It’s only halftime, and Bitcoin is leading the financial crisis sentiment by 1-0. During the first six months of the year 2020, the benchmark cryptocurrency experienced one of its biggest quarter-swings in more than two years. First, the coronavirus pandemic caused an unprecedented lockdown that soon resulted in a global market rout. Stocks fell, gold…
Bitcoin has rallied by more than 150 percent from its mid-March low of $3,858. But the cryptocurrency’s supersonic recovery risks fizzling out amid rising concerns about the next global market sell-off. A string of bearish macroeconomic catalysts, including quantitative tightening, could send Bitcoin price lower. Bitcoin price may find itself amid a global market storm…
Predicting Bitcoin price is no less than looking into a crystal ball. As the cryptocurrency leaves behind a trail of endless bullish and bearish fractals, it gives traders a grain of data to predict its next trend. The reality remains the same: the Satoshi Nakamoto’s p2p cryptocurrency is an erratic asset. Its market is tiny,…
Bitcoin attracts Wall Street investors as the stock market threatens to pause its V-shaped recovery. Grim economic outlook, under-performing bonds and gold, and rising number of coronavirus cases adds up to make a bullish case for bitcoin. If Bitcoin is a Stark, then the month of March was its Red Wedding episode. Out of nowhere,…
Bitcoin price prediction for 2020 is a mix-bag of bearish and bullish cases. Skeptics like Nouriel Roubini and Warren Buffett thinks that the bitcoin price is going to go to zero in the near future. Nevertheless, many believe that bitcoin could attain a six-figure valuation. Last week, Renaissance Technologies’ Medallion announced that it would allocate…
When Bitcoin was in freefall under the stress of Coronavirus last month, Anthony Pompliano was quick to fall back on a decade-old narrative for the cryptocurrency that has ensured investors of guaranteed profits. “Bitcoin halving,” muttered the co-founder & partner at North Carolina-based Morgan Creek Capital Management as he pitted the supply-slashing event against the…
Bitcoin is back in the news again. This time, due to all the bad reasons. The benchmark cryptocurrency earlier this month slipped by up to 38 percent from its local peak of $10,540, according to data provided by CoinStats’ cryptocurrency portfolio management app. Meanwhile, it remained stuck in a much larger downtrend after establishing $14,000…
Just recently, Apple removed HKmap.live, an application that showed a real-time crowdsourced map of protests in Hong Kong, alleging that it facilitated attacks on individual officers and vandalization of public areas where the police were not available. Kuma, the pseudonymous developer of HKmap.live, said in an interview with Laura Shin that Apple had no evidence…
The animosity which was brewing between a country and an emerging financial technology is appearing to come to an end. China is taking its first few steps towards recognizing Bitcoin, a non-sovereign asset, as a groundbreaking innovation. Asia’s richest economy slapped a banking ban on the emerging Bitcoin industry in late 2017, leading to the…
Since its inception in 2009, Bitcoin has emerged as one of the most popular cryptocurrencies owing to its peer-to-peer payment features. People started exploring it to settle payments cheaply and faster without needing a bank. Meanwhile, a large section of bitcoin users also unearthed immense investment opportunities in it, leading to the birth of the…
