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Bitcoin (BTC) approached a key weekly close on March 19 with traders concerned about a retest of lower levels.BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingViewBitcoin bulls must "step in" to protect $26,000Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD circling $27,000 on Bitstamp.After briefly tapping $28,000 into the weekend,
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On March 17 crypto exchange OKX suffered a temporary server outage which was solved in about an hour. The OKX team said in a Twitter update that the outage was due to a matching engine problem. OKX experienced downtime In several tweets, OKX assured investors that the engineering team was working hard to
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The previous six months should have been extremely beneficial to Ether's (ETH) price, especially after the project's most significant upgrade ever in September 2022. However, the reality was the opposite: between September 15, 2022, and March 15, 2023, Ether underperformed Bitcoin (BTC) by 10%.Ether/Bitcoin price on Bitfinex, 2-day. Source: TradingViewThe
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On Deribit, one options contract represents 1 BTC and 1 ETH. The exchange controls more than 80% of the global crypto options market. Options give traders the right to buy or sell the underlying asset, in this case, bitcoin, at a specific price, known as a strike, by a stated
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As such, data suggests the price action was spot driven. As of Tuesday, open interest on futures remained below Mar. 9 levels, when bitcoin traded above $23,500, even as bitcoin retraced all losses – implying the price action was led by investors purchasing bitcoin instead of being futures driven. Source
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USDT’s market capitalization has grown some $5.3 billion this year so far to $71.6 billion, with $3 billion of the gains after mid-February. Circle’s rival stablecoin, USD Coin (USDC), has also gained $3 billion since the Paxos announcement; however, its $44 billion market cap is still lower than at the
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As the US Supreme Court rules in favor of Ripple’s fair notice defense, the XRP community expresses slight optimism. However, XRP price lost 3% in one week. The SEC vs. Ripple case has been going on for over two years since 2020. The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) then accused
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Economist and gold enthusiast Peter Schiff has said that the U.S. Fed may have to fight a “complete economic collapse” and be faced with more to worry about than the current battle against inflation. In other news, artificial intelligence (AI) crypto assets have seen a recent surge, and SEC Chairman
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Australia's central bank is set to launch a "live pilot" of a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) "in the coming months," according to a joint statement from the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and Digital Finance CRC (DFCRC), an Australian financial research institute.The RBA said on Mar. 2 local
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Bitcoin's (BTC) 16% price gain between Feb. 13 and Feb. 16 practically extinguished the bears' expectation for a monthly options expiry below $21,500. As a result of the abrupt rally, these bearish bets are unlikely to pay off, especially since the expiry occurs on Feb. 24. However, bulls were not
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