Bitcoin (BTC) continues to trend downward on light trading volume. The market cap now stands at US$119.72 billion, with US$1.82 billion traded in the past 24 hours. Transactions per day are down sharply from the record high, above 400k in December, and are currently near 170,000 per day. Transactions have not only declined due to…
If cryptocurrency — or, at the very least, bitcoin — hasn’t appeared in your web searches or newsfeed recently, you may very well be living under a rock. Bitcoin’s price exploded in the last quarter of 2017. Starting that year off at a (now) modest $953.56, bitcoin reached an all-time high of $20,089.00 on December…
So you are looking at a Ripple XRP altcoin wallet and you’ve got yourself some Ripple XRP and now you’re not sure where to store it. There are a lot of Ripple XRP wallets out there and it can be hard to choose the best one. This guide will take you through the various types…
They may may not have the fighting physiques to warrant a par-per-view licence but the Bitcoin debate between hedge fund manager Erik Townsend and Adamant Research editor Tuur Demester is an intellectual battle worth paying for. Thanks to The Investing Podcast the face-off is scheduled for release this weekend in the latest episode and as…
Seasonality refers to the occurrence of regular and predictable changes in a data set at particular intervals throughout the year. In financial investing, seasonality refers to price fluctuations that occur in an asset class at the same time intervals year and year again. Seasonality can be found in a range of different assets such as…
The first quarter of 2018 was marked with continued protocol layer innovations, with heavy declines in prices across the board. Emerging and recurrent themes included transaction fees, microtransactions, increased fiat on-ramps, and regulatory changes. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the U.S., as well as Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA), made sweeping announcements or changes…
You’ve got yourself some Ripple (XRP) and now you’re not sure where to store it. There are a lot of Ripple wallets out there and it can be hard to choose the best one. This guide will take you through the various types to help you decide which Ripple wallet is the right one for…
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Tron [TRX] is a blockchain-based decentralized platform seeking to build a free, content entertainment ecosystem. The system being built will use distributed storage technology, which will allow east and cost-effective sharing of digital content. The project was founded by the Tron Foundation, a Singapore-based non-profit, back in 2017. Team Tron [TRX] is lead by its…
Individual income tax returns are due on April the 17th this year and US citizens who wish to stay on the right side of the law will need to record their crypto cashflow to avoid getting on the IRS’s radar in a bad way. And they do have an excellent radar, especially given recent court…
South Africa might be taking a different approach to crypto regulations. Rather than implementing government-based regulations on cryptocurrencies, a self-regulatory approach may be adopted. Why self-regulate crypto? According to Bridget King, the Finance and Banking Practice Director at a South African law firm, prematurely regulating cryptocurrencies could stem their growth and the overall innovation of…
