On October 22 at 4:52 p.m. (EDT), a miner that acquired 50 bitcoin on May 17, 2010, spent the funds that sat idle for 11 years and five months. There hasn’t been a 2010 block reward spent in three months and the last time a 2010 miner spent their ‘sleeping bitcoin’ was on July 4, 2021. After waiting patiently for more than a decade, the miner who spent the ‘sleeping bitcoin’ on Friday saw a percentage gain of 76,249,900% if the individual cashed out into U.S. dollars… Source link

Anyone globally can now spend Litecoin on the Bitplaza shopping platform. READING, PA, USA, October 23, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ — Bitplaza, Inc., a holding company of a leading global bitcoin shopping platform, today announced that the company began accepting Litecoin payments. “We’re pleased to announce that starting today, you can use Litecoin (LTC) as a payment method on the Bitplaza shopping app. Bitplaza is a giant global… Source link

The price of bitcoin in October has shown signs of a double-bubble similar to the bull run in 2013, and speculators have been trying to guess the leading crypto asset’s top. On October 20, cryptocurrency market analyst Justin Bennett discussed bitcoin’s possible price floor after it reaches the top. Bennett suggests the end of this cycle could be between $207,000 and $270,000. Assuming bitcoin crosses $200K per coin, Bennett thinks the digital asset’s bottom after an 80%… Source link

Cryptocurrency buy signals for Tezos (XTZ), Monero (XMR) and Orion Protocol (ORN) Tezos (XTZ) Above: Tezos (XTZUSD) Tezos (XTZ) has made some impressive gains over the past few months, easy becoming one of the best outperformers of 2021. It’s experience some weakness, profit taking and an overall slump since hitting its most recent all-time high on October 4th. In fact, it’s currently trading -30% lower from its all-time high. Some consolidation has… Source link

Ethereum Ethereum fell by 2.03% on Friday. Following a 2.59% decline on Thursday, Ethereum ended the day at $3,971.55. A bullish start to the day saw Ethereum rise to an early morning intraday high $4,169.72 before hitting reverse. Falling short of the first major resistance level at $4,282, Ethereum fell to a late afternoon intraday low $3,885.25. Ethereum fell through the first major support level at $3,920 before a partial recovery to end the day at $3,970 levels. At the time of writing,… Source link

Ashley Tolbert Contributor Tarah Wheeler Contributor Ethereum is the world’s most popular digital contract compiler, maintained by many but owned by none. Perhaps one of the most interesting factors behind its popularization is the future it paints — one that transforms our current internet standards for ownership, value creation and, most importantly, privacy. A transformed future? Not only can apps be… Source link

With the cumulative market cap falling by nearly 2% over the last 24 hours, most cryptos were mostly in the red on 22 October. Some altcoins, in fact, showed signs of correction too.  Polkadot and Monero, for instance, projected superior buying pressure, while Ethereum Classic exhibited signs of decreasing bullish power. Polkadot [DOT] Source: TradingView, DOT/USDT DOT moved up by 1.76% and was trading at $44.93, at the time of writing. It also noted a 13.56% seven-day increase, indicating… Source link

Bitcoin (BTC) briefly fell below $60,000 on Oct. 22 as a correction after all-time highs deepened concerns about the market’s strength. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView Trader eyes $56,000 minimum BTC buy-in Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD hitting lows of $59,930 on Bitstamp, down another 6% on the day. A rebound took the pair back above the $60,000 mark, but caution remained the name of the game as the week saw the price slide below… Source link

The world’s second most valuable cryptocurrency, ether, has been touching all-time highs in price ahead of a major upgrade of its underlying platform, ethereum. Ether is currently worth in aggregate just shy of US$500 billion (£363 billion). That’s still slightly less than half that of the biggest cryptocurrency, bitcoin. But could this upgrade, a vital step towards a much greener and faster version of the current system, put ethereum on the path to becoming the dominant platform… Source link

Litecoin, as one of the first coins in the crypto-space, never made too much noise as you’d expect. There weren’t many crazy rallies or devastating crashes. Now, we did see the Walmart-associated FUD. But, we can’t really blame Litecoin for that, can we? Some believe this immobility may have kept investors safe. However, it is now costing the altcoin dearly because right now, it may be in danger. Litecoin in danger… … of falling to an all-time low? The silver to Bitcoin’s gold… Source link