Offbeat asset bitcoin is having a difficult time attracting investors during this Christmas holiday.The benchmark cryptocurrency, which is still up by more than 100 percent on a year-to-date (YTD) scale, plunged by up to 8.27 percent this week. On Friday, bitcoin established a fresh weekly low of $7,053.32. At its highest, it was trading at…
XRP was not among the gainers as the cryptocurrency market attracted capital of up to $12 billion in a day.The Ripple blockchain’s native asset slumped by up to 2.19 percent on Monday to establish an intraday low of $0.194. The downside move negated XRP’s gains – registered during the Sunday trading session – by 1.38…
Binance Coin (BNB), the eighth-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, opened on Tuesday in a severely negative area as a string of poor fundamentals scared investors away.BNB plunged by 5.78 percent, or $0.77, to trade at $12.65. The latest downside move came as a part of an extended bearish correction seen across the entire cryptocurrency market.…
Matic, a cryptocurrency known to have an active and supportive community, plunged by more than 50% on the day and over 70% at the day’s lowest point. But, such a drop can occur to any minor crypto asset. According to global markets analyst Alex Krüger, large hands can adjust the selling volume of a cryptocurrency,…
The Stellar Development Foundation’s (SDF) unanimous decision to burn XLM’s supply by half could spell troubles for the project, believes noted bitcoin maximalist WhalePanda. The anonymous trader on Tuesday said the cryptocurrency exchanges could start treating XLM as security, explaining that SDF showed excessive control over the blockchain asset when they cut down its supply…
Decred (DCR) and Stellar (XLM) were moving higher on Friday as traders shifted focus from sideways-biased bitcoin. The thirty fifth-largest blockchain project by market valuation, Decred, today surged by as much as 17.83 percent against bitcoin to trade at 1,755 sats a token. At the same time, the altcoin’s performance against the US dollar also…
Bitcoin held to a stable range as investors wait for the Federal Reserve to take a final call on introducing another interest rate cut. The benchmark cryptocurrency was trading at $9,171.54 as of 10:13 UTC, down 2.75 percent from the market open. At its session high, bitcoin attracted a bid of $9,431.36 on the San…
China’s President Xi Jinping’s endorsement of the blockchain technology sent bitcoin up by more than 40 percent. The benchmark cryptocurrency established a new session high of $10,540.49 after rising by $3,109 over the weekend. The surplus gains came after a depressive performance last week, wherein bitcoin price shed as much as 17.33 percent, or $1,529.96.…
A zoomed out version of the bitcoin chart shows it would take the cryptocurrency another 365 days to achieve a full-fledged upside breakout. Brought to notice by Teddy Cleps, a prominent cryptocurrency analyst, the weekly Bitcoin chart shows the possibility of it forming a massive bullish pennant. In retrospective, a Pennant structure marks a pause…
Bitcoin was trading in positive territory on Monday to uphold gains it made during this weekend. The benchmark cryptocurrency surged by 0.07 percent to trade near $8,230 as of 1140 UTC. At its session high, it was trading at $8,301.85, which was 4.37 percent higher than Friday’s closing point. The upside came as a part…