Stories by Nawaz Sulemanji
XRP heads lower after failed breakout
XRP looks like it may be heading back to 2019 lows, following another failed breakout. After spending the first two weeks of September grinding along at $0.25—the digital asset did rally 3% to...
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SegWit transactions now make up over 50% of Bitcoin payments
The percentage of Bitcoin transactions using Segregated Witness (SegWit)—which makes bitcoin transactions faster and cheaper—has hit an all-time high of 50.5 percent. The opt-in transaction ty...
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Ethereum on the rise, as Bitcoin consolidates
Ethereum is fast approaching $200, as the number two cryptocurrency saw gains of over 7% in the last three days, to reach its current price of just under $194. After the asset broke through it...
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A DIY Bitcoin hardware wallet for $110? This developer explains how
Justin Moon, founder and instructor at Bitcoin workshop BUIDL Bootcamp, has created a do-it-yourself Bitcoin hardware wallet—that can be bought in parts for $110. The device, currently called ...
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Analysis: Bitcoin primed for a price break out
Bitcoin is sitting inside a mammoth 5-month trading pattern—with a possible breakout approaching in the next 10 days. The pattern is called a symmetrical triangle, and refers to a chart charac...
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Report: Bitcoin searches on Google mirror how much the currency is worth
Bitcoin's price is more heavily correlated with Google searches than you might think. According to data provider SEMrush, there's an 80% correlation between the two. That means four out of fiv...
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Bitcoin's Lightning Network growth picks up
Bitcoin's Lightning Network is growing again, with both the number of network nodes and payments channels on the rise over the last 30 days. At its core, the Lightning Network is a decentraliz...
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Bitfinex adds public leaderboard for Bitcoin traders to showcase their skills
Bitfinex has gone live with a new leaderboard for traders to compete and publicly verify their crypto trading gains. Traders who decide to opt into the public leaderboard will be able to chart...
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Bitcoin rebounds after falling below $10,000
After a shaky past few days, Bitcoin has now seen its ever-weakening $10,000 support line be both tested and broken. When the $10,000 mark finally cracked last night—we saw an initial sell-off...
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XRP's weekly transaction value rises 60%
The average amount of value being transferred over the XRP network has shot up this week, in part due to a large transfer from Ripple to its co-founder Jed McCaleb, who is no longer with the c...
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Bitcoin's hashrate rises to even higher levels
Bitcoin's mining network has again hit a new all-time high of just under 95 exahashes per second. The mining hashrate is a measure of the current amount of computational power expended to mine...
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BitMEX traders are betting more than a $1 billion on bitcoin
Bitcoin traders are gradually increasing their exposure to Bitcoin on futures trading platform BitMEX. BitMEX's main trading pair—XBT (which represents Bitcoin) against USD—has a current open...
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Bitcoin breaks upwards as Monero stays bullish
Bitcoin is again on the accent, gaining 2% in the last 24 hours and up over 12% in the last 7 days. Bitcoin is currently trading at $10,750. After Bitcoin's double-digit rise this week, and do...
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Fireblocks security platform expands coverage to 20 crypto exchanges
Fireblocks is now offering its traders more coverage across the crypto industry, adding five new exchanges to its roster, bringing the total number of exchanges it supports up to 20. The New Y...
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Bitcoin dominance rose significantly over the last three months
Bitcoin has outperformed the altcoin market over the last three months, as Bitcoin dominance—its share of the total crypto market cap—has risen from 55 percent to its current level of 71 perce...
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Crypto exchange OKCoin pledges $10 million to Bitcoin developers
San Francisco-based crypto exchange OKCoin has pledged to donate 1,000 bitcoin into a community ‘voting-based’ development fund for the Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin SV projects. The initi...
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Ethereum price rises, but falls against Bitcoin
Ethereum (ETH) is up over 5 percent in the last 24 hours but has been falling in value against Bitcoin, which rallied over nine percent in the same period to reclaim a five-figure valuation. E...
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Bitfinex rolls out 100x Bitcoin and Ethereum leverage trading
Bitfinex has flipped the switch on a feature that allows traders to speculate on the price of Bitcoin and Ethereum against Tether up to 100x leverage. Prior to the rollout of its two new deriv...
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