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Bitcoin Posts Laudable Performance Over the Quarter 

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Time Stamp: April 3, 2020 8:54 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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The first quarter of 2020 was a bit of a mixed bag for cryptocurrencies. As expected, no other asset can demonstrate this better than Bitcoin. While the top digital asset led a market rally into the year and started 2020 gaining as much as 13 percent in its value, the coronavirus hit, and the market soon experienced a massive slump – with record drops witnessed on multiple fronts. Accounts Surged, but Transactions Stalled However, the market has corrected, and things appear to be on the uptrend once more. Bitcoin crossed the $7,200 mark

Past Halvings in Review: Case for an Immediate Bitcoin Upsurge Is Flawed

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Time Stamp: April 3, 2020 2:15 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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The block reward halving of Bitcoin (BTC) has long been touted as an optimistic factor to drive the short-term price trend of BTC in the first half of 2020. Historical data, however, shows that the halving does not necessarily coincide with an immediate upsurge in the price of Bitcoin.On the Bitcoin network, miners create blocks that record Bitcoin transactions to essentially verify and confirm payment data using computing power. Through large-scale mining centers filled with ASIC mining chips and sophisticated equipment, miners use a large amount of electricity and have

Binance Research Finds Bitcoin Correlated to Stocks — But Not For Long

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Time Stamp: April 2, 2020 10:20 PM - Modified On: August 29, 2021 - Published By:
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In a new report Binance Research found a ‘moderate’ positive correlation between Bitcoin and US equities during the first quarter of 2020 — but neither was correlated to gold.Bitcoin was down 10% over the quarter but still outperformed the S&P 500 which experienced a 19% drop. According to the report, the correlation was fairly high at 0.57, as shown through similar patterns in daily business day returns.Gold and long-term treasuries showed no relationship to other markets as they rose by 8% and 23% respectively.The good news for hodlers is that

Printer Goes Brrrr: Rich Dad Poor Dad Author Calls Bitcoin People’s Money

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Time Stamp: April 1, 2020 12:32 PM - Modified On: August 29, 2021 - Published By:
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The outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic has wreaked havoc on global economies, which has left the less privileged in most affected nations exposed to series of hardships and has made many experts provide insights on possible ways to avoid such reoccurrence in the future. Robert Kiyosaki, a bestselling author of popular financial literacy book, Rich Dad Poor Dad, is the latest to weigh in on the topic as he encouraged his followers on Twitter to save their money via Bitcoin instead of fiats currencies. Kiyosaki who recently started a series