Cryptocurrencies achieved an important milestone Wednesday, as the total market cap crossed $300 billion for the first time since August.
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Bitcoin launched toward $10,000 on Thursday while altcoins extended their recovery, painting a positive picture of the crypto market.
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The bitcoin price increased from $9,766 to $10,500 in the past 24 hours as its dominance over altcoins and the rest of the cryptocurrency market hit 70 percent. Prior to the minor rally, technical analysts and cryptocurrency traders including Josh Rage…
By CCN Markets: Bitcoin raged back into a bull market in 2019, leaving the rest of the cryptocurrency market in the dust. While bitcoin is up 178 percent this year alone, Ripple (XRP) and Stellar (XLM), are down more than 15 percent. Despite desperate…
Everyone’s favourite internet pup Doge and it’s cryptocurrency counterpart Dogecoin (DOGE) is finally going to be listed on Binance. After making meme lovers and crypto enthusiasts wait for years, Binance finally made the announcement earlier today, co…
Given the meteoric rise in the value of the cryptocurrency market since the turn of the year, one might assume every major altcoin recorded growth in the six months since January 1st. Yet a glance at the year-to-date figures for coins in the crypto mar…
By CCN Markets: Failed cryptocurrencies can enjoy an eternal resting place after they’re sent off to an altcoins graveyard called ShitcoinGraveyard. The website is the brainchild of four Berlin-based crypto entrepreneurs and bitcoin bulls: Roman …
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Two websites, both very fundamental to the functioning of the “alt-coin” market, have been unreliable in the last week for various reasons. First, the website Shapeshift.io believed its infrastructure had been compromised. CEO Erik Vorhees shared this message: Hello everyone, We wanted to provide a quick update on our status. Yesterday afternoon, we noticed several […]
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CNBC ran an article earlier this week announcing that the Greek Island of Agistri will test Brian Kelly’s Nautiluscoin. The tumultuous economic environment in Greece provides the opportune climate to deploy a new altcoin, Kelly argues. The CNBC article is a highlight reel for Nautiluscoin. It never mentions the serious challenges any altcoin faces, or that a rapid large scale deployment of a virtually unknown cryptocurrency is a pipe dream. That makes a lot more sense though, when you realize Brian Kelly is the article’s author. What is Nautiluscoin? Nautiluscoin was first heralded in a CNBC article (we’ll call this […]
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In this episode I talk to the host of Bitcoins and Gravy, John Barrett, about many things, including being a performer working for Bitcoin. Later in the episode, after The Ode to Satoshi is played, Andrew Vegetabile from the Litcoin Association comes on board to talk about the recent rise of Litecoin, and things related to the major altcoin. If you have any requests for people you’d like to see featured on this podcast, just e-mail me at paul.madore@cryptocoinsnews.com. Thanks! Featured image from Shutterstock.
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Bitcoin jumped more than 10 USD within a few minutes climbing above 290 USD while the Litecoin price plunged with more than 35%. Was it a big Litecoin “whale” or “bag holder” that sold off his/hers entire stack of litecoins just to go all in on Bitcoin? Some even claim that a ponzi scheme pumped the Litecoin price. You can read the article explaining it here. We are investigating the claim and will present our findings within 24 hours. To whomever sold litecoins: enter your comments below and give us your thoughts on your executed sell orders. It would be […]
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Litecoin just shed nearly 40% of its value in a matter of minutes. It’s understandable, seeing as Litecoin gained more than 200% in a matter of days. “The original altcoin” is also experiencing tremendous turnover, overtaking bitcoin in 24h trading volume (USD) for a time this morning. While the currency seems to have stabilized around $6.50/LTC, volatility is still very high and it make take some time for the market correction to play out. Bitcoin has not experienced any action that appears to coincide with the Litecoin crash. It seems the crash is isolated to Litecoin, but with the Litecoin halving approaching, it’s possible […]
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Litecoin, the original altcoin, was created in 2011 and is very similar to bitcoin in all but a few aspects. Intended to be “The silver to bitcoin’s gold”, Litecoin has surpassed bitcoin in daily trading volume (USD). A few takeaways from the chart: Litecoin’s 24h trade volume is nearly $8m more than bitcoin Litecoin has surpassed Ripple, nearly overnight, to reclaim it’s spot as the second largest coin Litecoin is experiencing rapid growth, more than doubling in the past few days Litecoin and bitcoin have both experienced rising prices amid the Greek debt crisis and other global uncertainty. However, while […]
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Naysayers have been kicking themselves in the pants the past few days as the price of Litecoin has shot up from historic lows and is now pushing towards $10 per coin. Renewed interest in one of the oldest, most successful alternative cryptocurrencies has driven buy pressure likely added to by an upcoming halving of the block reward, meaning a reduction in new coins introduced into the economy. The halving of the block reward is the most likely explanation, although there would have remained a high number of cheaper sell orders on the market from previous mining. (Editor’s input: It might […]
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The developers of the altcoin EmerCoin (EMC) recently released the details of a new block chain technology, EMCSSL. The system provides passwordless logins and identity management via its block chain. The technology has been designed to solve many of the login and authentication issues that plague the Internet. EMCSSL provides a scalable infrastructure for passwordless […]
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For a long time, folks have thought that centralized exchanges were the essential problem in cryptocurrency. When someone wants to convert one cryptocurrency to another, or to fiat, they have to trust that the exchange they’re going to use isn’t going to, in one way or another, rip them off. Now, two altcoins have begun […]
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Could cryptocurrency bring a basic income to the people of the world, relieving them of their day-to-day quest for survival, and leaving them to ponder more philosophical questions about their existence and reaching new heights of productivity? Some in the cryptocurrency space believe so. The idea for a universal basic income is not new, as […]
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