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Ripple (XRP) Closer Than Ever To Its Biggest Breakout In Months

Ripple (xrp) closer than ever to its biggest breakout in months

Ripple (XRP) Closer Than Ever To Its Biggest Breakout In Months

Ripple (xrp) closer than ever to its biggest breakout in months

Ripple (XRP) is closer than ever to its biggest breakout in months. The daily chart for XRP/USD shows the price trading close to the trend line resistance having already tested it today. Ripple (XRP) started the day by shooting off against Bitcoin (BTC) but was soon stopped at the trend line resistance and is now consolidating before its next big move. The price will have to break out of this triangle in the weeks ahead. This relatively small triangle seen on the chart extends to the beginning of 2019 but Ripple (XRP) is due for its biggest breakout since the beginning of 2018 against Bitcoin (BTC). While the cryptocurrency may still go down some more in case of a decline in the cryptocurrency market, it is quite clear that Ripple (XRP) is poised to outperform Bitcoin (BTC) during the next cycle.

The mainstream media could not be any harder on Ripple (XRP) than it is now. News outlets are bashing Ripple (XRP) for its poor performance while key industry leaders are still busy calling it a sh*tcoin on Crypto Twitter. This certainly does not help and as we have seen the bulls have been reluctant to pick the cryptocurrency despite it being heavily oversold against both Bitcoin (BTC) and the US Dollar (USD). If we were to examine where it all went wrong for Ripple (XRP), even if this is all temporary, the JPM Coin announcement is the best place to start. Soon after the announcement, we saw a sharp decline in the bullish interest in Ripple (XRP). A few months prior to that, Ripple (XRP) was extremely bullish even when the market was bleeding, but after the announcement, the cryptocurrency could not even keep up with the rest of the market.

Ripple (XRP) has plenty of room to rally against the US Dollar (USD) but that does not even come close to how much it could rally against Bitcoin (BTC) in the weeks and months ahead. The weekly chart for XRP/BTC shows that Ripple (XRP) is massively oversold against Bitcoin (BTC) and has been on a steady decline since the beginning of the year. More importantly, XRP/BTC has yet to break out of the symmetrical triangle or bullish pennant that extends back to December, 2017. This breakout could be a game change for Ripple (XRP) and could see it rally aggressively in the weeks and months ahead.

Throughout the bear market, we have seen Ripple (XRP) make its own independent moves even when Bitcoin (BTC) and the rest of the cryptocurrency market have been in a decline. It would thus not be surprising to see the same happen again. Ripple (XRP) has already begun the day in green against Bitcoin (BTC) and appears likely to continue to rally against it in the weeks to come. This is truly one of the best times to go long on Ripple (XRP) and that is not just of Ripple (XRP)’s own fundamentals. The position in which XRP/BTC is at the moment makes it a good hedge against Bitcoin (BTC) both short term as well as long term.

Published at Sat, 30 Mar 2019 15:07:55 +0000

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NO2X: Next Week’s Hard Fork Has Been “Suspended” Due to a Lack of Consensus

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There will almost certainly be no bitcoin hard fork next week: the main organizers behind the SegWit2x project have “suspended” their efforts.

In an email to the SegWit2x mailing list, one of the main organizers behind the project, BitGo CEO Mike Belshe, explained that the proposed hard fork has not been able to gain sufficient consensus to proceed:

“Although we strongly believe in the need for a larger blocksize, there is something we believe is even more important: keeping the community together. Unfortunately, it is clear that we have not built sufficient consensus for a clean blocksize upgrade at this time.”

The New York Agreement was originally forged between a group of bitcoin companies in May of this year. An initiative by Digital Currency Group CEO Barry Silbert, the project — later dubbed “SegWit2x” — was to combine activation of the Segregated Witness soft fork with a hard fork to double bitcoin’s block weight limit. With Segregated Witness activated on the bitcoin network this past summer, arguably helped by the SegWit2x project, the hard fork was scheduled to take place next week.

However, the hard fork part of the New York Agreement was always controversial for a number of reasons. As a result, a growing number of signatories dropped out of the agreement over the past weeks and months, while developers, user communities, public polls, future markets and more all indicated limited support for the effort. And as the hard fork date drew closer, it become increasingly clear that SegWit2x would in fact spawn a new currency rather than constitute an upgrade of the bitcoin protocol.

And this was never the plan, Belshe wrote:

“Continuing on the current path could divide the community and be a setback to bitcoin’s growth. This was never the goal of Segwit2x.”

Belshe’s email was also signed on behalf of Xapo CEO Wences Casares, Bitmain CEO Jihan Wu, Bloq CEO Jeff Garzik, Blockchain CEO Peter Smith and ShapeShift CEO Erik Voorhees. In a separate blog post published just before Belshe’s email, BitPay CEO Stephen Pair also called for cancelation of the hard fork.

While the New York Agreement was signed by even more companies (and some individuals), and anyone can still deploy the hard fork, it is unlikely that anyone will proceed with the hard fork in any meaningful way.

Belshe does, however, note that a hard fork to increase bitcoin’s block weight limit might be needed in the future, writing:

“As fees rise on the blockchain, we believe it will eventually become obvious that on-chain capacity increases are necessary. When that happens, we hope the community will come together and find a solution, possibly with a blocksize increase.”

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