While stock traders in the US and China took a break from trading thanks to national holidays, attention turned to Bitcoin’s flirtation with $50,000. Overnight, BTC briefly reached the mark, before easing back.
Whether Bitcoin goes back above $50k appears to be a foregone conclusion, the question being posed by traders is: how much further can BTC go?
This bullish trend has helped broader crypto markets recover from Monday’s losses. Global market cap is now back above $1.5 trillion. Fun fact: In less than eight weeks, crypto has added $1 trillion to its total value.
Bitcoin has once again hit a new all-time high. Today, Bitcoin surpassed $28,000 and achieved a market capitalization of half a trillion dollars.
Bitcoin’s current price is $28,288, an increase of 13.55% in the past 24 hours. Its market cap, as of this writing, is $524,821,161,327, per metrics site CoinMarketCap.
This marks an increase in the price of Bitcoin of almost $4,000 in two days, and an increase of 20% in the past week.
Bitcoin’s bull run started in earnest in October, when its price...
Ethereum clawed back over half its losses, to hover just below $1,800, while other projects went further including Polkadot (up 8%), Cardano (up 4.5%) and Cosmos (up 24.9%).
But just as crypto appears to have clawed its way out of the mire of its earlier days, two stories cropped up to remind us that there is still an element of the wild west left in crypto’s day to day dealings.
The first involved Verge Token. The project, favoured as a means of payment for performers on adult site Pornhub appears to have lost 200 days worth of transactions, suggesting it had suffered a 51% attack.
This morning, Antoine Le Calvez, a data engineer with blockchain research firm Coin Metrics, pointed out that something funny was happening over on the Verge (XVG) blockchain.
“Looks like $XVG (Verge) experienced a massive 560k+ blocks reorg,” he wrote. His colleague, Lucas Nuzzi, chimed in a few hours later: “The past 200 days worth of $XVG transaction history just vanished. This is likely the deepest reorg that has ever taken place in a 'top 100' cryptocurrency.”
The past 200 days worth of $X...
The second is Chainalysis’ Crypto Crime Report - which highlighted crypto’s seedier underbelly made off with more than $2 billion in ill gotten gains last year.
Futures Markets Up Overnight but Investors Are Expecting Pullbacks
Markets were closed in the US yesterday, but futures markets continued to rise. Dow Jones futures rose 0.8%, S&P 500 futures climbed 0.7% and Nasdaq 100 futures advanced 0.7%.
Chinese markets were also closed thanks to the Lunar New Year celebrations, but other exchanges in Asia and Europe were open, and following America's bullish lead.
Yesterday, Europe’s Stoxx 600 index rose 1.3 per cent and the UK’s FTSE 100 index was up by 2.5 per cent. The news that the UK hit its deadline for offering coronavirus jabs to those over 70 and frontline health workers — 15m people out of a population of 67m — also helped push sterling up to $1.39, its highest level for almost three years.
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This week: Circle’s stock surged again to end the week while GameStop shares swoon after another bond offering—but SharpLink Gaming’s fall takes the cake.
Circle stays hot
The euphoria started to ebb, but the glossy announcements kept coming—and CRCL is surging again.
After last week's massive launch, USDC issuer Circle has seen its stock reach new highs and then start to settle over the course of...
GameStop upsized its latest offering of convertible senior notes to $2.25 billion from $1.75 billion, the video game retailer said in a press release published late on Thursday.
Shares dropped earlier this week after the Grapevine, Texas-based firm said that it would offer investors more convertible bonds, following a similar, $1.5 billion raise in April.
Although GameStop shares held ground on Friday, they fell 24% throughout the week, closing at $22.14, according to Yahoo Finance. Shares chang...
SharpLink Gaming recently acquired $462 million worth of Ethereum, becoming the asset’s largest holder among public firms, according to a company blog post published on Friday.
The Nasdaq-listed online gambling marketer, which adopted an Ethereum treasury strategy in May, said that it had purchased roughly 176,000 ETH for an average price of $2,600 per coin. The price of Ethereum was recently changing hands around $2,500, an 8.8% decrease over the past 24 hours, according to crypto data provide...