The market sentiment around Bitcoin (BTC) is mixed, as the BTC price dropped almost immediately by 10% right after hitting its previous all-time high at $19,892 on Dec. 1. Nevertheless, some analysts and fund managers anticipate…
Bitcoin hitting $200K by December 2021 is now…
Bitcoin (BTC) hitting $300,000 in just one year’s time is “not out of the question,” popular statistician Willy Woo says. In a series of tweets on Dec. 1, Woo stated that he has “never been…
Bitcoin moves $500K around the globe every second,…
Blockstream’s Samson Mow wants to move the conversation away from Bitcoin’s (BTC) performance in transactions per second and toward its role in ushering in “a new financial paradigm,” that is, serving as a permissionless medium…
Ripple’s XRP sees explosive 1,151% trading volume spike…
XRP saw a month-on-month 1,151% surge in trading activity in November on the eToro investment trading platform, according to the company’s latest report. This comes as the XRP price rallied to $0.92 on Coinbase at its…
Bitcoin, gold to benefit as Peter Schiff predicts…
Bitcoin (BTC) may get fresh support for a record-breaking year in 2021 thanks to the demise of a familiar foe: the U.S. dollar. As various sources noted this week, the dollar is trading at almost…
Introducing Valid Points: The Risks and Rewards of…
It’s alive! Welcome, everyone, to the first edition of Valid Points, CoinDesk’s ongoing effort to chronicle the evolution of Ethereum 2.0. You can sign up for the newsletter here. Today we’re commemorating the launch of…
First Mover: Short Shrift for XRP Token’s 169%…
Bitcoin was higher, in an indecisive-looking market swinging between about $18,300 and $19,300. Prices have failed to push higher after surging to a new all-time high of $19,920 earlier this week. “Expect additional short-term volatility,”…
Historian Niall Ferguson Says Bitcoin Is Winning the…
Historian and senior fellow with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, Niall Ferguson says bitcoin is winning the Covid-19 monetary revolution. Hailing the virtual currency as a great place for the rich to store their…
Report: 33% of US Based ICO Investors Say…
A survey conducted by Xangle Research finds that a third (33%) of respondents say founders of an initial coin offering (ICO) in which they invested either intentionally deceived them or withheld key information. A further…
Onchain Researchers Suspect Chinese Government Sold Plustoken’s Billion-Dollar…
A number of masterminds from the Plustoken scam were sentenced to 11 years in prison for defrauding cryptocurrency investors. Last week, on November 19, a court ruling had shown the Chinese government said that it…