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Alt Season Reigns as Big Money Exits the U.S. Dollar

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Time Stamp: August 17, 2020 4:07 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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Open up the keg of powder, it’s time to lock and load. It’s alt season. In July, I predicted a bump of BTC followed by an open alt season. I was right. A perfect storm is bringing back memories of December 2017, and this time big money is looking to exit the U.S. dollar. Duck Season? Rabbit Season? No, Alt Season. It’s official. Alt season is here, and non-bitcoin cryptos are doing what they do best: pump. Total crypto markets have seen a surge from $165 billion in March to

Record Ethereum Network Use and Gas Fees Pose Risk to DeFi Expansion

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Time Stamp: August 15, 2020 5:31 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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The number of Ethereum network transactions more than doubled in 2020 and is now virtually identical to the January 2018 all-time high. As shown on the chart below, the number of transactions doubled in the past six months to stand at 1.23 million per day. Ethereum 7-day average daily transactions. Source: CoinMetricsThis situation might seem very bullish at first, but one must remember both EOS and Tron (TRX) started as ERC-20 tokens before launching their own mainnet and running fully independent blockchains.A similar chain migration is happening on Tether’s USDT, a stablecoin

A Crypto Trader Thinks Ethereum Could Plunge Towards $300 as Momentum Slows

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Time Stamp: August 11, 2020 9:00 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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After Bitcoin and Ethereum attempted to surge past $12,000 and $400, respectively, the momentum has tapered off. Over the past day, the leading cryptocurrencies have plunged lower despite a weakening U.S. dollar. As of the time of this article’s writing, ETH is down 2.85% in the past 24 hours and now trades for $385. Analysts say that Ethereum is primed to move towards $300 as last week’s highs hold as resistance. The bearish sentiment can be corroborated by the trajectory of gold, which has flipped negative after a strong rally

Building on Taproot: Payment Pools Could Be Bitcoin’s Next Layer Two Protocol

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Time Stamp: August 11, 2020 12:10 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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This article is about a technological concept based on the proposed Taproot protocol upgrade. If you’re not yet familiar with the basics of how Taproot works, it’s recommended that you first read this explainer.Taproot, a potential upgrade to the Bitcoin protocol first proposed by Bitcoin Core contributor Gregory Maxwell, is in its late stages of development. The technology consists of a clever combination of crypto-tricks that would let users hide complex smart contracts inside regular-looking transactions — the complexity is only ever revealed if parties to a contract are uncooperative.Leveraging

What Hope Do Bears Have If Bitcoin Holds $11,500? Analyst Asks

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Time Stamp: August 9, 2020 4:00 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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Despite the parabolic performance in some altcoins, Bitcoin is stagnating around the high-$11,000s. As of the time of this article’s writing, BTC is trading for $11,600. This comes after it was rejected last week at the $12,000 level yet again, marking a loss for bulls. Analysts say that Bitcoin managing to hold the $11,500 level would bolster the medium-term bull case dramatically. One trader went as far as to say that the cryptocurrency closing the weekly candle at $11,500 could leave bears without much hope. He isn’t the first commentator

Slow But Steady: FATF Review Highlights Crypto Exchanges’ Struggle to Meet AML Standards

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Time Stamp: August 8, 2020 9:00 AM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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In June 2019, the intergovernmental Financial Action Task Force (FATF) introduced its revised set of standards for virtual asset service providers. The document establishes the anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism (AML/CFT) requirements that regulated VASPs —  the term mainly referring to cryptocurrency trading platforms — must eventually implement in their day-to-day operations. The guidelines are framed as recommendations, and the FATF leaves it to the participating nations’ governments to develop their own regulations in accordance with suggested principles.The watchdog has also set a 12-month review timeframe to monitor the public and

What is Wrapped Bitcoin? A Guide to WBTC

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Time Stamp: August 8, 2020 12:24 AM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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WBTC is a way for Bitcoin to run on the Ethereum blockchain. Performing quick and affordable transactions using Bitcoin (BTC) has long been a problem of the community ever since it became more popular. This is why there have been many developments planning to address this issue.  But what if we can make our BTC coins functional on the Ethereum (ETH) blockchain? Would there be a difference? Wrapped BTC (WBTC) is a multi-institution project that aims to solve common BTC problems by creating its ERC-20 token counterpart. And in the

What is Serum? A DeFi Derivatives DEX Guide

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Time Stamp: August 3, 2020 5:54 AM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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DeFi-based exchanges have seen wild success in 2020 thanks to yield farming, which has incentivized hundreds of thousands of users to provide liquidity to these platforms. With that being said, DEXs are still a far-cry from centralized exchanges in both UI and UX. Serum is here to change all that. Serum is a protocol that claims to be “pure DeFi” as they have managed to address a lot of issues the space is facing. Most of the users in DeFi today are not traders but yield farmers. Yield farmers are

Ampleforth: A Guide to the AMPL DeFi Protocol

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Time Stamp: August 2, 2020 9:53 AM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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Imagine the possibilities of reinventing money. One that is powered by blockchain and crypto-based solutions. That is what Ampleforth hopes to achieve within and beyond the crypto community. Since the inception of decentralized finance (DeFi), various notable projects have spawned, giving life to a new sector in the cryptosphere. At the moment, investors and crypto traders alike are quite stoked with DeFi and liquidity mining. We have witnessed several protocols like Maker, Aave, and Compound attracting hundreds of thousands of users, enabling the DeFi ecosystem to proliferate far and wide.

Ethereum Rockets to $380 to Post 10% One-Day Surge: What’s Next For ETH?

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Time Stamp: August 1, 2020 3:39 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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What a past few weeks it’s been for Ethereum. The second-largest cryptocurrency is up approximately 50% in the past 10 days alone, with bulls finally flooding to purchase ETH after a strong macro bear market. The asset trades at $382 as of this article’s writing, going effectively parabolic on a macro scale. In the past 24 hours alone, Ethereum has gained 10% against the U.S. dollar, outperforming Bitcoin, which is up by only 4%. Chart of ETH's price action over the past two weeks from TradingView.com A $2.5 Million Liquidation

Apple gained the same value on Friday as Bitcoin’s entire market cap

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Time Stamp: August 1, 2020 9:00 AM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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While Bitcoin has rallied millions of percent since its launch in 2008, the asset remains relatively small on a macro scale. This much was made clear on Friday, Jul. 31, when the shares of Apple (AAPL) surged on the back of extremely strong revenue numbers.Apple stock surges 11% on Friday to gain more value than BTC’s market capAt a market capitalization of just over $200 billion, Bitcoin has reached a size where it is being noticed by Wall Street and Main Street alike. JPMorgan is now servicing cryptocurrency companies, blockchain is