Bitcoin

2022 - 6 - 13

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Bitcoin has reached new low and is still sinking, experts warn (New Zealand Herald)

Bitcoin has plunged to new lows amid a horror 72 hours for the cryptocurrency. Just past 1pm AEDT on Monday, the top-ranked blockchain tanked to a level ...

"If so, the entire market cap of nearly 20,000 digital tokens would sink below $800 billion, from nearly $3 trillion at its peak. You'll lose a lot more money." Economists predict the rate will be increased to settle on 0.25 per cent or 1.50 per cent for July, with the central bank doing a similar thing last month. On Friday, data found the US's inflation rate had reached a new high, rising to 8.6 per cent in May – which is the worst its been since 1981. "The cold hard truth is that many alts (not all) will never see a new all-time high again," he wrote on social media to his 650,000 followers. Bitcoin has plunged to new lows amid a horror 72 hours for the cryptocurrency.

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Bitcoin plunges below $24000 and the crypto meltdown claims ... (CNN)

One of the world's biggest cryptocurrency lenders has paused all withdrawals as the market meltdown continues apace.

She said her department was due to release a report on the matter. The coin was valued at a little over $18 billion in early May before it crashed, according to data from CoinMarketCap. Tether, a popular stablecoin, broke its peg to the US dollar in May, puncturing the view that it could serve as a hedge against volatility.

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Where Is Bitcoin Heading After Dropping To Its Lowest Since ... (Forbes)

Bitcoin prices have suffered some serious losses lately, dropping to their lowest level in roughly 18 months as risk assets face difficult market conditions ...

“These rising yields on less risky assets means investors don’t take as much risk to get a decent return, resulting in fewer buyers of risk assets. Two consecutive candles have never closed below this line,” Melker specified. “Now is not a time to make guesses, but rather to batten the hatches and ride the storm.” “The next obvious support is around $20,000, the top of the 2017 bull run,” he noted. “There is a bit of support to be found in the 16.5-19.5 area but major support is only coming in around 12-13-k” “Bitcoin has suffered over the last 48 hours of trading post the huge inflation number in the USA,” he stated.

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Bitcoin Slumps as Much as 10% in Deepening Crypto Sector Selloff (Bloomberg)

Bitcoin extended declines on Tuesday as investor sentiment took another leg down over fears that bigger Federal Reserve interest-rate hikes loom to quell ...

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Bitcoin drops below $21000 briefly as crypto sell-off continues (CNBC)

Crypto assets were hammered on Monday as trading platforms such as Celsius and Binance stopped withdrawals, and some companies cut jobs.

Policymakers at the U.S. Federal Reserve are now contemplating the idea of a 75-basis-point rate increase later this week, according to CNBC's Steve Liesman. That's bigger than the 50-basis-point hike many traders had come to expect. Around $200 billion has been wiped off the market in recent days. "What you're seeing in the market is … fear, uncertainty and doubt.

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MicroStrategy Risks Margin Call as Bitcoin Drops Below $21000 (Bloomberg)

MicroStrategy Inc. may need to post additional collateral for a loan as Bitcoin tests a key price range flagged by the company last month.

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Bitcoin's plunge spells trouble for the dot-com era entrepreneur who ... (CNBC)

A $4 billion bet on bitcoin by software firm MicroStrategy is in jeopardy after the cryptocurrency's recent plunge.

In June, Saylor insisted the company has more than enough bitcoin to cover its collateral requirements. "Bitcoin needs to cut in half or around $21,000 before we'd have a margin call," Le said at the time. The company took out a $205 million loan from Silvergate, a crypto-focused bank, to continue its bitcoin buying spree. MicroStrategy has bet billions on the cryptocurrency — $3.97 billion, to be exact. Bitcoin's price plunged 10% to $20,843 on Tuesday, extending a brutal sell-off and dragging it deeper into levels not seen since December 2020. The fiasco shaved over $11 billion off MicroStrategy's stock market value in a single day.

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Bitcoin nears MicroStrategy 'margin call' price (Reuters)

Bitcoin neared a price level on Tuesday that could force software firm MicroStrategy Inc to stake more tokens against a bitcoin-backed loan or trigger ...

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No let up in crypto slide, Bitcoin at 18-month low (Aljazeera.com)

Cryptocurrencies tumbled afresh on Tuesday, with Bitcoin and Ether falling to new 18-month lows, after major cryptocurrency lending company Celsius ...

Cryptocurrencies have become emblematic of a flight from speculative investments as monetary policy is tightened around the world to fight price pressures, draining liquidity from global markets. Cryptocurrencies are now emblematic of a flight from speculative investments as monetary policy is tightened globally. Number 2 token Ether lost as much as 10 percent, to $1,075, its lowest since January 2021, and smaller tokens have taken even more of a battering.

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Bitcoin plunges as major crypto lender halts operations (1 News)

The price of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies crumbled over the last two days, after a major cryptocurrency lender effectively failed and halted all ...

Those tokens collapsed after huge customer withdrawals forced Terra's operators to liquidate all of the assets being used to support their currencies. It is the second notable collapse in the cryptocurrency universe in less than two months. These meltdowns have erased tens of billions of dollars of investors' assets and spurred urgent calls to regulate the freewheeling industry. The collapse of Terra has spurred calls for reform from the cryptocurrency industry, and calls for Congressional regulation. Bitcoin was trading at roughly US$23,400 on Tuesday, down more than 16% in the past day. It’s unclear whether Celsius depositors will get all their funds back.

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Cryptos See Over $1B in Liquidations as Bitcoin, Ether Lose Major ... (Coindesk)

Crypto-tracked futures lost over $1 billion in the past 24 hours, weighed down by a weak sentiment for bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies amid a weak global ...

The leader in news and information on cryptocurrency, digital assets and the future of money, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic standards and abides by a strict set of editorial policies. Bitcoin traded at just over $22,000 in European hours on Tuesday, continuing a nearly 12-week slide. Liquidation refers to when an exchange forcefully closes a trader’s leveraged position due to a partial or total loss of the trader’s initial margin. Longs, or traders betting on higher prices, saw over $510 million in liquidations. Futures tracking Cardano’s ADA, Stepn’s GMT, and Binance ecosystem tokens BNB saw over $6 million in losses each, with some 213,000 individual trading accounts seeing liquidations in the past 24 hours. Paradigm led the round for The Wildcard Alliance, the new Web 3 subsidiary of Playful Studios.

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Bitcoin Suisse Says Its Operations Will Continue to Operate Normally (Finance Magnates)

Bitcoin Suisse, a crypto-finance company in Switzerland, said on Monday that its services continue to operate normally amid the crypto bloodbath and the ...

FAQ Can Bitcoin be Considered a Real Currency? Bitcoin is referred to by many as a form of digital currency and/or the main alternative to fiat money which is controlled by central entities such as banks. Essentially, volatility describes the nature of an instrument’s fluctuation; a highly volatile security equates to large fluctuations in price, and a low volatile security equates to timid fluctuations in price. Is Bitcoin a Scam? Bitcoin is intangible but its value is certainly real and its presence in the financial world is robust and longstanding. Essentially, volatility describes the nature of an instrument’s fluctuation; a highly volatile security equates to large fluctuations in price, and a low volatile security equates to timid fluctuations in price. If the new coin is set to share the previous coin’s transaction history up to the split point, the process is considered to be a “hard fork”. Bitcoin Cash (launched in August 2017), Bitcoin Gold (launched in October 2017), and Bitcoin Satoshi’s Vision (launched in November 2018) were all a result of a hard fork in Bitcoin’s network. These led to significant splits in the community which surrounds crypto and the asset, some of which led to the point in which a “fork” had to be performed on the network. When trading Bitcoin its name is often abbreviated as BTC. What is a Blockchain Bitcoin’s system can be described as a group of computers (often called miners or nodes) which stores the Bitcoin blockchain and runs the Bitcoin code. FAQ Can Bitcoin be Considered a Real Currency? Bitcoin is referred to by many as a form of digital currency and/or the main alternative to fiat money which is controlled by central entities such as banks. Is Bitcoin a Scam? Bitcoin is intangible but its value is certainly real and its presence in the financial world is robust and longstanding. If the new coin is set to share the previous coin’s transaction history up to the split point, the process is considered to be a “hard fork”. Bitcoin Cash (launched in August 2017), Bitcoin Gold (launched in October 2017), and Bitcoin Satoshi’s Vision (launched in November 2018) were all a result of a hard fork in Bitcoin’s network. These led to significant splits in the community which surrounds crypto and the asset, some of which led to the point in which a “fork” had to be performed on the network. When trading Bitcoin its name is often abbreviated as BTC. What is a Blockchain Bitcoin’s system can be described as a group of computers (often called miners or nodes) which stores the Bitcoin blockchain and runs the Bitcoin code.

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Bitcoin stems heavy losses but pessimism reigns in crypto markets (Business Standard)

Bitcoin clawed its way to positive territory after falling as much as 7.3% to $20816, its lowest since Dec 2020.

Chg(%) Chg(%) Price() Chg(%) Price() Chg(%) Price() Price() Even during these difficult times arising out of Covid-19, we continue to remain committed to keeping you informed and updated with credible news, authoritative views and incisive commentary on topical issues of relevance. Ether is down 75% from its record high of $4,869, hit in November. The company did not immediately respond to a request for comment outside business hours. Bitcoin's slump is likely to have ramifications for other companies exposed to the crypto market.

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Bitcoin: Why is the largest cryptocurrency crashing? (BBC News)

The value of Bitcoin is at an 18-month low, as the cryptocurrency market continues to tumble.

And now, the Coinbase exchange has just announced it is laying off 18% of its workforce,blaming, in part, the "crypto winter" The more people sell, the less Bitcoin is worth, because that's how it works - its value is pegged to its desirability. It played out at the Super Bowl and has been viewed 28 million times on Twitter and YouTube. - Binance, the largest global crypto exchange (basically a platform for trading cryptocurrencies), paused all Bitcoin withdrawals for a few hours. There's nothing to stop it trading at $10,000 tomorrow, if enough people give up or are forced to sell." Experts say this is because of the wider global climate.

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Why Bitcoin Sees Most Of Its Gains While US Traders are Asleep (Bloomberg)

When Wall Street goes to sleep, Bitcoin is usually just getting going. It often parties all night long, and in the process, notches more robust gains than ...

It often parties all night long, and in the process, notches more robust gains than while US markets are open. A hypothetical strategy that buys the coin at the equity-market close -- at 4 p.m. in New York -- and sells it at the next day’s open -- at 9:30 a.m. -- yields gains of roughly 260% going back to the start of 2020, according to Bespoke Investment Group. Conversely, buying it at the US market open and selling it at the close spits out an advance of 3.6%. The coin even tends to trend higher during weekends, the firm found, when stock investors are resting or barbecuing or doing whatever weekend activities they’re fond of.

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Diving For Digital Dollars: Exploring For Lost Bitcoin (Forbes)

In time, value will migrate to currencies built on quantum-resistant algorithms. But right now it might be well worth spending a few billion to build a ...

Mark Webber and his team at the University of Sussex in the UK recently calculated that breaking the cryptography in a 10-minute window would require a quantum computer with 1.9 billion qubits, while cracking it in an hour would require a machine with 317 million qubits. They they would need to get their bogus transactions processed before the original transaction (by paying a bigger fee). All of this would need to be well-timed and finished in a relatively small time window, which sounds hard but it is worth doing because it puts every Bitcoin transaction at risk. An attacker with a quantum computer can find the corresponding private key and recreate the transaction to send the money (for example) to themselves. For technical reasons to do with the way that public keys and things work, the accountants Deloitte reckon that about four million Bitcoins will be vulnerable to such a quantum attack. (Colombia estimates that it will cost about $70 million to salvage what it calls a "national treasure," and it wants it put on display in a museum to be built in Cartagena but there's an interesting dispute emerging around the wreck, which is in Colombian waters. The San José was a 62-gun, three-masted galleon that was sunk by the British with 600 people on board during the War of Spanish Succession (1701-1714). The British were at the time trying to prevent Spanish galleons from returning to Europe loaded with bullion and jewels that could be to fund the war.

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