Bitcoin demand sharply declining since April — CryptoQuant

Bitcoin (BTC) refused to give up $30,000 at the July 17 Wall Street open as observers placed bets on a step lower next.BTC/USD 1-hour chart. Source: TradingViewBitcoin traders line up downside targetsData from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView followed what one analyst called “boring” BTC price action into the new trading week.After an equally quiet…

Ripple’s annual Swell conference has failed to induce positive price action for associated token XRP, data following the event shows. Price data from Coin360 covering XRP/USD showed selling pressure take over on Nov. 7, as the two-day conference continues. Swell has no impact on XRPHaving reached local highs above $0.30 on Monday, the pair began expanding…

This interview has been edited and condensed.Hyperledger, an open source project, was created in 2016 by the Linux Foundation in order to support the development of blockchain-based distributed ledgers. All the members of Hyperledger — including such major actors as Intel, Accenture, JPMorgan Chase, Hitachi, Fujitsu, Alibaba Cloud, Citigroup, Deutsche Telekom and many others —…

According to a senior advisor at consultancy firm McKinsey, John Straw, blockchain could make the City of London irrelevant in the near future. He made the claim at a Computing.co.uk Live Event on Oct. 24. Straw added that this could result in a breakdown of the United Kingdom’s tax system, and ultimately the demise of the…

The U.S. equity markets, gold, crude oil and the crypto markets are all up today. This shows that the U.S. investors have returned from the holiday weekend charged up and ready to buy assets to fight the likely devaluation in the U.S. dollar due to the Federal Reserve’s current monetary policy. Sino Global Capital CEO Matthew…

March was a rough month for markets — US President Donald Trump’s uncertain tariff policies created volatility in Bitcoin and crypto markets; meanwhile, decentralized finance (DeFi) struggled with security concerns. Retaliatory tariffs on US goods in China and the European Union hit markets on March 10 and 12, respectively. Amid the tête-à-tête between the United

Cybersecurity company Trend Micro claims to have detected a web address spreading a botnet featuring a monero (XMR) mining component alongside a backdoor. The malware was described on Trend Micro’s official blog on June 13.Per the report, the firm attributes the malware to Outlaw Hacking Group, as the techniques employed are almost the same used…

A United States District Court has granted an injunction against Telegram, preventing the company from issuing its GRAM tokens at the present time.Court says that GRAMS are securities under Howey testPer a March 24 filing granting the Securities and Exchange Commission’s request for a preliminary injunction, the Court wrote that:“The Court finds that the SEC…