BITCOIN
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GoldenPyrex Ushers in the Next Era in DeFi with a Robust Ecosystem
Bitcoin Press Release: Golden Pyrex (GPYX) announce details of their DeFi platform enabling yield farming, gaming, and NFTs. 17th December, 2020, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan – Despite the exponential growth of the DeFi market throughout 2020, the industry is now dealing with a short-term plateau, as the market matures and projects are put to the test. Indeed, innovative use cases like governance, yield farming, and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) will play an essential role in the future’s economy, but not all of them will survive. GoldenPyrex Is Building a Sustainable and Independent Token Ecosystem A key…
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Hedge fund plans $ 500 million investment Bitcoin mega-coup
Advertisment The $ 200 billion Guggenheim Partners fund plans to invest a significant amount of money in Bitcoin (BTC). Bitcoin has arrived on Wall Street. It’s the year of big bitcoin news. After Microstrategy, Stan Druckermiller and Paul Tudor Jones, Guggenheim Partners is the next big thing on Wall Street to jump into the crypto market. According to an SEC document filed by the $ 200 billion fund last Friday, November 27, Guggenheim plans to invest a significant amount of money in BTC. The capital for this comes from Guggenheim’s…
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Staking of Ethereum 2.0 Available to Alt 5 Pro Users
Advertisment Beacon Chain’s Ethereum 2.0, a long-planned upgrade to the Ethereum network finally launched to improve the network’s scalability, security, and sustainability. The following Eth2 upgrades will be achieved by different teams in different phases: You want the latest news about Crypto? Sign up to our weekly Newsletter! Email In phase 0, The Beacon chain line on December 01, 2020, at noonIn phase 1, shard chains will be implementedIn phase 1.5, Ethereum 1 refers to the Ethereum Mainnet that you transact on today will be merged with the Beacon…
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Why Bitcoin Buyers Should Beware of Unregulated Exchanges
There are many reasons to be optimistic about the future of cryptocurrency. This year, as bitcoin soared past its all-time high, we saw PayPal introduce support for digital assets; a Nasdaq-listed company boosted their bitcoin balance sheet to $1.6 billion; and the first bitcoin owner, Cynthia Lummis, made it to the U.S. Senate. Ethereum also became the first blockchain to settle $1 trillion in a single year. In short, it was a good year. And yet for all the rampant positivity, there remains an 800lb elephant in the crypto room:…
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TA: Ethereum Turns Vulnerable, Why $600 Could Prevent Fresh Increase
Ethereum faced an increase in selling and it declined sharply to $550 against the US Dollar. ETH price is correcting higher, but upsides are likely to remain capped near $595 and $600. Ethereum declined sharply below the $600, $595 and $580 support levels. The price is now recovering from $550, but it is below the 100 hourly simple moving average. There is a key bearish trend line forming with resistance near $592 on the hourly chart of ETH/USD (data feed via Kraken). The pair could resume its decline as long…
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Wall Street Veteran Kickstarts Own Bitcoin Fund With $25m Investment
Wall Street has been all over Bitcoin over the past few months due to the growth in the need for an inflation hedge and a relative stagnation in the price of gold relative to other asset classes. This much was confirmed just recently when a Wall Street veteran and former White House staffer launched a BTC fund with his own $25 million investment, showing that there is demand for the leading crypto asset. Related Reading: Here’s Why Ethereum’s DeFi Market May Be Near A Bottom Scaramucci Kickstarts Bitcoin Fund According to…
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23rd December: BTC/USD Balancing between $23,000 and $24,000
Konstantin Anissimov, Executive Director at CEX.IO, shares his insights about the Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) daily price movements. BTC/USD On 23rd December 2020, BTC/USD opened at 23,838 and reached 24,023 in the next two hours. Being pressured down by the local resistance level, the pair was sent down to 23,478 at 05:00 UTC. In the next five hours, the pair was mainly trading sideways, keeping above the 23,460 level. At 10:00 UTC, the pair increased the falling traction and broke down below 23,460 at the close of the day’s…
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Camila Russo on Building The Defiant and the Future of DeFi
Talk about good timing: In 2017, Camila Russo was on the prowl for a worthy book project. What would be a good subject? What hasn’t been covered? At the time she was a reporter for Bloomberg. She was astonished to find a juggernaut of a story that was hiding in plain sight: Ethereum. “I was like, ‘I can’t believe that nobody is covering this,’” she says now. There were already crates of books written on Bitcoin, but there were very few, if any, on the world’s second-largest blockchain project. This post…
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The Past, Present and Future of Institutional Bitcoin
In December of 2017, bitcoin’s price was surging, even fighting towards $20,000. Meanwhile, CNBC and the cable news set featured a constant string of crypto industry insiders bringing the space to a new audience. It was into that environment that on December 17, 2017, CME Group launched bitcoin futures. Three years on, bitcoin has punched past the significant marker of $20,000 to a high of more than $23,000. CNBC is running a bitcoin ticker, and crypto commentators are standard fare. Despite these superficial similarities, the bitcoin and crypto industry of…
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Crypto money manager Bitwise has liquidated $9.3 million worth of XRP in its crypto index fund.
The firm acted shortly after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) sued the token’s alleged creator, Ripple Labs Inc., for conducting an unregistered and ongoing securities offering. “Prior to the sale of the asset on December 22, 2020, XRP (-20.72%) was approximately 3.8% of the Fund,” the firm wrote. “The Fund liquidated its position and reinvested the proceeds in other portfolio assets.” Subscribe to First Mover, our daily newsletter about markets. SUBSCRIBE By signing up, you will receive emails about CoinDesk products and you agree to our terms & conditions and privacy policy. The Bitwise 10 Crypto Index Fund…
