There is no doubting that Bitcoin and crypto markets have been on fire recently. Since the beginning of April Bitcoin has almost doubled in price driving market capitalization back over $200 billion again. The ice from the crypto winter appears to have melted and some industry analysts are convinced it is now definitely over. Tom...
Looking at Bitcoin’s price chart for the last week feels a lot like riding the rollercoaster. After having surged to almost $8,400, the Bitcoin price took a beating, plunging to $6,300, only to get over $8,000 in a couple of days. This is the reason for which the bull market has returned, according to BitMEX […]
By CCN: Ford is in the throes of an $11 billion restructuring, which will cost 7,000 white-collar workers their jobs this year. The US auto giant believes the “smart redesign” will save billions, but the Dearborn-based company’s stock continues to struggle. Ford’s ‘Smart Redesign’ Will Save Billions Reportedly, the company is vastly downsizing its managerial workforce. Of the company’s more than 190,000 employees, roughly 70,000 serve in salaried positions. Collectively, Ford’s savings will total close to $600 million per year. According to the Detroit Free Press, who obtained a memo from Ford CEO Jim Hackett this morning, the company has
By CCN: President Trump has at least one renowned economist in his corner. Mohamed El-Erian is placing Donald Trump in the same category as America’s beloved Ronald Reagan. In an interview with CNBC, El-Erian, who is among the more open-minded economists out there, approached the trade war from a different vantage point. He said that China stands to lose the most in the trade war ignited by Donald Trump and Xi Jinping. Consider the S&P 500, which is miraculously unchanged over the last politically tumultuous month while emerging market stocks have tanked. Clearly, the trade war is an extremely fluid
The New Zealand cryptocurrency exchange, Cryptopia, which fell to its doom due to a security breach that occurred earlier this year, continues to stay in the headlines. The attacker, who almost drained the exchange’s entire Ethereum wallets, has been transferring the stolen funds since the beginning of the day. Whale Alert, a Twitter account that […]
Given the constant disregard for cryptocurrency and blockchain by financial institutions, prominent crypto-leaders have personally been preaching the technology for furthering global adoption. One such figure is Ripple’s CEO, Brad Garlinghouse. Ripple’s Garlinghouse has always made an effort to minimize the common man’s speculation around tokens. Recently, he made headlines for sharing similar views on […]
By CCN: Bernhard Schroeder, an educational director of entrepreneur programs at San Diego State, implores entrepreneurs and investors to focus on the blockchain, rather than Bitcoin. In a new editorial today in Forbes. Schroeder classifies Bitcoin as a speculative investment which may or may not work out long-term, but lauds the merits of blockchain, which he describes as “a serious technology.” The Resurrection of the ‘Blockchain, Not Bitcoin’ Brigade Schroeder believes that “the real potential” for blockchain technology will emerge from the companies who decide to build on it. Hundreds of firms who tried and failed during the ICO boom
The cryptocurrency market is going through significant changes every second, with the performance of most coins fluctuating consistently. Tron [TRX], the eleventh largest crypto on CoinMarketCap, failed to report significant growth in the market. However, the Tron ecosystem’s updates and developments have kept pace. The weekly report released by the Tron Foundation made note of […]
A new report from bitcoin and crypto load provider Genesis Capital reveals some interesting insights into institutional short-selling of cryptocurrencies. Notably, BTC is used less for speculation than altcoins while naysayers Jamie Dimon, Warren Buffett, and Nouriel Roubini are not shorting bitcoin. $425 Million New Loan Originations In First Quarter Crypto-Loans provider, Genesis Capital has published its latest quarterly report and insights, covering Q1 2019 and beyond. The first quarter of 2019 continued the upwards
Ripple (XRP) up 27.3 percent Brad Garlinghouse says Ripple ready to work with banks and regulators In an interview with Recode Decode podcast, Brad Garlinghouse once again reiterated their will of working with regulators and not against them. Meanwhile, prices are stable with XRP trading below Q1 2019 lows. Ripple Price Analysis Fundamentals By design,...
Analysts at JP Morgan Chase say Bitcoin’s recent rally echoes the leading crypto asset’s surge in late 2017, before a huge correction hit the market. A new strategy report from the financial giant analyzes Bitcoin’s value by factoring the cost of energy and computing hardware it takes to power the network, reports Bloomberg. “Over the […]
Ethereum [ETH], the second largest cryptocurrency on CoinMarketCap, was priced at $249.71, at press time. The market cap of ETH was $26.5 billion, with the coin falling by 2.62% over 24 hours. At press time, the 24-hour trading volume was just over $11 billion. With $1.87 billion in market cap, TRX was ranked eleventh and […]
By CCN: Mike Novogratz, the billionaire CEO of Galaxy Capital and a former hedge fund manager at Fortress Investment Group, believes alternative cryptocurrencies, or altcoins, will be outperformed by bitcoin in the bull market. Not this time. Market getting smarter. $btc will outperform. — Michael Novogratz (@novogratz) May 19, 2019 The statement of Novogratz comes after the bitcoin price risen by more than 115 percent year-to-date against the U.S. dollar, leading the crypto market to add $124 billion to its valuation. Will bitcoin continue to outperform altcoins? Historically, altcoins have relied on the price trend of bitcoin and have rarely
After surging by a total of 20% over the past 7 trading days and reaching a high of around $0.48, Ripple has recently rolled over and dropped by 3.28% over the past 24 hours bringing the current trading price down to $0.3883. Before the price surge up toward the $0.48 level, Ripple had been trading […]
By CCN: The U.S. and China are preparing for a full-blown trade war that could potentially last until 2020. Consequently, the Dow Jones and wider stock markets in both the U.S. and China could face significant downward pressure in the near-term. Trade War Threatens to Sap Momentum Out of Stock Market The Dow Jones Industrial Average is up more than 13 percent year-to-date (YTD), and key sectors such as tech and finance had a strong start to 2019. Strategists generally do not anticipate a recession hitting the U.S. economy anytime soon. Other things equal, those factors should bolster the stock
Bitcoin Cash was trending after the multisig transaction was carried out . The Free Ross Ulbricht campaign has also spurred the growth of Bitcoin Cash. According to CoinMarketCap, BCH stood fourth on the list of top cryptocurrencies, with a market cap of $7.12 billion and a 24-hour trading volume of $3.25 billion. BCH rose by 2.16% […]
An average bitcoin investor in South Korea has dumped more fiat money than the one in other countries, reveals CryptoCompare. The London-based data analytics firm found that cryptocurrency exchange BitHumb has received over $16 billion worth of fiat money in April 2019. The firm further noted that Upbit, a BitHumb-rival, posted the second-best influx of...
Shortly after a major hack cost one of the world’s foremost exchanges, Binance, 7000 BTCs worth $41 million, Changpeng Zhao’s brief consideration of ‘reorgs’ spurred the crypto-verse’s interest. While aimed at recovering a $41 million loss, the idea was quickly dropped since it signaled telltale signs of market manipulation. While the hunt to find the […]
The Bitcoin bull market is changing investor habits – but the vast majority of the supply has stayed in the same wallet since 2018. 10.5 Million Bitcoins Dormant Analysis of data from BitInfoCharts and social media transaction monitoring resource Whale Alerts produced some interesting reading this week. Despite the Bitcoin price rise which began in April, seeing BTC/USD jump from $4,000 to over $8,300, HODLers are still accumulating – while keeping their coins static. According
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| # | Name | Sentiment | Price | Marketcap | Change (24h) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Bitcoin (BTC)
|
$7,786.00 | $138.19B | -2.08% | |
| 2 |
Ethereum (ETH)
|
$245.04 | $26.05B | -4.23% | |
| 3 |
XRP (XRP)
|
$0.39005 | $16.46B | -4.32% | |
| 4 |
Bitcoin Cash (BCH)
|
Check | $399.86 | $7.14B | -4.77% |
| 5 |
EOS (EOS)
|
Check | $6.17546 | $6.44B | -2.20% |
| 6 |
Litecoin (LTC)
|
Check | $89.80 | $5.56B | -5.35% |
| 7 |
Binance Coin (BNB)
|
Check | $28.35 | $4.10B | -2.60% |
| 8 |
Cardano (ADA)
|
Check | $0.08395 | $2.62B | -2.00% |
| 9 |
Stellar (XLM)
|
Check | $0.13231 | $2.55B | -6.16% |
| 10 |
Tether (USDT)
|
Check | $0.99944 | $2.06B | -0.02% |
| 11 |
TRON (TRX)
|
- | $0.02792 | $1.84B | -0.79% |
| 12 |
Dash (DASH)
|
- | $167.41 | $1.48B | 8.82% |
| 13 |
Monero (XMR)
|
- | $85.94 | $1.45B | -1.08% |
| 14 |
Tezos (XTZ)
|
- | $1.67000 | $1.33B | -5.05% |
| 16 |
Bitcoin SV (BSV)
|
- | $61.85 | $1.10B | -5.03% |
| 17 |
IOTA (MIOTA)
|
- | $0.39393 | $1.10B | -5.46% |
| 18 |
Ontology (ONT)
|
- | $1.36000 | $833.40M | -3.25% |
| 19 |
Ethereum Classic (ETC)
|
- | $7.30000 | $808.86M | -4.76% |
| 20 |
NEM (XEM)
|
- | $0.08740 | $786.92M | -5.30% |
| 21 |
NEO (NEO)
|
- | $12.06 | $785.31M | 4.65% |
| 22 |
Maker (MKR)
|
- | $651.54 | $652.86M | -2.78% |
| 23 |
Zcash (ZEC)
|
- | $76.22 | $500.75M | 0.05% |
| 24 |
Basic Attention Token (BAT)
|
- | $0.35815 | $450.39M | -7.16% |
| 25 |
VeChain (VET)
|
- | $0.00763 | $422.85M | -3.26% |
| 26 |
OKB (OKB)
|
- | $1.34000 | $403.98M | -2.39% |
| 27 |
Crypto.com Chain (CRO)
|
- | $0.06598 | $394.94M | -2.05% |
| 28 |
Bitcoin Gold (BTG)
|
- | $21.31 | $373.47M | -3.52% |
| 29 |
ChainLink (LINK)
|
- | $0.98132 | $357.89M | -4.37% |
| 30 |
USD Coin (USDC)
|
- | $0.99941 | $358.83M | -0.09% |
| 31 |
Dogecoin (DOGE)
|
- | $0.00297 | $355.21M | -4.93% |
| 32 |
Qtum (QTUM)
|
- | $3.05000 | $292.93M | -2.75% |
| 33 |
OmiseGo (OMG)
|
- | $2.08000 | $291.16M | 2.62% |
| 34 |
Holo (HOT)
|
- | $0.00163 | $292.19M | 3.24% |
| 35 |
Decred (DCR)
|
- | $28.50 | $280.00M | -6.93% |
| 36 |
Lisk (LSK)
|
- | $1.97000 | $261.02M | -3.15% |
| 37 |
TrueUSD (TUSD)
|
- | $0.99826 | $242.59M | 0.08% |
| 38 |
Waves (WAVES)
|
- | $2.38000 | $238.56M | -3.08% |
| 39 |
Augur (REP)
|
- | $21.14 | $232.46M | -4.59% |
| 40 |
Nano (NANO)
|
- | $1.69000 | $225.61M | -6.04% |
| 41 |
Ravencoin (RVN)
|
- | $0.05437 | $193.57M | -4.21% |
| 42 |
0x (ZRX)
|
- | $0.31628 | $186.30M | -4.71% |
| 43 |
Bitcoin Diamond (BCD)
|
- | $0.96766 | $188.83M | -3.22% |
| 44 |
Paxos Standard (PAX)
|
- | $0.99578 | $184.56M | -0.01% |
| 45 |
Bytom (BTM)
|
- | $0.11654 | $175.41M | -5.56% |
| 46 |
BitShares (BTS)
|
- | $0.06439 | $174.56M | -4.89% |
| 47 |
ICON (ICX)
|
- | $0.36680 | $173.49M | -4.80% |
| 48 |
Bytecoin (BCN)
|
- | $0.00092 | $169.91M | -0.71% |
| 49 |
Verge (XVG)
|
- | $0.01030 | $165.05M | -10.98% |
| 50 |
IOST (IOST)
|
- | $0.01195 | $162.19M | -3.18% |
| 51 |
Zilliqa (ZIL)
|
- | $0.01773 | $159.44M | -1.39% |
| 52 |
Pundi X (NPXS)
|
- | $0.00070 | $150.07M | -5.23% |
| 53 |
DigiByte (DGB)
|
- | $0.01239 | $146.81M | -6.16% |
| 54 |
Aeternity (AE)
|
- | $0.52578 | $139.54M | -2.87% |
| 55 |
Siacoin (SC)
|
- | $0.00326 | $132.82M | -3.18% |
| 56 |
Enjin Coin (ENJ)
|
- | $0.14703 | $128.37M | -2.39% |
| 57 |
Komodo (KMD)
|
- | $1.12000 | $127.31M | -4.06% |
| 58 |
Steem (STEEM)
|
- | $0.35961 | $111.85M | -4.15% |
| 59 |
Huobi Token (HT)
|
- | $2.69000 | $107.03M | -0.19% |
| 61 |
KuCoin Shares (KCS)
|
- | $1.04000 | $94.09M | -1.05% |
| 62 |
Status (SNT)
|
- | $0.02598 | $91.89M | -1.23% |
| 63 |
Stratis (STRAT)
|
- | $0.86090 | $85.59M | -4.13% |
| 64 |
Golem (GNT)
|
- | $0.08676 | $83.77M | -3.96% |
| 65 |
Ark (ARK)
|
- | $0.57559 | $81.70M | -3.70% |
| 66 |
Theta Network (THETA)
|
- | $0.10964 | $81.40M | -6.29% |
| 67 |
Dai (DAI)
|
- | $0.99213 | $80.72M | -0.90% |
| 68 |
Factom (FCT)
|
- | $8.31000 | $78.60M | -7.12% |
| 69 |
Decentraland (MANA)
|
- | $0.05579 | $77.64M | -9.89% |
| 70 |
aelf (ELF)
|
- | $0.21429 | $78.07M | -2.07% |
| 71 |
MaidSafeCoin (MAID)
|
- | $0.17252 | $78.17M | -1.55% |
| 72 |
Mixin (XIN)
|
- | $173.26 | $76.92M | -0.31% |
| 73 |
Crypto.com (MCO)
|
- | $4.83000 | $76.45M | -2.28% |
| 74 |
Horizen (ZEN)
|
- | $11.74 | $76.16M | -2.72% |
| 75 |
Aurora (AOA)
|
- | $0.01754 | $76.83M | -4.24% |
| 76 |
Solve.Care (SOLVE)
|
- | $0.33638 | $75.82M | 12.39% |
| 77 |
Ardor (ARDR)
|
- | $0.07522 | $75.17M | -2.38% |
| 78 |
Dent (DENT)
|
- | $0.00104 | $72.30M | -7.34% |
| 79 |
DigixDAO (DGD)
|
- | $35.41 | $70.85M | -2.32% |
| 80 |
MonaCoin (MONA)
|
- | $1.06000 | $69.59M | -1.30% |
| 82 |
GXChain (GXS)
|
- | $1.07000 | $64.48M | -0.70% |
| 83 |
Lambda (LAMB)
|
- | $0.06440 | $64.42M | -8.32% |
| 84 |
WAX (WAX)
|
- | $0.06745 | $64.05M | -3.20% |
| 85 |
Waltonchain (WTC)
|
- | $2.19000 | $62.66M | -0.78% |
| 86 |
Aion (AION)
|
- | $0.19767 | $61.27M | -8.78% |
| 87 |
Loopring (LRC)
|
- | $0.06245 | $58.58M | 0.23% |
| 88 |
Clams (CLAM)
|
- | $16.62 | $57.09M | -0.95% |
| 89 |
Arcblock (ABT)
|
- | $0.57491 | $56.79M | -6.18% |
| 89 |
Ultrain (UGAS)
|
- | $0.20187 | $56.81M | -7.00% |
| 91 |
Metaverse ETP (ETP)
|
- | $0.73174 | $55.33M | -11.74% |
| 92 |
HyperCash (HC)
|
- | $1.25000 | $55.16M | -5.18% |
| 93 |
Reddcoin (RDD)
|
- | $0.00187 | $54.70M | -5.79% |
| 93 |
Zcoin (XZC)
|
- | $7.07000 | $53.21M | -2.17% |
| 95 |
Key (KEY)
|
- | $0.00366 | $51.82M | 6.84% |
| 97 |
Elastos (ELA)
|
- | $3.39000 | $49.51M | -1.41% |
| 98 |
Nuls (NULS)
|
- | $0.69040 | $49.47M | -2.79% |
| 99 |
Nebulas (NAS)
|
- | $1.08000 | $49.38M | -5.82% |
| 100 |
Power Ledger (POWR)
|
- | $0.11512 | $48.26M | -3.11% |
| 101 |
TrueChain (TRUE)
|
- | $0.88825 | $47.75M | -1.42% |
| 102 |
Revain (R)
|
- | $0.09794 | $47.43M | -0.14% |
| 103 |
Loom Network (LOOM)
|
- | $0.06812 | $47.21M | -2.98% |
| 104 |
Bancor Network Token (BNT)
|
- | $0.70439 | $45.87M | -3.87% |
