Bitcoin rally above short-term holder metric has traders calling for new BTC price highs

Initially supporting BTC and ETH only, BTG Pactual’s new crypto trading platform plans to allow its users to trade a wide range of altcoins. 103 Total views 13 Total shares Leading Brazilian investment bank BTG Pactual has launched a new platform enabling customers to make direct investments in cryptocurrencies.The bank’s Mynt platform currently allows users…

In his monthly crypto tech column, Israeli serial entrepreneur Ariel Shapira covers emerging technologies within the crypto, decentralized finance (DeFi) and blockchain space, as well as their roles in shaping the economy of the 21st century.When trying to examine the nonfungible token (NFT) economy as it has been shaping in recent months, two main trends…

At 0.02 cents, the humble satoshi still has a long way to go to hit parity with the cent, let alone an entire dollar. 234 Total views 4 Total shares Bitcoin (BTC) may be circling all-time highs, but a new storm is brewing around its smallest subunit, the satoshi or “sat.”As more first-time investors pile…

A community member compared crypto to a turkey that takes time to cook and expressed gratitude for the opportunity to invest in its technology. 161 Total views 8 Total shares As crypto community members celebrated Thanksgiving, many expressed gratitude for the progress made in the digital asset space over the years. From comparing price points for

Hong Kong cryptocurrency derivatives trading platform BitMEX claims that on average, its users don’t use the maximum 100x leverage that the platform offers. BitMEX reported on the data in a post published on its official blog on May 15.According to the post, the company’s co-founder and CEO Arthur Hayes had the data science team of…

Current CTO David Schwartz claims Stefan Thomas created hundreds of accounts with 1.0 BTC "because that was the fastest and easiest number to type" for his experiments. 3903 Total views 11 Total shares David Schwartz, current chief technical officer at Ripple, is responding to reports his predecessor had lost access to hundreds of millions of…

President Donald Trump’s $4.8 trillion 2021 budget proposal hopes to reconsolidate the Secret Service with the Treasury Department in order to enhance cyber and financial crime investigations.Established in 1865, the Secret Service was created as a department within Treasury charged with protecting U.S. currency against counterfeiting risks. In 2002, the Secret Service was transferred to…

Strong hands view a correction in an uptrend as a buying opportunity and data from CryptoQuant shows that Bitcoin (BTC) whales have been buying near $48,000. This activity can be seen in the large Coinbase outflows, most of which went to custody wallets and this suggests that the institutional investors believe the Bitcoin rally has…

For the Hong Kong-based spot Bitcoin ETFs to compete with their US counterparts, they will need to attract more retail and institutional investors.