Analysts claim that since the “merge” to proof-of-stake on the Ethereum blockchain occurred about two years ago, Ether’s performance has lagged behind bitcoin’s by a margin of up to 44%. Almost two years have passed since Ethereum’s upgrade, The Merge, which transitioned to a proof-of-stake network, and next week will
Travala.com, a crypto-native travel platform, has announced an integration with the major global travel marketplace Skyscanner. The whole inventory of 2,200,000+ hotels from Travala.com, all of which can be booked using more than 100 cryptocurrencies, is now fully discoverable on Skyscanner’s platforms. As the first cryptocurrency-native platform to be linked with Skyscanner,
Bitcoin price movement has drawn significant attention from traders over the past month, with many anticipating a recovery. However, the cryptocurrency has struggled to break through the $60,000 resistance zone. Since the start of September, Bitcoin price fluctuations have remained between $55,500 to $58,000. In the past 24 hours, BTC
Tuesday was the latest day of negative flows for U.S. spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds. On Tuesday, the 12 spot bitcoin ETFs had net withdrawals of $287.78 million. The most negative flows since May 1, according to data from SosoValue. The biggest bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) by net assets, IBIT, which
Bitcoin perpetual futures have been signaling growing market pessimism, as funding rates for these contracts have remained persistently below neutral. This trend indicates a bearish sentiment among traders and reflects a broader cautious outlook on Bitcoin’s price movements. Recent insights from K33 Research underscore that these low funding rates suggest
Zürich Cantonal Bank, the fourth-largest bank in Switzerland, has officially entered the cryptocurrency market. According to the announcement on September 4, ZKB is allowing its clients and third-party banks to trade and store cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum. Further, the bank’s offerings are integrated with its existing digital platforms, ZKB
We are happy to inform that TestBTC may now be bridged to Flare Coston using FAssets, developed by Flare Labs. The following functionalities are now available to users at https://fasset-beta.flarelabs.org: With the addition of FBTC compatibility to Bifrost Wallet, TestBTC holders may now participate easily. The most recent asset added to the
21Shares has officially launched 21BTC, a new Bitcoin wrapper on the Ethereum network. This product allows users to access Bitcoin’s value while utilizing the diverse functionalities of Ethereum’s decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem. By introducing 21BTC, 21Shares aims to bridge the gap between the two most dominant cryptocurrencies, offering a unique
Crypto traders have inclined their attention towards Bitcoin in the past month anticipating for price recovery. The cryptocurrency, on the other hand, showed redundant struggles to break resistance beyond $65K. Prices have consolidated at the $59K level since August. In the last 24 hours, Bitcoin prices revisited support levels at
On September 1, 2024, the hashrate of the Bitcoin network, which is the total computing power used to secure the Bitcoin network, hit a new record high of more than 742 exahashes per second (EH/s). As expected given the ongoing trend toward application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and other forms of
