Why We Need a Federal Privacy Law

Harvard researcher Mutale Nkonde examines technology through the lens of whether it improves people’s lives. She is an expert on how technological systems impact communities of color and she’s helped craft bills on deep fakes, biometric surveillance and algorithmic bias that have been introduced to Congress. As part of our ongoing Election 2020 series, we spoke with her about surveillance capitalism, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), and whether anyone in the Democratic field stands out to her on privacy issues. The CCPA, signed into law in 2018, empowers California…

Last Bitcoin Price Dip Before $10,000? Here’s How Low It Can Go

After an impressive performance over the past two weeks, Bitcoin (BTC) price appears to be taking a breather which on Feb. 7 saw the price trade in the $9,730 to $9,800 range. The weekly high at $9,910 appears to be standing as resistance and the price traded sideways under this level throughout the day.  Crypto market weekly price chart. Source: Coin360 So far, $9,730 has functioned as a level of support and a pullback below this point could see the price drop slightly below the Bollinger Band moving average at…

Three Reasons Why Bitcoin is Bearish, Explains Analyst

Bitcoin may have surged bombastically heading into 2020 but one analyst thinks the cryptocurrency is going to fall back. Options trader Dyme said bitcoin is entering a “perfect bearish setup,” listing three converging negative indicators that hint a deep price retracement in the coming trading sessions. They are Rising Wedge, Bearish Divergence, and Overleveraged Longs. “Everything about [the setup] screams short,” added Dyme. Retracement Imminent In retrospect, each indicator typically leads to a price drop in an otherwise booming asset. Rising Wedge, for instance, appears if any asset trends upward,…

Watch BitBull Capital’s Joe DiPasquale and FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried Talk Crypto

How sustainable is Bitcoin’s latest bull run? Is bad coronavirus news somehow good news for BTC price? “Bad news is good news for Bitcoin, but bad news is bad news for everything,” said Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO of crypto derivatives exchange FTX. He was joined by BitBull Capital CEO Joe DiPasquale in Cointelegraph’s latest YouTube video, where they pick apart those topics and many others: the relationship between BTC price and Tesla’s stock price, Bitcoin’s potential advantages over the US dollar as a store of value, and is it a problem…

How Closely Does ETH Follow BTC?

Cryptocurrency market sentiment is often influenced by various factors, such as expert forecasts or political events. However, if analyzing on a wider time frame, it turns out that the prices of most cryptocurrencies — especially of Ether (ETH) — could mostly depend on the valuation of Bitcoin (BTC). The results of research conducted by analysts from Skew in November 2019 showed that ETH had been the highest-correlated cryptocurrency to BTC for two years running, with an average correlation coefficient of 0.9. Meanwhile, ETH was the highest correlated asset in 2019,…