Bitcoin News and Finance: What You Need to Know

Minutes from the U.S. Federal Reserve’s policy meeting on December 14-15 show that the central bank is being persistent about unwinding quantitive easing (QE) tactics and that it views ultra-low interest rates as no longer necessary. Global markets immediately dropped after the news was published as stock markets roiled, crypto markets shed billions, and precious metals like gold slipped a hair in value as well. US Central Bank Policy Meeting Suggests the QE and Low-Interest Rate Fiesta Is Coming to an End, Global Markets Lose Billions Recently published notes from the Fed meeting last month indicate that the U.S. central bank thinks the economy is healthy enough to unwind major asset purchases and increase the benchmark interest rate. Mizuho Bank’s Vishnu Varathan wrote in a report that the minutes update from the Fed “bludgeoned the markets” after it was published. Barron’s financial author Randall W. Forsyth wrote that investors being “surprised, is somewhat surprising.” Fed c...

Measures imposed by authorities to quell mass protests in mining hotspot Kazakhstan are affecting cryptocurrency markets and the Bitcoin network hashrate. To deal with the civil unrest caused by rising fuel prices and a worsening economy, the government restricted access to the internet and closed down local banks. Fears are rising that the turmoil may spark another major migration of miners now that some are already leaving the country, which also faces power shortages. Government Takes Country Offline as Protests Rage in Major Cities, Russia Sends Troops Thousands of Kazakhstanis took to the streets this week to express their anger over the socioeconomic conditions in their country after the government removed a cap on prices of natural gas and other fuels. Protests erupted in the country’s largest city, Almaty, the capital Nur-Sultan, and in the western Mangistau province. Authorities have imposed a state of emergency. Over 1,000 citizens have been injured, official media report...

On January 5, digital currency markets shed a great deal of value as bitcoin dropped below the $44K handle during the late afternoon (EST) trading sessions on Wednesday. Nearly every coin has shed 24-hour value, but a slew of crypto assets have seen double-digit gains and have managed to stave off the crypto economy downturn. This Week’s Double-Digit Crypto Gainers At the time of writing, the crypto economy is down more than 7% to a low of $2.16 trillion on Thursday, January 6, 2022. The price of bitcoin ( BTC ) has lost 7% this week as well as it dropped below the $44K zone from the $46K region where it sat 24 hours prior. BTC ’s current 24-hour range is between $46,901 per unit and a low of $42,466 per unit. Other top crypto assets have shed significant value as well as ethereum ( ETH ) is down more than 10%, binance coin ( BNB ) has lost over 8%, and solana (SOL) has dipped more than 11% in USD value. Weekly metrics were recorded on January 6, 2022, at 9:45 a.m. (EST). Despite ...

Bitcoin dominance has dropped to the lowest level in just over three and a half years since June 3, 2018, at 37%. Last year, at the end of March, bitcoin dominance hovered just above the 60% zone but since then, numerous digital asset market caps have swelled in value and gathered prominence in the market rankings along the way. Bitcoin Dominance Dips Below 38% The crypto economy currently has roughly 12,247 crypto assets traded across 542 exchanges worldwide. Crypto markets have shed more than 7% over the last 24 hours, dropping to a low of $2.16 trillion by 8:00 a.m. (EST). While people measure the individual crypto market capitalizations regularly, bitcoin’s market valuation dominance, compared to the rest of the capitalizations, has been measured since the existence of multiple crypto markets. During the first few years, BTC dominance was well above the 90% range, in terms of market capitalization dominance. Dominance was recorded more so during the month of May 2013, and at ...

What Are Sassy Unicorns NFT Sassy Unicorns are a collection of 10,000 unique NFTs on the Ethereum blockchain. Each unicorn is available to adopt, with unicorns distributed randomly at the minting event. Special About Sassy Unicorns NFT Each NFT holder can yield 7$ daily by holding NFT in their wallet. Passive Income Token The goal is to create a loop. The passive income increases the value of the NFT, the price of the token increases because the floor price increases, so the passive income increases again because token price increases, the floor price increases again, the passive income increases again. Why Token A token will sit at the core of everything in the Sassy Unicorns universe. As the universe grows more utility will be added. The mission of Sassy Unicorns extends further than a 2D PFP, or a 3D avatar. It’s about family, utility, and of course the main life source of any unicorn, token that fuels the ecosystem the TRUE way, on the blockchain. (*The SUNI token is under ...

ESMA, the European Securities and Markets Authority, has set out to establish if EU authorities need to amend existing regulations in order to facilitate the trading and settlement of tokenized securities. The regulator is now seeking opinions on the matter ahead of launching a pilot regime for market infrastructures based on distributed ledger technology (DLT). ESMA Gathers Stakeholders’ Input on DLT Pilot Regime for Securities The European securities watchdog ESMA is accepting public comments on the potential update of regulations concerning the implementation of DLT solutions in the market. The authority has to assess whether some regulatory technical standards (RTS) developed under the Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation ( MIFIR ) need to be amended in order to be applied to securities issued, traded, and recorded on DLT. The standards in question pertain to trade transparency and data reporting requirements, ESMA notes in a “Call for Evidence” document published this ...