Bitcoin price 'explosive move' puts old $69K all-time high in sight

Bitcoin’s rise above $63,000 has attracted buying in several altcoins, signaling that the sentiment is turning bullish.

The ECB will decide whether to proceed with digital euro pilots by mid-2021, Lagarde said. 1589 Total views 16 Total shares It could be a while before European Union gets a central bank digital currency, if it gets one at all.In a Wednesday interview with Bloomberg Television, European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde laid out the complex…

In the past decade, hacking gradually became a respectable and potentially rewarding career thanks to the introduction of bug bounties.While some organizations like Mozilla launched bug bounties all the way back in 2004, major impetus to the industry came when Google and Facebook rolled out similar programs in 2010 and 2011, respectively. Soon after, in…

Crypto-powered election futures have seen a wild 24-hours of trade, with decentralized platforms Augur and Polymarket posting record volumes. 1206 Total views 21 Total shares The 2020 U.S. presidential election has driven significant action across crypto-powered predictive markets.Ethereum’s co-creator Vitalik Buterin took to Twitter during the counting of votes to praise the success enjoyed by…

The cryptocurrency faithful got a reprieve from recent market struggles thanks to a rally in decentralized finance (DeFi) tokens and Dogecoin (DOGE) on June 2. A bit of a breakout in the price of Ether (ETH) and Bitcoin (BTC) may have also lifted sentiment, but at the moment, the top-ranked digital assets are still meeting…

Speaking at ELEV8CON in Las Vegas on Dec. 10, founder and CEO of Celsius Network Alex Mashinsky said that there is a war brewing between centralized and decentralized networks."The centralization of the Internet by companies such as Facebook and Google has created a distorted reality where fake news and blatant lies get the same treatment…

More than 80% of all nonfungible token (NFT) transactions were worth less than $10,000 in 2021 according to Chainalysis which categorized them as "retail" in recent research.A Dec. 6 report from blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis titled “The 2021 NFT Market Explained” detailed NFT transaction trends throughout 2021. Researchers at Chainalysis studied on-chain data between January…

Bitcoin’s (BTC) third block halving has finally taken place. The year’s most talked-about crypto event happened at 3:23 p.m. EST on Monday, May 11, as block number 630,000 was successfully mined.The Bitcoin block reward has now gone down from 12.5 BTC to 6.25 BTC, which will likely have many repercussions on the industry. But here’s…