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Ethereum (ETH) All Set To Decline Below $200 As Price Tops Out

Ethereum (eth) all set to decline below $200 as price tops out

Ethereum (ETH) All Set To Decline Below $200 As Price Tops Out

Ethereum (eth) all set to decline below $200 as price tops out

Ethereum (ETH) recently saw a strong rejection at the $270 resistance level and has now begun its decline towards the bottom of the ascending channel it has been trading in. The price did manage to rise above the $270 mark but it failed to close above it. That being said, it did close above the 1.272 Fibonacci retracement level which was a false bullish signal as the price declined below that level and managed to close below the 1.272 Fib retracement level the next day. ETH/USD flash crashed to $223 but bounced strongly off it. However, that did not stop it from starting the next day in red and declining towards that mark again. RSI on the daily time frame shows that the price just topped out above $270 and is now due for a correction.

A decline to the bottom of the ascending channel is due in both the bullish and bearish cases. The bulls would expect the price to test the 61.8% fib retracement level as support and bounce strongly off it to resume rally towards higher levels. The bears on the other hand expect the price to break this ascending channel and fall towards lower levels. Taking both cases into account, it would be reasonable to say that the price could still rally once more after declining to the bottom of the ascending channel. This means that the bears might have to wait a little longer to get what they want as the whales might want to capitalize on the bullish euphoria that still persists in the market. As long as there are people who will buy the dream, the whales will sell it to them.

The daily chart for ETH/BTC points to a gloomy outlook for Ethereum (ETH) against Bitcoin (BTC). It shows that the recent gains that Ethereum (ETH) and other altcoins made against Bitcoin (BTC) may be lost as the altcoin market takes a hit with the next downtrend. As we have seen in the past, when Bitcoin (BTC) falls, altcoins fall a lot more aggressively. ETH/BTC broke below a critical trend line support and has now tested it as resistance. As expected, the price faced a strong rejection at the trend line support turned resistance and is now expected to decline towards the 50 day moving average.

The number of margined shorts is still reluctant to rise even though ETH/USD had a massive buying frenzy the past few weeks. Retail bears seem to have been unnerved by the recent buying frenzy as they now fear that anything could happen. ETHUSDShorts faced a strong rejection at the 50 day moving average and is expected to decline towards the bottom of the ascending channel. This means that retail bears are not ready to step up just yet but the whales might have different ideas. The bulls are still too excited and market makers might want to give them just one more opportunity to buy the dip before they crash the price again just like they did yesterday.

Published at Sat, 18 May 2019 14:04:22 +0000

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Spells of Genesis Game Launches for iPhone & Android

Spells of Genesis (SoG), a blockchain-based mobile game, was released on the Apple App Store and Google Play store yesterday.


Spells of Genesis Available in App Stores

The blockchain-based fantasy trading card game, Spells of Genesis (SoG), has been added to the Apple App Store and Google Play Store yesterday. This means that cryptocurrency is one step closer to mainstream adoption as anyone with an iOS or Android device can now play this game.  

Shaban Shaame, CEO and founder of EverdreamSoft stated:

It’s a huge milestone because SoG will be one of the first ICO projects that hit the mainstream market.

The news comes 18 months after the Initial Coin Offering (ICO) campaign in which Swiss-based EverdreamSoft, the company behind SoG, collected 934 BTC in exchange for BitCrystals (BCY), a crypto asset issued on the bitcoin blockchain. BCY is used to purchase in-game content and to unlock certain features.

Not only is SoG offering gamers the ability to actually own their in-game balance and to exchange it for BTC, other cryptocurrencies, and fiat, they are also leveraging blockchain technology to bring life to the concept of “rare” trading cards.

The bitcoin blockchain ensures that BTCs can not be reproduced/forged/duplicated, just like it ensures that SoG rare trading cards can not. This is also done by using by issuing the trading cards as assets on the bitcoin blockchain.

Spells of Genesis

Spells of Genesis is a mobile game that brings in elements of trading card games (TCG) along with arcade-style gaming aspects. SoGis influenced by Blockchain technology on various levels. Not only are BitCrystals (BCY) used to monetize the game, rare trading cards are also cryptographic assets on the bitcoin blockchain.

But that’s not all! Blockchain technology is also the main focus of the storyline with  rare cards featuring known coins, services or people like the Satoshi Nakamoto card, the Ethereum card and even a fork card that symbolizes the current bitcoin scaling debate.

As so, SoG allows gamers to learn about bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in a playful environment, where users can discover the history so far and the features/tools provided by different projects through the cards themselves, preparing entrant users for the overwhelming world of blockchain technology, should they choose to delve into it.

Gaming and Blockchain technology

Despite being one of the first ICO projects to reach a mainstream audience, BitCrystals is not the only cryptocurrency & gaming project out there. In fact, the two seem to form a perfect match. Starting with gambling, bitcoin changed the way we interact with online casinos, making online gambling transparent and much more efficient. Today there are multiple provably fair gambling websites.

Online gaming itself has always been limited in the sense that all of the accomplishments of gamers were nothing more than data in a server which they could never export into the real world. Thanks to blockchain technology, users can be rewarded for their efforts by selling or trading in-game items and cards for actual money.

Although SoG is the first of its kind, others have followed. Rarepepe, a meme-based game, uses a similar system to Spells of Genesis in order to create and record rarepepe cards on the blockchain. These can then be exchanged for BTC and other cryptos. Although Rarepepe is not a game in itself, it has become extremely popular in the crypto space, with cards being bought and sold for exorbitant prices.

Cryptocurrency assets have also become a way to gamify existing platforms by creating decentralized incentive models and ways for players to compete among themselves.

The FirstBlood project, for example, is a decentralized platform that uses smart contract technology to make eSports tournaments and matches between gamers fair and transparent, allowing gamers to profit from their skills.

MobileGo also comes to mind, a dual-blockchain token that will be used to gamify the GameCredits mobile app store.

Despite the growing chainwashing trend where projects use blockchain technology for the hype and not for the technology itself, the gaming seems to be one step ahead by being of the few industries where blockchain technology is already having a visible impact and changing the way we play.

Can Blockchain technology change the gaming industry completely and become the standard? Or is it just another fad in the gaming world?


Images courtesy of Spells of Genesis, Daily Dot

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