Will the third halving of Bitcoin be the emphatic start of a bull run for the original cryptocurrency? May 5, 2020 Price Watch The crypto market has had a significant week as the hype continues to build over the forthcoming halving and at the time of writing, Bitcoin (BTC) was trading at US$8,826.91 / GB£7,126.19; Ethereum (ETH) is at US$205.90 / GB£166.12; Ripple (XRP) is at US$0.2178 / GB£0.1751; Binance (BNB) is at US$16.95 / GB£13.69 [...]
Bitcoin price flirts with $9,000 mark ahead of halving event May 5, 2020 Last week the price of Bitcoin (BTC) moved from $7,700 to hit a $9,300 high before seeing a correction to drop below $8,700. Ether (ETH), the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, moved in a similar pattern, starting the week at $195 and reaching a $226 high, before dropping back to $201. Bitcoin saw a significant [...]
Crypto AM shines its Spotlight on Koine May 5, 2020 Founded in 2017 by Al Moore and Phil Mochan, Koine offers segregated, institutional custody and settlement of digital assets, providing a transformative security model, eliminating settlement and counterparty risks. Under the steer of CEO and Chairman Hugh Hughes, Koine brings together, for the first time, the full suite of governance, compliance, risk management and audit [...]
Bitcoin Halving Set to Change Everything. Or Not. May 5, 2020 In the next few days, somewhere around May 12th, the question of what will happen after Bitcoin’s third halving will finally be answered. In recent months, and especially in recent weeks, the debate has raged openly within the crypto community and even beyond, in wider financial circles. Will the 50% drop in annual Bitcoin inflation [...]
Europe’s Crypto funding gap May 5, 2020 The European blockchain ecosystem is increasingly critically undercapitalised if it is to maintain the hard fought global leadership role established over the last decade. Despite London, Switzerland and Berlin when combined being home to roughly a third of the worlds blockchain startups, it has just 22% of the investment compared with the US and China [...]
Crypto data provider Skew launches trading platform as it raises $5m April 29, 2020 Skew, a data analytics platform for crypto, has today launched a trading platform after a $5m funding round led by Octopus Ventures. Skew Trading is a partnership with Kyte Broking focused on attracting institutional traders entering the crypto world. Skew is initially focusing on OTC execution of Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) block trades for bitcoin [...]