Make sure you check out last weeks post , now let’s go over what happened in crypto this week.
Price Watch:
- is up 5% again this week to $9,990. The price was all over the place this week dropping to and losing support at that level before . The price made a quick recovery to the on Thursday before . Technical analysts now watch closely as bitcoin seeks again to retest the critical $10,000 level. Heavyweight analysts , especially in the .
- is up 16% this week meaning Ethereum has made double-digit gains for 3 out of the last 4 weeks. After successfully retesting the this week Ethereum’s were able to pull the cryptocurrency market cap over . These key technical factors combined with /, , , and have led to the price surge. Another key factor will be the on whether or not Ethereum is a security, set to come out next week. Ethereum will not be deemed a security, and this is at least partially reflected in the price.
- The entire crypto market gained 8% this week after a strong gain of and in the two preceding .
Regulation:
- : Sources close to the (Financial Services Agency), Japan’s regulatory agency, have reported this week that the FSA is “taking all available steps” to pressure domestic trading platforms to drop support for altcoins that promote anonymity. Some say the move was motivated by CoinCheck’s which Japan hopes to prevent in the future.
- Federal Reserve: bitcoin is like”Regular Currency” – In a published this week to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis’ blog the Federal Reserve attempted to compare cryptocurrencies to regular currencies and prove they are more “boring” than people think.
- – The (Reserve Bank of India) continues to face legal challenges this week over its ban on buying cryptocurrencies.
- : Iran’s judiciary banned on Monday accusing the popular messenger app of allowing armed opposition groups to fuel unrest. Domestic ISP’s have been forced to comply and will face prosecution for disobeying the order.
Startups:
- in the equity package presented as part of the exchanges acquisition of earn.com. This $8 billion marks a huge increase from it’s $1.6 billion valuations last August when the exchange concluded it’s Series D round. The change in valuation is likely due to it’s new, institutional investor facing,
- : The managing director of the fund, providing an analysis of the current market said the pullback was to figure out the “real applications” of blockchain technology and that investors are likely to see a huge surge in the short term. Despite their optimism, the exchange is still waiting for blockchain’s “killer app”.
Scaling:
- : Mastercard International has applied for a patent for fast-tracking data processing on blockchain systems to increase transaction volume. The move comes as a surprise to some considering Mastercard has referred to cryptocurrencies in the past as.
- : Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin has announced that Sharding, a much-awaited scaling solution for the Ethereum blockchain protocol, is coming. Sharding is said to be an important part of the 100-fold increase in scalability experts claim is needed to support large-scale decentralized applications.
Miscellaneous:
- : Warren Buffet, speaking to from Berkshire Hathaway’s annual again compared buying bitcoin to “gambling”. Buffet’s main issue with cryptocurrencies is they are not “value-producing assets”. Only time will tell who is right.
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Published at Sun, 06 May 2018 14:24:18 +0000
bitcoin News in Review
