Bitcoin


Markets

Bitcoin Keeps Recovery Hopes Alive With Defense of Major Average Support

Bitcoin may make a quick recovery above $9,000 if the bulls maintain their defense of the 200-day average at $8,720.

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Markets

Bitcoin Price Falls After One-Hour Volume Spike

An hour of high volume trading on Tuesday resulted in bitcoin trading lower, giving back nearly half of the previous day’s gains.

Bitcoin prices, March 2 to March 3, 2020.

Markets

Bitcoin Drops 2% Following Fed's First Emergency Rate Cut Since 2008

Bitcoin prices slid Tuesday after the U.S. Federal Reserve announced an emergency cut in interest rates to counteract risks to the economy from the spreading coronavirus.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell

Policy

Why Aren't the Candidates Talking About Digital Currency?

Given the threat to US interests posed by a digital yuan and similar projects, you might think candidates would have positions on the future of money. Not so much.

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Markets

Bottom In? Bitcoin Makes 4.5% Gain as Sellers Lose Steam

Bitcoin looks to have found a price bottom over the last two days and may soon witness a stronger recovery rally.

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Markets

Bitcoin Rebounds as Coronavirus-Infected Stocks Get Jolt From Fed, BOJ

Bitcoin jumped the most in two weeks Monday, surging alongside U.S. stocks amid speculation that the Federal Reserve and other central banks will support markets as the coronavirus spreads.

Fed Chairman Jerome Powell

Markets

Bitcoin, Uncertainty and the Ultimate Narrative

Noelle Acheson looks at how the market turmoil could spill over into politics and what that could mean for bitcoin.

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Markets

Bitcoin’s Option Market Sees Low Chance of Post-Halving Rally

Bitcoin is unlikely to get bid up after the May 2020 mining reward halving, based on the way the cryptocurrency’s options are valued.

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Markets

Bitcoin Rallies After Biggest Weekly Drop Since November

Bitcoin is flashing green on Monday, having suffered a double-digit price drop last week.

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Markets

Coronavirus Impacts on Bitcoin (And the IRS's Dumb Singularity)

Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Stephanie Murphy and Adam B. Levine discuss coronavirus and its potential impacts or disruptions to the decentralized world of bitcoin. Plus a humorous look at the IRS's challenges as it lumps together bitcoin and... Ro-Bux?

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