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(Bloomberg) — El Salvador’s declaration of Bitcoin as legal tender could create challenges for both the country and the cryptocurrency, according to a team from JPMorgan Chase & Co. Bitcoin trading volumes commonly exceed $40 billion to $50 billion per day, but most of that is internalized by major exchanges, said a group from JPMorgan including Steve Palacio, Joshua Younger and Veronica Mejia Bustamante, in a report Thursday. A large portion of Bitcoin is locked up in illiquid entities,… Source link

Cryptocurrencies traded higher on Friday after a volatile week. Bitcoin was holding above $33,000 support at press time and is roughly flat for the week. Technical charts suggest buyers will remain active above $30,000, although upside momentum is starting to slow heading into the weekend.  “The possibility of price action dropping into the mid-$20,000 range is alive, but traders looking for a retest of previous all-time highs will likely be disappointed,” Sean Rooney, head of research… Source link

It’s time to back up the truck and buy the beat-up shares of pioneering crypto exchange Coinbase (COIN), contends Oppenheimer analyst Owen Lau.  Coinbase shares don’t deserve to be swept up into the latest crypto winter, according to Lau.  “We think Coinbase should not trade in lockstep with bitcoin because bitcoin can be very volatile, but at the same time because of their volatility it drives higher trading volume. It is similar to all the traditional exchanges, and we think that it’s… Source link

Active bitcoin miners may see their profitability double following the 28% downward difficulty adjustment in mining on July 3, according to several mining sites.  The North American hash spread – an index invented by digital asset financial services platform BitOoda to measure the difference between bitcoin mining revenue per megawatt-hour and the cost of the needed power – has almost doubled to $449 from $225.  “Mining economics have improved significantly,” Sam Doctor, chief… Source link

Associated Press Iraqi militia commander vows to avenge deaths in US strike The leader of an Iran-backed Iraqi militia has vowed to retaliate against America for the deaths of four of his men in a U.S. airstrike along the Iraq-Syria border last month, saying it will be a military operation everyone will talk about. Abu Alaa al-Walae, commander of Kataib Sayyid al-Shuhada, said in an exclusive interview with The Associated Press in Baghdad that the electoral victory of Iran’s hard-line… Source link

Shortly after being entwined in a legal decision in the U.K., the Bitcoin.org website has faced another battle, this time on the technical front. According to the site’s pseudonymous operator, Cobra, Bitcoin.org was hit with an “absolutely massive” distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. CoinDesk was able to access the site without issue. Decrypt reported on Monday that attackers had demanded 0.5 bitcoin ($17,012) to have the site’s services and operations restored to… Source link

One of the most widely used charts for predicting massive future bitcoin price gains is showing the largest divergence since January 2019.  The bitcoin stock-to-flow model currently suggests that the price of bitcoin should be around $77,900. But as of Monday, the cryptocurrency was trading at $33,668, well off the all-time high price of $64,829 reached in April.  Crypto analyst ‘PlanB’, who has been documenting his stock-to-flow model since March 2019, tweeted that BTC/USD is now the… Source link

The amount of bitcoin held on exchanges has declined to a six-month low as the price of bitcoin has seen a 47% decline since its previous all-time high. Bitcoin held on exchanges has seen a continuous decline over the past couple of weeks. The supply held on exchanges has been declining since Mid-May. The current supply on exchanges based on the percentage of the total supply saw a new six-month low being hit.   Low supplies of BTC on exchanges is bullish On-chain analysis company Santiment Source link

Associated Press Scale, details of massive Kaseya ransomware attack emerge Cybersecurity teams worked feverishly Sunday to stem the impact of the single biggest global ransomware attack on record, with some details emerging about how the Russia-linked gang responsible breached the company whose software was the conduit. An affiliate of the notorious REvil gang, best known for extorting $11 million from the meat-processor JBS after a Memorial Day attack, infected thousands of victims in at… Source link

Bitcoin Bitcoin, BTC to USD, rose by 1.53% in the week ending 4th July. Partially reversing a 2.55% loss from the previous week, Bitcoin ended the week at $35,276. After a mixed start to the week, Bitcoin rose to a Tuesday intraweek high $36,600.0 before hitting reverse. Falling short of the first major resistance level at $37,302, Bitcoin slid to a Friday intraweek low $32,700.0. Steering clear of the first major support level at $30,717, Bitcoin moved back through to $35,000 levels to deliver… Source link