Bitcoin Is Still in Its ‘Safe Haven Period’: Analyst

Bitcoin (BTC) rose over $28,000 on Thursday, rallying over 15% in the past two weeks. Mark Connors, 3IQ head of research, is attributing the most popular cryptocurrency‘s rise to the uncertainty in the banking sector.

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‘Don’t Trust, Verify’: Fixing The Problems With Academic Research On Bitcoin

To date, much of the academic research on Bitcoin has lacked high-quality data and rigorous review. It’s time to fix that.

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Research: Bitcoin mining could help slow climate change

The dominant media narrative surrounding Bitcoin has been one of an energy-guzzling digital asset used for speculation. The post Research: Bitcoin mining could help slow climate change appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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Research: Miner data shows Bitcoin could have bottomed

Catching the coveted Bitcoin bottom requires analyzing more than just its price.

The post Research: Miner data shows Bitcoin could have bottomed appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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Research Boutique: Bitcoin Chart Is “Echoing” Previous Exponential Surges

Bitcoin has undergone a strong rally over the past few days, rallying from $11,200 to $13,100. Nautilus Research thinks that Bitcoin’s chart is forming patterns and signals last seen prior to previous exponential bull runs.

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New Research: Bitcoin is the Best Performing Asset Class in 2020

With few days to go before Bitcoin halving, a new research conducted by Fundstrat indicates that Bitcoin currently the best performing asset class so far this year. Thomas Lee from Fundstrat posted on Twitter the results of the research which shows that Bitcoin has so far this year outperformed all other asset classes by about […]

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Bitcoin Mining Death Spiral Only Exists In Theory; It’s Not Happening, Maybe Ever

Less than two months before the halvening, the price of bitcoin has more than halved. But this according to CoinShares’ Head of research, Christopher Bendiksen, is a “perfect prelude because the end effect on miners is the exact same.

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Math Research Suggests Six Confirmations Aren’t Really Needed for Bitcoin Transactions

In a recent research paper, a pair of mathematicians demonstrate that fewer Bitcoin confirmations might still be enough to avoid double-spend attacks. The post Math Research Suggests Six Confirmations Aren’t Really Needed for Bitcoin Transactions appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.

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Traders Improve Their Hedge Against Price Risk As Bitcoin Implied Volatility Is Dropping

Bitcoin has spent about ten years around the public, and the price has gone through a lot of change in that time. The Skew blockchain research boutique in London recently posted to Twitter about their Bitcoin research, shedding light on the token’s volatility.

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Bitcoin Cash more vulnerable to timestamp manipulation than Bitcoin: BitMEX Research

Recently, BitMEX Research published a report detailing Bitcoin’s block timestamp protection rules, ones designed to stop nefarious miners from manipulating block timestamps and achieving unfairly high mining rewards.

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Whales Did NOT Cause Bitcoin’s Last Crash Below $10K, Research

The massive Bitcoin sell-off that sent prices below the $10,000 at the end of August wasn’t the result of manipulations, according to an ex post facto research by Coin Metrics. First Major Bitcoin Sells Spotted on Coinbase Large traders or institutional investors often manipulate the Bitcoin price, especially through fake volume or trading derivatives.

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Доля Bitcoin на рынке криптовалют превысила 90%. Arcane Research рассказала о новой криптореальности

Консалтинговая компания Arcane Research, используя фактические данные об объемах сделок с Bitcoin, а также долю Bitcoin в обороте десяти вызывающих наибольшее доверие по публикуемым цифрам о своей деятельности криптобирж, по версии аналитиков из Bitwise, пришла к любопытному выводу.

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Research: Bitcoin Could Shoot Up To $60k In Price And Over $1 Trillion Market Cap in 2020

A recent study by a crypto research firm is generating a lot of attention in regard to the future of Bitcoin. The firm, called Digital Asset Research, conducted a study and released a price outlook for Bitcoin.

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Bitcoin Volume Research: Bitcoin is in a Phase of Continuous Development, and Here’s Why

CoinSpeaker Bitcoin Volume Research: Bitcoin is in a Phase of Continuous Development, and Here’s Why Professional crypto analysts from DataLight’s team share comprehensive Bitcoin volume research, which clearly shows that, despite the bear market of 2018, the game is far from being over for Bitcoin.

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Huobi Release Weekly Research: Bitcoin Transactions Reach a Half-year High

According to data released by the Huobi research team on Nov. 13th, the number of Bitcoin transactions reached 1. 92 million marking an 8. 6 percent increase from last week and reached “a half-year high.

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U.S. Research Team Attempts to Solve Bitcoin’s Scalability Crisis

A research team from Northwestern University, in Illinois, U. S. A. , believes they have unraveled one of Bitcoin’s long-standing nemesis: The problem of scalability. As reported by MarketWatch on August 15, 2018, the scholars put out details of their innovative solution.

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Research: Mixers and Spam Make Up Two-Thirds Of All Bitcoin Transactions

Up to two-thirds of the total bitcoin market activity in a given day is made up of spam, mixers and other non-beneficial transactions, with only a third of daily bitcoin activity being an economically useful activity such as paying for goods and services.

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US Investors Intrigued but Not Invested in Bitcoin, Shows Gallup Research

The attitude of US investors toward cryptocurrencies has shifted from “oblivious” to “aware. ” But that doesn’t mean people are buying Bitcoin anytime soon. In new research, Gallup and Wells Fargo highlight investment trends in the US in the cryptocurrency sector.

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Head of Swiss Department of Economic Affairs Conveys Optimistic Vision on Blockchain Technology

Johann N. Schneider-Ammann, the Head of the Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research of Switzerland, affirmed his belief that blockchain technology is here to stay. Speaking at the Crypto Valley Conference in Zug on June 21, Schneider-Ammann addressed the attendees, quoting Mikhail Gorbachev’s “Life punishes those who come late.

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‘Crypto Virgins’ Are Driving The Price Of Bitcoin

Very recently, news has found that stablecoin, Tether, has been accused of being used to manipulate the price of Bitcoin. You can see our coverage of this story, here- https://cryptodaily. co. uk/2018/06/new-reports-find-that-tether-is-being-used-to-manipulate-bitcoin-price/ We all know that the cryptocurrency markets are volatile and thus, we all know that lots of influencing factors can change the price of Bitcoin, be that political, traditional-financial or indeed, crypto-financial.

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Bitcoin dropped by China’s crypto ratings index and puts EOS in top slot

Just days prior to launch, EOS had also seen serious bugs raised by a Chinese internet security firm that required urgent patches to be issued. The report said that loopholes in EOS’ code could expose nodes to attackers, giving them the ability to possibly take “full control” of transactions. In its assessment, the CCID blockchain research team

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New Data Shows No Evidence of Bitcoin Price Manipulation as Whales ‘Hodl’

The mainstream media narrative that Bitcoin is a “ponzi scheme” and bagholders are selling is false, new data showing Bitcoin user ‘hodl’ behavior claims. Whales Are ‘Hodling’ The findings, uploaded to Twitter by commentator and researcher BambouClub June 25, focuses on so-called ‘Bitcoin days destroyed’ (BDD) as a variable by which to judge investor sentiment, which he explains is “totally unaffected” by bitcoin price .

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Research: ETFs Could Lead Bitcoin Price to $35,000 and It Isn’t Far Away

According to a cryptocurrency research group, the bitcoin price could increase to over $35,000 with the emergence of a bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF), which isn’t that far away. Road to $35,000: Institutional investors or ETFs Prominent investors including Ari Paul, the co-founder of BlockTower, a cryptocurrency hedge fund founded by former Goldman Sachs executive, have.

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ImmVRse set to make VR Millionaires

Bitcoin Press Release: Blockchain start-up ImmVrse set to provide a VR sharing platform allowing creators to sell their own content and be found by employers. June 24th, 2018, London – Blockchain Company ImmVrse According to a new research accrued out in the UK, many seven to 11-year-olds are turning to modern technology as they consider […] The post ImmVRse set to make VR Millionaires appeared first on Bitcoin PR Buzz.

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Bitcoin Isn’t As Volatile As People Claim – Research Shows

The American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) has come up with a report after a five years study on Bitcoin and four other cryptocurrencies, saying Bitcoin is one of the least volatile cryptocurrencies in the market today.

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Stanford Computer Scientists Establish Center for Blockchain Research

A computer scientist at Stanford has founded a newly-distributed ledger research initiative called Center for Blockchain Research. The project, dedicated to researching and changing the fundamentals of blockchain use, could help in revolutionizing the industry by improving the way companies and people interact and complete financial transactions on DLT platforms.

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Cryptojacking Running Rampant in Monero [XMR] Community

Research revealed by cyber security company Palo Alto Networks assesses that 5% of all Monero, the privacy coin, has been mined though malware programs.  Palo Alto Networks deployed its Unit 42 to determine that 85% of cryptojacking activity revolves around the cryptocurrency known as Monero.

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Bitcoin Could Still Reach $100,000, Fast

YouTube connoisseur and author Louis Thomas has recently published a video during which is discusses how Bitcoin could move up to $100,000, faster than we think – https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=5LhDzDtt5sI Before we begin, please remember that this is not investment advice and is of course based upon speculation.

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Economic Research Institute: Bitcoin is Less Volatile Than Other Cryptos, Sign of Maturity

American Institute For Economic Research (AIER), an independent 501 economic research institute that does not represent any fund or special interests, has reported that Bitcoin, the most dominant cryptocurrency in the global market, has significantly and consistently been less volatile than other digital assets since 2013.

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eToro Market Research: EOS

EOS is by far the largest Initial Coin Offering (ICO) in the history of cryptocurrencies. Having raised more than $3. 5 billion, it promises to become an extremely fast and scalable blockchain protocol with zero transaction fees.

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Government Save Bank of St. Louis Includes Crypto Cost Following to Inquire about Database

The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis will now be tracking the prices of four cryptocurrencies on their research database, according to a June 19 post on the bank’s website. The database, called the Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED), will now include the prices of Bitcoin (BTC), Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Ethereum (ETH), Litecoin (LTC) from

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Asset Management Firm Launches Chinese Blockchain ETF

Blockchain technology has grabbed the interest of investors globally as it has quickly grown into one of the most exciting areas due to its wide variety of application across industries.

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Here’s How Bitcoin is the Least Volatile Crypto Asset

Bitcoin is less volatile than its cryptocurrency cousins, according to research that looked at five crypto assets from 2013. Bitcoin Trumps the Rest In February, the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) compared the volatility of Bitcoin to traditional fiat currencies.

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St. Louis Fed Now Tracking Prices of 4 Prominent Cryptos

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis has included prices of four top cryptocurrencies in its research database. The Feds announced the move on Tuesday, indicating that the Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) will now include price data of Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum and Litecoin, provided by Coinbase.

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St. Louis Feat now has the Crypto Prices Tracks in its research database

The St. Louis division of the U. S. Federal Reserve Bank is now tracking the prices of four cryptocurrencies in its research database. According to an announcement on Tuesday, Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED), an extensive database maintained by the central bank’s St.

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Unofficial Report Confirms Tether’s Tokens Are Fully Backed by US Dollars

Tether Ltd. , which issues a stable coin allegedly tied to U. S. dollar reserves, claims it has hired Freeh Sporkin & Sullivan LLP — a law firm co-founded by FBI Director Louis Freeh — to confirm its bank deposits and assure investors that its cryptocurrency is backed by USD.

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“No Grounding In Reality”: BIS Report Tells A Strange Crypto Story

Earlier this week, the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) in Switzerland issued a new document as part of its annual economic report that warns citizens of the dangers of digital currencies.

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Bitcoin, DLT and Bank Ledgers: A Central Banker's View

The man in charge of China's quest to research and deploy distributed ledgers outlines his view on the breakthroughs of bitcoin and potential of DLT.

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Updated Edition of Blockchain Revolution Fills In Some Big Gaps

“When Blockchain Revolution came out, bitcoin was worth around $7 billion. Today, it’s more than twenty-two times that. Bitcoin is the workhorse of the cryptocurrency world and the cryptocurrency that launched a thousand ships.

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Mining Consumes Half the power of BECI Estimates-Coinshares

Mining Embellished estimates as to the total electricity consumed through bitcoin mining have again made the rounds in the media recently, with many stories claiming that energy consumed by mining annually is comparable to that which is consumed by the entire nation of Ireland.

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Bitcoin: Fundstrat’s Tom Lee places the onus of BTC crash on futures

Bitcoin has seen a major downfall in its market strength over the past week with a drop of about 20% in its price. According to Thomas Lee, the Head of Research at Fundstrat Global Advisors, this steep plunge is due to the expiration of futures contracts linked with Bitcoin [BTC] on Cboe and CME. Lee […]

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Mining Consumes Half as Much Power as BECI Estimates – Coinshares

Embellished estimates as to the total electricity consumed through bitcoin mining have again made the rounds in the media recently, with many stories claiming that energy consumed by mining annually is comparable to that which is consumed by the entire nation of Ireland.

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Cboe Futures to blame for the Bitcoin Price Crash says Tom Lee

Factors Influencing the Bitcoin Price Although Bitcoin markets will always be volatile, there are many different external influences in play at all times. Over the years, there have been a fair few factors which pushed the Bitcoin price in a specific direction, either for better or worse. Recent research hinted that Bitfinex and Tether were

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SEC States Bitcoin and Ethereum Are Not Securities, Favorable Tax Implications

This article does not contain tax advice, investment advice or recommendations. Every investment and trading move involves risk, you should conduct your own research when making a decision. William Hinman, the Securities and Exchange Commission’ director of the division of corporate finance said Thursday that ether—the currency that powers the Ethereum network—shouldn’t be regulated in […]

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June 15 Price Analysis of Bitcoin, Others

In a study, Fundstrat’s head of research Thomas Lee noted that Bitcoin declines about 18 percent, leading to the Bitcoin futures expiration on the CBOE. So, if the theory holds good this time, we should see a recovery in Bitcoin from next week.

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Bitcoin Magazine’s Week in Review: Looking Back to See the Way Ahead

It’s been a turbulent time for the cryptocurrency markets, so now is a good time to reflect on how and why we got here in the first place. First, an op ed makes the ideological case for Bitcoin.

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Rebuttal To Tether Manipulating The Price Of Bitcoin

New research published this week by professors at the University of Texas allegedly found that Tether, a cryptocurrency pegged to the U. S. dollar, was used to manipulate the price of bitcoin during the peak of its rally in 2017.

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Bitcoin Price Drop Caused by Futures Expiration, Tom Lee Says

Thomas Lee, Co-founder and head of research at Fundstrat Global Advisors, ties the recent decline in Bitcoin (BTC) price with the expiration of Bitcoin futures. Tom Lee Blames Futures Expiration Among Other Factors In an interview for Bloomberg, Tom Lee explained that the weakness in the market’s first and foremost cryptocurrency was the result of futures contracts expiring.

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The weak link in Bitcoin is from Future Expiration says Thomas Lee of Fundstrat.

According to Fundstrat head of research Thomas Lee, the recent decline in Bitcoin (BTC) price is likely the result of the expiration of Bitcoin futures, Bloomberg reports June 14. In a report, Lee explained that the “gut wrenching” weakness in Bitcoin (BTC), which dropped upwards of 20 percent earlier this week, was the result of

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