Michael Saylor Goes Mega Bullish, Points to $180,000 Bitcoin Price

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Bitcoin HODLer Balance Drops 9.8%: How It Compares With Previous Cycles

Data shows the Bitcoin HODLer balance has registered a drop of around 9.8% this bull run. Here’s how this figure looked for previous cycles. Bitcoin HODLers Have Seen Their Holdings Go Down Recently According to data from the market intelligence platform IntoTheBlock, the Bitcoin long-term holders have gradually been decreasing their total balance recently. Related […]

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Shrimp and whales surge ahead in shifting Bitcoin balance landscape

Quick Take From March 2020 to September 2023, the landscape of Bitcoin entity balance dominance witnessed a notable shift. The ‘shrimp’ class, entities holding less than 1 Bitcoin, saw their dominance rise from 3.

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Crypto Biz: The rise of the Bitcoin treasury, Dec. 30–Jan. 6

Michael Saylor’s MicroStrategy showed corporations that holding Bitcoin on their balance sheet is a viable strategy to hedge against inflation.

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Venezuelan Central Bank Considers Adding Bitcoin to Balance Sheets

Venezuela’s Central Bank is considering adding bitcoin to its balance sheets, giving state institutions the ability to settle payments in cryptocurrencies. The post Venezuelan Central Bank Considers Adding Bitcoin to Balance Sheets appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.

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Nature Abhors a Vacuum: Why Trump’s Proposed Negative Rates Bode Well for Bitcoin

In a recent tweet, U. S. president Donald Trump delved into an explosive, all-caps-loaded mini-rant about the necessity of getting “interest rates down to ZERO, or less. ” The bombastic politician stressed the need for America to refinance its debt, trailing off with some superficially conservative speak about the U.

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Texas regulator goes after cryptocurrency firm promising 900% returns in 2 weeks

Regulators in Texas have filed a cease and desist order against a New York-based cryptocurrency business promising a 900-percent return on investment in just two weeks. Forex and Bitcoin Trader, which was advertising on Craiglist Dallas, reportedly deals in cryptocurrency investments, commodity-based derivatives, and foreign currency trading.

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Bitcoin’s halving shows why the Federal Reserve’s rate cuts might be ‘manipulative management’

Scarcity is the mother of all demand. History is littered with a multitude of symbols portraying the importance of ‘balance;’ whether it be with life and death, good and bad or order and chaos.

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Bitcoin shorts by institutional traders are high based on CFTC data

Most traders were net short Bitcoin on Chicago Mercantile Exchange’s (CME) regulated futures market based on their latest report. Data from the Commitment of Traders (COT) report released Friday, July 26 shows that both commercial and non-commercial traders held a combined 4,464 short contracts to 3,216 longs on CME, skewing the balance 58% to 42% […] The post Bitcoin shorts by institutional traders are high based on CFTC data appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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Cardano Investors Sell Amid Bitcoin Drop, ADA Down 32%

Cardano (ADA) sheds 32. 7 percent week-to-date Emurgo releases Yoroi update There’s a new Yoroi wallet update introducing further improvements like the hide balance option. However, that is not enough to support ADA as prices are down 32.

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Crypto Exchange and Bitlish Wallet: Benefits, Commissions and Legal Framework

The market for crypto-trading platforms is changing at an incredible speed. Regulators' pressure, changes in the regulatory environment, cyber-attacks, Bitcoin rate fluctuation, unscrupulous attempts to wind up trading volume to attract ICO, and now IEO-projects, all these contribute to changes in the balance of power in the crypto market.

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Galaxy Digital Experiences Largest-Ever Drop In Managed Assets

Bitcoin is down, and alts are down further, but that’s no reason to despair. Things can always be worse: your balance sheet probably didn’t lose as much as Galaxy Digital’s. Mike Novogratz’s asset management firm experienced a near $30M drop in the value of assets under management (AUM) last month, which could be a sign […] The post Galaxy Digital Experiences Largest-Ever Drop In Managed Assets appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

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Bitcoin’s price dominance over altcoins’ surge speculated to restore balance to the cryptocurrency market

Bitcoin’s resurgent behavior over the week has riled up the community again, with many sharing hopes that this time around the world’s largest cryptocurrency will break its all-time highs.  During these fluctuations, many patterns have also been noticed that contributed to the overall behavior of the cryptocurrency market.

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Bitfinex shorts worth $200 million claimed by whales; balance between longs and shorts on knife’s edge

Bitcoin’s rally seems to have cooled off as the price of Bitcoin fell consistently over the past few days. The Bitcoin community on June 30 saw a massive whale claiming more than 20,000 BTC shorts, causing the ‘BTC/USD Shorts’ chart to bleed red.

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CLAM Market Crash Costs Poloniex’s Bitcoin Lenders 16.202% of Their Balance

Margin lending is a very risky business, regardless of which industry it is performed in. As far as cryptocurrency margin lending is concerned, things are bound to get interesting, albeit not always for the right reasons.

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Hyperloop: A New Concept by Lightning Aiming to Solve Liquidity Problems

About two months ago, Lightning Labs released Lightning Loop, a service that allows users to fill or empty Lightning channels without closing them, thus reducing on-chain fees.

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Luxury Swiss Watches Now Come With Bitcoin Balance On The Dial

Luxury Swiss watchmaker, Franck Muller, renowned for their exclusive timepieces has created the world’s first Bitcoin (BTC) watch with… The post Luxury Swiss Watches Now Come With Bitcoin Balance On The Dial appeared first on Invest In Blockchain.

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3commas Helps You Balance Your Crypto Portfolio

Hodling or liquidating your crypto assets are two extremes that are not the best investment strategies in most cases. 3commas is a platform that allows you to constantly rebalance your portfolio in order to limit losses and maximize profit.

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$55,800: Swiss Luxury Watchmaker Prices ‘Encrypto’ Bitcoin Watches

By CCN: The Encrypto watches by Franck Muller, which will cost you anywhere between $9,800-$55,880 to acquire, has a built-in cold storage system. The public address is accessible on the outside of the watch, while to get the private key, you need to get inside the watch.

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Op Ed: A Summary of

In the latest on the ongoing legal dispute between the New York Attorney General (NYAG), cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex and stablecoin issuer Tether, the New York Supreme Court has modified an April 24, 2019, preliminary injunction and now Bitfinex is allowed to continue using the Tether reserves that were loaned to it to maintain its ordinary course of business, such as paying employees and consultants.

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BitGo Announces New Settlement System for Institutional Clients

Blockchain security company BitGo is launching a new service for institutional clients: a clearing and settlements system that operates off-chain. BitGo announced this new service in a press release on May 14, 2019, describing some of the features that this new system will have.

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Newsflash: Bitcoin Price Pierces $8,000 for First Time Since July 2018

By CCN: An unfettered bitcoin price extended its parabolic ascent on Monday, piercing the $8,000 mark for the first time since July 2018. Bitcoin Price Soars to 10-Month High The flagship cryptocurrency achieved this milestone at 5:15 pm ET, when BTC/USD closed at precisely $8,000 on Bitstamp.

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In Light of Tether’s Fractional Reserve, a Shadow of Fiatcoins’ Future

Tether has taken a lot of heat for admitting it is running a fractional reserve. There’s no doubt that Tether’s unregulated nature makes this approach risky and that its lack of transparency is unsettling, but the entire modern banking system is architected on fractioned assets.

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Bitcoin worth $356 million was moved to two separate wallets

Bitcoin worth $356 million, at press time, was moved from a single wallet to two different wallets, with no further transactions occurring. This transaction contained a total of 48,000 Bitcoins. This transaction as seen on the Bitcoin blockchain makes one of the receivers the 14th largest Bitcoin wallet.

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CEX.IO Review [2019] – A Safe, Proven Crypto Exchange

CEX. IO manages to balance the provision of an exchange platform with advanced services and an interface that is visually appealing, easy-to-use and accessible to newer crypto investors. CEX. IO has been in the cryptocurrency business since 2013, starting as a cloud mining provider, and claims to currently have over a million users, ranging from “Bitcoin beginners […] CEX.

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Bitcoin Whale Moves $211 Million Worth of BTC as Market Conditions Improve

An anonymous bitcoin whale has moved 40,000 BTC amounting to $211 million from an unknown Bech32 address bc1q9sh6544xls87x7skjzyfhkty4wq7z76vn7qzq9 to another unknown destination wallet with Bech32 address bc1q5shngj24323nsrmxv99st02na6srekfctt30ch in the early hours of today.

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Bitcoin’s Mesmerizing 457% Two-Year Returns Leave the Dow in the Dust

By CCN: Bitcoin’s year-to-date returns of nearly 50% aren’t too shabby. But if you’d have invested in bitcoin two years ago, you would be sitting on a return of more than 457%. Morgan Creek Digital Co-Founder Anthony Pompliano did the back-of-the-napkin math.

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BlockFi Update: Cryptocurrency deposits rose by 30 percent in April

BlockFi, the cryptocurrency lending platform, set the market alight in early March after launching its Bitcoin [BTC] and Ethereum [ETH] savings account. Since its introduction, BlockFi’s cryptocurrency deposits have risen massively, and were further buoyed by April’s crypto rally.

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Out of Testnet and Into Alpha: Lightning Labs’ Desktop Application Is Live

Lightning Labs just released an alpha version of its Lightning Network wallet. The desktop application is now compatible with Bitcoin’s mainnet and it leverages Neutrino (the protocol, not the analytics company acquired by Coinbase) to give users a lightweight option to “control their own funds,” as opposed to running a full node or trusting a third party to play custodian.

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BlockFi Makes Bitcoin Interest Accounts More Accessible, Lowers Minimum Account Threshold

A firm working to bring traditional financial services to those invested in crypto assets has lowered the minimum Bitcoin account balance required to receive interest payments. The move is reportedly in response to public pressure to make the service more accessible.

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On Free Speech

“A statement may be both true and dangerous. The previous sentence is such a statement. ” - David Friedman Freedom of speech is a topic that many internet communities have struggled with over the last two decades.

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As Supply Exceeds Demand, Mining Price War Ignites in Sichuan

This article was originally published by 8btc and written by Chloe Jiang. The former director of Bitmain’s mining farm, a leading bitcoin mining operation, once said the wet season may not be as much of a boon for miners as many thought.

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Bitfinex Scraps Its $10,000 Minimum Balance Rule

Bitfinex is now open to every trader as the Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency exchange has removed its $10,000 minimum balance rule. Citing a rising demand from retail traders who couldn't trade on the platform due to the requirement, Bitfinex CEO Jean-Louis van der Velde said the platform is now ready for a “new wave of customer accounts,” according to a company Medium post.

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BitFinex Welcomes All Traders, No Longer Requires Minimum Balance

Bitfinex, a popular cryptocurrency exchange, has lifted minimum equity requirements associated with its platform as per a blog post via its Medium, April 9, 2019. About Bitfinex Bitfinex has been the source of much controversy, especially during the cryptocurrency bull run of 2017 where many media claimed that a lot of the exchange’s trading volumeRead MoreRead More.

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Bitcoin Projected as Solution to Ongoing Private Pension Crisis

Private pension fund managers should consider dipping their toes into bitcoin, believes Mark W. Yusko. The Morgan Creek Digital co-founder lately projected the cryptocurrency as a mean to balance the risks associated with private pension funds.

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Breez Wants to Make the Lightning Network More User Friendly

New announcements around Bitcoin’s Lightning Network have been coming almost nonstop lately, with new exchanges, wallets and other services popping up seemingly every day.

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Bitrefill Adds Thor Turbo to Speed Lightning Connections

The crypto payment platform Bitrefill has announced an upgrade to its Thor service. The upgrade is dubbed “Thor Turbo,” and its expected to speed up the process of connecting to Bitrefill's Lightning node, according to a press release sent to Bitcoin Magazine.

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Bitcoin is Surging but Hacked Crypto Exchange Cryptopia’s Users Remain Seething

Despite having promised to compensate customers who lost crypto assets following a security breach in January, New Zealand crypto exchange Cryptopia is yet to provide concrete details on the process.

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Bitcoin Can Function As A Gold Insurance Policy: Leading Crypto Asset Makes Its Store Of Value Case

Bitcoin Gold Ten years ago, the world experienced an unprecedented quantitative easing while also suffering from unmanageable debt levels. The crisis came to a head in 2017 as the federal reserve sought to reduce its $4.

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Report: Running a Bitcoin Lightning Node Brings 1% Annualized Return

A new report by BitMEX Research reveals that the most profitable fee bucket for running a Bitcoin Lightning node has earned them an annualized investment return of almost 1 percent on their outbound channel balance.

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Near Record-Breaking Low Volatility Could Precede a Bitcoin Bull Run

Bitcoin, according to one economist, is the fastest and highest rising asset of all time, thanks in part to its speculative nature, near endless potential, and to the built-in difficulty adjustment that throws off supply and demand balance which in turn increases Bitcoin price.

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SecuX Crypto Hardware Wallet V20: Is It a Safe Way to Store Bitcoin and Altcoins?

No need to hurry. So, before getting into detail about SecuX crypto hardware wallet, let's understand what a cryptocurrency wallet is, just in case you didn't know. The cryptocurrency investors are wholly responsible for securing their funds.

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Op Ed: Defining Decentralization: How Ambiguity Continues to Divide Crypto

There are many keywords in blockchain, but few spark as much emotion as “decentralization. ” For many of us, it was the dream of decentralization that inspired us to embark into the industry in the first place — the driving force encouraging us to explore the many industries and practice areas that could be positively impacted by this technology.

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Elon Musk Jokes about Giving Satoshi a Nobel Prize, Reveals Bitcoin Balance

Wall Street is abuzz with rumors that Apple might dip into its $245 billion war chest to purchase electric vehicle giant Tesla, but all Crypto Twitter wants to talk about is what Elon Musk thinks about bitcoin – and its pseudonymous creator.

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Op Ed: How Bitcoin’s Protocol of Peace Can End the Nuclear Age

Since it came to life in early 2009, Bitcoin has begun disrupting the world of finance. Over the years, this decentralized digital currency came to mean different things for different people.

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Bitcoin (BTC) Long Term Price Forecast- February 16

BTC/USD Long-term Trend: Bearish Resistance levels: $7,200, $7,400, $7,600 Support levels: $3,500, $3,300, $3,100 Last month, January, the BTC/USD pair was trading in the bearish trend zone. With an opening balance of $3,832.

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Coinbase Finally Makes Bitcoin SV Funds Available for Withdrawal

CoinSpeaker Coinbase Finally Makes Bitcoin SV Funds Available for Withdrawal Now Coinbase clients will be able to withdraw their Bitcoin SV (BSV) balance to external wallets. Buying and selling options are not available.

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Bitcoin (BTC) Long Term Price Forecast- February 9

BTC/USD Long-term Trend: Bullish Resistance levels: $7,200, $7,400, $7,600 Support levels: $3,600, $3,400, $3,200 In the first week of February, the BTC/USD pair was in the bearish trend zone. Price of Bitcoin has an opening balance of $3,534.

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Argentina: Bitcoin Now Accepted for Public Transport in 37 Cities

Public transport riders in 37 localities across Argentina can now add credit balance to their SUBE travelcards with bitcoin. This comes through a collaboration between Alto Viaje, who provide the travelcard-loading platform, and Bitex, a fintech company.

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