Day: January 11, 2022

Was $39,650 the bottom? Bitcoin bulls and bears debate the future of BTC price

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Bitcoin (BTC) price made a quick pop above $43,100 in the U.S. trading session but uncertainty is still the dominant sentiment among traders on Jan. 11 and bulls and bears are split on whether this week’s drop to $39,650 was BTC’s bottom.  Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView shows that the price of Bitcoin has traded tightly around the $42,000 level as the global financial markets digested U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s statements on the upcoming fiscal policy changes. BTC/USDT 1-day chart. Source: TradingView Powell indicated that the central bank is prepared…

Ramp expands presence in US with FinCEN regulation

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On Tuesday, crypto-fiat gateway payments platform Ramp announced that its U.S. subsidiary Ramp Swaps LLC had received its registration as a Money Service Business with the Department of Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. The regulatory greenlight enables Ramp to do business in 38 states across the United States. Besides the development, Ramp also has regulatory clearance with the United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority and Poland’s Financial Supervision Authority. Ramp allows users to buy crypto directly in their wallets and decentralized applications, or DApps. Last year, the company grew its transaction…

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Welcome to the Crypto Version of ‘Blade Runner’

The Neon District is part crypto metaverse, part RPG (role-playing video game). It just looks different. The visuals are stunning and hauntingly bleak – a cyberpunk dystopia full of thieves, hackers, guilds and assassins. It’s dark. It’s even beautiful. “What if we made a cyberpunk Final Fantasy 7?” was the original idea from Marguerite deCourcelle, aka “Coin Artist,” the CEO and co-founder of Blockade Games, the company building Neon District, which recently raised $5 million. (Investors include Animoca Brands and Dapper Labs’ Roham Gharegozlou.) Source

Zero-knowledge scaling tech Plonky goes live on Polygon

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On Monday, Polygon (MATIC), a layer-two Ethereum (ETH) scaling solution that is known for its fast transaction times and negligible gas fees, announced the launch of Plonky2, a zero-knowledge scaling technology, claimed to be the fastest in the world. Zero-knowledge algorithms ensure everything is correctly computed on layer two and return the succinct proof to Ethereum without sending the entire data. Instead of every miner (or staker) verifying every posted transaction, zero-knowledge allows the verification of simplified rolled-up proofs, thereby significantly speeding up the overall network. 1/2 We are proud…

Ethereum futures and options data reflects traders’ mixed emotions on $3.2K ETH price

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Ether (ETH) has been an emotional rollercoaster over the past three months primarily because its price rallied twice. First, it peaked at $4,870 on Nov. 10 and at $4,780 on Dec. 1. However, the double top was quickly followed by a harsh rejection, which led to $490 million in long futures contract liquidations in 48 hours. Once again, hope was instilled on Dec. 8 after Ether commenced to rally 28.5% in four days to retest the $4,400 support. Soon after, the downtrend continued, leading to the $2,900 bottom on Jan.…

SOPR Shows Bitcoin Holders Continue To Sell At A Loss, Similar To May-June 2021

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The on-chain indicator SOPR suggests that Bitcoin holders have continued to sell at a loss for a while now. This behavior is similar to what was seen during the May-June 2021 mini-bear period. Bitcoin Investors Have Continued To Dump At A Loss For A Month Now As pointed out by an analyst in a CryptoQuant post, the BTC SOPR shows that holders are currently selling at a loss. The “Spent Output Profit Ratio” (or SOPR in short) is an indicator that tells us whether coins moved on a given day…

‘Centralization issues’ are the biggest culprits of DeFi attacks: CertiK

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Decentralized finance, better known as DeFi, may not be “decentralized” enough as attackers exploited centralized weak points to drain users of billions of dollars in 2021, according to research from blockchain security firm CertiK.  In a new report on the state of DeFi security in 2021, CertiK researchers said “centralization issues were the most common attack vector” within decentralized finance. The blockchain security firm cited 44 DeFi hacks totaling $1.3 billion in lost funds in 2021. That’s an increase of over $500 million compared with 2021.  “This underscores the importance…