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BTC Miners Expect Bitcoin Price to Surpass $12K After Reward Halving
7.5.2020
Miners are hoarding most of the Bitcoin they mine ahead of the halving, showing they expect a much higher price after the event
ErisX Wins BitLicense, Bitcoin Trading Booms on Silvergate & Square + More News
7.5.2020
Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
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TD Ameritrade and other investors-backed ErisX crypto exchange has won a BitLicense operating permit in New York...
Bitcoin News Roundup for May 7, 2020
7.5.2020
BTC could hit $10K while mining ramps up. This is CoinDesk's Markets Daily podcast
Tether Held on Exchanges Could Help Forecast Bitcoin Bull Runs
7.5.2020
A crypto data firm rep explained how analysis of Tether’s on-chain data can be used to forecast Bitcoin’s bull runs
Stairway to Scarcity: Bitcoin Sentiment to Rise Despite Halving Impact
7.5.2020
Post-halving scenario on Bitcoin’s long-term market trust and reputation seems quite positive according to crypto pundits
Dollar Vigilante Founder Talks Covid-19 and Economic Crisis: ‘The Modern Financial System Is at the End of It’s Rope’
7.5.2020
Jeff Berwick is an entrepreneur with a lot to say these days and he’s released a number of videos discussing the coronavirus pandemic and the government-induced lockdowns. Berwick is the founder of The Dollar Vigilante, an anarcho-capitalist media outlet focusing on gold, silver, mining...
OKEx Executive: Digital Currency as a Basis of Post-Crisis World Order
7.5.2020
The world will not be the same after the COVID-19 pandemic with the necessity for the brand new global monetary system based on crypto
China's Dominance in Bitcoin Mining Dropped Amid Growing Competition
7.5.2020
Chinese Bitcoin (BTC) miners' share in Bitcoin's hashrate, or the computational power of the network, shrunk this year when hashrate jumped by 25%, while the US returned to second place, according to the Bitcoin Mining Map created by the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCFAF).
The...
Bitcoin Price Hits Resistance After Surge to $9.6K — Is $10K Next?
7.5.2020
A fresh bullish uptick in Thursday trading sees BTC/USD retake $9,500 for the first time in over two months
US Debt Hits $25T — Stimulus Checks That Bought Bitcoin Now Worth $1.6K
7.5.2020
The Federal Reserve’s Zimbabwe-esque policy sees the country’s debt mountain reach unimaginable heights, adding $1 trillion under one month
Is Bitcoin Going to Have a Trend Revision Unlike the One Seen Post 2012 and 2016 Halving?
7.5.2020
Bitcoin price slides back to trade around $9.2k, and over the past 24 hours, BTC/USD kept oscillating between $9.2k to $9.3k price area The uptrend that broke out 2 days back experienced a steep rise, yesterday and for a moment broke above $9.4k Yet again the price of BTC has plummeted below $9.3k...
African Bitcoin Trading Volume Breaks 2017’s Record Ahead of Halving
7.5.2020
Peer-to-peer Bitcoin trade in Sub-Saharan Africa has rallied, surpassing the previous combined volume record posted at the heights of 2017’s rally
Guarda Wallet – Multi-Currency, Multiplatform Wallet With a Taste for Special Features
7.5.2020
Guarda wallet has been around for almost three years – the cryptocurrency storage that started out as open-source single-currency wallets in the times of market needs has now turned into a flourishing ecosystem of products and crypto management services. Many novelties have been implemented...
This is Why Criminals Prefer Less Anonymous Bitcoin to Privacy Coins
7.5.2020
Privacy coins have come under a lot of fire in recent times, and many leading anonymity tokens, such as zcash (ZEC), and monero (XMR) have come under fire from regulators, who claim they are the token of choice for terrorists, drug dealers, and money launderers.
Many of these tokens have been...
Bitcoin Outperforming Gold and Stocks so Far This Month
7.5.2020
Bitcoin looks to have decoupled from traditional markets as investors refocus on the network's imminent mining reward halving
Report: Square’s CashApp and Grayscale Consumed Over 50% of Bitcoin Mined Q1 202
7.5.2020
Square’s Cash App and Grayscale absorbed over half of the Bitcoins mined in the first three months of 2020, according to a May 7 report
Bitcoin Continues Grinding Higher as Stocks, Gold Levels Off
7.5.2020
With the halving now several days away, bitcoin (BTC) has continued to grind higher in the market in recent days, despite a weaker overall crypto market and a levelling off in the price of both gold and US stocks.
The outperformance of the number one digital asset has been particularly strong after...
First Mover: Bitcoin’s ‘Halving’ Is Coming Even Sooner Than You Realize
7.5.2020
More activity on the bitcoin blockchain means the blockheight, which triggers the halving event, is probably coming faster than anticipated
65% of Global Bitcoin Hashrate Concentrated in China
7.5.2020
A new bitcoin mining map by the University of Cambridge shows that China accounts for 65% of the world’s hash power. About half of the country’s hash rate is produced in just one place, the autonomous Xinjiang region, which makes up 35.76% of the global total. Launched recently,...
Bitcoin Halving as 'A Crypto Super Cycle Marketing Event' & Its Three Narratives
7.5.2020
Crypto researcher Messari delved into Bitcoin (BTC)'s upcoming third halving, and among investment theses and possible implications, provided the teams' opinions on major and impactful halving (which also deemed to be 'a marketing event at best') narratives.
CEO Ryan Selkis believes that...