Month: August 2023

Dark Days Ahead As $29,200 Support Fails

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In his recent report, Charles Edward, a prominent crypto market analyst, released an update on the state of the Bitcoin (BTC) market. The report highlights the continuation of the downtrend for Bitcoin, which has been losing its key support, the 50-day Moving Average (MA).  The bearish trend has been confirmed by technical indicators and the pure fundamental Bitcoin Macro Index algorithm, which has seen an increasing rate of contraction over the last week. Is Bitcoin Headed For $25,000? The report provides insights into both high and low timeframe technicals, with…

Bitcoin Bollinger Bands Are The Tightest Ever, What Happens Next?

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Last week, the 1W Bollinger Bands in Bitcoin reached its tightest level ever. The volatility measuring tool typically doesn’t give any indication of direction, however. Using historical data, we’ve taken all previous instances of extreme lows and the resulting direction — up and down — and discovered the success rate of the signal. Bollinger Band Width Reaches Historical Lows: What Does It Mean? The Bollinger Bands are a complete trading system, designed by John Bollinger in the 1980s — an avid Bitcoin speculator. The tool uses a 20-period simple moving…

The Team Behind Ordinals is Creating a Non-Profit to Grow its Ecosystem

“Companies across Web3 ecosystems – including Ethereum, Solana, Stacks, and others – are quickly building Ordinals infrastructure after previously believing NFT-functionality ‘wasn’t possible’ on native Bitcoin,” said Redwin. “Given Ordinals’ unprecedented pace of adoption and real-world implications for various crypto-economies, we believe it is crucial to fund a strong team of non-corporate funded developers to ensure the security and neutrality of this open-source protocol.” Source

European digital asset manager CoinShares’ revenue up 33% in Q2

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CoinShares, a manager of Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH) and various altcoin crypto exchange-traded products (ETPs) in Europe, reported total revenue of 20.3 million pounds ($25.9 million) in the second quarter of 2023, a 33% increase compared wit the prior year’s quarter. According to the Aug. 1 announcement, the firm’s 25% year-over-year decline in asset management fees to 10.6 million pounds ($13.52 million) was offset by a 10 million pound ($12.76 million) gain in capital markets operations, such as trading. CoinShares’ profits for the quarter were 5.3 million pounds ($6.76 million),…

How AI Artificial Intelligence, Web3 Blockchain and Humans Can Work Together to Solve Complex, Global Problems

Cultural and regulatory conversation worldwide today show that there is a lot of fear around AI. AI is going to take over the world, it’s coming for everyone’s job, it’s going to destroy Hollywood: choose your own dystopian adventure. I don’t want any of those things to happen, either, but I’m an AI optimist at heart. There are a lot of things that humans are pretty bad at, and we should want AI to help us with those things, and work together with us to fix them, especially when it…

Don’t Pop the Champagne on U.S. Crypto Bills – Progress in Congress Has Been Costly

When it comes to crypto issues, bank lobbyists’ usual friendliness with Republicans has sometimes been turned on its head. While crypto lobbyists have liked to say digital assets are nonpartisan, Republicans have generally stepped forward as the industry’s most reliable allies, but a lot of murkiness remains. And the fact that Democrats broke ranks to push the latest legislation forward isn’t going unnoticed. Democratic Reps. Jim Himes (D-Conn.), Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.), Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.), Steven Horsford (D-Nev.), Wiley Nickel (D-N.C.) and Brittany Pettersen (D-Colo.) took a stand against their own…

DeFi Died and We Didn’t Even Notice

There’s a real trend within crypto media and on Crypto Twitter to discuss any time something goes wrong in the industry as just another chaotic day. We all have brain worms from being online, ha ha, and cannot even comprehend the disappearance of $70 million anymore, ha ha. Is financial pain even real? Well, not really for me, ha ha, but look at how gross Caroline Ellison is, ha ha. Source

Toyota GR Cup will award digital trophies on Polygon blockchain to race winners

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The Toyota GR Cup, a North American racing series held by Toyota Gazoo Racing, recently announced it will start awarding digital trophies and record driver performances on the Polygon blockchain.  Image source: Toyota press release. Per a press release, the new on-chain awards system will include digital trophies for podium finishers (drivers who take first, second, or third place in a race). The ledger entries will also include statistics about the race and the drivers performance. According to Jack Irving, executive commercial director for Toyota Racing Development (TRD), the point…