Bitcoin values have been plummeting, some 77% down from its high a year ago, but enthusiasts have always held out hope that institutional investors would save the day. Many of these hopes have been held captive by the SEC, which has already turned down in 2018 over a dozen applications to form a Bitcoin Exchange-Traded…
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Bitcoin enthusiasts breathed a sigh of relief yesterday, as the popular cryptocurrency bounced off $3,650 and rose back over an all-important psychological support level of $4,000. For the greater part of the day, Bitcoin’s price gyrated below the $4,500 watermark, reclaiming a market cap in excess of $70 billion. Bitcoin’s share of the overall coinage…
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Deribit, the Bitcoin futures and options exchange, has announced that it is launching the Deribit Perpetual, a trading product that tracks the Bitcoin price. Deribit's trading platform is able to handle thousands of order requests per second with a transaction speed of around only a few milliseconds per order. The Perpetual allows traders to take…
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Bitcoin, ethereum and other major cryptocurrencies saw huge price crashes, with analysts warning that the market has hit "panic mode". Ethereum has experienced the biggest drop in value of all the major digital currencies, plunging nearly 20% over the last days to hit its lowest price in almost a year, trading at $262 on Tuesday. The…
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With Bitcoin prices rising an average of $100 every day since the start of July, gaining over 40% in value in just over three weeks our cryptocurrency expert Bob Loukas, has provided a key trading tips. As the founder of Bitcoin.Live, the educational cryptocurrency platform for traders, Bob Loukas believes that this might be the…
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With Bitcoin's recent big plunge and its steady recovery just in the last week, investors are literally scratching their heads to how most accurately on how to most accurately predict Bitcoin's volatile price. The weirdest theories have been developed as to what really drives Bitcoin's price. Now, the most widely used search engine in the…
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It seems as though much of the news driving the price of Bitcoin, as well as other digital currencies, is emanating from China. While news of some government or other around the world deciding to either regulate Bitcoin or ICOs, or "look at" how Bitcoin is traded, doesn't really move the needle on Bitcoin prices,…
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Bitcoin prices powered back above USD $1,000 on Friday, driven mainly by speculation and market uncertainty in the first few weeks of the Trump Presidency. As of the time of writing at 08:30 GMT, Bitcoin was changing hands at about $1,017. Will Bitcoin $1,000 hold this time? Bitcoin price 2013-2017. Source: Bitstamp. The $1,000 level…
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Although most of the financial world was fairly quiet during the past two weeks over the holiday season, one financial instrument continued its volatile climb upwards: Bitcoin. Sitting at just under $800 on December 20, Bitcoin prices continued their yearlong ascent even as traders were unwrapping their presents, sitting on beaches and toasting the new year. From…
Read moreIt is no secret the goals of the growing Bitcoin industry to achieve mainstream adoption for the decentralized non-governmental backed digital currency. To a certain degree, the achievements are very real for Bitcoin in its brief history. 2015 was a year of more adoption and more stability in price after a very volatile 2014, which…
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