Samia Suluhu Hassan, the president of Tanzania, is striving to embrace cryptocurrency with open arms. This move follows that of El Salvador adopting Bitcoin as legal tender. No doubt the World Bank will not be happy with yet another developing nation jumping on crypto. However, when large swathes of your population is unable to take
Cryptocurrency has gone through a number of bull and bear cycles since the industry’s inception in 2009. While 2017 saw the crypto industry boom around initial coin offerings and a rising Bitcoin (BTC) price, 2020 and 2021 have seen the crypto space expand around decentralized finance (DeFi) and nonfungible tokens (NFTs). This time however, retail
On June 18, Bitcoin (BTC) and traditional markets faced another day of downward pressure comments from the United States Federal Reserve about the possibility of raising interest rates sooner than expected has led to a spike in the price of the U.S. dollar at the expense of risk assets and treasury notes. The Fed doesn’t
The U.S. Federal Reserve updated their inflation expectations for this year from 2.4% in March to 3.4% in their latest meeting that concluded on June 16. To tame inflation, the Fed plans to undertake two rate hikes before the end of 2023. This news has boosted the U.S. dollar index DXY to its best level
Bitcoin (BTC) and the wider financial markets faced a new wave of selling on June 18 following comments from James Bullard, the president of the United States Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, indicating that he expects the first interest rate increase to happen in late 2022. Bullard’s comments were even more hawkish than Wednesday’s
Goldman Sachs has debuted a Bitcoin (BTC) futures trading product for its client in collaboration with crypto investment giant Galaxy Digital. According to CNBC, the move marks the first time the Wall Street bank has partnered with a digital asset-based liquidity provider. Galaxy Digital co-president Damien Vanderwilt said the company offered a gateway to the
Dogecoin (DOGE) hogged the spotlight on a tightly crowded stage throughout most of 2021, as Bitcoin (BTC) and the wider cryptocurrency market climbed to new all-time highs. Fueled by the social media flirtation of an eccentric billionaire, and the coordinated efforts of strategic Reddit traders, Dogecoin’s value increased 15,000% since the turn of the year
Wall Street investment bank Goldman Sachs has made another U-turn on its stance toward Bitcoin as it struggles to define the asset’s investment status. The investment bank flip-flopped again in its approach to cryptocurrencies with a report issued earlier this week that claims they are not a “viable investment”. The report, titled “Digital Assets: Beauty
Square peg, meet round hole: a decentralized autonomous organization is pondering taking a rival fork to court. Earlier today, a member of the Curve Finance community made a post in Curve’s governance forum titled “Enforce Curve’s IP Rights.” “Curve has proven incredibly popular, with over $10B deposited, hundreds of millions in daily volume, and around
In an exclusive interview with Cointelegraph during Bitcoin 2021 in Miami, Greenspan criticized a segment of Bitcoin maximalists for being “small-minded and insecure”, pointing out that they don’t have control over the main cryptocurrency. “They cannot stop any kind of innovation from happening. So let them yap, it doesn’t bother me,” said Mati Greenspan, CEO
Bitcoin (BTC) price dropped another notch to $37,365 today after a failed attempt by bulls to retake the $40,000 level. The renewed slump comes as the stock market and commodities also pulled back as a result of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s comments related to future interest rate hikes and concerns over rising inflation which led
El Salvador flag over bitcoin. El Salvador as first country adopting bitcoin as legal tender concept. Bitcoin dropped another 2.73 percent in conjunction with the Dow dropping 210 points by 0.6%. While the latter was due to the US Federal Reserve’s latest monetary policy decision and projections. (I’ll give you a hint: Higher interest rates),
While Uniswap’s highly-touted v3 has been racing to the top of TVL charts as of late, the need for active management has kept some retail participants out of their pools — a problem that a new product from the Gelato Network is aiming to fix. First teased in a community call last week, the Gelato
The most important aspect in trading is to correctly identify the long-term trend. Once this is done, the rest of the steps are not very difficult because all a trader needs to do is look for buying opportunities in an uptrend and selling opportunities in a downtrend. In reality, many traders complicate the process by
Bitcoin (BTC) edged closer to $38,000 support on June 17 as comments from the United States Federal Reserve sparked a mass sell-off for gold. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView Bitcoin escapes gold’s fate Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView followed BTC/USD as it bounced at $38,400 during Thursday, failing to regain $39,000 in
In terms of price potential, Bitcoin (BTC) is staring at the possibility of outperforming Ether (ETH) in the short term. So believes David Lifshitz, the chief investment officer at ExoAlpha, a Paris-based investment management service, who noted that Bitcoin’s upside potential in the near-term is higher than that of Ethereum. He said so after spotting a
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