Venezuela’s Bitcoin Trading Explodes Amid Alleged Anti-Maduro Plot

The number of Bolivars exchanged for Bitcoin in Venezuela has surged to yet another record high as economic and political woes of the Latin American country continue to worsen. According to Coin.Dance, during the week that ended on August 31, nearly 115 billion Bolivars were exchanged for Bitcoin. This exceeded the previous record of close […]

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Bitcoin ‘Fear Gauge’ Explodes to Most Alarming Level Since 2018

By CCN Markets: The Bitcoin Fear and Greed Index has crashed to its lowest level in almost a year. The index, which tracks sentiment among investors, hasn’t plumbed these lows since December 2018 when the king of crypto finally found yearly support just above $3,000. The current reading of 11 out of a possible 100 […]

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This Chart Perfectly Shows Bitcoin’s Brutal Dominance over Altcoins

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…

Bakkt’s ‘Moonshot’ Bitcoin Platform to Begin Testing Today

Bakkt’s long-delayed bitcoin futures platform is scheduled to begin testing today.  The trading platform, aimed squarely at institutions, is widely expected to be a game-changer and a major catalyst for the bitcoin price. As Fundstrat concluded last week, investors are eagerly waiting on the sidelines: “There appears to be a critical mass of adopters ready […]

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Stupid TradingView Chart Bug Hurts Crypto Traders with ‘Incalculable’ Losses

By CCN Markets: TradingView, a widely used platform for traders and stock analysts, has a bug so severe in its retracement display that it’s losing traders “incalculable” sums of money. A bug in the way that TradingView’s Fibonacci tools work has created real problems for some traders, one of whom is vocally spreading the word. Explaining the situation in a video and crying out on Twitter, a trader called CryptoTeddyBear is raising the alarm. Of Teddy Bears and Technical Analysis Nobody in cryto twitter seems to give a shit or to understand how bad the problem is with @tradingview’s broken

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John McAfee Unveils Magic Crypto Trading Portal, Site Suffers DoS Attack

By CCN Markets: It’s never a dull day in crypto when John McAfee is involved. The outlandish computer programmer and businessman just launched his latest venture – a crypto trading portal. Knighted as McAfee Magic, the platform is live but has al…