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Nvidia Aims to Get Its GPUs Back ‘Into the Hands of Gamers’ by Reducing Mining Capabilities on 3 Graphic Cards
20.5.2021
A major chipmaker keeps making efforts to calm down the gaming community’s anger toward cryptocurrency miners who are taking the lead in buying graphic cards massively, boosting its prices. Nvidia has announced that it will deliberately limit the capabilities for some of its newly graphic...
Defi Economy Lost $20 Billion This Week, Decentralized Exchange Volumes Still Sky High
20.5.2021
While crypto markets, in general, have been dropping significantly in value, the decentralized finance (defi) economy has shaved more than $21 billion during the last week. Statistics show that the total-value locked (TVL) in defi touched $87 billion on May 11, and since then the aggregate total...
Survey: Crypto Traders Predict Ethereum’s ROI to ‘Crush’ Bitcoin’s 2021 Year-End Return
19.5.2021
Bitcoin and a slew of digital assets have seen massive drops in value during the last few days, while the top two leading crypto assets bitcoin and ethereum have been battling for market supremacy. This week, bitcoin’s towering dominance over the crypto economy has dropped to a three-year...
Bitcoin Drops Below $40K, Crypto Economy Down 17%, Markets Lost $250 Billion Last Week
19.5.2021
On Wednesday, cryptocurrency markets continue to drop lower in value, as the entire crypto-economy has plunged 17% below the $2 trillion mark and now rests at $1.801 trillion. Bitcoin, the leading cryptocurrency in terms of market capitalization, touched a high of $40,770 per unit at 4:48 a.m....
Bitcoin $5K ‘kimchi premium’ returns while gold prices surge in Korea
19.5.2021
Bitcoin is trading at 12.5% higher in South Korea than in other markets, while gold prices climb to quarterly highs
Bank of America Survey: ‘Long Bitcoin’ Is Most Crowded Trade, 75% of Fund Managers See BTC as Bubble
19.5.2021
The most recent Bank of America Fund Manager Survey finds that the most crowded trade is “long bitcoin.” Nonetheless, 75% of fund managers say the cryptocurrency is in a bubble zone. Fund Managers Say Long Bitcoin Is Most Crowded Trade but Most See Bubble The Bank of America (BoA) Fund...
‘Chartmaster’ Expects BTC Price to Tap $29K, Delta Exchange CEO Says ‘Bitcoin Hasn’t Found a Floor Yet’
18.5.2021
The price of bitcoin has dropped to a new low for the month of May, sliding to $42,100 per unit during Monday evening’s trading sessions. While a few analysts see bitcoin rebounding and gathering new highs in the coming weeks, a few crypto market strategists believe bitcoin prices could sink...
Report: South African Taxes and Smuggling Behind Gold’s Price Distortions in Zimbabwe
18.5.2021
Despite gold’s longstanding status as an alternative store of value, the commodity continues to experience unusual price variations in countries like South Africa and Zimbabwe. In turn, such price variances, as well as the rampant smuggling of the commodity, are distorting the precious...
Bitcoin Stock-to-Flow Still ‘Intact’ Says Creator, Crypto Fear Index Taps 12-Month Low
17.5.2021
The leading cryptocurrency bitcoin has dropped 20% in value after Tesla announced on May 12, the electric car firm would not be accepting bitcoin for purchases. Two days later, the creator of the notorious stock-to-flow cross-asset (S2FX) price model, Plan B, shared his model and said the S2FX...
Twitch Begins Adjusting Sub Prices Based On Where Viewers Live
17.5.2021
While the USD 4.99 per month cost of a Tier 1 Twitch subscription works fine here in the States, five bucks can be a much larger hit on one’s wallet in other countries. Starting this week with Mexico and Turkey, Twitch will begin adjusting subscription costs to better align with the local cost...
Crypto Markets Take Deep Losses, Global Trade Volumes Skyrocket, Elon Battles Crypto Twitter
16.5.2021
Bitcoin and a slew of digital currency markets are seeing significant losses on Sunday as a majority of coins are down between 2-15% during the last 24 hours. The entire crypto-economy has dropped more than 6% and bitcoin dominance is down to 40% the lowest the metric has been in two years. Crypto...
As Bitcoin Drops in Value, Proof-of-Stake Tokens That Use Less Energy See Double-Digit Gains
15.5.2021
Crypto markets have been very volatile in recent times and a great number of digital assets have dropped more than 30% in value during the last three days. Although, not all the coins in the crypto economy are doing badly, as coins that do not leverage proof-of-work (PoW) consensus algorithms have...
Mark Cuban: Crypto prices increasingly reflect “real demand”
15.5.2021
The billionaire is bullish on DAO participation, networks with real usage, and mass adoption on the horizon
Bank of Korea to Monitor Crypto Transactions Using Financial Records
15.5.2021
South Korea’s monetary policy regulator, Bank of Korea, plans to obtain documents from financial institutions to track crypto transactions involving bank accounts. Cryptocurrency prices fluctuate independently from the real economy, the bank says, adding that market growth could pose a risk...
Bitcoin Whale Count Shrinks- Speculators Assume Trickle Distribution or Possible Address Reorganizations
14.5.2021
The price of bitcoin has seen better days, as the coin’s value hit $59,600 four days ago and then saw the exchange rate tumble to a low of $45,700 per unit on May 12. There have been talks of whales selling coins and data shows that there’s been some large wallet inflows. However...
Stablecoin Demand in 2021 Skyrockets, Fiat-Pegged Token Economy Nears $100 Billion
14.5.2021
While most cryptocurrency markets are down today in value, dollar-pegged stablecoins have seen significant demand during the last 24 hours. Currently, the entire market valuation of all the stablecoins in existence is roughly $96 billion. The Rise of Fiat-Pegged Stablecoins Crypto assets like...
While Bitcoin’s Price Slumps the Network’s Mining Difficulty Reaches a Lifetime High
13.5.2021
After bitcoin prices took a hit following Tesla’s recent u-turn, Bitcoin’s mining difficulty jumped over 25 trillion, the highest the metric has seen during the protocol’s lifetime. The mining difficulty spike follows the recent 12% difficulty drop the network experienced...
What Is Nano? Fee-Free Crypto Asset Gains 60% Intraday
13.5.2021
Nano, a relatively obscure cryptocurrency, managed to catch the spotlight yesterday due to its singular transactional proposal. But, what is Nano really, and why did the token manage to skyrocket more than 60% in just a few hours? Nano and Its Fee-Free Approach Nano, a fairly unknown cryptocurrency...
Bitcoin Markets Blood Red After Tesla Announcement, Crypto Economy Sheds Billions
13.5.2021
Digital currency markets have seen better days, as billions of dollars were shaved off the entire crypto-economy after Tesla revealed it would not be accepting bitcoin over environmental concerns. The entire market capitalization of all the crypto assets in existence has dipped under the...
Stan Druckenmiller: US Will Likely Lose Reserve Currency Status in 15 Years, Hard to Unseat Bitcoin as Store of Value
13.5.2021
Legendary fund manager Stanley Druckenmiller says that he is worried that within 15 years the U.S. dollar will lose its world’s reserve currency status. He said that crypto is a solution to the lack of trust in Fed Chairman Jerome Powell “and the rest of the world’s central...