Bitcoin Ends October in the Red for the First Time Since 2018

For the first time in seven years, Bitcoin has wrapped up an October in the red. The leading cryptocurrency slipped 3. 69% during the month, marking its worst October since 2018, a rare departure from its historically bullish Q4 trend.

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Top Analyst Predicts Massive October Pump for Bitcoin and Ethereum: How High Can They Go?

October has a special reputation in crypto. Traders often call it “Uptober” because Bitcoin and Ethereum tend to show surprising strength during this month. This year, the story might be even more dramatic.

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Bitcoin eyes $72,000 in October, says Bitget Research analyst

Bitcoin's potential surge to $72,000 in October could signal increased market confidence and institutional interest, impacting broader financial markets. The post Bitcoin eyes $72,000 in October, says Bitget Research analyst appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

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Crypto Analyst Envisions Record Bitcoin Gains Before October Amid Global Liquidity Shift

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Bitcoin Hashrate And Difficulty Reach New All-Time Highs, What This Means

Bitcoin is up by 124% this year, outperforming stocks, bonds, and commodities to take the crown of the best-performing asset class. The world’s largest cryptocurrency had a strong performance in October especially, jumping 29% from its October bottom of $26,752 to end the month around $34,500.

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Bitcoin Design Community Announces Hackathon-Style Event For Design In October

The Designathon takes place October 12-23 and is taking open submission for innovative bitcoin product designs and sponsorships for participant prizes.

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‘Uptober’ Unravels With Groundbreaking Bitcoin ETFs As BTC Breaks New Highs — What’s Still In Store For October?

The SEC has given the nod for the first Bitcoin ETF to open its door to potential investors after eight long years. Several analysts tipped October to be the month that could see approval from the commission.

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Number of Unconfirmed Bitcoin Transactions Surges to Highest Level Since October

The Bitcoin network mempool has reached its biggest size since late October

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Bitcoin short-term Price Analysis: 04 October

Disclaimer: The findings of the following article are the sole opinion of the writer and should not be considered investment advice  After CFTC brought charges against BitMEX for allegedly violatiThe post Bitcoin short-term Price Analysis: 04 October appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Digatrade OTC Crypto Exchange Sets Minimum Bitcoin Trade at $25,000, Closes Retail Services

Digatrade Closes Retail Services With Institutional Minimum Trade Value Set at $25K USD Digatrade sets the minimum trade value of digital trading at $25,000 USD and cuts off its retail service effectively on October 17th 2018.

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Roubini Faces Off With Coin Center’s Van Valkenburgh at Senate Hearing

Nouriel Roubini, an economist best known for his predictions of the 2008 housing bubble, and Peter Van Valkenburgh, Coin Center’s director of research, testified before the U.

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Litecoin (LTC) support on Gemini exchange starts tomorrow

CryptoNinjas New York bitcoin and crypto exchange Gemini today confirmed support for Litecoin (LTC) trading and custody. Beginning Saturday, October 13th at 9:30 am EDT users will be able to deposit Litecoin into their Gemini account.

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Report: Bitcoin Whales not Responsible for Destabilizing Cryptocurrency Markets

Contrary to the popular belief which posits that “crypto whales” are the prime culprits for digital currency market volatility – a new study published on October 10, 2018, by blockchain research firm Chainalysis suggests that cryptocurrency’s largest holders are a diverse set of individuals that help in stabilizing the nascent market.

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Bitcoin (BTC) Bears And The Coil Spring

Bitcoin (BTC) had a steep decline yesterday. During the last hour of trading, it plunged further into the red. This marks the completion of the final wave of capitulation. Bitcoin (BTC) has now begun the day in green.

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Cryptocurrency Investor Gives “13 Reasons Why” EOS Is a Disaster

Esteemed blockchain investor James Spediacci took to Twitter on October 9th, 2018, and discussed numerous reasons why the cryptocurrency EOS is a “disaster. ” EOS has gotten a lot of attention and hype lately due to possibilities of Coinbase listing its token.

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XRP’s Return Seems To Be Slowing Down

Yesterday, October 11th 2018, you may have heard of a little bit of a crash that occurred in the markets, seeing Bitcoin significantly dropping below the $6,500 mark. The third biggest digital currency saw a big change too as it moved from $0.

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Bitcoin ETF Mover Is A Crucial Advantage

The digital currency ETF is a big part of the debate in a recent Bloomberg interview which had JP Morgan’s Asset Management Head of International ETFs, Bryson Lake on the panel. The interview looked at how JP Morgan believes in the latest mover advantage in terms of the digital currency market and ETFs.

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South Korea Mulls Over Reversing Ban on ICOs

South Korean legislators are planning to chase the road to clear their stance on Initial Coin Offerings (ICO) in November this year. Despite the government’s on-again-off-again relationship with cryptocurrencies, a National Assembly committee has mooted to revamp the cryptocurrency policies in the country on October 10, 2018.

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Cryptocurrency Theft Hits Nearly $1 Billion in First Nine Months

Theft of cryptocurrencies through the hacking of exchanges and trading platforms soared to $927 million in the first nine months of the year. Reuters reported on October 10, 2018, that this figure is up nearly 250 percent from the level seen in 2017, according to a report from U.

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SEC Obtains Emergency Court Order to Halt Questionable ICO

The U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has obtained an emergency court order issuing the stoppage of a recently planned initial coin offering (ICO) by Blockvest LLC and its founder Reginald Buddy Ringgold III, who falsely advertised that the token sale was approved by the SEC.

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NEXT STEP! Mars Blockchain Summit NYC to Be Held on October 18, 2018

Abstract: Will finance be the first implementation scenario of blockchain? Mars Finance will, together with blockchain pioneers from China, go to New York, the capital of global finance, and chat with each of NASDAQ, Ripple, Standard & Poor’s, Morgan Stanley, Barclays and Digital Galaxy, the global largest digital currency investment bank! The founder of Mars Finance, Fred Wang said that.

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“This Isn’t How We Saw This Going”: Civil’s Token Sale Is Treading Water

Despite a flurry of media attention surrounding the project, Civil, an Ethereum-based platform aiming to save journalism, can’t seem to get enough buyers for its token.

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Bitcoin, Ether, XRP Weekly Market Update: October 11, 2018

Bitcoin managed to hold its ground and defend the $6,500 level on October 4, 2018, closing the day with a $90 gain. BTC then moved above $6,600 on October 5 and stopped at $6,640 – its second green day in a row.

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Despite Recent Decline, October Could Still Be The Month For A Major Bitcoin Bull Run

When the IMF (International Monetary Fund) revised its policy on economic growth, risk-off trading circles across the world got quite a boost. The crypto world felt the effects, with Bitcoin surging up to hit the $6,656 mark.

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GMO Internet Set to Launch Yen-Backed Stablecoin “GMO Japanese Yen” in 2019

Japanese IT giant, GMO Internet has made its entry into the stablecoin space, with plans to launch a yen-pegged cryptocurrency in 2019. In an announcement on October 9, 2018, the company said that it would begin full-scale preparation to issue the stablecoin – GMO Japanese Yen (GJY) –  as it prepares for a move into the blockchain remittance and settlement.

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Massive Loss For Bitcoin, Will The Price Hold?

Today has been a bleak day for Bitcoin. The price looked like it was holding steady at the $6,500 mark but now it has dropped 5% which has dragged everything else down with it, including Ethereum, XRP, Cardano, Stellar and more.

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E.U. Securities Watchdog Studying ICOs “Case-by-case” to Take a Call on Regulation

The European Union’s securities watchdog has followed suit of its U. S. counterpart SEC, as the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) said on October 8, 2018, that it is observing every initial coin offering (ICO) to decide whether it should be regulated or not, according to a report published by Reuters.

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New Paper Suggests China Could “Destroy” Bitcoin

East Asian influence has always played a significant role within cryptocurrency, but a new paper published October 8th, 2018, suggests China could not only singlehandedly cripple Bitcoin, but is already influencing the billion-dollar network.

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DAOstack Announces New $GEN Exchange Listing on Liquid by Quoine

Bitcoin Press Release: Blockchain startup DAOstack has announced the listing of its GEN token on Quoines new Liquid Exchange, starting October 9th, 2018. October 11th, 2018, Gibraltar – The DAOstack collective attention token GEN, will be listed on Liquid, the newly-launched cryptocurrency exchange by Quoine, starting October 9th, 12:00 JST.

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Cryptassist Announce Extension of their $37,000,000 Token Sale to 1st November, 2018

Bitcoin Press Release: Cryptassist announce details of their soon-to-end Token Sale, which will fund their Platform. Cryptassist simplifies the day to day use of cryptocurrency to truly make cryptocurrency ready for mass adoption, and has raised over $37m to date.

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Crypto Exchange CoinCola Announces Partnership with Dash – Launches in Venezuela

Bitcoin Press Release: Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency exchange CoinCola has chosen Venezuela as their first new market. Best known for its peer-to-peer OTC cryptocurrency platform, CoinCola allows traders to buy and sell bitcoin using their local fiat currency.

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Will 6,000 Hold This Time?

Bitcoin lost almost 5 percent in minutes on October 11th, dragging altcoins down as cryptocurrency markets followed stocks in a fresh tumble. $13 Billion Disappears in 30 Minutes Data from Coinmarketcap captures a sudden slide for BTC/USD taking the pair down over $400 in a 30-minute window beginning around 11:00 p.

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Dukascopy Swiss-Based Forex Bank Launches Ether CFDs

Swiss-based forex broker and crypto-friendly bank, Dukascopy have announced the launch of its Ether contracts for differences (CFDs) after successfully adding Bitcoin CFDs to its product offerings earlier in the year, according to a Finance Magnates report on October 9, 2018.

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When is Bitcoin Going to Do Something? BTC Price Analysis Forecast [Comes to Light]

Update [Note]: This post originally was published October 8th when Bitcoin was at $6,680 and since we have saw the drop all the way down to $6,066. It appears that the price of Bitcoin has finally broken downward against the immediate uptrend resistance that we had plotted toward the end of our Bitcoin price analysis. […]

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Forbes Announces Partnership with Civil to Publish Content on a Blockchain

Business media giant Forbes has partnered with Civil, a blockchain-based firm, with the intention of using a decentralized network to publish content, the company’s co-founder Matt Coolidge announced in a press release on October 9, 2018.

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IMF Report States Cryptocurrencies Present a “Vulnerability” to Global Finance Markets

A warning statement from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) ascertains the “rapid growth” of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies could create “new vulnerabilities” in the globe’s financial markets, as published in the IMF’s World Economic Outlook report on October 9, 2018.

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Maker Becomes Most Valuable Token as Nearly 1% of all ETH Is Locked in Dai

With a market cap of above half a billion dollars, Maker is now the most valuable Ethereum token after overtaking OmiseGo. Most of Maker’s success is attributed to its Dai stablecoin, which now has almost one percent of all ETH locked in as of October 8, 2018.

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Bitcoin Cash (BCH) Daily Price Forecast – October 10

  BCH/USD Medium-term Trend: Ranging Supply zones: $800, $900, $1000 Demand zones: $300, $200, $100 BCH still remains in consolidation in its medium-term outlook. $517.70 in the demand area was the low the cryptocurrency attained as the bearish pressure within the range continues before the end of yesterday session. The 4-hour opening candle at $520.50 […]

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Blockstream’s Liquid Network for “High Value” Bitcoin Payments Is Live

The Liquid Network is up and running. More than a year after its conceptual introduction at the Blockchain Association of Canada's Government Forum in Ottawa, Blockstream’s bitcoin scaling solution made its public debut on October 10, 2018, after going live among its partners on September 27.

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Today Moon? Economist’s 1988 Prediction Day Arrives (While Bitcoin Sleeps)

October 10, 2018, has arrived — the date by which The Economist says we should be “ready for a new world currency. ” Should Bitcoin suddenly fulfill that role today?  A ‘New World Currency’ By 2018 Wednesday marks an (arguably) highly significant date in Bitcoin’s history — but so far, nothing appears any different.

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Blockchain-Based P2P Global Marketplace Era Swap to Establish a Valuable Ecosystem for the Digital Sharing Economy

Bitcoin Press Release – Blockchain startup Era Swap introduces a robust peer-to-peer (p2p) marketplace to revitalize the freelancer sharing economy. October 10th, 2018, Malta – Era Swap is a social community platform that intends to be a valuable market for Time of services, Education and Crypto Assets.

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Report: Bitcoin’s New Price Ceiling at $100,000

An article published October 8, 2018, talks about why Bitcoin’s highest valuation is now $100,000. This number is derived from the strong relationship between network activity and price that the cryptocurrency has shown in the past.

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FanChain Becomes Official Cryptocurrency of FanWide, the World’s Largest Fan Club Network

Bitcoin Press Release: Landmark deal brings FanChain to sports bars around the world through local meetups and “watch parties”.   October 10, 2018, Cayman Islands — SportsCastr, the company behind the decentralized sports ecosystem and cryptocurrency FanChain, today announced a three-year exclusive partnership with FanWide, the digital platform that helps out-of-market sports fans find local […] The post FanChain Becomes Official Cryptocurrency of FanWide, the World’s Largest Fan Club Network appeared first on Bitcoin PR Buzz.

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DataBroker DAO Launches Flagship IoT Sensor Data Marketplace Ahead of International Expos

Bitcoin Press Release: Blockchain and Internet of Things (IoT) startup DataBroker DAO has officially launched the IoT sensor data marketplace. October 10th, 2018, Dubai, UAE – For many businesses entering the blockchain space, the pressure of delivering on roadmap promises is almost equal to the success of the enterprise itself.

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Bitcoin (BTC) Daily Price Forecast – October 10

BTC/USD Medium-term Trend: Ranging Resistance Levels: $7,000, $7,200, $7,400 Support levels: $6,500, $6,300, $6,100 Yesterday, October 9, the BTC price was in a Bearish trend. The overall trend of the price of Bitcoin is a range bound movement.

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Australia Trials Blockchain Platform for National Disability Insurance Scheme

Australia is currently in the process of exploring the potential for blockchain technology to create ’smart money’ to be used in its National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), its federal government revealed in an October 9, 2018, press release.

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The SEC Sets Deadline to File Comments for or Against Bitcoin ETF Applications

The U. S. Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) is getting ready to review its decisions regarding Bitcoin ETF applications. With this in mind, the SEC is inviting parties or persons to file public statements in support of, or in opposition to, Bitcoin ETFs.

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AUSTRAC Investigates Cryptocurrency Exchanges

Australia’s financial regulator, the Australian Transactions Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC), is tightening up surveillance on cryptocurrency exchanges as sophisticated criminals leverage digital currencies to send money internationally.

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Fundstrat Analyst: Don’t Buy Bitcoin (BTC) Just Yet, Be Patient

Crypto Volatility Slows, Market Posts Slight Loss On Monday, October 8th, the crypto market surprisingly saw some semblance of price action, with nearly every single crypto asset posting 1. 5 percent gains (or more) at one point in the day.

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