A LocalBitcoins seller pleaded guilty of operating an illegal money transfer business in a Southern California federal court earlier today. The defendant admitted to buying thousands of Bitcoin over a 16-month period and selling them through the popular peer-to-peer marketplace without the correct licence to do so. Bitcoin Dealer Agrees to Forfeit Over $820,000 According…
Just one week ago, Indian officials arrested the co-founder of an Indian cryptocurrency exchange, Unocoin, for operating a Bitcoin ATM kiosk which the police called “illegal”. One of Unocoin’s co-founders has now given a recount of his arrest in a recent interview. The Unocoin co-founder’s arrests were largely publicized and was seen by many as the…
Coincheck, the Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange victim of a $500 million worth theft, has resumed new account openings, customer deposits, and purchasing of some digital currencies. The operator had suspended some services following the late January incident in order to protect customers’ assets and investigate the cause of hacking. Coincheck Exchange Resumes Trading of BTC, ETC,…
As Bitcoin adoption increases, a new study published Monday by Nature Climate Change warns that energy-demanding Bitcoin transactions would easily sling the global temperature past the 2-degree threshold set under the Paris Climate Agreement. But, is it true that Bitcoin is this energy inefficient that the mainstream media portrays? While Bitcoin’s precipitous rise has been…
Key Points Bitcoin price finally made the next move and broke the $6,350 support against the US Dollar. There was a break below a major contracting triangle with support at $6,405 on the hourly chart of the BTC/USD pair (data feed from Kraken). The price traded towards the $6,200 support area where buyers emerged. Bitcoin…
Prompted by the surge in demand for auditing services of crypto firms, traditional accountancy companies are being forced to hire blockchain specialists. The likes of EY, PwC, and KPMG now have several clients from either the blockchain or digital currency space that want their business practices approved by established names. Demand Grows for Digital Currency…
Overnight, Bitcoin fell to the bottom of its long-established trading range, finding stability in the mid $6,300s. Bitcoin’s drop is not unexpected, and is far less severe than many analysts had foreshadowed, following a period of incredibly flat trading. Analysts have previously explained that the longer an asset, especially a cryptocurrency, trades flat, the larger…
The conducive developments in South Korean crypto space have boosted fiat influx into the market, reveals this month’s data. eToro eanalyst Mati Greenspan pitted Korean Won against the most volumed bitcoin-quoted assets, including the US Dollar, Euro, the Pound and also Tether. The comparison revealed a dramatic surge in the BTC/KRW trading volume compared to other instruments…
Key Points Bitcoin price is holding the $6,380 and $6,350 support levels against the US Dollar. There is a major contracting triangle forming with resistance at $6,420 on the 4-hours chart of the BTC/USD pair (data feed from Kraken). The pair needs to surpass the $6,420 and $6,460 resistance levels to gain momentum. Bitcoin price…
An inverse monetary velocity pattern indicates that bitcoin bulls are wrong about the market’s next bull run. Willi Woo, a prominent cryptocurrency market analyst, pitted the digital currency network value (or market cap) against the daily US Dollar volume transmitted through the blockchain. A proportion between the two equated into Bitcoin Network-to-Value (Bitcoin NV) Ratio,…