Crypto-Analysis

The cost of mining one Bitcoin (BTC) has fallen to 10-month lows as mining hardware becomes more efficient, and difficulty has dropped 6.7% since its May peak. It could help to reverse the falling profitability trend while lowering power demands on the network. JPMorgan strategists led by Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou, in a note to clients seen…

Bitcoin is more likely to plummet to $10,000 than soar again above $30,000 following the recent downturn in the market, said the results of a survey published on July 11. According to the latest MLIV Pulse survey, Bitcoin is more likely to tumble to $10,000 than it is to rally back to $30,000, said 60%…

Institutional investors loaded up last week on a record $51.4 million worth of investment products offering exposure to shorting the price of Bitcoin (BTC). By recovering from $423 million in outflows the week prior, digital assets investment products managed to pull $64 million in inflows, while ETH products generated the next highest figure at just…

North Korean hackers are most likely behind an attack last week that stole as much as $100 million in cryptocurrency from a US company, digital investigative firms have concluded. Analysis suggests the hack is the work of the Lazarus Group, the Pyongyang-backed group behind a similar $622 million hack of Axie Infinity. Following hackers recent…

In the past month, the total volume of NFT trades has fallen by 55% in terms of ETH, or about a 70% decrease when valued in USD. However, the number of weekly active NFT sales hasn’t changed much. The state of the NFT market isn’t all bad amid the bear market. According to Nansen data,…

A deep dive into the FT archive reveals what has driven the cryptocurrency’s falls and rises. Bitcoin has crashed in value by more than 50% in the past six months, but holders of the cryptocurrency are used to volatility. Here we look at how the FT covered Bitcoin’s previous booms and busts to see if…