Bitcoin Cash Price Analysis: BCH/USD Rebound Facing Hurdle Near $185

Key Points Bitcoin cash price declined heavily towards $150 before recovering a few points against the US Dollar. There is a major bearish trend line in place with resistance at $185 on the hourly chart of the BCH/USD pair (data feed from Kraken). The pair must break the $185, $190 and $200 resistance levels to move into a positive zone. Bitcoin cash price tumbled and tested the $150 level against the US Dollar. BCH/USD is currently recovering, but it is facing a solid resistance near $185-190. Bitcoin Cash Price Analysis…

Ohio ‘Appears’ to Be First US State to Accept Bitcoin for Taxes, WSJ Report

The U.S. state of Ohio is poised to become the first state to accept Bitcoin (BTC) as tax payment, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reports today, Nov. 25. As the WSJ writes, the move initially applies only to businesses, with plans to extend the offering to individual taxpayers in future. Starting this week, Ohio-based businesses will be able register to pay all of their taxes in the leading cryptocurrency. The payments are reportedly set to be processed via crypto payments service BitPay. As the WSJ reports, the crypto-friendly move was…

Blockchain Could ‘Speed up the Economy,’ Says Nigerian Presidential Candidate

The presidential candidate of Nigeria’s leading opposition party has promised to support blockchain and cryptocurrency, local news outlet the DailyPost article reported Nov. 24. The Nigerian news outlet reportedly analyzed the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate Atiku Abubakar’s “Get Nigeria Working Again” policy that he reportedly promised to enact if he is elected president February 16, 2019. DailyPost reports that in the document, the politician declared that “he aims to speed up the economy positively through blockchain and cryptocurrency.” According to DailyPost, Abubaka stated that to unlock “the potentials of…

Bitcoin Slips Below $4,000, EOS Overtakes Bitcoin Cash as Markets Plunge

Sunday, Nov. 25: crypto markets have suffered another crash yesterday and continuing into today, with all top 20 cryptocurrencies by market cap deeply in the red, and Bitcoin (BTC) trading below $4,000. crypto markets are seeing a massive decline of at least 10-15 percent. Stellar (XLM) has suffered the most, down over 20 percent, and trading at $0.14 at press time, according to CoinMarketCap. Market visualization from Coin360 Yesterday, Nov. 24, Bitcoin plunged below the $4,000 price point, breaking the threshold for the first time since September 2017. Today, the…

Bitcoin Price Plunges to New Yearly Low at $3,456: What’s Causing it?

Twitter Facebook LinkedIn On Coinbase and other major fiat-to-cryptocurrency exchanges, the Bitcoin price (BTC) has dropped to a new yearly low at $3,456. Over the past 24 hours, despite its relatively low daily volume at around $5.2 billion, BTC demonstrated a drop of over 12 percent, showing weakness in short-term momentum. The volume of BTC has since risen to $6.3 billion, mostly due to an overwhelming amount of sell orders. Free Fall Bitcoin Price (BTC/USD) | Coinbase The drop in the price of the dominant cryptocurrency on November 25 remains…

SIX Launches Multi-Crypto ETP, BCH’s Hard Fork Remains Contentious

Coming every Sunday, the Hodler’s Digest will help you to track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions, and much more — a week on Cointelegraph in one link. Top Stories This Week KPMG Report Notes That Crypto Is a Big Deal, But Needs Institutional Investment Netherlands-based “Big Four” auditor KPMG released a bullish report on crypto this week, arguing that institutional investors must join the industry for it to “realize its potential.” The report, titled…

Cryptocurrency Markets Will ‘Flip Next Year’

Mike Novogratz, ex-Goldman Sachs partner and founder of Galaxy Digital, has said that he expects cryptocurrency to “flip next year” in an interview published by Financial Times (FT) Nov. 23. During the interview, Novogratz said that “this year has been challenging” for Galaxy Digital –  a company that he hopes will become “the Goldman Sachs of crypto” – adding that “it sucks to build a business in a bear market.” According to FT, Novogratz predicted that financial institutions will transition from “investing in cryptocurrency funds to investing in cryptocurrencies proper…

Bitcoin Falls to $3.4k as Retails Panic but Institutional Investors are Loving it

Bitcoin on Sunday has established another yearly low after extending its previous downside momentum. At press time, the BTC/USD pair is trading at 3823 on Coinbase after correcting from its intraday low at 3466. It marks a circa 45% loss just in November while contributing to an overall 82.5% loss since its manipulatively achieved all-time high. Unable to Recover Bulls are unable to pull off a substantial recovery period and most of the intraday actions to the upsides look to be coming from retailers executing their shorts. Ideally, the downtrend…

Will AI-based Agents on Blockchain Replace User Interfaces?

Does your mopping robot or your food processor have names? Do you ascribe a character to them? Unless you’re a robot yourself, you probably do. The entire history of engineering has been about making the most human-like machines possible. We humans are hardwired to process social interactions, so we subconsciously expect machines to be at least somewhat human. We can adapt to dashboards, handles and buttons, but what we really want is an obedient servant. Japanese startup Connectome have come up with the “world’s first” Virtual Human Agent (VHA) on…

How OKEx Exchange Is Handling “Market Manipulation” Case

Last week, OKEx exchange faced negative publicity and accusations of marketing manipulation after adjusting Bitcoin Cash (BCH) futures settlements during the notorious hard fork. On November 20, the exchange responded to those allegations, essentially defending its decision and promising to provide evidence if the case goes to court. Curiously, it is at least the third time this year that OKEx has shown strange price volatility on their exchange. Brief introduction to OKEx, major crypto futures trading player OKEx was founded in 2017 as an international arm of the no longer…