$1.35B in Bitcoin options expire this week — Do BTC bulls or bears have the upper hand?

The Securities and Exchange Commission claimed the BitClout founder spent $7 million on personal luxury goods and gifts to family members.

Bitcoin (BTC) attempted to reclaim $20,000 as support on June 19 as bulls faced a $7,000 weekly red candle.BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView$16,000 eyed for possible next moveData from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD rising from lows of $17,592 on Bitstamp before being firmly rejected at $20,000.Low-liquidity trading conditions had made for…

Bitcoin (BTC) traders may be nervous going into the Federal Reserve rate hike decision, but research suggests that the bulls are broadly gaining ground.In a fresh update on July 26, analytics firm Arcane Research flagged what it calls "improving" sentiment among institutional traders.Caution mixed with "improving sentiment"While attention has focused on the likelihood of a…

The Ravencoin community continues to argue over what mining algorithm the project should adopt in the future to best deter ASICs, despite Ravencoin conducting a hard fork intended to bolster ASIC-resistance just five months ago.Tron Black, Ravencoin’s lead developer, posted an update on Feb. 18 stating that “work is ongoing to test various alternative algos…

Opportunity cost, explainedOpportunity cost is a concept in economics that refers to the value of the next best alternative that is forgone when making a choice — i.e., the cost of the best alternative that is not chosen.Consider the scenario when you have a limited budget and are debating between buying a new laptop or…

RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das advocates a plug-and-play system to enhance cross-border payment efficiency and CBDC interoperability.

RNS.ID’s on-chain KYC solution is designed on a “privacy engine” to encrypt users' data. 201 Total views 1 Total shares RNS.id, a digital Web3 identity platform developed to support the application and issuance of sovereignty-backed IDs, announced on Nov. 30 that it is integrating with zkSync for on-chain KYC. RNS.ID indicated in a release shared…

Singapore’s de facto central bank issued two warnings over two fake news websites Tuesday, September 18, after articles were published with “fabricated comments” about crypto from Chairman and Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam.The sites, Gulf Weed Crab and Positive Bath Hour, which feature hoax news stories on seemingly random topics, had claimed Shanmugaratnam was behind…

For most people, the word “stablecoin” brings to mind cryptocurrencies like Tether or Libra. However, there are many versions of stablecoins — ranging from those that are backed by fiat money to those that are backed by real assets or even other digital currencies.Simply put, a stablecoin’s main aim is to solve the problem of…