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Bitcoin Fees Drop But Still Remain Far From the Pre-Halving Level

After two weeks of soaring, Bitcoin (BTC) fees' flight to new highs seems to be over, at least for now, descending more than 50%. Bitcoin fees started rising after the reduction of the miners' reward on May 11, surprising even the industry insiders and reaching new, 'ridiculous' highs this year....

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Crypto Researcher Warns Of a Growing ‘Existential’ Risk To Bitcoin

The growing custodial banking layer creates a systemic risk for Bitcoin (BTC), warned popular crypto researcher Hasu and offered two solutions. While some say that Bitcoin could be scaled by increasing its block size, allowing more transaction per block, this would worsen the assurances of the...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Bitcoin Starts Upside Correction, Altcoins Trade Sideways

Bitcoin price is slowly recovering towards the USD 9,050 and USD 9,200 resistances. Ethereum is facing hurdles near USD 205 and XRP could correct higher towards USD 0.200. ZIL rallied more than 20% and ENJ is up close to 18% today.After a sharp downside correction, bitcoin price found support...

, by Aayush Jindal

Crypto Is Likely Winner as Recession to Force Rethink Money – Gemini Exec

Recession, a more favorable regulatory view, a better understanding of the technology, and traditional investors turning to crypto - are all aspects that are bringing adoption to crypto, according to Julian Sawyer, Gemini's Managing Director (MD) for Europe.Unlike previous recessions, this one has...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Trezor and Ledger Deny Shopify Database Hack Claims + More News

Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.Security news Crypto wallet providers Trezor and Ledger have denied claims that their databases have been compromised...

, by Tim Alper

Crypto Market Sentiment Almost Unchanged, Ethereum Enters Positive Zone

Cryptocurrency market sentiment remains in the neutral zone after taking a dive last week. According to the crypto market sentiment analysis tool Omenics, the combined moving 7-day average market sentiment score for the top 10 coins has slightly increased. It went from last week’s 5.08 to...

, by Eimantas Žemaitis

Satoshi-era Bitcoin Miner Calls Craig Wright a Fraud Using “His” BTC Addresses

It looks like, someone just signed a message calling Craig Wright a fraud by using 145 addresses the controversial Australian computer scientist Craig Wright claimed were his in the Tulip Trust, an anonymous Twitter user Zectro discovered. However, it seems that it's not Satoshi Nakamoto, who sent...

, by Linas Kmieliauskas

Bitcoin Bears Gain Control, Altcoins Holding Key Supports

Bitcoin price is down close to 5% and settled below USD 9,000. Ethereum is struggling to stay above USD 200 and XRP tested the USD 0.192 support. TFUEL rallied more than 50% and THETA is up more than 15% today.This past week, bitcoin failed to gain momentum above the USD 9,900 and USD 10,000...

, by Aayush Jindal

Use Bitcoin, Gold, and Bonds as a Hedge Against Inflation – BitMEX

With central banks and governments around the world injecting massive amounts of liquidity into financial markets, the threat of future consequences in the form of inflation is keeping many in the crypto community up at night, with major crypto derivatives exchange BitMEX now advising clients to...

, by Fredrik Vold

Second-Tier Exchanges Are A Vital Part of Crypto Ecosystem

The best second-tier exchanges will find a niche for themselves. "They are too small to be on the radar so they can be more ‘wild.'"Everyone has heard of Coinbase, Binance, Kraken and other big exchanges, but few of us could name any or many of the so-called ‘second-tier’...

, by Simon Chandler

7 Main Post-Halving Bitcoin Narratives

Decentralized digital gold campaign More institutional investors, more derivatives Bitcoin scaling up, green mining Regulation and CBDCsThe third Bitcoin (BTC) halving has finally happened, hashrate dropped less than estimated, fees skyrocketed, but, contrary to the doom mongers, the bitcoin...

, by Simon Chandler

Gox Rising Offers USD 800 Per Bitcoin, Canaan Disappoints, Coldplay Player Goes Crypto + More News

Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.Exchanges NewsPuerto Rico-based firm Gox Rising, led by crypto entrepreneur Brock Pierce, has offered to buy out...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Happy Bitcoin Pizza Day: This is How “Toppings” Changed in 10 Years

Between the event that'll live on as Bitcoin Pizza Day ten years ago and today, the world's first cryptocurrency, Bitcoin (BTC), saw it's network metrics increase by six, eight, even fifteen digits.Happy Bitcoin Pizza Day, Cryptoverse! For those who are new to this event, today we celebrate one...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Kleiman Lawyers: Craig Wright ‘Has Keys to Encrypted BTC 820,200 File’

The long and bitter legal struggle between Dave Kleiman’s estate and Australian computer scientist Craig Wright has taken a new twist, with the former’s legal team claiming Wright has the keys to an encrypted file that may contain the private keys to over BTC 820,000 (USD 7.5 billion)...

, by Tim Alper

This is Why This Investor Prefers Stocks Over Bitcoin and Gold

Despite a number of investors and asset managers urging people to buy “hard assets” like bitcoin (BTC) and gold as protection against central bank’s love for money printing in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, one wealth manager advocates a contrarian approach, saying the best...

, by Fredrik Vold

Bitcoin and Altcoins Recovery Could Be Short-Lived

Bitcoin price extended its decline towards USD 8,800 before correcting higher. Ethereum correcting higher from USD 192 and XRP is facing hurdles near USD 0.200. OMG rallied more than 50% and SOLVE is up more than 40% today.Yesterday, we saw a strong bearish wave below the USD 9,550 support zone....

, by Aayush Jindal

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