Bitcoin’s increasing legitimacy sparks rally on exchanges
Bitcoin traders were waiting to hear just the words Department of Justice representatives offered up. When the DOJ told a Senate committee that Bitcoin constitutes a “legal means of exchanges,” prices surged. One BTC commanded $744 on the Bitstamp exchange, and prices flirted with the $900 mark on Mt. Gox. Bitcoin prices have increased more than 40-fold this year. Much of that has been brought on by an increasing level of interest from China, where a liquid, unregulated currency is seen as an attractive investment by citizens who have trouble even getting their national currency across the....
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The bitcoin 'China Syndrome' fills the news these days with attempts by Chinese authorities to steer bitcoin legitimacy. This gives us an excellent opportunity to contemplate and reiterate the core attributes of bitcoin's overall strength. Bitcoin shows that national fiat money systems are an artificial construct. The debates around regulation are really restrictions on getting into or out of the US dollar rather than getting into or out of bitcoin. Dollar and other national currency endpoints will always be regulated. Aside from the fact that bitcoin survives and outlasts political....
Bitcoin has recently seen a massive rally for the past two weekends, giving rise to an increase in trading volume. Following a long period of low prices in the market. The recent rally has reignited a number of things in the market. Now including the trading volume, as volumes bounce back to levels before the […]
Bitcoin price is pushing higher in a continuing rally that began in the last days of March leading into April. On April 20th, bitcoin value reached $1,243.9 on the Bitstamp Price Index (BPI). Bitcoin is now trading at its highest values in over 30 days, comparing to prices during a recovery from the Winklevoss ETF rejection by the SEC. The increasing gains come despite the ongoing scalability debate that has threatened to split bitcoin’s core software with a ‘hard fork’. The bigger topic over the past week has been the suspension of withdrawals and deposits of USD wire transfers from a....
Long-term accumulation and the increasing popularity of DeFi yield protocols is siphoning Bitcoin away from centralized exchanges. Data from on-chain crypto information aggregator Glassnode indicates the number of Bitcoin held on centralized exchanges has fallen by roughly 20% in 12 months.The data suggests investors are accumulating BTC and withdrawing them from exchanges into cold storage, creating a supply crunch. #Bitcoin Balance on Exchanges taking another dive pic.twitter.com/F20tohfXsu— William Clemente III (@WClementeIII) March 7, 2021 On March 6, Glassnode also shared data....