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Bulls Stampede Toward $12K Bitcoin Price as Weekly Close Approaches

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Time Stamp: August 15, 2020 7:32 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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Bitcoin price is making a strong push toward $12,000 with just 24-hours before the weekly close occursDespite multiple rejections at the $12K mark, BTC continues to make higher lows and traders are buying dips at underlying support levelsChainlink reached a new all-time high at $19.80 and Ether is struggling to push above $430Cryptocurrency daily market performance snapshot. Source: Coin360Typically, for Bitcoin (BTC), weekends are marked by reduced trading volume as day traders take a break and the CME Bitcoin markets are closed. Experienced traders will also know that exchange order books

Grandmas On Lightning

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Time Stamp: August 6, 2020 1:33 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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Is Bitcoin Too Hard To Understand? I’ve spent a huge part of the last three years explaining Bitcoin to general audiences and the most common form of resistance I encounter is: “Bitcoin is too complicated. The masses will never understand it.” It’s a fair argument. Bitcoin is complicated and if you want to reach a competent understanding of the big picture then, at a minimum, you’d better get ready to learn about peer-to-peer networks, cryptography and the history of money. It’s for this reason that I find it bizarre when

What is Serum? A DeFi Derivatives DEX Guide

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Time Stamp: August 3, 2020 5:54 AM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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DeFi-based exchanges have seen wild success in 2020 thanks to yield farming, which has incentivized hundreds of thousands of users to provide liquidity to these platforms. With that being said, DEXs are still a far-cry from centralized exchanges in both UI and UX. Serum is here to change all that. Serum is a protocol that claims to be “pure DeFi” as they have managed to address a lot of issues the space is facing. Most of the users in DeFi today are not traders but yield farmers. Yield farmers are

Why This DeFi Exchange is a One Way Ticket for Ethereum’s ERC-20 Tokens?

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Time Stamp: August 1, 2020 4:31 AM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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advertisement Uniswap is a decentralized exchange with a unique mechanism for trading ERC-20 tokens on its platform. Apparently, its the perfect platform for pumping tokens. CryptoGainz, prominent crypto trader tweeted, Advertisement there’s no orderbook to scare buyers or induce selling, only a bullish narrative and sell side liquidity crisisUniswap evaluates the price of a token based on the balance of Ethereum and of the token. On a successful trade or exchange, the value is added in accordance with the Ethereum swapped for the token. Hence, there are no order books

3 Options for Traders as Bitcoin Price Is on the Verge of a Breakout

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Time Stamp: April 9, 2020 2:48 AM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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Bitcoin price (BTC) is currently in a sort of stasis, unexcitedly trading in the expected range and over the past 48-hours dropping to the former rising wedge trendline at $7,150 and again to the $7,200 support before rebounding to the low $7,400 region.Crypto market daily price chart. Source: Coin360For the time being, the price is consolidating within the $7,200 to $7,460 range. The next thing bulls will be looking for is for BTC price to push above the recent high to set a higher-high above $7,663 before launching a move

‘Rich Dad Poor Dad’ Author Says Gold, Silver, and Bitcoin Lie Outside the System

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Time Stamp: April 8, 2020 9:06 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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Millionaire businessman and author of the book Rich Dad Poor Dad, Robert Kiyosaki, mentioned Bitcoin (BTC) numerous times in a podcast interview with Morgan Creek Digital co-founder, Anthony Pompliano, referring to the asset as an escape.“The reason I endorse Bitcoin is because is just for one frickin reason — you’re not part of the system,” Kiyosaki said. “It’s a separation of government and my money,” he laughingly added, quoting sentiment Pompliano has expressed many times.   Uncertain times can spurr flight to safetyThroughout the interview, Kiyosaki riffed on many concepts through the

How to Look Good on Zoom

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Time Stamp: April 8, 2020 7:25 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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The Brady Bunch: The original Zoom callers. During this time of Coronavirus Communication (CoCo), everyone is doing calls on Zoom. The way you look on Zoom matters. Poor lighting and camera placement are the new equivalent of coming into the workplace unshowered and unshaven. At Media Shower, we’ve been using Zoom for years. Here are a few Zoom best practices for looking your best: 1) Turn on your video. Otherwise, you’re literally phoning it in. 2) Dress it up. Shower, shave, put on a shirt. Get out of the sweatpants. If you’re getting

Zoom Data Scandal Shows Blockchain May Be the Future of Communications

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Time Stamp: April 8, 2020 10:41 AM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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As people around the world started following shelter-in-place orders, popular video conferencing platform Zoom quickly gained new users, noting in a recent blog post that it had reached more than 200 million daily users last month, up from 10 million in December. From virtual conferences to online birthday parties, thousands of individuals have flocked to Zoom in an attempt to remain social at a time when social gatherings are banned.Yet, while Zoom may have seemed like the perfect alternative to in-person gatherings, a major security flaw has been lurking in

OTC Spreads Exceeded 10% Amid Bitcoin’s Violent March Crash

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Time Stamp: April 8, 2020 8:52 AM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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Over-the-counter (OTC) liquidity provider B2C2 has published a report analyzing the trading spreads exhibited across its Bitcoin (BTC) market and three leading institution-facing spot exchanges throughout March.The study finds that spreads widened significantly amid the dramatic crash of March 12–13, the largest drop in the price of Bitcoin since 2013.Bitcoin order spreads exceed 10% immediately on March 13As the crash began on March 12, bid-ask spreads for batches of 25 BTC bounced from close to single-digit basis points to 200 on its platform — equating to roughly 5%. The report also

Introducing the new Blockchain.com monthly newsletter — April Edition: “After the Dust Settles”

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Time Stamp: April 6, 2020 12:38 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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The quality of information and data in crypto has improved in recent years, so you may be asking why another monthly newsletter?There are still some big data and analysis gaps in crypto. Crypto markets are nowhere near as widely served with reliable research and data as traditional markets. Indeed, the March 12–13th crypto stress test demonstrated there are also still some very significant issues with the state of crypto exchange infrastructure.What you can expect from our monthly newsletterOur intention with this newsletter is to avoid repeating what you can find

The crypto lending industry — a ticking time bomb, rather than a shortcut to mainstream adoption

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Time Stamp: April 5, 2020 9:39 AM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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In his book “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds”, Charles Mackay says that men think in herds and go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one. That was written in 1841. Today, it is even more relevant.The most illustrious collective obsession in the past decade is cryptocurrencies. For the last couple of years, we witnessed industry-specific shocks with varying implications, be it exchange hacks, scam schemes, or else. Although covered in controversies, in the long-term, the rise of cryptocurrencies should be

1.1 Million In USDC Invested Into Uniswap and PoolTogether By Coinbase

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Time Stamp: April 2, 2020 8:55 AM - Modified On: August 29, 2021 - Published By:
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Coinbase, one of the world’s heavyweight exchanges, has recently invested 1.1 million in USDC to the decentralized finance protocols of PoolTogether and Uniswap.Pushing In 1.1 Million In USDC To Smart ContractsAccording to the announcement the San Francisco-based crypto exchange had made, the funding itself comes from its USDC Bootstrap Fund. This Fund was created back in September of last year, with an initial funding clocking in at $2 million. The move itself comes as a bid from the exchange to stimulate the growth of the USDC within the Decentralized Finance