The Latest News about Cryptocurrency

The last 24-hours have been an absolute roller coaster for Bitcoin price.

According to global markets analyst Alex Krüger, the bear trend of Bitcoin is technically over after its abrupt and massive rally.

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The Central Bank of the Bahamas is planning to release its own fiat digital currency in order to ensure economies' resilience in the event of a natural disaster.

Justin Sun has teased an upcoming announcement that involves Tron partnering with an unnamed "Mega corporation."

Ethereum 2.0 validators can expect to earn from 4.6% to 10.3% as rewards for staking on an annual basis, a senior ConsenSys exec says.32 ETH required to become a validator.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin is not at all impressed by the perceived threat Bitcoin faces from Google's quantum computer.

Ethereum's next system-wide upgrade, Istanbul, is scheduled to arrive on mainnet the week of Dec. 4.

If the buyers can push XRP above $0.29227 to $0.30368 resistance zone, a move to $0.34229 will be on the cards.

Ryan Sean Adams, a crypto investor at Mythos Capital, believes Ethereum has a significantly better monetary policy than Bitcoin.

Following Bitcoin's sudden jump earlier in the day, altcoin markets have also entered the green zone, with some of the major cryptocurrency markets registering solid growth.

Leveraging the Chinese threatThis was the first Libra hearing for the Facebook boss - previously, it was David Marcus, the head of the forthcoming crypto wallet Calibra, who was dispatched to be grilled on the Hill.

Hackers have compromised the website of the city of Johannesburg, South Africa, and demanded ransom in Bitcoins.

"I think over the last months, not just yesterday, you're definitely seeing some miners selling, which is causing some downward pressure. But the reality is, I think these selloffs are more about lack of money in the system right now. There's just not new money coming in at the moment."

Bitcoin price just made a $1,200 rally towards $8,700, leaving bears and shorts behind.

Bitcoin prices are rebounding from a five-month low touched earlier this week.

Major global crypto exchange Bitfinex has called itself a "Victim of a fraud" in response to the recent arrest of the president of Crypto Capital exchange.

The Bitcoin price surged from $7,600 to $8,400 within a span of minutes on Oct. 25, almost immediately after Chinese President Xi Jinping said that China would focus on blockchain development.

Bitcoin surged $500 in just five minutes today after experiencing a sharp drop on Oct. 23, from $7,950 to $7,450 and sitting at the position for two consecutive days.

The crypto exchange and sister company of Tether claimed Friday that it was the "Victim of a fraud" at the hands of Crypto Capital, a payment processor that allegedly lost $880 million of Bitfinex's money.

Stablecoin Tether is gaining popularity as a payment method, with some analysts seeing it catching up with Bitcoin and Ether.

On Oct. 21, 2019, representatives from Agoric, Tendermint, FOAM, and oscoin gathered at Full Node in Berlin, Germany, to discuss the blockchain space's current need for interoperability protocols.

Speaking to Cointelegraph, a spokesperson for CypherTrace said that the company expects to see some progress by 2020 on privacy coins, stating, "We look forward to some results on privacy coins in 2020.".

A Russian scientist and former employee at the nation's premier nuclear research facility was jailed on Oct. 24, for his part in a scheme to secretly mine Bitcoin using the facility's supercomputers.

The amount of Tether tokens issued on the Tron blockchain now accounts for nearly 12% of all USDT tokens.

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao took to Twitter on Oct. 25, saying that he had "Got word" that WeChat Pay puts receipts on the blockchain, along with a screengrab of a receipt with a link to a block explorer.

Seven major mining and metal companies have inked an agreement with the World Economic Forum to develop and deploy blockchain tools to assist with sourcing materials more responsibly and sustainably.

Bitcoin hit $7,600 on Oct. 25 after a spell of bullish upward action saw 2% gains occur in a matter of minutes.

As CashApp's Twitter handle indicated the same day, app users will soon be able to own a piece of hundreds of different stocks - rather than an entire share.

China's President Xi Jinping has called for the country to accelerate its adoption of blockchain technologies as a core for innovation.