoin as it seeks to raise funding for its activities. According to a new report, the military wing of Hamas, known as Izz el-Deen al-Qassam Brigades has been asking its supporters to send in donations using bitcoin. The United States and the European Union have […]
Tether is on the spotlight, again. This time, the largest stablecoin in the market is at the center of an alleged $850 million cover-up. The New York attorney general Letitia James obtained a court order yesterday enjoining iFinex Inc., the operators of Bitfinex as well as Tether Limited, accusing the […]
I want to have a closer look at bitcoin technical analysis and the levels that are important to keep an eye on over the next few weeks. Bitcoin is up 45% since I posted an article back in February about how I think the tide is turning. Prices have been […]
Bitcoin is still the favorite cryptocurrency for criminals. This is despite the springing up of more than 2,000 cryptos, with some like Monero and Zcash hinging on privacy. However, the crypto king still dominates criminal activity by over 95 percent. In an interview with Fortune, the co-founder and COO of […]