Researchers at Pennsylvania State University recently analyzed whether attitudes and emotionality surrounding cryptocurrency could help predict returns. What they found may stand in stark contrast to related financial markets. According to the team’s research paper, social media plays an outsized role in adoption and activity rates, while cryptocurrency journalism isn’t a great predictor of market movement:
Six members of the United States congress have called on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Department of Justice to investigate Prometheum, claiming the firm has ties to the Chinese Communist Party. In a July 10 letter, Alabama Senator Thomas Tuberville and five members of the House of Representatives alleged Prometheum co-CEO Aaron
Bitcoin (BTC) is in line to hit $50,000 this year and crack all-time highs in 2024, says Standard Chartered. In a report quoted by media outlets including Reuters on July 10, the banking giant went on record to announce a BTC price recovery. Standard Chartered vs. 2023 BTC price: From $5,000 to $50,000 In the
Despite the Coinbase cryptocurrency exchange facing a securities violation lawsuit in the United States, the company’s stock has been on the rise recently. Coinbase (COIN) stock has added more than 50% to its value since the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a lawsuit against the firm for allegedly offering unregistered securities. According to
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin believes the Bitcoin network needs scalable solutions like the zero-knowledge (ZK) rollups to become more than another payment network. Buterin’s comments came during a Twitter space hosted by Bitcoin developer Udi Wertheimer with discussions revolving around Ethereum’s scaling experiments. A ZK-rollup chain is an off-chain protocol that operates on top of
As 93% of the central banks are already conducting research on central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), the uncertainty about this form of digital money among them fades. There could be up to 15 retail and 9 wholesale CBDCs in circulation by 2030. These numbers appear in the survey report by the Bank for International Settlements
Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. owns up to $250,000 in Bitcoin (BTC), in contrast to his previous claim that he was not an investor in the leading cryptocurrency. A record obtained by CNBC shows Kennedy Jr. owned between $100,001 and $250,000 worth of Bitcoin at the end of June. The investment was made
A Canadian judge has ruled that the widely used thumbs-up emoji can affirm that a person is legally entering into a contract. According to a report from the New York Times, judge T.J. Keene said the decision mirrors a “new reality in Canadian society” as more people use emojis to express themselves in all sorts
Bitcoin (BTC) will suck in “all prosperity gains” in future and leave behind those who have no exposure as a result, a new prediction says. In a Twitter thread on July 8, investor Luke Broyles delivered a bold vision of how Bitcoin would become “society’s base money.” Investor tells would-be Bitcoin buyers: “Get off zero”
Nonfarm payrolls rose by 209,000 in June, below economists’ expectations of an addition of 240,000 jobs. Although the figures show a cooling labor market, market observers remained concerned as the average hourly earnings growth held steady at 0.4% from May and 4.4% from a year ago. The report did not alter expectations of a 25 basis
In this week’s episode of Market Talks, Cointelegraph welcomes Natalie Brunell, a podcast host, educator and media commentator in the Bitcoin space. Her podcast, Coin Stories, consistently ranks among the top 50 to 100 on Apple podcasts. She has over 300,000 Twitter followers, and is an award-winning TV journalist and former investigative reporter. Brunell explains how Bitcoin
A Salvadoran teenager shares his journey of completing El Salvador’s Bitcoin diploma program, Mi Primer Bitcoin, meaning My First Bitcoin. Now, he has returned to his former high school to educate the teachers about Bitcoin (BTC). In a series of tweets on July 8, 18-year-old Gerardo Moran revealed that El Salvador’s Bitcoin diploma program, Mi
The news surrounding BlackRock’s application for a spot Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund (EFT) sent the asset’s price from its local lows in mid-June to a strong monthly close of +12%. To most observers, this was a sign that institutional investment into the cryptosphere is once again on the horizon. A future approval of a spot
The Association for Financial Markets in Europe (ASME), an industry advocacy group that represents wholesale market participants in Europe, called for the inclusion of the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector within the recently passed markets in crypto assets (MiCA) regulations. MiCA is considered the first potential comprehensive crypto legislation that is set to come into effect
Top Stories This Week Larry Fink, the CEO of BlackRock, has recently delivered pro-crypto remarks, claiming “Bitcoin is an international asset” and suggesting U.S. regulators consider how an ETF directly linked to Bitcoin could democratize finance in the country. Under Fink, BlackRock has attempted to launch a spot BTC ETF with crypto exchange Coinbase acting
A pair of researchers from the University of Tsukuba in Japan recently built an AI-powered cryptocurrency portfolio management system that utilizes on-chain data for training, the first of its kind according to the scientists. Called CryptoRLPM, short for “Cryptocurrency reinforcement learning portfolio manager,” the AI system utilizes a training technique called “reinforcement learning” to implement
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