Forget Price, Here’s How Bitcoin Really Performed in 2014
Some of the folks at BitPay have just released the stats of 2014's Bitcoin performance – the numbers that get less fanfare than the price, but are no less indicative of the currency's prospects. Aggregated and hashed are: Countries with highest use. Big-name merchant acceptance. Trading volume. Number of active wallets. Venture capital investment. Overall merchant adoption. Bitcoin is used all over the world, but there are some areas that see higher concentrations of activity. The five countries where Bitcoin is used most are the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, and the....
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Here's what we are looking to trade in the bitcoin price for this fresh week of trading out of Europe It’s Monday morning, and we are about to kick off a fresh session out of Europe. Action over the weekend – as is becoming the norm – gave us plenty to discuss, and we’ll be using some of the key levels to carry forward into today’s bitcoin price strategy. Things were a little slow last week and on more than one occasion we had to bring our scalp strategy into play, with a narrowing of our standard range, and a short, sharp breakout approach for a few dollars here and there. This isn’t....
Bitcoin is the talk of financial media, and has even spilled into the mainstream. Celebrities, CEOs, and just about anyone with a voice box is talking about crypto and speculating just how high Bitcoin could go this year. And while the bull market has potential to run much higher throughout the year, its the long-term […]
Historically, the Ethereum price has been very bullish for the first quarter of the year, with a few exceptions, and the month of March has been no different from the first two months of the year. Therefore, as the market ushers in another month of March, this report takes a look at the performance of […]