Events in America caused Bitcoin to end one of the worst weeks of the year with a loss of some 8%. Other major coins such as Ethereum were also under heavy pressure this week. Coinbase, meanwhile, is getting slammed by crypto Twitter for not allowing trading of their favorite memecoin Pepe. Bitcoin under pressure Not only […]
I just checked and the last time we discussed a Bitcoin prediction coming from Peter Brandt was on 1 february of this year. He claimed to have identified a “fulcrum pattern” and forecasted a price point of $25,000 to be taken soon. That turned out to be a correct prediction a week later. By now, Bitcoin […]
Back in July of 2020, the official account of former US President Barack Obama, who has more than 100 million followers on Twitter, promised to return double the amount of Bitcoin to anyone who made a donation to him at a certain crypto wallet address. Within minutes, the accounts of Joe Biden (then only a […]
Those so-called memecoins continue to divide those who occupy the ‘cryptosphere’. Some are dead set against it and say it spoils crypto’s reputation, others are hyper enthusiastic. The rise (and fall) of Pepecoin (PEPE) has made millionaires out of some young traders while leaving others with heavy losses. Flashback: three years ago there were the […]
Leading peer-to-peer crypto marketplace Paxful has resumed operations after the platform packed up for a short while. The platform has been offline for about 30 days following an announcement by the CEO Ray Youssef. In a blog post on the website in April, Youssef said the platform was folding up and asked users to withdraw […]
The largest crypto exchange in the world, Binance, has announced plans to integrate Bitcoin Lightning Network on the platform. Lightning is a Layer 2 solution created to facilitate faster Bitcoin transactions. With it, the scalability and high fee problems associated with Bitcoin are out of the way, and users can make lightning fast Bitcoin transactions. […]
The coronation of the new King of Britain, King Charles III was marked with a lot of celebration and fanfare. But what makes it even more interesting is the launch of a non-fungible token (NFT) collection in honor of the occasion. A top UK newspaper, the Evening Standard in partnership with renowned Scottish artist Trevor […]
The banking crisis that started in March keeps dragging along. Several regional banks in the United States are seeing their stock prices dive while large investors try to spread their risk and diversify in commodities. Gold is climbing to a record high. Bitcoin is also benefiting from the banking crisis but struggles to surpass the […]
Three years ago there were the scandals surrounding foodcoins (Sushi, Yam and Kimchi), last year (and in 2021) you had the copies of Dogecoin (Shiba Inu and Floki for example) which were quite volatile and this year it is all about the ‘internet meme tokens’ such as Wojak, Pepe and WallStreetBets coin. The last one lost no […]
A broadening banking crisis gives a renewed boost to Bitcoin and other major cryptocoins. First Republic Bank may have been taken over by JP Morgan at the beginning of this week, but other regional banks continue to run into problems. This time the pressure is on PacWest and Western Alliance. The news that the Federal […]
