#bitcoin price

U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Approves Bitcoin Options Trading

July 11, 2017 by Alex Lielacher at Bitcoin, Finance, News, Regulation

U.S. financial regulators are not (yet) comfortable with a publicly-traded bitcoin ETF as witnessed by the SEC’s rejection of the Winklevoss Coin ETF. However, it turns out that they are comfortable with granting institutional investors access to bitcoin derivatives. On July 6, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced...

Coinbase Experienced Degraded Performance Amidst Bitcoin Surge

June 5, 2017 by Evan Sixtin at Altcoins, Bitcoin, Business, News

On May 22, Coinbase.com, the largest centralized online bitcoin exchange, operating in 32 countries, experienced a partial outage resulting in degraded performance, deposit/withdrawal delays, and some customers were unable to log in to their accounts. Bitcoin crossed the $2000 mark on May 20, 2017, and continued to climb to a...

South Korean Authorities Formulate Legislation to Boost Mainstream Bitcoin Adoption

South Korean Researchers Predict Bitcoin Price Using Forum Data

June 3, 2017 by Evan Sixtin at Bitcoin, Commentary, Finance, News

An open access, peer-reviewed research paper published on May 12, 2017, by researchers from Korea University and Kangnam University in South Korea has explained a method for predicting the fluctuation in the bitcoin price and transactions based on user opinions posted on online forums. The paper, entitled "When Bitcoin encounters...

BitVal: Measuring Bitcoin Based On Money Laundering

May 25, 2017 by Nigel Dollentas at Bitcoin, Commentary, Finance, News

With bitcoin skyrocketing in price and looking to break $3,000 if the current trajectory holds, how much is too much? What is one bitcoin really worth? BitVal, a beta metric, tries to put a valuation measure on the cryptocurrency in a way that makes logical sense. For stocks, this value...

Bitcoin Price Analysis: A Test of $1892 Incoming

May 14, 2017 by Jamie Holmes at Bitcoin, News, Price Analysis

BTC-USD has bounced back above $1800 momentarily on May 14 after dipping as low as $1601.46 on the Bitstamp exchange on May 13. After posting a fresh all-time high at $1892.00 earlier in the week, the market has completed a retracement to the 61.8 percent Fibonacci level and closed higher...

Upward Momentum in Bitcoin Price Intensifies on Litecoin’s Role as SegWit Testbed

May 9, 2017 by Joseph Young at Altcoins, Bitcoin, Commentary, News

Over the past month, the price of bitcoin has consistently maintained its upward trend and momentum, increasing from around $1,185 to $1,624 as litecoin moves to implement SegWit. In the past seven days, bitcoin price recorded a 15 percent weekly gain, breaking the $1700 barrier on May 9 for the...

Markets Update: Bitcoin Briefly Dips Below $1500, Ether Retraces from $97

May 5, 2017 by Jamie Holmes at Price Analysis

Cryptocurrency markets have continued their upward surge on May 5, with BTC-USD posting a fresh high at $1623.01 on the Bitstamp exchange, while ETH-USD peaked at $97 on Kraken. The price of bitcoin has been boosted by its highest ever volume in a 24-hour period, surpassing $1 billion. Some of...

Bitcoin Price Soars to New Record High at $1425

May 1, 2017 by Jamie Holmes at Bitcoin, News, Price Analysis

The price of bitcoin is at record highs on May 1, reaching $1425 on the Bitstamp exchange, after breaking the previous all-time high at $1350. A move above the peak reached in the market mayhem accompanying the SEC's ETF decision indicates that a long-term target for bulls has been validated...

Bitcoin Price Tests $1300 After Close Encounter with All-time High

April 28, 2017 by Jamie Holmes at Bitcoin, News, Price Analysis

BTC-USD is down around 2 percent on today's open on the Bitstamp exchange, testing the critical $1300 handle. The market came within inches of breaching the all-time high at $1350.00, posted in the mayhem leading up to the SEC's decision on the Winklevoss ETF. The SEC is now reconsidering the...

A Bitcoin Fountain with all kinds of other currency coming out of it

Weekly Cryptocurrency Market Outlook April 17

April 17, 2017 by Jamie Holmes at Cryptocurrency Market Outlook

BTCManager's Weekly Cryptocurrency Outlook highlights the price action and technical indicators on a long-term basis to identify the best opportunities in the largest cryptocurrencies, such as bitcoin, ether, and others. BTC-USD (Bitstamp) Bitcoin has dipped below $1200 but the bullish outlook remains intact as last week's dive remained above the...

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