After a spectacular Christmas for HODLers, with BTC over $28,000, there are growing concerns about tighter regulation in 2021 Bitcoin (BTC) had an incredible week: it reached a new All-Time High at $28,400 and stayed very close to this level. What will happen next? Cointelegraph presents five factors that could help us understand the direction of the market this week after a spectacular Christmas. Gold on the rise after Trump's stimulus approval After approval by Congress, U.S. President Donald Trump has agreed to sign the economic aid bill to counter the impact of the coronavirus: it is a series of measures with a total of $900 billion. The package, which will add a large amount of debt to the Federal Reserve's balance sheets, includes various benefits for businesses, but will
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‚Ahora sería billonario‘ – El primer Bitcoiner se arrepiente de haber vendido 50.000 Bitcoins antes de 2012
El precio de bitcoin se disparó recientemente más allá de los 23.000 dólares después de sacar sin esfuerzo el nivel de 20.000 dólares psicológicamente importante. El reciente aumento significa que las tenencias de MicroStrategy se han duplicado en valor desde que la firma de inteligencia de negocios invirtió millones en la cripto-moneda en septiembre, cuando la cripto-moneda insignia todavía rondaba los 11.000 dólares. Pero no todos los grandes inversores se han comportado como bandidos. En una serie de tweets del viernes, el primer inversor de bitcoins Martti Malmi reveló recientemente que vendió 50.000 Bitcoin Future hace más de ocho años y que esencialmente ha perdido más de 1.000 millones de dólares en ganancias. Malmi, que también es un desarrollador pionero de bitcoins, extrajo e
Read MoreBitcoin is now being traded well over $ 20,000 - and will in all probability never fall below five-digit values again. And while the clean break above $ 20,000 is proof enough that we are in a massive bull run, the so-called Relative Strength Index broke into bull territory for the first time since 2018. If you compare past crypto market cycles, Bitcoin is already much more bullish this time than it was back in 2017. This rally brought the crypto asset from $ 1,000 to $ 20,000. And if things are already so bullish, could this peak be even higher than the course of the past cycle would suggest? Beast mode: Relative strength index reaches bull market level Today is December 17, 2020 - three full years after Bitcoin peaked in 2017 after it became known. This year alone, the leading
Read MoreETH 2.0: performance analysis Protocol specialist Viktor Bunin has published an initial analysis of ETH 2.0 performance. The network is running smoothly, but there is room for improvement. In fact, although the participation rate is very high, between 98% and 99%, in some moments it drops by 3% or more. In a newly launched network Bitcoin Optimizer these fluctuations are normal, but still require action to fix any bugs. In fact, it is suspected that this problem is related to a client that sometimes has a slow transition period and therefore needs to be optimized. The expectation is that the bugs that are emerging will be fixed in the coming months. In fact, it must always be remembered that Beacon Chain is only phase zero of the process that will lead to the definitive lau
Read MoreBitcoin might even become the next global reserve currency? Bitcoin ( BTC ) poses a significant threat to the US dollar as the world's leading currency, according to a senior strategic analyst at the major investment bank Morgan Stanley Ruchir Sharma, chief strategist for global developments at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, believes that the dominance of the US dollar could be overturned by the shattered confidence in the traditional financial world, with Bitcoin being the likely beneficiary. In an article in the Financial Times on December 9, Sharma first gave a brief overview of the historical developments in the world's leading currencies. According to this, the US dollar has held its leading position for 100 years, which is partly due to the fact that other major national
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