Day: April 2, 2021

How One Ethereum Could Soon Be Worth Half A Bitcoin

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Ethereum just cleanly broke above $2,000 for the first time ever, and the altcoin has been soaring since. The milestone has revived talk about an altcoin season and even a “flippening” of Bitcoin itself. And while that’s unlikely to happen, technical analysis of the ETHBTC pair could suggest that one full Ethereum will soon be worth nearly half a full Bitcoin. Here’s a closer look at the bottoming pattern on the trading pair that could spark the first true altcoin season since 2018. Face That Facts: Ethereum Riding DeFi High,…

Latest episode of ‘the Falcon and the Winter Soldier’ involves massive Bitcoin bounty

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The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, a new Marvel Cinematic Universe show on the Disney+ streaming platform, incorporated a Bitcoin (BTC) bounty into its newest episode.  In episode three, “Power Broker,” one of the characters receives a text message which reads: “Selby dead. ₿1K BOUNTY for her killers.” The reference, which drops around the narrative’s half way mark, is timely given Bitcoin’s ongoing bull market. At time of publication, 1,000 BTC equals approximately $58.8 million USD. The reference occurs around 24 minutes into episode 3 of The Falcon and the Winter…

Kraken Is Investigating Bitcoin Selloff, CEO Says

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▶ Coinbase Website: Coinbase.com ▶ CEX Website: cex.io Feb.23 — “It’s hard to speculate about what’s driving the market action,” Kraken Exchange co-founder and CEO Jesse Powell said after the Bitcoin selloff worsened and some in the crypto community looked to a possible flash-crash on the Kraken exchange. “We’re still investigating,” he said on “Bloomberg Surveillance Early Edition.” ▶ Coinbase Website: Coinbase.com ▶ CEX Website: cex.io Youtube version

VeChain on the cusp of a parabolic rally? Analyst responds

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In a poll conducted via Real Vision’s Twitter handle, an overwhelming majority has voted that VeChain (VET) is the most undervalued cryptocurrency on the market. With 140,000 users participating and 65.8% of the votes in favor, VET prevailed over Hedera Hashgraph (HBAR) and Ravencoin (RVN). An analyst called “VeChain Justin” added the poll results to his bullish case on this cryptocurrency. VeChain’s community is in the process of voting to modify or maintain transaction fees on the blockchain VeChainThor. The analyst believes that the results of this vote will favor…

Shark Tank’s Mark Cuban Says Ethereum ‘Is Closest Crypto We Have to a True Currency’ – Bitcoin News

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The billionaire investor and television personality, Mark Cuban recently did an interview on the recent episode of a podcast and discussed crypto assets at length. Cuban says his cryptocurrency portfolio is 60% bitcoin, 30% ethereum, and the rest is dedicated to smaller cap cryptos. Mark Cuban Shares His Crypto Portfolio Allocations Mark Cuban is a well known investor, one of the hosts on Shark Tank, and the owner of the National Basketball Association’s (NBA) Dallas Mavericks. For years now, Cubans and some of his fellow Shark Tank co-hosts have been…

Former Chainalysis brass is now FinCEN’s acting director

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The current acting director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN, will bid farewell to the governing body in April. His replacement: Michael Mosier, Chainalysis’ former chief technical counsel.  “Director Kenneth A. Blanco today announced several leadership changes impacting the bureau,” said a public statement from FinCEN on Friday, adding: “Director Blanco announced he will depart FinCEN on April 9, after serving as the organization’s director since December 2017. Michael Mosier, former FinCEN Deputy Director and current Counselor to the Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, will return to FinCEN…

BITCOIN : A QUEL PRIX ACHETER POUR DU LONG TERME ? – L'Analyse Technique de Vincent Ganne

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▶ Coinbase Website: Coinbase.com ▶ CEX Website: cex.io L’analyse technique cryptomonnaie de la semaine par Vincent Ganne : Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), ChainLink (LINK) et The Graph (GRT) ! En analysant le Bitcoin on constate qu’il pourrait y avoir un rebond imminent de la dominance. On cherche également à savoir sur quels supports se baser pour un achat de Bitcoin à long terme. Faut-il acheter du Bitcoin à 25 000 ou à 30 000 $ ? Quoi qu’il en soit, cette pause est salutaire pour la tendance de fond de…

DeFi TVL quietly climbs to record highs while the NFT boom subsides

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Hype cycles can work wonders for token prices and social media statistics, but they also bring increased pressure on developers to launch a functioning product that validates its rising market cap.  As nonfungible tokens took center stage over the past six weeks the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector took a break from the spotlight as developers refined their protocols and sought out interoperable, Ethereum network alternatives. Data from CoinGecko shows that the total value locked (TVL) on all DeFi platforms has steadily grown since the market pullback at the end of…

Bitcoin soars above $48,000 to new record after Tesla's $1.5 billion investment: CNBC After Hours

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▶ Coinbase Website: Coinbase.com ▶ CEX Website: cex.io CNBC.com’s MacKenzie Sigalos brings you the day’s top business news headlines. On today’s show, CNBC’s Kate Rooney breaks down bitcoin’s surge past $48,000 after Tesla’s investment. Plus, CNBC’s Ylan Mui explains how some states and cities are sending their own stimulus checks as lawmakers in Washington continue to tweak a new Covid relief package. 00:00 — Intro 0:42 — Nasdaq closes at all-time high 3:05 — CNBC Soundcheck 4:51 — Latest Covid stimulus developments 5:29 — Individual cities and states send out…

Collectibles giant Funko shares surge after acquiring NFT app Tokenwave

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In a flurry of price action reminiscent of 2017 mania, shortly after announcing that they had acquired NFT display and tracking platform Tokenwave, pop-culture collectibles giant Funko’s stock (NYSE: FNKO) rallied over 20%.  Unlike many price-pumping announcements heavy on hype and sparse on content from the last bull run (and the dozens inevitably to come over the next few months), Funko and NFTs may be a perfect fit, however. On Thursday the creator of the widely popular Funko Pops collectibles line announced in a press release that they had acquired…