Fake News, Propaganda? Surging Delta Variant Blamed For Bitcoin Sell-Off

Delta Financial has revealed that it will "cease current services" on 30th January, including its notable interest-bearing bitcoin account and trading products. Customer funds held in such accounts will stop generating interest, effective immediately, the Hong Kong and Vancouver-based company said in a post on its website. Users will also no longer be able to sell bitcoin through the platform. Perhaps most notably for the broader bitcoin community, Delta Financial cited the current lackluster performance of the market as the reason for the service changes. Delta wrote: "Simply put, the....

The news of the latest COVID variant is invoking a fresh wave of FUD among investors, with Bitcoin crashing down to $54k, and markets across the board slipping into the red. Bitcoin Plunges To $54k As News Of COVID Variant Emerges Financial markets are moving into the red on Friday as news of a new COVID variant makes investors around the world worried. According to a BBC report, this new variant was discovered in South Africa, and scientists have found it to be the most heavily mutated version so far. Not much is clear about the variant’s properties yet, but what looks to be most....

Bears took control of BTC price after options markets flashed bearish signals, but should traders be worried? Crypto exchange Deribit is the absolute leader in the Bitcoin (BTC) options markets, and on Nov. 24, the 25% delta skew indicator signaled that sentiment among pro traders was becoming “more bearish overall.”We've seen 25-Delta put skew moved from around 0% to almost 10-15% pending time to expiry since beginning of Nov implying a more bearish overall sentiment. Premiums for downward protection are getting more expensive. In the short term, this expiry has a Max pain of $58k.....

Bitcoin's drop below $30,000 has sparked worries that it is heading to $20,000 next. But is such a massive drop feasible against the current macro fundamentals? A recent sell-off in the Bitcoin (BTC) market pushed its prices below the key psychological support of $30,000. While the cryptocurrency's move downhill prompted many analysts, including Luno exchange's Vijay Nayyar and Kinetic Capital's Jehan Chu, to predict a further depressive move below $25,000, Anthony Pompliano offered a contrasting bullish outlook.The Morgan Creek Digital Assets founder pitted risk-on markets against the....

Blockchain technology implemented in the media industry will help to prevent fake news from spreading. Fact-checking agencies are in charge of verifying facts and claims in the news that may be distorted in the process of rewriting or for any political purposes. The news text may consist of truthful information written in a neutral format peculiar to the news, but one sentence may contain a false fact or claim whose origin is unknown. In addition, the state itself has begun to produce false information, as was the case with former U.S. President Donald Trump’s famous Twitter account.The....