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Bitcoin Hits $50K, Crypto Asset Jumps 200% in 3 Months, USD Shorts Touch a Decade High
16.2.2021
The price of bitcoin touched an all-time high surpassing the $50k handle on February 16, 2021. Cryptocurrency advocates celebrated the milestone as bitcoin has spiked more than 200% during the last 90 days and 400% against the U.S. dollar for the entire year. Bitcoin (BTC) has crossed...
Bitcoin Rallies From USD 20,000 to USD 50,000 In Two Months
16.2.2021
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On December 16, 2020, the most popular cryptocurrency, bitcoin (BTC), revisited the USD 20,000 level after a three years journey. Two months later, on February 16, 2021, BTC has entered the USD 50,000 zone for the first time in its history on signs of increasing...
Bitcoin Targets USD 50,000 Again, Ethereum, Altcoins Surge
16.2.2021
Bitcoin price started a fresh increase after it broke the USD 48,000 resistance. BTC gained momentum and it surpassed the USD 49,400 resistance. It even traded to a new all-time high near USD 49,975 and it is currently (05:00 UTC) consolidating gains.
Besides, most major altcoins are showing signs...
USD 1.9B Liquidated As Overexuberant Crypto Traders Get Overleveraged
15.2.2021
Around USD 1.9bn in 281,000 trading positions have been liquidated in a day as the market corrected sharply, per bybt.com data. Around 90% of the liquidations were of long positions, suggesting that overly optimistic traders were using margin trading to open large positions in the hope of bitcoin...
Utopia P2P’s Crypton (CRP) Now Available on Cryptex.net for USD
15.2.2021
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On February 6th, 2021 one of the most versatile cryptocurrency exchanges, Cryptex.net, listed the Utopia Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Ecosystem’s native privacy coin, Crypton (CRP) for trading against the United States...
Bitcoin Nears And Stops at the USD 50,000 Gate
14.2.2021
It took two months for the most popular cryptocurrency, bitcoin (BTC), to rally from USD 20,000, reached again after a three years journey, to almost USD 50,000 today on signs of increasing demand.
After starting this week below USD 38,000, BTC rallied on Tesla's BTC deal news, and, today, it took...
Justin Sun Incites SEC With Tron Shilling After Suffering USD 8m GameStop Loss
12.2.2021
Justin Sun. Source: Twitter, @justinsuntron
Tron (TRX) founder Justin Sun has been up to his old tricks again, seemingly paying American celebrities such as Lindsay Lohan and Ne-Yo to shill TRX and related tokens on Twitter. His latest promotional activities come after the crypto entrepreneur...
Antier Solutions Executes Transactions Worth $100 Million on Blockchain MLM Platforms
10.2.2021
PRESS RELEASE. After transforming businesses across various industries, blockchain has combined with MLM (Multi-level Marketing) to bring profound, positive changes in the industry. India’s Antier Solutions has executed transactions worth a 100 million USD across its blockchain based...
This Groundbreaking Blockchain Metaverse Lets You Earn USD By Selling NFT Properties
10.2.2021
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Hidden among a press release published on November 10, 2020 is one of the most significant developments in blockchain history: By partnering with Tilia Pay, Upland.me, a virtual property metaverse that...
Attacked Blockfolio To Spend Up To USD 10m on Fixing Damage
9.2.2021
Popular crypto portfolio tracker and trading app Blockfolio claims they are nearly back to business as usual and are offering up to USD 10 million in credits following this morning's scandalous hack.
Blockfolio, which was acquired by crypto derivatives exchange FTX last year, has issued a couple...
Bitcoin Inches Towards USD 50K, Ethereum and Altcoins Extend Rally
9.2.2021
Bitcoin price rallied significantly above the USD 42,000 and USD 45,000 resistance levels. BTC even spiked above USD 47,000 and traded to a new all-time high near USD 47,500. It is currently (05:00 UTC) consolidating gains and it could continue to rise towards USD 48,500 and USD 50,000.
Similarly...
Human Rights Foundation’s Alex Gladstein Calls Bitcoin ‘An Escape Hatch From Tyranny’
8.2.2021
The Human Rights Foundation (HRF)’s Alex Gladstein has heaped praise on bitcoin saying it’s an escape hatch from tyranny and that there is more to it than its price. In comments made via a short video, Gladstein, who is the chief strategy officer (CSO) at HRF, asserts that “people...
Tesla Buys USD 1.5B Worth of Bitcoin, To Accept BTC as Payment
8.2.2021
Tesla confirmed it invested an aggregate USD 1.50bn in bitcoin (BTC) and may acquire and hold digital assets from time to time or long-term.
"Moreover, we expect to begin accepting bitcoin as a form of payment for our products in the near future, subject to applicable laws and initially on...
Bitcoin Returns Above USD 40,000 In Less Than A Month
6.2.2021
The most popular cryptocurrency, bitcoin (BTC), rallied on Saturday, moving back above the USD 40,000 level for the first time in almost a month.
At the time of writing (14:38 UTC), BTC trades at USD 40,420 and is up by 6% in a day, increasing its weekly gains to 18%. BTC reached its all-time high...
Bitfinex Repays USD 550m to Tether, Nigerian Ban, Dorsey's Bitcoin Node + More News
5.2.2021
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Bitfinex said that, in January, it repaid the remaining balance of USD 550m of the outstanding revolving loan facility to its sister...
Bitcoin Market Cap May Be 'Overstated' by USD 151Bn - Coin Metrics
5.2.2021
Bitcoin (BTC) market capitalization may be overstated by USD 151.5bn, according to data from the crypto intelligence firm Coin Metrics. And the same may well go for the token's forks, the company suggested.
Coin Metrics arrived at this staggering figure by looking at how many coins may actually...
Yearn's YFI Drops Following a USD 11M-Heavy Exploit
5.2.2021
Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol yearn.finance's YFI dropped more than USD 4,000 after one of its DAI lending pools was drained of USD 11m in an exploit.
Yearn's YFI governance token saw an abrupt USD 4,190 drop last night. Though the price has increased somewhat, it's still lower than...
FTX Boss Bankman-Fried Says He Is Worth a ‘Mostly Illiquid’ USD 10B
4.2.2021
Sam Bankman-Fried. Source: A video screenshot, Youtube/FTX Official
One of President Joe Biden’s biggest campaign backers in the 2020 presidential election has been grabbing the limelight in the mainstream media – as Sam Bankman-Fried (28), the CEO of the crypto derivatives platform FTX, continues...
Circle Launches USD Coin on the Stellar Network
4.2.2021
Circle and the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) announced that the second-biggest stablecoin is now available within their network. USD Coin (USDC) is accessible through five integrated wallets, and it can be tradeable on their ecosystem, said the USDC issuer. Stellar Has Been the Official...
Pension Fund's Exposure to Bitcoin, USD 600,000 per BTC + More News
3.2.2021
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The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS), America’s biggest public pension fund, upped its stake in Riot...