The world’s most prominent digital currency on Tuesday is back to carving out records just like it was 2017. The No. 1 crypto’s nearly 8% weekly rise and 30% gain so far in November has helped the asset hit a market value of around $328 billion, according to digital-currency data site CoinMarketCap. That level surpasses the roughly $322.7 billion value that bitcoin hit on Dec. 17 when its price was nearly $20,000 (see chart). … Source link

Bitcoin price is steamrolling toward $18,000, and excited traders are calling for the top-ranked digital asset to overtake the 2017 all-time high at $19,763. Unless you’re a bear, reaching a new all-time high is great. But ideally, for a sustainable rally to maintain its pace, a staircase uptrend is more beneficial than a sudden upward climb. In recent weeks, BTC has continuously surged higher without prolonged consolidation periods or any major dips. BTC/USD daily chart. Source:… Source link

Bitcoin tops $17,000 for the first time in nearly three years. Bitcoin reached $17,000 for the first time since just after the burst of the cryptocurrency bubble almost three years ago. The largest digital coin, which has more than doubled this year, surged as much as 6.2% to $17,732 on Tuesday in New York trading. From an all-time high in December 2017 of nearly $20,000, Bitcoin tumbled to as low as $3,136 within a year. “Demand for more diverse, stable products that take less risk is… Source link

Credit: Shutterstock According to a new study from Copenhagen Business School, on the role of privacy and decentralization in the cryptocurrency community, developers are creating cryptocurrencies in such a way that regulatory oversight will not be possible, neither will any wait and see attempt to override them in the future. The research is published in the Journal of Information Technology. … Source link

The price of Bitcoin (BTC) exceeded $17,400 in a strong intraday rally. On Coinbase, BTC even came close to the $17,700 mark, setting a new two-year high. As BTC glides through the multiyear resistance above $17,000, analysts are divided on its short-term outlook. Some say that BTC is primed for a pullback as whale deposits begin increasing. Others believe there is little resistance until $20,000 and that an all-time high is likely before the next deep correction. The momentum of Bitcoin in… Source link

getty Bitcoin just went through $17,000 and is now within striking distance of its all-time high around $20,000. Like all success, Bitcoin’s rise has many fathers. There is trouble: Covid; Hong Kong; change of government in the U.S. and Chinese tech oligarchs under fire at home/the Ant Group IPO debacle. There is a wildly held belief that an inflationary comeuppance set off by all the Covid bailouts is on its way. The “halvening,” which occurred earlier this… Source link

The Bitcoin (BTC) price bottomed at exactly the point that gold bug Peter Schiff said that it would crash further — and proponents are reminding him of his mistake. Retweeting a now infamous Twitter post that Schiff made in mid March, popular trader “CryptoBull” noted that he had accidentally called Bitcoin’s bottom, not top. Schiff tweet “marks exact bottom” for BTC Schiff was complaining that he had lost access to his Bitcoin wallet, but that soon it wouldn’t matter, because… Source link

Bitcoin climbed above topped $17,000 early Tuesday for the first time since January 2018, pushing this year’s remarkable rally to 137% on a year-to-date basis. That’s 10 times more than the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index of large U.S. stocks.  “Bears are in disbelief,” the digital-asset market analysis firm Arcane Research wrote early Tuesday in a report, noting that the cryptocurrency is on track to post its sixth straight weekly gain. “It seems like there is nothing stopping… Source link

Philip Swift, a Bitcoin (BTC) analyst and the creator of Lookintobitcoin.com, laid out four reasons why BTC is headed to $22,000. Both fundamental and technical factors indicate the top cryptocurrency’s momentum is strengthening. The one-year HODL percentage, the decline of Bitcoin exchange reserves, neutral funding rates, and institutional accumulation point toward a prolonged BTC rally. Swift wrote: “1yr HODL % still really high? Yep. Bitcoin being rushed off exchanges? Yep. Funding… Source link

Look no further than the rapid growth this year in the white-hot arena of decentralized finance, or DeFi, and it’s clear why the Ethereum blockchain is dominating so many conversations right now in the digital-asset industry.  The second-largest blockchain’s native cryptocurrency, ether (ETH), is up 266% this year – twice as much as mooning bitcoin (BTC).  But a lot of savvy digital-asset investors are hedging their bets, buying tokens associated with upstart blockchains that could… Source link