Would a state-backed cryptocurrency be better than its decentralized counterpart? International media has already rolled out their opinions on the matter. It’s a YES-IT-CAN. The opinions find their inspirations in comments made by Christine Lagarde last week. The head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said that a government-backed cryptocurrency would eliminate the issues of trust that…
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) remains bearish on Friday as the vortex adjoining last week’s controversial hard fork continued to inject the market with negative sentiments. The BCH/USD, after aggregating market cap of the original BCH and the forked Bitcoin ABC, is trading at 206.79, down 6.57 percent from its intraday high at 221.34. The pair in…
The lead developer for Monero slammed BAT over its policies and “awful design decisions,” putting Brave founder Brendan Eich on the defensive. Monero Dev Compares BAT to The Mafia Monero frontman Ricardo “fluffypony” Spagni took to Twitter on Thanksgiving not to give thanks, but to give Basic Attention Token (BAT) a verbal beating, comparing the…
Markets are still flat showing no sign of recovery; Monero, Iota and Bitcoin Gold making small gains. The weekend situation on crypto markets remains grim. There has been no recovery from an epic dump down to a new yearly low yesterday as total market capitalization is still around $140 billion. Bitcoin has clawed back a…
Were Nouriel “Dr Doom” Roubini, Jamie Dimon, and Warren Buffet right all along? Was the 2018 crash the end of Bitcoin? Do we all give up on this decentralised finance stuff and accept the rule of central bankers forever more? It was all tulips anyway, right… Bubble? What Bubble? For those who proudly proclaimed that…
The cryptocurrency markets have shown an unprecedented level of weakness amidst its latest drop, with most altcoins trading down 90% or more from their highs, and Bitcoin falling to levels not seen since early 2017. There is now a consensus amongst industry analysts that Bitcoin has to fall even further in order for it to…
Following a turbulent week for the cryptocurrency markets, most major cryptocurrencies have fallen even further today, and analysts now believe that there is more room to fall for Bitcoin and Ethereum. At the time of writing, Bitcoin is trading down over 4% at its current price of $4,300. Over the past few days Bitcoin has established…
Markets smashed again to new yearly lows; Bitcoin Cash bleeding out, Stellar and Cardano not far behind. More pain has come to crypto markets as we round out the week. A third wave of selling has caused markets to dump to new yearly lows as total market capitalization dropped below $140 billion a few hours…
As crypto has nosedived, mainstream financial media outlets, like Bloomberg and CNBC, have interestingly escalated their coverage of this juvenile market. While CNBC has evidently sensationalized Bitcoin’s dismal performance, circulating a Fast Money segment misleadingly titled “Cryptos [Are] In a Financial Crisis,” Bloomberg’s Joe Weisenthal recently began a push to bring some rational thinking to…
If central banks issue their own digital currencies, then it would destroy cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, wrote Nouriel “Dr. Doom” Roubini in his latest column. The article, titled “Why central bank digital currencies could destroy crypto,” saw the American economist building up his rants against the cryptocurrency space. He had earlier called Bitcoin “a mother of…