The TRON (TRX) network showed statistics out of the ballpark in comparison to Ethereum and EOS.
A study conducted by AnChain shows there is overwhelming bot activity on the TRON network, made possible by the very protocol for producing TRON blocks through Super Delegates.
New analysis shows that the reported activity of TRON distributed apps may be the result of deliberately deployed bots.
“Analyzing the Top 10 gambling Tron DApp transactions in Q1 2019, we have determined that blockchain bots contribute to 30.7% of unique accounts and 19.3% of transactions,” the team discovered.
In other Crypto news:
Bulls push the Bitcoin Price to a 2-Week High, is $9,700 Next?
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In an interview with Altcoin Daily, Binance founder, and CEO, Changpeng Zhao (CZ) answered true to Bitcoin reaching a $1 million valuation one day.
However, considering that the BTC price prediction came from a quickfire, true, or false segment at the end of the interview, it would be wise to take this valuation with skepticism.
Of more significant concern was CZ’s view on the long term outlook for the market leader.
Contrary to his million-dollar price prediction, he believes a bigger and better alternative will replace Bitcoin at some point.
The interview covered a wide range of topics, including cryptocurrency as a hedge against traditional finance, Bitcoin maximalism, and the role of DeFi in taking the space forward.
But of interest was CZ’s opinion on the long term future of Bitcoin, especially when taking into account the antiquated nature of its core technology, and the limitations of updating it as a live blockchain.
“To be honest, I think Bitcoin’s dominance over time will decrease, not increase. It may increase in the short term… there’s a lot of innovations people do that people can bring back to Bitcoin, like second layer solutions etc. But when the technology is out already and adopted for ten years, there’s relatively limited scope that you can update it.”
CZ expanded on this by saying sooner or later, every technology eventually gets replaced by something better.
He drew on examples such as dated programming languages, and once-dominant hardware and software firms losing ground to more innovative rivals.
“nothing lasts forever… so things change… if we look at 10, 15, 20 years later, I think it’s totally conceivable that something new will replace Bitcoin, and something better than Bitcoin.”
However, he was keen to state that Bitcoin will still be around, simply because going back to fiat is an unlikely alternative.
But he remains adamant that another, more current product will usurp the market leader down the line.
“But if you ask 20 years from now is it still going to be king? A hundred years from now, a thousand years from now, and the answer is obviously we’re not sure, things just change over time.”
Bitcoin has considerable influence on the rest of the other markets.
If CZ’s prediction plays out, what then for the future of cryptocurrency as a whole?
Zhao dealt with this by saying a decoupling of this effect will occur, but this will happen over a long period. “within the next six months, if Bitcoin went to zero that would be true, everything else will be hit really really bad. But if you look at a five year, ten year horizon… I don’t think cryptocurrencies will be gone.
However, as the most decentralized and censorship-resistant, Bitcoin will retain its place in the short to medium term.
In other trending Bitcoin News today:
TOP FUND MANAGER EXPLAINS WHY BITCOIN WILL UNDERGO “EXPLOSIVE” RALLY
According to the chief investment officer of Hayman Capital Management, Kyle Bass, Bitcoin will soon rally alongside the two top precious metals:
“Silver, Gold, Bitcoin, etc all look to be ready to make explosive moves higher given the sheer amount of money printing going on around the world. Here is a chart or front-month silver going back 10 years.”
Bass is a prominent investor who called the Great Recession in 2008.
He has also been critical of China and the central bank money-printing efforts that have gone on over the past decade.
In late 2019, he said that what will also fuel a rally in the price of Bitcoin is people in Asia, especially in China, trying to siphon funds out of the sometimes closed economy there.
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Due to the debasement of the US dollar, Tuur Demeester thinks $50,000 Bitcoin – or even $100,000 BTC price – isn’t out of the question.
Bitcoin continues to show impressive price trends amidst a coronavirus-induced gloomy macroeconomic outlook.
The Bitcoin price has ballooned by circa 150 percent after bottoming out near $3,800 on March 13, 2020.
Meanwhile, analysts and traders are betting on its extended growth, with a price prediction model even envisioning it above $280,000 by 2024.
Adding his forecast to a long list of bullish predictions is Tuur Demeester, an influencer known for investing in Kraken, a U.S.-based crypto exchange, via his fund Adamant Capital. Mr. Demeester said he sees Bitcoin anywhere between $50,000 and $100,000, stating that the cryptocurrency will not fall back below $6,000 ever again.
The bold prediction surfaced a day after Bitcoin options’ open interest on Chicago Mercantile Exchange rose to near $150 million – its highest level ever.
Analysts treat CME as the best gauge of interest in Bitcoin for institutional investors. Mr. Demeester used a similar metric to justify why the cryptocurrency could surge by up to 950 percent.
The analyst noted that the cryptocurrency is entering a “deployment phase” – a period wherein big Wall Street players are beginning to associate themselves with emerging blockchain assets.
He mentioned JP Morgan Chase & Co, a banking institution that once treated Bitcoin as fraud-money, suddenly embracing two of the biggest U.S. crypto firms as its clients.
The Wall Street makeover of Bitcoin also continued with considerable investment from Paul Tudor Jones.
The billionaire hedge fund manager, as Mr. Demeester pointed out, recently put 1-2 percent of his portfolio’s worth into bitcoin futures.
That validated the cryptocurrency as insurance against global market risks.
“It’s a land-grab phase,” said Mr. Demeester on the ongoing institutional influx. “You know [bitcoin] is going to be big [and] it is not correlated with traditional financial systems [..] Institutions are staking their claims and see what is going to be built atop [Bitcoin] later.”
Family offices, billionaires, hedge funds, and the interest of other prominent investors in Bitcoin could quickly push the price above $50,000, he added.
In other trending Bitcoin News today:
Chainlink Partners With Korean Tech Giant to Boost Blockchain and Crypto Mass Adoption
Chainlink, a leading platform in the blockchain industry for connecting smart contracts to real-world data sources, has signed a partnership with an affiliate of South Korean internet giant Kakao, the company behind KakaoTalk, one of the most popular mobile messaging apps in Asia.
Kakao’s Klatyn is the company’s public blockchain project. The partnership will see the integration of Chainlink’s oracles with Klaytn’s smart contracts.
According to its team of developers,
“Smart contracts need to interface with the data feeds, events, and widely accepted payment methods that centralized digital agreements rely on to provide value. By providing the building blocks needed by complex smart contracts in the form of critical inputs and key outputs, we seek to enable the next generation of smart contracts that will step beyond tokenization to become the dominant form of digital agreement.”
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Bill Miller, chairman and chief investment officer of Miller Value Partners, is sharing his crypto investment strategy and why he’s bullish on Bitcoin (BTC).
In a FutureProof interview, the head of the investment firm that manages $3 billion in assets describes the start of his journey as a BTC believer.
“I got involved in Bitcoin around 2013. It was trading at around $200 or so when I started buying it. Then it ran up to around $1,100 to $1,200 and then Mt. Gox collapsed. [Bitcoin] collapsed all the way back to $200 again in 2014. I began to buy it again… My average cost is about $300 [a coin].”
Miller says there are several fundamental reasons why he became an early adopter and long-term advocate of the world’s leading cryptocurrency.
“The nature of what it was trying to do, it had many different ways to win. My view was if any of those various things – it became a currency, it became a payment system, it became a non-correlated asset – any of those things, much less all of them, would lead to a very dramatic move in the underlying price.
That was also helped along by the fact that it is limited to 21 million Bitcoin and it is decentralized. It is not able to be tampered with or debased.”
From an investment standpoint, Miller says Bitcoin continues to offer a very favorable risk-reward ratio.
He’s an advocate for a small 1% to 2% portfolio allocation to BTC.
In the long run, he believes he could earn a 1000x or more return on his BTC investment, which would place Bitcoin at $300,000.
“I could make 100x of my money. I could make 1,000x, maybe more than that. I can only lose 100%… I still have it. I haven’t sold any Bitcoin… Back in the 70s and early 80s, people were talking about putting 5% of your assets in gold because it’s a hedge.
It’s an insurance policy in case inflation comes back again as it did in the 1970s. I would say that if that’s a sensible thing to do, then, certainly to have 1 to 2% of your assets in Bitcoin makes great sense here.”
The experienced investor also makes a unique case as to why Bitcoin is less risky now compared to when it was trading below $100.
“For most assets that you buy, the more they go up in price, the less value there is to be extracted out of it, and the riskier it becomes.
Bitcoin is in an unusual position of being the exact opposite of that. It was very risky when it was trading at a dollar, $5, or $10. It could have easily disappeared.”
In other trending Bitcoin News today:
Bitcoin Price Stalls at $9,300, Altcoins Rally to New Multi-Year Highs
Within the last few hours, the Bitcoin (BTC) price pushed above $9,300 after struggling to hold the $9,300–$9,400 level for the past three days.
As Bitcoin price slowly worked its way through resistance to $9,300, a handful of the top-50 altcoins posted strong double-digit gains.
Cardano (ADA) reached a new two-year high by rallying 26% to $0.13.
Chainlink (LINK) also rallied 6.11% to a new all-time high at $5.99.
VeChain (VET) was another top performer for the day with a 21.6% rally.
According to CoinMarketCap, the overall cryptocurrency market cap now stands at $271.3 billion and Bitcoin’s dominance rate is 63%.
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A sweeping new crypto report on the future of Bitcoin predicts the BTC price could rise to $397,000 – but it won’t happen overnight.
The latest analysis from the Liechtenstein-based Crypto Research Report, led by former cryptocurrency fund manager and Forbes 30 under 30 member Demelza Hays, assesses BTC based on its target addressable market (TAM).
The term is used to describe the overall revenue opportunity for a given product or service.
The report assumes Bitcoin’s use as a currency will outshine altcoins such as Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, and Litecoin in the long run, and the firm’s analysts say BTC is likely at the very start of its adoption curve, with major upside potential in the decade to come.
The firm says its analysis is based on modest market penetration assumptions, meaning the cryptocurrency will penetrate 10% of the entire target addressable market, which includes store of value, remittance, offshore deposits, gaming, online gambling, unbanked financial services, lending, micropayments, crypto trading, and more.
“The target addressable market for crypto assets is approximately $212 trillion. The largest use cases include medium of exchange including all global fiat currencies worth $126 trillion and consumer loans with a global value of $42 trillion. If Bitcoin penetrated 10% of this market over the next ten years, each Bitcoin would be worth $397,000 in 2030.”
The report also analyzes Bitcoin’s transaction velocity, the state of privacy coins, and Tether’s impact on the price of BTC.
As for the altcoin market, the firm’s analysts look at the potential prices of four leading crypto assets over the next decade, forecasting Ethereum could hit $3,644 by 2030.
The report shows Litecoin targeting $2,252, Bitcoin Cash aiming at $13,016, and Stellar targeting $7.81 in the same time frame.
Crypto strategist and influencer Willy Woo says Bitcoin is ready to launch its next exponential bull.
In a viral tweet, Woo tells his 132,000 Twitter followers that the king cryptocurrency was primed to ignite a bullish onslaught in March until Covid-19 “killed the party.”
But the on-chain analyst’s new model, which signals the possible start of a new bull cycle, suggests that BTC may begin another bull run in July.
“This is a new model I’m working on, it picks the start of exponential bull runs.
1) Bitcoin was setting up for a bullish run until the COVID white swan killed the party.
2) This model suggests we are close to another bullish run. Maybe another month to go.”
Woo says the bull market delay brought about by the pandemic will turn out to be a welcome development for the largest cryptocurrency.
He says the long base-building process is serving as rocket fuel for BTC. “The longer this bull market takes to wind up, the higher the peak price (Top Cap model). A long sideways accumulation band is ultimately a good thing.”
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This is a new model I’m working on, it picks the start of exponential bull runs.1) Bitcoin was setting up for a bullish run until the COVID white swan killed the party.
2) This model suggests we are close to another bullish run. Maybe another month to go. pic.twitter.com/wmoEdMVywF
Placeholder Capital partner Chris Burniske says he believes a new Bitcoin bull cycle will bring the BTC price to at least $50,000.
Burniske says the prediction is designed to account for Bitcoin’s historic pattern of posting diminishing returns for each subsequent bull run.
“Why Bitcoin $50,000? As discussed in May 2019, if BTC is half as volatile in this cycle as it was in the last, we would still expect it to cross $50K and $1 trillion in network value. $1 trillion has been a long time coming for this macro-asset.”
If Bitcoin can mount such a rally, Burniske says Ethereum will likely once again outperform BTC, as it did during the previous parabolic crypto cycle in 2017.
If that happens, he expects ETH to surpass $7,500 – a 3,132% increase from today’s price of about $232.
“Meanwhile, to the mainstream ETH will be the new kid on the block – expect a frenzy to go with that realization. Given ETH’s outperformance of BTC over its lifetime (chart below again), not to mention smaller network value and strong on-chain economies, I see every reason for ETH/BTC to surpass ATHs. If BTC goes $50,000+ in the next cycle, and ETH/BTC returns to its former ATH, then expect to see ETH $7,500+.”
Burniske, who is a big fan of the Ethereum-based push to decentralize finance, says he thinks it’s still early days for crypto.
He expects mainstream retail investors to repeatedly jump into the market in a cyclical pattern on the path toward widespread adoption.
“Crypto is still off the radar compared to 2017-style interest, and that type of interest will come again, and again, and again, and… Each cycle with past narratives hardened + new narratives that drive further conversion of users, suppliers, developers, and investors.”
Bitcoin bounced back on Tuesday after the Federal Reserve announced its plans to purchase corporate bonds to boost the financial markets through the pandemic.
The benchmark cryptocurrency surged by up to 7.82 percent from its Monday low below $9,000.
The move uphill took its price above $9,500, sparking calls towards an extended recovery run towards the $10,000-$10,500 area.
One pseudonymous analyst said earlier Tuesday that Bitcoin’s recovery from below $9,000 is a part of a “re-accumulation” strategy.
He concluded that the cryptocurrency would break above $10,500, a resistance level from June 1, 2020, and February 13, 2020, as the uptrend flourishes.
The analyst explained that bitcoin is testing 10,500 for the third time since February 2020.
Nevertheless, each downside break leads to an accumulation phase that causes Bitcoin to retest the red area, as shown in the chart above.
“We have been sitting under this level and consolidating now for a month,” he added. “Many believe that this sideways consolidation we have been seeing on $BTC for the last month or so is distribution before a larger move back down to 6-7k’s. I personally believe that this is rather re-accumulation before the inevitable break of 10.5k.“
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No I think the lows are in. Here is the way I am counting it. This was shared when BTC was at 5-6k. A running flat for Wave 2 allows for a corrective move up off the lows rather than an impulsive one like most have been looking for. pic.twitter.com/ENxNFAAUlQ
Weiss Ratings, a US-based investment data firm, is laying out what it will take for the Bitcoin price to hit $180,000.
In a new BTC review, the firm says the financial world is beginning to wake up to the true potential of Bitcoin as a safe-haven asset.
The firm points to growing demand for shares of the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust as a sign of rising institutional interest.
“Between the third quarter of 2019 and the first quarter of 2020, the amount invested in [GBTC has] more than doubled — from $388.9 million to $818.5 million.”
Weiss believes the entry of billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones into the Bitcoin futures market shows institutions are paying increasing levels of attention to the crypto markets.
Weiss calls BTC the “one safe-haven asset with the most profit potential” in an environment where central banks print money at will.
But the arrival of big-money players is just the tip of the iceberg. The firm says Bitcoin is far better than gold in terms of security, portability, and utility – and the floodgates will open once investors grasp the fact that Bitcoin is superior to gold as a safe-haven asset.
“If Bitcoin captures only a third of gold’s safe-haven business, it’s going be trading near $180,000 — roughly a 20-fold increase from present levels.”
The firm has provided financial market research and analysis for consumers and businesses for more than three decades, and released its first crypto rankings in January of 2018.
In other trending Bitcoin News today:
This Analyst Called Bitcoin’s Last Epic Crash – And Just Unveiled His BTC, XRP and Stock Market Outlook
A veteran commodity trader with more than 30 years of experience in the markets is revealing his take on Bitcoin and XRP, as well as his recommended investment strategy for the next generation.
Peter Brandt is well-known in the world of crypto for correctly calling the start of Bitcoin’s seismic reversal in early 2018, right after the coin touched its all-time high of just over $20,000.
Now, after Bitcoin’s precipitous fall to a low of $3,150 and its subsequent rise to its current price of about $9,300, Brandt says he believes Bitcoin is a buy.
Brandt is revealing the long-term strategy for building wealth that he recommends to family members. He places BTC on his list of top investments and says he’s bullish on tech stocks in the long run.
“I will give you the same advice I give my X Gen children and M Gen nephews and nieces. Buy a home – any home, but get into the housing market. Work two jobs if you need to. Invest 10% of what you can afford in BTC. Invest monthly in quality tech and value stock ETFs.”
Brandt has previously stated that he believes Bitcoin is gearing up for a new parabolic rally that will target $100,000.
However, despite the fact that large BTC bull runs have historically lifted the value of all cryptocurrencies, Brandt says he’s wary of XRP, giving traders a simple statement on where he thinks the fourth-largest cryptocurrency by market cap is heading.
“Don’t place your faith in XRP.”
Brand believes Ripple’s ownership of more than half of the total supply of XRP is a potential liability and says the coin has more room to fall after remaining flat in 2020.
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General TA rule — violation of parabolic advance leads to 80%+ decline in value. If general rule is followed, BTC should retrace to
Crypto veteran Bobby Lee says the recent 50% BTC collapse from all-time highs does not mirror market tops of the past. In a new interview with Luke Martin of Venture Coinist, Lee, who accurately called for a 50% drop in Bitcoin price once it approached the $70,000 level, is discussing when we can expect BTC to catch fire and blast through the six-figure mark.
“I think we’re going to hit it either in the late summer or the fall of this year to get past $100,00, and then it’s going to zoom up really fast.”
“And I’ll give another prediction. When we hit the bull market, how do you know it’s an all-time high? How do you know it’s really peaked out?… If the price doubles within a day or two days – somewhere around one and three days – if the price doubles, that’s when it runs out of steam and that’s going to be the all-time high of this market cycle. The important thing is, people always ask ‘How do you know when we hit the all-time peak?’ The peak doesn’t happen based on FUD and bad news.”
In other trending Bitcoin News today: El Salvador to buy an estimated $135,000,000 worth of Bitcoin to give away for free to its citizens. This Thursday, the President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele announced that adult citizens in El Salvador will receive $30 worth of Bitcoin for free after setting up their account on the government’s cryptocurrency app.
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The Bitcoin price can top out at $700,000 in August of 2022, according to crypto analyst ‘The Moon Carl’ who shares what he calls the most important BTC chart he’s ever seen before with his 473,000 Crypto YouTube subscribers.
“Do you see the pattern?
2013 – Bitcoin crashes to $50
2015 – Bitcoin crashes to $200
2018 – Bitcoin crashes to $3,000
2021 – Bitcoin crashes to $30,000
2023 – Bitcoin crashes to $400,000?
Bitcoin can reach $700,000 by the end of next year.”
In other trending Bitcoin News today: Bitcoin Historical Volatility Fractal Points To Brewing Bullish Explosion!
Looking back at the asset’s historic volatility, a fractal pattern could be forming that suggests the BTC price is about to blast off to unprecedented heights.
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Two market analysts have said Tim Draper’s bold Bitcoin price prediction might not be as far fetched as it seems.
The billionaire venture capitalist said recently that Bitcoin (BTC) would reach a price of $250,000 between six months and a year after the 2020 halving.
BKCM LLC’s Brian Kelly and Fund Strat’s Tom Lee both believe that Bitcoin will absorb capital from the gold market.
The analysts are not sure that such a colossal figure is achievable is such a short space of time, however, analysts agree: Draper’s $250,000 BTC price isn’t inconceivable.
Founder & CEO of the digital currency investment company BKCM LLC Brian Kelly said that although the prediction sounds “bizarro”, (BTC) Bitcoin is known for spectacular price runs, like those seen in 2013 and 2017.
Kelly identified that Bitcoin has been trading within a channel since 2013.
Extending that channel out to the end of 2022, the top is around the $250,000 per Bitcoin mark.
Kelly said that he agrees with the opinion of Draper and others that Bitcoin will absorb gold’s market share over the coming years.
However, he added that he was not sure that the digital asset would reach the $4.5 trillion market capitalization required to hit Draper’s predicted price by the start of 2023.
Next to weigh in on the Bitcoin price call was Fund Strat’s Tom Lee.
Like Draper and Kelly, Lee is overall bullish on Bitcoin.
However, he too is not sure about the tight time frame predicted by Draper.
He said:
“I don’t know if 24 months is how long it would take… If it took 5 years, I think it would still be considered a huge, massive, surprising success.”
In other Crypto news today, Gin Chao, the Chief Strategy Officer of Binance, told trade news outlet BlockTV earlier this year that historical trends imply the crypto asset market has a large amount of upside potential.
In fact, he states that if you take previous cycles into account, of which there were at least three, Bitcoin could find itself in the $50,000 to $100,000 range – around seven to 15 times higher than the current price of $7,200, respectively – in the coming decade.
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