The asset that legendary investor Warren Buffett once called a “rat poison” is looking like nectar in 2019. Bitcoin, a global money system currency, surged up to 53 percent in a much-needed bullish recovery session. In comparison, Crude Oil recovered 33 percent, while the technology stocks rallied 24 percent. Recession-stuck US real estate market and…
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Ethereum has been in the doldrums lately. Bitcoin has made all the moves generally lifting crypto markets and increasing its own dominance largely at the expense of the higher cap altcoins such as Ethereum and XRP. That all changed today when ETH finally got some good fundamentals to send it surging 12 percent. CTFC Ready…
Crypto markets surge to new yearly highs; Bitcoin and Ethereum commanding things, Litecoin, EOS, Tezos and Cosmos all making. Momentum has been pretty monumental over the past twelve hours or so in crypto markets. The top two heavyweights have both surged pushing total market capitalization up to a new 2019 high just shy of $190…
Fidelity Investments, one of the largest brokerages on the planet, is set to launch their crypto trading service in the coming weeks, which means that an influx of fresh institutional capital may soon be introduced to the markets. The launch of their crypto trading service comes on the heels of a report they conducted that…
Celebrated economist Joseph Stiglitz has recently spoken out against cryptocurrencies. The Nobel Prize winner even went as far as to say that crypto needed to be “shut down”. Evidently, Stiglitz doesn’t fully comprehend just what it would take to “shut down” most cryptocurrencies, let alone Bitcoin. Planning a war against a target with few perceivable…
The first ever cryptocurrency has struggled to recapture the enthusiasm and exuberance prior to the 2017 hype bubble pop. Since then Bitcoin price has declined over 85% to its eventual bottom, and a brutal and hard-fought bear market has caused investors to question the long-term validity of BTC and its altcoin cousins. But on long-term…
2018, by many measures, was the crypto ecosystem’s worse year yet. Digital assets, even Bitcoin (BTC), lost over 80% of their peak value on average; industry startups laid off chunks of employees or shut down entirely; and the words “crypto” and “blockchain” receded from the limelight, becoming a painful memory for those who “FOMOed” near…
In order to predict future market moves technical analysts often look back at previous patterns. The crypto bear market of 2014 and 2015 has often been used as a comparison and repeating chart patterns known has fractals may give us an indication of where Bitcoin prices will go next. On-chain Capital Flows Bullish Analysts don’t…
Crypto markets cool off on Monday; Litecoin, Cardano, Monero and Cosmos dropping back, Bitcoin dominance climbing. Crypto markets are starting to pull back this Monday morning and altcoins are taking the brunt of the losses. Total market capitalization has declined back to the $180 billion area but does not look like falling further for the…