Texas is home of the most vulnerable power grid across the United States. The state is preparing to be hit by a surge in demand for electricity that’s twice as much as the size of Austin’s.An army of cryptocurrency miners opted to head to Texas state to utilize cheap power …
Read More »Market drivers – US Session – 18-11-2021
US shares markets witnessed a mild improvement in trading sentiment, despite printing a mixed daily performance for Thursday. The reason could be linked to the strong US data and comments from the Fed policymakers, as well as a pullback in the US inflation expectations and the Treasury yields.The Dollar Index’s …
Read More »Bitcoin Falls as Congress Battle Takes Off
Bitcoin continued to slide on Thursday, trading down more than 2% and falling as low as $58,283. The most famous cryptocurrency is now very apart from its highs around $69,000, recorded on November 10.US Congress is pushing some of the most sharply divergent views on cryptocurrencies. Speaking at a Congressional …
Read More »Market Drivers – US Session – 17-11-2021
US shares, treasury yields and the US dollar reversed direction and closed lower, Wednesday. The three assets were negatively several by several factors in the markets, most notably the decision by Amazon.com to stop accepting payments with Visa cards in the UK as of 2022 in addition to negative data …
Read More »Bitcoin Fluctuates As Traders Decelerate Speculation
Bitcoin fluctuated around a key inflection point of $60,000 on Wednesday as traders appeared to rein in excessive speculation that is sent the world’s largest cryptocurrency to a record last week.Bitcoin has dropped roughly 13% from its all-time high of $68,990, recorded on Nov. 10, dipping below $60,000 on Wednesday.The …
Read More »Markets Drivers – US Session – 16-11-2021
The first virtual Chinese-US summit, Tuesday, shadowed the markets as investors eyed easing tensions between the two world’s biggest economies. US President Joe Biden said that he had a “good meeting” with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, in which the two leaders discussed tariff and economic competition among other issues after …
Read More »Bitcoin Slides After Chinese Warning, US Law
Bitcoin fell around $60,000 on Tuesday, after it had been hit by a blend of bearish factors, including the US infrastructure bill that imposes tougher rules on cryptocurrencies trading taxes and a new warning from China to firms regarding mining.Bitcoin fell by more than 10% at one point, dropped below …
Read More »Market Drivers – U. S. Session – 12-11-2121
The “Big Short” movie star Michael Burry returned to Twitter Friday. After earlier remarks about inflation, SEC and Fed policies, the movie star who is also CEO of Scion Asset Management says that Elon Musk has wrong calculations and had it not quite right with his Rivian comments. Earlier in …
Read More »What Investors Need To Know About Bitcoin’s Taproot
Taproot is the next upgrade of bitcoin, and even bitcoin’s first major upgrade since 2017, and it will impact the blockchain in several aspects. It is expected to go into effect in the coming days at block 709,632. It will go live as soon as Saturday.Taproot will introduce investors to …
Read More »Listing, Trading Shares of Vaneck Bitcoin Trust Disapproved
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday rejected rule changes that would have allowed the listing and trading of the VanEck bitcoin exchange traded fund.In March, the Cboe BZX Exchange, Inc. filed a proposed rule change to list and trade shares of the VanEck Bitcoin Trust under BZX Rule.The …
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