Less than a week before the third Bitcoin (BTC) mining reward halving, mining just became more difficult as more miners turned their machines on in the end of April. On Tuesday, BTC mining difficulty, a measure showing how hard it is to compete for mining rewards, increased by 0.9%, to 16.1 T, moving closer to…
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The crypto market sentiment has made another, relatively large step upwards over the course of the past week. The combined moving average 7-day market sentiment measure, sentscore, for the top 10 coins continued its rise from seven days ago, climbing from 5.37 at the time to today’s 5.88 – that way being just 0.12 away…
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Bitcoin (BTC) miners responsible for up to 30% of the network’s hashrate, or the computational power, are the most vulnerable and might be forced to turn the majority of their machines off after Bitcoin mining reward halving next week, according to Alejandro De La Torre, Vice President at major crypto mining pool Poolin. Poolin looked…
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Source: Adobe/nimon_t Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news. Exchanges news Jesse Powell, CEO of major crypto exchange Kraken, has revealed to the crypto community via a tweet that he had to undergo a neck surgery due to…
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This past week, we saw a strong upward move in bitcoin price above the USD 8,850 resistance area. BTC/USD even surpassed the USD 9,200 resistance and traded close to USD 9,500. Recently, it started a downside correction below USD 9,000 and it could correct further towards USD 8,550 or USD 8,200. Similarly, most major altcoins…
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A fragment of the official poster for the fifth season of Billions. This weekend’s big TV show event had a bitcoin (BTC) bent – with series five of Showtime’s Billions drama series focusing largely on the world’s most popular cryptocurency. The first episode of the series aired over the weekend in the United States. Billions…
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Source: Adobe/stockphoto-graf Institutional investors are far from homogenous and while some have already invested in cryptoassets others may never do this, Nick Prince, Financial Strategy Analyst at major crypto exchange Coinbase, said. Family offices are the most likely to invest in crypto, and banks/insurance companies the least, he added. In his recent blog post, Prince…
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Antminer S19 Pro. Publicly traded crypto mining company Riot Blockchain, Inc. says it has purchased 1,000 next generation mining machines, as the Bitcoin (BTC) miners brace for the upcoming halving in mining rewards, expected to occur on May 12. The company said it has recently completed a purchase of 1,000 units of the next generation…
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Four days before the next Bitcoin (BTC) mining difficulty adjustment, the previously estimated all-time high is nowhere in sight. Not only will there not be a new record, but along with the falling hashrate, the difficulty is now expected to drop. Major Bitcoin mining pool BTC.com’s latest estimation is that after two consecutive increases the…
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The coins have entered a new month of this year, meaning it’s time we take a look at how they fared in the previous month – and there’s something to see! April’s so green, we couldn’t even find a proper loser. While major coins saw double-digit rises last month, there are only two coins that…
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