Just above half of the examined crypto exchanges passed the tests for ‘trusted’ spot volume, according to crypto market analysis firm Coin Metrics’s latest metric. One failed all of them. Coin Metrics has introduced a "trusted volume" metric, in an effort to help differentiate between legitimate and fake trading volumes. Each exchange is tested in…
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Bitcoin price started a downside correction after tagging the USD 11,400 level. BTC remained well bid near USD 10,800 and it is currently (08:30 UTC) trading above USD 11,000. Similarly, most major altcoins are trading in a positive zone, including ethereum, XRP, litecoin, bitcoin cash, BNB, EOS, TRX, XLM, and ADA. ETH/USD is back above…
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France-based major hardware wallet provider Ledger has confessed that it was been hit with a data breach on June 17 that appears to have allowed a “third party” access to at least 1 million of its users’ contact details. The firm took to Twitter to state that its marketing and e-commerce database was compromised, exposing…
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Haeundae Beach. Holidaymakers at Haeundae, South Korea’s busiest and most popular beach, will be able to pay for services such as sun umbrella and inflatable tube rentals in bitcoin (BTC), ethereum (ETH) and other tokens next month. Haeundae Beach, in South Korea’s second city Busan, is a 1.5 km-long, 30-50m wide stretch of sand that…
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Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news. Crypto adoption news FiCAS AG, a Swiss-based crypto investment management boutique, said it has registered the Bitcoin Capital Active ETP (Exchange Traded Product), "the world’s first actively managed crypto Read more »Pay, Trade,…
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Bitcoin price started a strong increase above the USD 10,000 level. BTC broke a crucial resistance near USD 10,500 and it even rallied above USD 11,000. The price traded to a new monthly high close to USD 11,400 and it is currently (08:30 UTC) correcting below USD 11,000. Most major altcoins also gained bullish momentum,…
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Tonight (UTC time), Bitcoin (BTC) mining difficulty dropped for the first time in two months almost as estimated. Meanwhile, after selling more BTC than was generated in the past week, it seems that miners started to hoard more. BTC mining difficulty, the measure of how hard it is to compete for mining rewards, decreased by…
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As bitcoin (BTC) continued its surge higher after breaking through the crucial USD 10,000 level on Sunday and hitting USD 11,000 on Monday, a number of metrics show how much has the interest in the most popular coin increased in the past few days. Trading volume While on Monday it reached USD 32.5bn, today it…
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More strategists at major banks are voicing out their opinions about the position of the US dollar today, as well as its longevity. With the recent gold price rally, and fuelled by the ongoing and growing socio-economic issues, the USD’s position as the world’s reserve currency might be threatened. "Real concerns around the longevity of…
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Source: Adobe/jan_S It took one day for the most popular cryptocurrency, bitcoin (BTC), to climb from the long-awaited USD 10,000 level to USD 11,000, increasing its dominance in the market and showing positive returns in the past 12 months again. However, BTC is still not the best performer even among the top 10 coins. At…
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