Cryptocurrency storage firm Anchorage Digital today announced the launch of an Ethereum staking service for institutions, which will be able to earn rewards linked to the second-biggest digital asset by market cap. Institutions can now stake #ETH with @Anchorage. Learn what institutions need to know about the ETH upgrades, why they should stake ETH & how they can collect rewards through Anchorage. Read more here ⬇️: https://t.co/0TkwoGjXHV — Anchorage Digital (@Anchorage) June 28,… Source link
Read More »ETH Price Analysis: Here’s the Level Ethereum Needs to Break to Extend Bullish Relief
The bulls have dominated the market for the past few days. A 40% growth in 10 days can surely be interpreted positively, but it’s important to examine all scenarios. Technical Analysis By Grizzly The Daily Chart The price is currently stuck below the resistance zone on the daily time frame, as shown in the chart. This zone ranges from $1300 to $1500 (in red) and was expected to provide solid support during the sharp collapse earlier in June – which it obviously failed to… Source link
Read More »Bitcoin is the only coin the SEC Chair will call a commodity
Monday morning, the chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Gary Gensler, said on CNBC’s Squawk Box that the only token he would lump in with commodities was bitcoin. Why it matters: Gensler pointedly declined to name any cryptocurrency other than the original one, notable because the market has been operating under the assumption that there is a sort of wink-and-nod understanding that ether is also not a security. Driving the news: “Many of these financial assets,… Source link
Read More »Different this time? ‘Almost all’ Bitcoin metrics are now hinting at a price bottom
Bitcoin (BTC) played wait-and-see with traders on June 28 as Wall Street opened to flat performance. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView Bollinger eyes “logical place” for Bitcoin bottom Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD circling $21,000 on Bitstamp, refusing to commit to a firm trend. The pair nonetheless avoided fresh signs of weakness, leading Cointelegraph contributor Michaël van de Poppe to believe that an attack on important levels… Source link
Read More »Fried circuits at the bitcoin miners
Rapidly rising electricity prices should be bad news for cryptocurrency miners, right? Boutique investment house Kuros Associates believes so, having shorted US-listed Microstrategy and Riot Blockchain in spite of being a short term bitcoin bull. Miners “have a big problem [with] the rising cost of energy, and that’s not going away any time soon,” said Tancredi Cordero, chief executive at London-based Kuros. “The smart trade would be a put trade expiring in Q3. [Electricity]… Source link
Read More »Bitcoin Prices Fall but Hold at $21,000. The Crypto Picture Is Cloudy.
Text size The prices of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have collapsed this year. Dusan Zidar/Dreamstime … Source link
Read More »3 charts showing this Bitcoin price drop is unlike summer 2021
Bitcoin (BTC) bear markets come in many shapes and sizes, but this one has given many reason to panic. BTC has been described as facing “a bear of historic proportions” in 2022, but just one year ago, a similar feeling of doom swept crypto markets as Bitcoin saw a 50% drawdown in weeks. Beyond price, however, 2022 on-chain data looks wildly different. Cointelegraph takes a look at three key metrics demonstrating how this Bitcoin bear market is not like the last. Hash rate Everyone remembers the… Source link
Read More »What can the past tell us about Bitcoin’s future?
Bitcoin has crashed in value by more than 50 per cent in the past six months, but holders of the cryptocurrency are used to volatility. Here we look at how the FT covered bitcoin’s previous booms and busts to see if history is repeating itself. The Japanese boom and bust (April 2017 to March 2018) Before 2017, bitcoin traded at under $1,000. But on New Year’s Day 2017 the cryptocurrency broke past the $1,000 level and before the end of the year it had soared to within touching… Source link
Read More »FBI Arrests 2 Men Planning ‘Violent’ Robbery of Bitcoin Worth Millions of Dollars — They Face 20 Years in Prison – Regulation Bitcoin News
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has arrested two men who participated “in a violent plan to break into a family’s home in the middle of the night” to steal bitcoin worth tens of millions of dollars,” according to the U.S. Department of Justice. They could go to prison for 20 years. 2 Men Charged for Planning to Steal Bitcoin The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Friday the unsealing of an indictment charging Dominic Pineda and Shon Morgan with a “plan to… Source link
Read More »Harmony Hackers Begin Laundering Ethereum Stolen From Horizon Bridge
The hackers responsible for stealing $100 million in altcoins from Harmony Protocol‘s Horizon bridge have begun to launder the funds, according to PeckShield. The hackers sent three transactions from the address used in the June 23rd hack totaling around 30K ETH (around $36 million) to the mixing service Tornado Cash, with $64 million still in the hacker’s Ethereum wallet, according to blockchain analysis by the blockchain security company. 1/ The Harmony team has identified a theft… Source link
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