Key takeaways: BTC price may drop to the $118,000-$120,000 range before resuming its uptrend, analysts say. Bitcoin futures open interest fell by $4.1 billion from its peak, potentially indicating a “healthy” reset. Bitcoin (BTC) was down 3.7% from its $126,000 all-time high and could revisit the $118,000 level over the next few days, but data…
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Global central banks have been increasing their gold reserves over the past few years in a trend that may have major implications for Bitcoin, according to a recent report from Deutsche Bank. Gold’s share of central bank reserves reached 24% in the second quarter of the year, its highest share since the 1990s, Deutsche Bank…
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South Africans can now pay with cryptocurrency at thousands of retail stores nationwide, following a new partnership between QR payments provider Scan to Pay and Bitcoin payments company MoneyBadger. According to a Tech Central report, the integration allows users of major exchanges, including Binance, Luno, Blink and VALR, to pay using Bitcoin (BTC), stablecoins and…
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A large cryptocurrency investor who surfaced two months ago with about $11 billion worth of Bitcoin has opened almost $900 million in short positions against Bitcoin and Ether, signaling expectations of a market correction despite widespread optimism for October. The whale returned to trading on Thursday with a $360 million Bitcoin (BTC) transfer that piqued…
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What is Bitcoin mining? Bitcoin mining is the process that keeps the BTC network secure and operational. Bitcoin (BTC) miners collect pending transactions, bundle them into blocks and repeatedly perform hashing attempts (trial and error) until they produce a hash that meets the network’s difficulty target. The first miner to find a valid solution broadcasts…
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South Korea’s National Tax Service (NTS) is expanding its crackdown on tax evasion, warning that even crypto assets stored in cold wallets will be subject to seizure. According to a report from local news outlet Hankook Ilbo, an NTS official said the agency is prepared to conduct home searches and confiscate hard drives and cold…
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Key points: Bitcoin’s Mayer Multiple suggests that BTC is closer to “oversold” than “overbought” — even at all-time highs. The gauge has barely moved in recent months as BTC price struggles to seal a decisive breakout. Expectations no longer favor a blow-off top this month. Bitcoin (BTC) is “ice cold” at all-time highs, says a classic…
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Bitcoin holders may want to rethink their price targets for 2025, with one Bitcoin analyst arguing that $110,000 has been firmly established as Bitcoin’s new bottom. “You can kind of start lifting some of your targets and saying, “Well, because we’ve proven 110, that’s the floor, where do we go from here?” James Check said…
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A privacy coalition has urged the Irish government to abandon work on a pre-draft bill that would grant law enforcement access to encrypted messages. Ryan Polk, an author at the Global Encryption Coalition (GEC), which advocates for and defends encryption worldwide, penned an open letter on Thursday, arguing that legislation proposed by Minister for Justice…
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Financial institutions are quickly waking up to the “debasement trade,” according to commentators, which could be a boon for assets such as gold and Bitcoin. Institutions have a new concept to cling to called the “debasement trade,” which will be the thing that protects them, said entrepreneur Anthony Pompliano in a podcast on Thursday. It’s…
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