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Argentine Peso Plunges to a 5 Month Low Amid Legal and Political Woes
26.12.2022
The Argentine Peso has experienced a sudden fall vs the U.S. dollar, falling to a 5-month low in its blue rate, one of the many parallel exchange rates of the country. The reasons for this fall, besides the abundance of pesos due to holiday-related payments, and the battle between President Alberto...
As the Fed Turns 109 Years Old, the US Dollar’s Purchasing Power Eroded by More Than 96% Since It Was Created
25.12.2022
109 years ago, the U.S. Federal Reserve was created and ever since that day, the purchasing power of the U.S. dollar has dropped a great deal. Since the Fed started, more than 96% of the greenback’s purchasing power has been erased via inflation. The Purchasing Power of the U.S. Dollar After...
Privacy Coins Take a Beating This Year Losing Over $6 Billion, Anonymity Takes a Back Seat to Defi, NFTs
24.12.2022
The last 12 months have been tough on digital currency investors as the crypto winter has caused a large sum of value to leave the once-bustling economy. The privacy coin economy, for instance, shed more than 55% against the U.S. dollar as it dropped from $11.7 billion in Jan. 2022 to the current...
2022’s Market Review: Crypto Economy Loses $1.4T, Top 10 Token Knockouts, Terra’s Collapse
21.12.2022
2022 is coming to an end and during the last 12 months, the crypto economy has lost roughly $1.486 trillion in value against the U.S. dollar. On Dec. 20, 2021, bitcoin was trading for $46,406 and it has lost more than 63% in value year-to-date, while the second leading crypto asset ethereum shed...
Bank of Japan’s Kuroda Shocks Markets by Raising the Benchmark Rate to 0.5% From 0.25%
20.12.2022
The Japanese yen is up 3.42% against the U.S. dollar on Tuesday as the Bank of Japan surprised the world by deciding to allow the benchmark interest rate to rise to 0.5% from 0.25%. The Japanese central bank was one of the only banks worldwide to hold off on raising benchmark interest rates,...
Ghanaian Cedi Appreciates by More Than 30% in 4 Days — Currency Recovery Follows IMF Loan Announcement
18.12.2022
Just a few months after it became the world’s worst-performing currency, the Ghanaian cedi’s exchange rate versus the U.S. dollar bounced back from just over 14 units per dollar on Dec. 1, to 8 units for every dollar by Dec. 16, new data has shown. The currency’s resurgence...
Solana Struggles to Remain in the Top 20 as Prior Ties to FTX and Alameda Wounded the Project
16.12.2022
Amid the market chaos within the crypto economy and following the climactic FTX collapse, the crypto asset solana has been one of the hardest hit during the last 30 days. Since FTX’s fallout, the digital currency lost 8.5% over the last month against the U.S. dollar and to date, it’s...
Balaji Srinivasan Says FTX Is a Preview of State Failure, USD Bank Accounts Could Be Frozen or Inflated to Worthlessness
12.12.2022
Angel investor Balaji Srinivasan says the collapse of crypto exchange FTX should be treated as “a preview of state failure.” He warned that one day U.S. dollar bank accounts “may be frozen or inflated to worthlessness,” emphasizing that the authorities “will show...
This Week XRP Whales Moved Millions of Tokens to Exchanges and Unknown Wallets
10.12.2022
During the past 30 days, the crypto asset xrp has gained more than 17% in value against the U.S. dollar. Meanwhile, the crypto community has been noticing significant xrp whale movements during the past week as one whale moved 143,000,000 xrp worth more than $55 million on Dec. 9, and another whale...
Talks of Issuing a New FTT Token Fuel Coin’s Price Despite FTT’s Broken Tokenomics Scheme
10.12.2022
Roughly 29 days ago FTX filed for bankruptcy, and the crypto ecosystem has been dealing with a rollercoaster ride of market fluctuations and community drama ever since then. Moreover, the now-bankrupt crypto trading platform’s exchange token FTT is still trading above $1 per unit, and it managed...
Meme Coin Economy Heals After the FTX Fiasco Swelling by $1.4 Billion in 30 Days
10.12.2022
The meme coin economy has seen its value increase 7.77% against the U.S. dollar during the last month, as the meme token market leader dogecoin jumped 29.4% higher in 30 days. Dogecoin has also managed to move from the ninth-largest market cap position to the eighth-largest crypto market valuation...
Over the Last Year, Bitcoin’s Market Cap Slid From the World’s 8th Most Valuable Asset to the 26th Position
9.12.2022
In Nov. 2021, bitcoin’s market valuation managed to make it into the top ten list of assets ranked by market capitalization, as it was the eighth largest market cap last year on Nov. 9. Since then, bitcoin is 75% lower in value against the U.S. dollar and the leading crypto asset’s...
ETH Price to Fall to $922 by December 10, Coincodex Predicts
8.12.2022
The U.S. dollar price of ether, which presently hovers around $1,200, is expected to fall to $922.66 by Dec. 10, a Coincodex prediction chart has shown. Ethereum is nonetheless projected to close the following day trading above $1,000. According to the Coincodex analysis, there are presently...
Bitcoin, Ethereum Technical Analysis: BTC, ETH Continue to Consolidate as USD Strengthens
7.12.2022
Bitcoin was consolidating on Wednesday, as the U.S. dollar continued to strengthen versus several G7 currencies. A strong dollar means demand for cryptocurrencies typically plummets, with the global market cap trading in the red as of writing. Ethereum was also lower today, falling as it remained...
Wikipedia Editors List FTX’s Questionable Blunder as the Top Trading Loss of All-Time
6.12.2022
Following the collapse of FTX at the beginning of November, two top executives from FTX and Alameda Research — Sam Bankman-Fried and Caroline Ellison — have been listed among traders with the top trading losses worldwide on Wikipedia. According to the Wiki page, Bankman-Fried’s and Ellison’s...
Terra Supporters Hope to ‘Defy the Odds’ by Pumping the Now-Defunct Stablecoin USTC Back to $1 Parity
28.11.2022
It’s been six months since Terra’s algorithmic stablecoin UST (now USTC) depegged from the U.S. dollar and the price has remained depegged from the greenback since May 9, 2022. Currently, the former stablecoin is exchanging hands for $0.02 per unit, but a number of Terra Classic supporters believe...
Venezuelan Currency Plunges Almost 40% Against the US Dollar, Analysts Cite Crypto Drought as Part of the Problem
27.11.2022
The Venezuelan fiat currency, the bolivar, has lost almost 40% in its exchange rate against the U.S. dollar in a month. According to reports, the seasonal payments that the government has to make, and the lack of liquidity of the government to intervene in the currency market are part of...
Despite 2 Entities Holding 73% of the FTX Token Supply, FTT Price Still Holds Above $1 per Unit
27.11.2022
While a large fraction of crypto assets dropped a great deal in value during the past few weeks and bitcoin is down 18.2% in 30 days, the exchange coin ftx token (FTT) still trades above a U.S. dollar per unit. Moreover, the unknown entity known as the ‘FTX Accounts Drainer,’ still holds the second...
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro Signals Support for Single Currency in Latam, Calls for Crypto Inclusion
22.11.2022
Nicolas Maduro, president of Venezuela, has expressed his support for the adoption of a new common currency for Latam in the latest meeting of the Workgroup of the Sao Paolo Forum. Maduro stated that this would be an important step for the construction of a common economic space, that would also...
Bitcoin Miners Face a Squeeze as BTC Production Cost Remains Well Above Spot Market Value
21.11.2022
Bitcoin miners are dealing with lots of pressure following the recent difficulty adjustment increase on Nov. 20, 2022, and the leading crypto asset dropping further in value against the U.S. dollar following FTX’s collapse. Statistics recorded this past weekend show that bitcoin’s...