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marketstack: A Market Data API
21.7.2020
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I like the apilayer company tagline: “Automate What Should Be Automated.” They have this thick suite of products that are all APIs with clear documentation. They all have usable free tiers to develop against and prove out an idea, and then paid plans if...
Bitcoin Price Holds Key Support and Is on the Verge of Testing $10,000
21.7.2020
Bitcoin price finally made a move — to the upside — as the door is now open to test the crucial $10,000 BTC price level
Bitcoin Rises With Stocks as EU Agrees €750B in Coronavirus Stimulus
21.7.2020
Bitcoin edged higher on Tuesday as stock markets cheered the EU's decision to approve a landmark coronavirus recovery fund
Vegasbetting.com Study Found US Sports Betting Market Is Leading the Way
21.7.2020
Ten out of ten major US sportsbooks accept Bitcoin deposits while only one in ten sportsbooks with a global footprint process Bitcoin payments. VegasBetting.com study found that the US sports betting market is leading the way when it comes to accepting bitcoin as a payment method. The study looked...
Analysts Claim Bitcoin’s 76 Day Stability ‘Bullish’: Hash Ribbons Cross and 2016 Patterns
21.7.2020
The price of bitcoin has been very stable lately, and the crypto asset has been trading in a less volatile range just above $9k per coin for 76 consecutive days. After the third halving, the price of bitcoin has also been far more stable, in contrast to the price action after the second halving....
DeFi Token Rally Pushes Aave (LEND), (SNX) Market Cap Above Maker (MKR)
21.7.2020
Aave and Synthetix Network both overtook MakerDAO’s Maker by market capitalization as the DeFi sector continues to surge
Market Wrap: Bitcoin Clings to $9,200 While Ethereum Transactions Soar
20.7.2020
Bitcoin trades flat in July, leading investors to mull other cryptocurrencies
Swipe Futures Volume Equals 42% of Its Market Capitalization
20.7.2020
SXP futures volume signal continued interest in low-capitalization cryptocurrencies as bitcoin continues to trade in a tight range
Crypto Market Sentiment Drops, Three Major Coins Remain Positive
20.7.2020
Source: iStock/da-kuk
After last week's jump towards the positive zone, crypto market sentiment score (sentscore) took a step away from that level. The combined moving 7-day average sentscore for the top 10 coins now stands at 5.45, compared to 5.77/10 seven days ago - but still being higher than...
142 Million Guests: Hackers Attempt to Sell MGM Grand Data Dump for Cryptocurrency
20.7.2020
Last year the giant resort firm MGM Grand was hacked and the cybercriminals ostensibly obtained a massive dump of names, addresses, phone numbers, and dates of birth. Now according to vendors on the deep web, hackers have been trying to sell the data dump for monero or bitcoin. The hackers claim...
Bitcoin Price Predictions by Top Analysts Are Usually Wrong — Here’s Why
19.7.2020
Top analysts often make wild Bitcoin price predictions, while BTC options implied volatility produces conservative estimates. Which group fared better?
The Covid-19 Crisis Fueled Darknet Markets – A Patron’s Biggest Concern Is Mail Disruption
19.7.2020
Ever since the coronavirus outbreak swept the globe, darknet markets (DNM) have grown exponentially and the lockdowns worldwide are prompting first-time DNM buyers. Currently, the largest DNM on the invisible web is the marketplace Empire, and the only thing impeding the rush of DNM sales these...
The Origins of the World’s Oldest Bitcoin Metric, Explained
19.7.2020
Bitcoin days destroyed (BDD) was first introduced as a concept back in 2011. At the time, it had only been two years since the creation of the world’s first cryptocurrency, bitcoin. Individuals were already beginning to innovate ways to measure on-chain transaction activity and value
Will Ether Price Hit $400 if DeFi Keeps Eating Bitcoin’s Lunch?
19.7.2020
The rise in DeFi staking services may be killing “interest” in Bitcoin and giving Ethereum’s Ether token the potential to outperform BTC for now
Crypto Insider Traders Run Free, Hurting Unregulated Market
19.7.2020
Source: Adobe/Евгений Вершинин
The crypto industry has an insider trading problem. While no official laws or regulations explicitly prohibit insider trading within crypto, industry observers suspect that it happens more often than you think.
Few crypto exchanges and companies are actually listed...
Getting Out of Cash Is Key to Wealth and Inflation Protection, Pompliano Says
18.7.2020
Describing the current economic state, including pending inflation, Anthony Pompliano noted exiting cash into other assets as the key to wealth
Canadian Regulator Accuses Coinsquare of Market Manipulation With Wash Trades Worth 590K BTC
18.7.2020
The Ontario Securities Commission has started a proceeding against cryptocurrency exchange Coinsquare and its executives. The Canadian regulator has accused the company of market manipulation, with 840,000 wash trades worth approximately 590,000 bitcoins, representing 90% of the exchange’s...
Bitcoin Price Charts Suggest $9K Deadlock May Finally End Next Week
18.7.2020
The price of Bitcoin is holding a key support level above $9,000 and gearing up for a big move that is likely to occur next week
Stablecoin Supply Doubles to 12 billion Following a 50% Cryptocurrency Market Price Drop
18.7.2020
The total supply of stablecoins in existence has doubled to 12 billion, following an increased demand sparked off by the March 12 (Black Thursday) 50% crypto price crash. The findings from the latest research study by Coin Metrics, which is sponsored by Bitstamp, show that it took a period between...
BTC Options Traders Are Not Betting on a Short-Term Bitcoin Price Drop
18.7.2020
Crypto analysts have recently suggested that Bitcoin options traders are flipping short-term bearish but data shows this is not the case