BTC cracks $30K, supply squeeze worsens, XRP implodes: Hodler’s Digest, Dec. 27–Jan. 2

Coming every Saturday, Hodler’s Digest will help you 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 Bitcoin price quickly climbs to $31,000, liquidating $100 million of…

Price analysis 1/1: BTC, ETH, XRP, LTC, DOT, BCH, ADA, BNB, LINK, BSV

Bitcoin (BTC) rallied from an intraday low at $17,573.29 on Dec. 11 to an intraday high at $29,310.19 on Dec. 31, a 66.78% rally in a short span. This shows strong demand from traders at every higher level. Institutional crypto investment giant Grayscale bought 72,950 Bitcoin in December, which was 159.49% more than the 28,112…

Cover Protocol announces compensation plan following mining contract attack

Peer-to-peer coverage market Cover Protocol has published a compensation plan for tokenholders and liquidity providers affected by the recent hack. As part of the process, the Cover Protocol team took a snapshot at block height 11,541,218, the last transaction block before the exploit began. Eligible liquidity providers on Uniswap, SushiSwap and Balancer will receive new COVER…

4 reasons why Ethereum options traders expect ETH price to reach $880

Ethereum (ETH) price has gained 88% since November, astonishing even the most bullish investors as the top altcoin secured a 2020 high at $750. Aside from the upcoming CME ETH futures launch scheduled for Feb. 8, the phenomenal growth of the total value locked (TVL) in Decentralized Finance protocols also played a major part. Total…

Zilliqa, Terra (LUNA) and VeChain rally off good news and strong fundamentals

During a bull market, negative news is quickly digested, and the collateral damage is often limited. Therefore, even as XRP price dumped aggressively due to the uncertainty regarding the outcome of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission’s lawsuit, other altcoins have largely been unaffected. Crypto market data daily view. Source: Coin360 Moreover, as Bitcoin’s (BTC) strong…

XRP price faces a rocky road to recovery ahead of SEC’s Ripple lawsuit

Just over a month ago on Nov. 24, XRP’s value surged to above the $0.90 mark on U.S. cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, albeit momentarily, leading many backers to believe that the digital currency was all set to skyrocket once again, possibly even retesting its January 2018 all-time high of over $3. However, in the wake of…