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BTC dominance has been on a steady climb in the last few weeks. Bitcoin (BTC) price has surpassed the $28,000 level, marking an increase of 5.70% over the past 24 hours. Interestingly, this comes as most other altcoins appear to be trading flat in the same period. For what it’s worth, the
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The declines come after the exchange halted its no-fee trading promotion for the 13 bitcoin spot trading pairs, including BTC-USDT, on March 22. Binance called the promotion temporary. In an email to CoinDesk last week, Kaiko Research Director Clara Medalie wrote that without zero-fee, she expected “a short-term drop in
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Glassnode data on Mar. 26 shows that the stablecoin supply on exchanges has more than halved to less than $24b in four months. Stablecoin supply on exchanges dropping In November, stablecoin supply on exchanges stood at over $44b. Still, this figure, triggered by several fundamental factors, including regulatory actions, has been contracting over the
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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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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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