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Bitcoin Addresses Worth $100,000 or More Hits All-Time-High The number of Bitcoin (BTC) wallet addresses holding a minimum of 10 BTC — worth over $100,000 to press time — has hit an all-time high, multiple data sources reveal. According to BitInfoCharts’ Bitcoin Rich List, as of Sept. 17, there are 157,210 addresses holding between 10 […]

Former Russian athlete ordered a month prison time over his alleged role in an $800,000 crypto fraud. A CEO of an IT company filed the complaint against Musatov alleging that the athlete deceived him while making a deal about selling bitcoins. Ex Ice hockey winger from Russia, Igor Musatov has been arrested for his alleged […]

London-based law firm Michelmores LLP has surveyed affluent millennials in the United Kingdom and discovered that 20% have invested in Bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptocurrencies. Is it time to Invest in Bitcoin? The survey, reported by FXStreet on Sept. 17, revealed that among those born between 1981 and 1996 with investable assets of £25,000 ($31,000) […]

$10K Bitcoin Stronger Than Ever But No One Seems to Care: Google Trends Bitcoin (BTC) has hit a four-month low this week — as a search term on Google, with market fatigue and boredom spreading beyond traders. “Bitcoin” least Googled since May Data from Google Trends confirms that the term “Bitcoin” is less popular now […]

Bitcoin has been facing a bout of sideways trading for the past several days, but today’s drop to below $10,200 may spell trouble for the cryptocurrency’s near-term price action and may point to the possibility that BTC will soon revisit its nearest level of major support at $10,000. This latest drop, although relatively minor, has […]

Bitcoin trading in Cuba experiences an upswing in activity as cryptocurrencies and mobile internet become household words. For someone from outside, Cuba seems like an unlikely breeding ground for digital innovations, even more so for cryptocurrencies. The island country in the northern Caribbean has been financially detached from the world owing to US trade sanctions, […]

Pierre Rochard, the founder of consulting firm Bitcoin Advisory, has addressed a debate in the bitcoin community over whether transaction fees will be high enough to support the network’s continued use and will be required Bitcoin Hard Fork. Bitcoin Inflation Debate. Hard fork Required? According to Rochard, who is also a self-proclaimed proponent of BTC’s […]

You wanna be a Bitcoin whale? The amount of BTC you need to influence the markets in the future could be drastically smaller than today. A Bitcoin Whale Moves $1 Billion (94,504 BTC) 10 days ago, a Bitcoin whale (yes, the mother of all Bitcoin whales) moved $1 billion of BTC in just one transaction. […]

The percentage of Segregated Witness (SegWit)-spending Bitcoin (BTC) transactions has reached 50.5%, or an all-time high, according to transactionfee.info statistics. SegWit solution to Bitcoin transactions SegWit is a proposed update to the Bitcoin Core, which is designed to reduce processing and wait times. Originally, the update was aimed at solving transaction malleability, a well-known weak […]

The global economy faces a new series of extreme interest rate reductions, potentially driving the demand for more volatile crypto assets. With fiat assets racing toward lowered interest rates, crypto may also be seen as a store of value. The US Federal Reserve has scheduled another interest rate correction for this Wednesday, in a bid […]

The Calm Before The Storm? Bitcoin Is Ready For Its Next Big Move – Very Soon (BTC Price Analysis) Over the past three days, and since our previous price analysis, we had seen Bitcoin almost steady, waving between $10,200 to $10,400. Ready for Bitcoin Storm? A triple-day turnover of only about $200 (roughly 2%) is […]

The largest cryptocurrency by market cap, Bitcoin is scheduled to undergo its third halving in May 2020. Many from the community speculate an increase in the value of the king coin’s price. Regardless of the surge in the price, the stock-to-flow ratio of Bitcoin will certainly rise pushing it closer to that of gold. Bitcoin […]

One of the largest points of contention in the Bitcoin community surrounds the question of Bitcoin Block Limits and size. Larger blocks mean faster transactions and less congestion, but they have higher requirements in storage and bandwidth. The communities behind Bitcoin and its forks are currently debating whether large blocks are truly feasible, and there […]

Large BTC holders haven’t been selling or moving their coins lately, says a report. That’s a good thing. Bitcoin Whales Hodling RIGA, Latvia—Bitcoin Whales Hodling on to their coins, crypto hedge fund manager Murad Mahmudov told the audience this weekend at Baltic Honeybadger, a Bitcoin conference. Azerbaijan-based Mahmudov, a former analyst at Goldman Sachs and […]

Browser extensions can help scammers steal your crypto Casa CEO Jeremy Welch warned the audience at the Baltic Honeybadger conference in Riga this weekend about Bitcoin Security. “Browser extensions impose major risks, and these risks haven’t been discussed until this point,” Welch said. Extensions can gather a wealth of data, which can be leaked, stolen, […]

Bitcoin is up by almost 180% year-to-date. To some, the disbelief rally has run its course, and it is now time to short the market. While a quick short might be profitable now, one trader believes that the rally from $3,000 to almost $14,000 is nothing but a warm-up. According to an analyst, all four […]

Kraken exchange was testing an unreleased advanced order type on 14 September, which encountered a Kraken order book Bug resulting in the order’s prices being matched against the wrong side of the book. This allowed traders to buy BTC at $8k and sell it for $12k without clearing the intervening liquidity. On their official Twitter […]

Bitcoin Price Could Reach $200k ‘In a Very Short Time,’ According to BTCC co-founder Bobby Lee Bitcoin Will Exceed $20,000 Speaking to Yahoo Finance UK, the founder of China’s first bitcoin exchange platform declared that the bitcoin price could continue to reach greater heights “$200k In A very short time”. According to Lee: We are […]