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Darknet

Large darknet market stopped accepting payments in BTC

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The darknet marketplace White House Market stopped supporting the leading cryptocurrency and began to accept payments only in Monero (XMR). The reason for the decision was "unexpected blocking of access from the Tor network." It was influenced by a change in the API of the MorphToken...

BTC pass $28000

BTC Price Keeps Rising. Will it Reach $30.000?

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Bitcoin gets closer and closer to $30.000. Today, on Dec. 28, it reached another all-time high surpassing $28000. Its market cap is above $524 B. This means the BTC price increased around $4000 within two days and 20% during the last week. The growth of the BTC price started in October when the...

Hashrate

Taproot update support reaches 91% of total bitcoin hashrate

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After the Binance mining pool announced its readiness to support the Taproot technology, 91.5% of the total computing power of the bitcoin network signals in favor of the upgrade. That was announced on Twitter on Sunday, December 27, by Poolin Vice President Alejandro De La Torre. According to...

Bitcoin

Major players continue to accumulate bitcoins

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Large investors continue to accumulate BTCs, as evidenced by the latest report from digital asset management company Grayscale. Last Friday, this giant published data, from which it follows that the total amount of funds in the cryptocurrency under its control has reached $ 16.3 billion. Analyst...

BTC $25000

BTC Price Reaches $25000

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After hitting $24,000 about a week ago, now Bitcoin makes another record, surging $25000. Community members celebrated the event. Many Bitcoiners were waiting for the new heights as recent months have been pretty bullish for the cryptocurrency. Bitcoin proved itself to be resilient to...

Bitcoin

Bitcoin dominance index rises to annual high

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The run of the crypto market in November-December 2020 led to a sharp increase in the bitcoin dominance index. This figure rose to the highest level since the end of last year and is close to 70%. The rise in BTC dominance has occurred not only as a result of a rally in the crypto market over the...

Crypto

TradingView manager bets on staying positive trend in crypto

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The rollback of Bitcoin that followed its jump last week will not be able to break the overall positive trend, says Pierce Crosby, manager of the popular TradingView service. Today BTC is trading at $ 23,500 the capitalization of the largest digital currency has decreased over the past day to $...

Skybridge

SkyBridge Capital invested $25 million in bitcoin

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Investment firm SkyBridge Capital has confirmed a $ 25 million investment in BTC through its new fund. In an interview with CNBC, SkyBridge Capital founder Anthony Scaramucci revealed that assets have already been moved and the company has launched a full node on the Bitcoin network. Fidelity...

MicroStrategy invests in BTC again

MicroStrategy Invested in BTC Again: This Time $650 M

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On December 21, business analytics firm MicroStrategy informed about a new Bitcoin deal. The platform acquired 29,646 BTC for $ 650 M. Presently, the company holds 70,470 BTC overall. The average cost of one asset would be $ 15,964. Due to this, MicroStrategy became the fifth-largest individual...

Matt Maley

Miller Tabak strategist expects BTC to drop 25-30% in 2021

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According to Miller Tabak strategist Matt Maley, in the new year, we will see a significant drop in the value of bitcoin. From the current values, the largest cryptocurrency may fall in price by 25-30%, the expert said on the air of the CNBC channel. However, in the long term, BTC will retain its...

Whales

Whales got another 500K BTCs since the beginning of autumn

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Over the past several months, large investors have been aggressively buying bitcoins. According to Chainalysis, since September, the so-called "whales" have acquired about 500,000 BTC for a total of more than $ 11.5B. According to the representative of this team, Philip Gradwell, in...

Bitcoin

MCM Partners analyst bets on bitcoin spurt to $ 25000

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Bitcoin this week reached the highest values in its history. The coin has exceeded $ 23,000. Today, it is trading at $23,015. BTC capitalization on Friday, December 18, is just over $ 420.424 billion. Many observers believe that Bitcoin will not stop there and will soon take on new heights. One of...

Bitcoin

Bitcoin rally triggers Coinbase and Binance outage

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Coinbase and Binance have reported overloading trading systems amid a surge in traders. The rise of Bitcoin and other digital currencies has become the main reason for the failure of platforms. Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao tweeted that the number of people visiting the exchange has skyrocketed. That...

BTC above $22.000

Bitcoin's on a Roll! The Price Hits $23.000.

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Bitcoin continues showing strong bullish signs. Just a few hours later after surging $20000 it records a new all-time high surpassing $23.000. At the moment the cryptocurrency trades above $22.700. The price increased over 12% in a day. Analysts predict the rise will continue. BTC market cap has...

BTC new all-time high

BTC Reached Its New All-Time High

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First time in history BTC price surpassed $20.000. Now it trades for around $20800. The leading cryptocurrency's hash rate has been displaying stability for several days. Crypto analytics firm Glassnode informs that along with this, the amount of liquidations of short positions on Binance has gone...

Bitcoin

CNBC TV presenter pointed to the giant potential of BTC

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Among the leading TV channel CNBC there are supporters of the cryptosphere and bitcoin, in particular. Last year, Joe Kernen said on the air of the TV channel that after the May halving of 2020 (reduction of the miners' reward), we will see a rise in the value of BTC. Moreover, the presenter did...

JPMorgan about BTC

JPMorgan Says BTC Institutional Demand to Reach $600B

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New-York based multinational investment bank and financial services company JPMorgan Chase Co finds it possible for bitcoin flow to reach $600 B. Data shows that insurance companies and pension funds in the U.S., Europe, and Japan have put just one percent of their assets into the world’s leading...

Covid-19

Anonymous sell COVID-19 vaccine on the darknet for bitcoins

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On the so-called darknet, unknown persons posted an advertisement for the sale of a vaccine against COVID-19. At the same time, it is not specified what kind of drug is in question, and which company is behind its development, the Check Point team found out. You can buy one ampoule for 0.01 bitcoin...