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Bitcoin Struggles to Recover After Near 10% Drop
4Jan By adminNo Comments
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Bitcoin Struggles to Recover After Near 10% Drop

[ad_1] Bitcoin struggled to rebound from a precipitous drop which sent the largest cryptocurrency falling as much as 9.22% earlier in the week.The token was little changed on Thursday morning London time, trading at around $43,056 and marking a partial recovery from Wednesday's low, but still 6.2% away from the year's high.  Bitcoin had rallied to a 21-month high on Jan.2, ahead of ahead of an upcoming Jan. 10 deadline, that could see the US Securities and Exchange Commission approve the first exchange-traded fund tied directly to the asset's spot price. The token, along with the broader crypto market crashed suddenly on Wednesday, which some speculated occurred after Matrixport analyst Markus Thielen wrote in a note that he expects the SEC to reject all Bitcoin ETF proposals this month...
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Bitcoin’s Big Moves Are Being Magnified by a Protracted Lack of Liquidity
31Oct By adminNo Comments
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Bitcoin’s Big Moves Are Being Magnified by a Protracted Lack of Liquidity

[ad_1] A protracted dearth of liquidity in cryptocurrency markets is playing a key role in the more than 10% swings in the price of Bitcoin seen in recent weeks. Market depth remains at its lowest point this year even with the recent resurgence in trading activity being spurred on in part by expectations for a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund, FalconX's research team found. They measure market depth by looking at the average volume of Bitcoin trading activities within 1% of its current price, on a 24-hour basis.  The drop in overall liquidity was dubbed the “Alameda Gap” last November by blockchain-data firm Kaiko. Alameda Research was the trading arm of Bankman-Fried's failed FTX digital empire. The lingering effect is largely a result of the huge losses that market makers incurred after t...
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Bitcoin Sinks to Two-Week Low as Silvergate Fallout Hurts Crypto
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Bitcoin Sinks to Two-Week Low as Silvergate Fallout Hurts Crypto

[ad_1] Bitcoin dropped to the lowest level in about two weeks, part of a wider retreat in crypto markets as investors digested the unraveling of a key industry payments network. The largest token by market value sank as much as 6% before paring some of the slide to trade 4.9% lower at $22,323 as of 1:44 p.m. Friday in New York. Smaller coins such as Ether, Avalanche and the meme token Dogecoin also suffered declines. The digital-asset industry is absorbing the fallout of the troubles at crypto-friendly US bank Silvergate Capital Corp., which has said that it's reviewing whether it can remain viable. The bank offers a widely used payments network that facilitates the real-time transfer of funds between crypto firms. But many digital-asset exchanges, stablecoin issuers and trading d...
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Bitcoin tops $25,000 to hit eight-month high
17Feb By adminNo Comments
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Bitcoin tops $25,000 to hit eight-month high

[ad_1] Bitcoin hit an eight-month high to surge past $25,000 on Thursday as the volatile cryptocurrency rises despite pressure from US regulators.The digital coin has soared by 50 percent since the start of the year, though it remains far off its peak of $68,992, which it reached in November 2021. Bitcoin reached $25,249 on Thursday, its highest point since June and the first time it topped $25,000 since August. A more optimistic outlook for the world economy is propping up the markets, including cryptocurrencies, with Paris and London stock exchanges hitting all-time highs on Thursday."While regulatory crackdowns continue to drive some unease, there's clearly a growing sense of relief that the worst is behind it for the industry and 2023 could be a much better year," said Craig Erlam,...
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Crypto Mining Stocks Eye Best Month in a Year Atop Bitcoin Jump
17Jan By adminNo Comments
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Crypto Mining Stocks Eye Best Month in a Year Atop Bitcoin Jump

[ad_1] A Bitcoin rebound has put crypto mining stocks on course for their best monthly performance in at least a year, providing some respite from the debt and energy-price worries that pummeled the shares in 2022. A Bitcoin rebound has put crypto mining stocks on course for their best monthly performance in at least a year, providing some respite from the debt and energy-price worries that pummeled the shares in 2022. The 20-member MVIS Global Digital Assets Mining Index is up 64% so far in January, outstripping Bitcoin's 28% advance. That's the gauge's best month since its inception at the end of 2021 and contrasts with last year's 88% drop. The Luxor Hashprice Index — which seeks to measure how much a miner can expect to earn from the computing power used for the Bitcoin netwo...
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FTX Fiasco Pushes Bitcoin Price Lower on Continued Fears of Contagion
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FTX Fiasco Pushes Bitcoin Price Lower on Continued Fears of Contagion

[ad_1] Cryptocurrencies were mostly lower as the risk of further contagion continues to weigh on investor sentiment. Cryptocurrencies were mostly lower as the risk of further contagion continues to weigh on investor sentiment a month after Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX exchange sought bankruptcy protection. Bitcoin dropped as much as 1.4% to $16,882 on Monday before paring losses. Ether sank modestly as well, while altcoins like Avalanche and Dogecoin posted more significant declines. The insolvency of one of crypto's most established firms pushed down prices, already in a months-long slide. At the start of the fourth quarter, Bitcoin traded close to $20,000, but over the past month, the token has hovered around $16,500, failing to break above $17,400. Bitcoin is down 63% this year. ...
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Bitcoin Sinks Further 70% in Standard Chartered List of Possible 2023 Upsets
5Dec By adminNo Comments
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Bitcoin Sinks Further 70% in Standard Chartered List of Possible 2023 Upsets

[ad_1] Speculators cleaving to the view that the crypto rout is mostly over are at risk of a rude awakening in 2023, according to Standard Chartered. Speculators cleaving to the view that the crypto rout is mostly over are at risk of a rude awakening in 2023, according to Standard Chartered.A further Bitcoin plunge of about 70% to $5,000 next year is among the “surprise” scenarios that markets may be “under-pricing,” the bank's Global Head of Research Eric Robertsen wrote in a note on Sunday. Demand could switch from Bitcoin as a digital version of gold to the real thing, spurring to a 30% rally in the yellow metal, Robertsen also said. This possible outcome involves a reversal in interest-rate hikes as economies struggle and more crypto “bankruptcies and a collapse in investor confid...
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Crypto meltdown a boon for bankruptcy lawyers
2Dec By adminNo Comments
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Crypto meltdown a boon for bankruptcy lawyers

[ad_1] Turmoil in the cryptocurrency industry has rattled major exchanges and sent the value of digital assets tumbling, but at least one group stands to gain: bankruptcy lawyers. Turmoil in the cryptocurrency industry has rattled major exchanges and sent the value of digital assets tumbling, but at least one group stands to gain: bankruptcy lawyers. High-profile bankruptcies involving crypto exchange FTX, hedge fund Three Arrows Capital and crypto lenders BlockFi, Celsius Network and Voyager Digital Ltd are generating new opportunities - and big fees - for law firms that counsel troubled companies. Large law firms can rake in more than $100 million in legal fees during a long-running bankruptcy, experts said. “You've got to pay the gravedigger,” said Adam Levitin, a law profes...
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Novogratz Drops Forecast for Bitcoin to Hit $500,000 In 5 Years
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Novogratz Drops Forecast for Bitcoin to Hit $500,000 In 5 Years

[ad_1] Crypto advocate Mike Novogratz dropped his forecast for Bitcoin to climb to $500,000 in five years, citing the Federal Reserve’s interest rate increases. Crypto advocate Mike Novogratz dropped his forecast for Bitcoin to climb to $500,000 in five years, citing the Federal Reserve's interest rate increases.It will, but “not in five years,” Novogratz said Thursday during an interview on Bloomberg Television. The biggest change that happened is that Fed Chair Jerome Powell found “his central banking superpowers.” Like most risk assets, Bitcoin has slumped this year because the Fed is raising rates to contain inflation, Novogratz, the chief executive of Galaxy Digital, said. Bitcoin has tumbled more than 60% this year, dropping to around $17,000. Fallout from the bankruptcy of the ...
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Bitcoin Climbs to 2-Wk High Ahead of Speech by US Fed’s Powell
30Nov By adminNo Comments
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Bitcoin Climbs to 2-Wk High Ahead of Speech by US Fed’s Powell

[ad_1] Bitcoin spiked higher Wednesday in the countdown to a speech by US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell that may cement expectations for a slower pace of interest-rate hikes in the US. Bitcoin spiked higher Wednesday in the countdown to a speech by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell that may cement expectations for a slower pace of interest-rate hikes in the US. The largest token added as much as 3.7% and was trading at about $17,010 as of 10:41 a.m. in Singapore, the highest level in two weeks. Ether climbed over 4%, while the likes of Binance Coin and Dogecoin also jumped. Powell is due to speak later Wednesday at an event hosted by the Brookings Institution and may echo fellow Fed officials in signaling a half-point rate rise at their final meeting of the year after fou...
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