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Solana Faces Renewed Criticism After 10th Downtime and Bumpy Restart, but Developers Remain Optimistic

February 28, 2023 by DIGIT

Following the initial incident on Feb. 25, Solana resolved the blockchain’s performance degradation after validators decided to restart the network. According to an outage report following more than 24 hours of downtime, Solana developers detailed that the “root cause is still unknown and under active investigation.” Social Media Mocks Solana’s 10th Downtime, Supporters Defend Project … Read more

Report: Billion-Dollar Hedge Fund Fir Tree Eyes Shorting the Stablecoin Tether

March 11, 2022 by DIGIT

The hedge fund Fir Tree Capital Management’s investors claim it has developed a method to short the stablecoin tether. A report notes that “clients of the firm” said the potential to reap big rewards from shorting the world’s largest stablecoin is great. Investors Say Hedge Fund Devised a Method to Short Tether, Fir Tree Bets … Read more

Is it Worth Shorting Cryptocurrencies With Trading Bots?

January 12, 2019 by DIGIT

As the cryptocurrency industry remains subject to a lot of bearish price pressure, it would appear the demand to short these assets is increasing. For most users, this process needs to be automated as well. Some trading bots on the market allow for such functionality, although it is always risky to engage in such financial … Read more

Shorters Expect a big EOS Price Drop Pretty Soon

January 6, 2019 by DIGIT

Predicting the future market momentum of any cryptocurrency isn’t an exact science. Technical analysis is helpful, although these markets can always turn around on a dime. When it comes to looking at the future EOS price from a short-term perspective, it would appear there is a rather bearish outlook. The Triangle Looks Ominous Every time … Read more

The Daily: Blockchain.com Launches OTC Trading Desk, Shapeshift Relaunches Coincap

September 30, 2018 by DIGIT

Wallet provider Blockchain.com has created an OTC trading desk as part of its efforts to cater to institutional investors. Also in The Daily this Sunday, Shapeshift launches the redesigned Coincap tracker, Kraken lists Cardano and Qtum, and Compound offers its users the option to short cryptocurrencies. Also read: Fiat vs Crypto Laundering, Bitcoin Anniversary Cash-Ins … Read more

Exchanges Round-Up: Price Spread and Institutions, Brazil Surveys Exchanges

September 1, 2018 by DIGIT

In recent news pertaining to exchanges, Sfox has attributed a reducing spread in the price of BTC across exchanges to the increased presence of institutional investors in the cryptocurrency markets, Brazil’s government has issued a questionnaire to three local crypto exchanges seeking to obtain data pertaining to their operations, and data from the United States … Read more

A Look at Leverage Trading: Learn to Run With the Bears and Ride the Bulls

July 24, 2018 by DIGIT

Cryptocurrency markets are volatile and people can make a lot of money from the up and down price variances. When digital assets touched all-time highs this past December, a great majority of digital currencies lost more than 70 percent of their value. Now some traders were able to call the top, while others ‘hodled’ in … Read more