Bitcoin has been unstoppable in recent weeks. The digital currency continued its recovery after a horrid few months, hitting a 2019 high of $8,350. This was after the currency had traded below $4,000 just a month earlier. While many believe that the price is finally catching up to the developments in the field, U.S’ largest bank isn’t as enthusiastic.

According to JPMorgan, bitcoin may have gotten ahead of itself with its recent rally. In a note to investors, some of the bank’s analysts suggested that the currency had surged beyond its intrinsic value. This, they believe, is a similar situation to the 2017 price rise which preceded a devastating slump.

The analysts wrote:

"Over the past few days, the actual price has moved sharply over marginal cost. This divergence between actual and intrinsic values carries some echoes of the spike higher in late 2017, and at the time this divergence was resolved mostly by a reduction in actual prices."

Read More: https://nulltx.com/jpmorgan-likens-price-rally-to-2017/

After the $40 million hack last week, Binance has finally resumed withdrawals and deposits. Yesterday, the cryptocurrency exchange announced that it will be performing a system upgrade after which both deposits and withdrawals will be enabled. The official announcement titled “System Upgrade Notice” stated:

Binance will suspend deposits, withdrawals, and trading during this period. Deposits that are not completed before the start of the upgrade will be processed after the upgrade is complete. Please allow some time for deposits to be reflected in your account following the system upgrade.”

The nature of the wording in the announcement is somewhat misleading because saying “Binance will suspend deposits and withdrawals” while they were never enabled in the first place is at the very least confusing.

After extending the initial system upgrade by two hours, Binance announced that the system upgrade was complete and users can now resume using the exchange as normal.

Moreover, the exchange will host a 50,000 BNB (roughly $1.3m at the time of writing) community give away where if you trade over 1 BTC during the promotional period (3 days) you can get a piece of the prize pool, the announcement stated:

“All users with valid trading volume of 1 BTC or more (buy & sells) across any trading pairs on Binance during the promotion period will split a pool of 50,000 BNB.”

Read Full Story: Binance Resumes Normal Operations With A $1.3M Community Binance Coin (BNB) Giveaway

IBM is hiring talent to work on its Stellar-based world wire system. This will inevitably lead to increased interest in a blockchain that offers many beneficial features when compared to similar networks. Here are some details on the role:

“This role will assist in providing Offering Management expertise in allowing IBM Blockchain Financial Solutions clients, who do cross border payments, to avail themselves of a transformational method to initiate their payments. The Stellar blockchain ledger is used as the system of record for settlement of financial transactions between counter-parties on the World Wire network”

We thought we’d dive a little deeper into Stellar.

Stellar is an open-source blockchain project founded in 2014 by Ripple co-founder Jed McCaleb. McCaleb is also well known in the blockchain sector for being the founder of now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange Mt Gox and peer-to-peer file transfer system eDonkey.


The Stellar Development Foundation is a non-profit organization formed to support the development of the Stellar protocol. The foundation was formed in collaboration with Patrick Collison, CEO of the online payment processing company Stripe.

Read More: https://nulltx.com/stellar-ibm/

Ethereum is up over 6% in the past 24 hours as the market momentum intensifies. After trading in the $160 level the past week, the price jumped over $16 looking for new support in the $170 range.

One speculation as to the cause of the recent bullish momentum for Ethereum, is Elon Musk’s mysterious tweet that simply spelled “Ethereum”

The recent Ethereum price rise comes amid a crypto bull market which pushed the overall cryptocurrency market over $10 billion in valuation since the beginning of the month. This time, Bitcoin has been leading the bull run as BTC reached a new all time high for 2019 on May 3rd.

Read More: Ethereum Price Pumps While Other Cryptocurrencies Stagnate

2019 is turning out to be quite a positive year for Bitcoin, is the crypto winter finally over? After hitting a low of $3,300 back in December, Bitcoin has been increasing in value ever since. The momentum and volume has been building little by little the past 5 months and today we hit a new all time high for 2019!

At the time of writing, Bitcoin is trading at $5754 having risen over $100 in the past hour alone and over $355 in the past 24 hours. Get excited because this is a new all time high for 2019! The good news is that we broke through the $5600 resistance level which we tested last week with no luck. At this point, all the eyes are on the charts to see if we can either reach $6000 or at least turn $5600 into support instead.

The two major roadblocks ahead for Bitcoin’s price are undoubtedly the $6000 psychological number and the $6300 level which held as support for over 6 months during the end of the bear market.

Read More: https://nulltx.com/bitcoin-price-new-2019-ath/

We at NullTX decided to make a compilation for the top Bitcoin casinos for 2019, here is the list:

4. mBit
3. FortuneJack
2. BitStarz
1. BitcoinCasino.us

Also top cryptocurrency dice games:

4. DuckDice
3. SafeDice
2. BitDice
1. Crypto-Games

Read More:  Top Bitcoin Casinos 2019 (US Friendly Crypto Gambling)

What do you guys think of this list?

Bitcoin’s tumbled to a 15-month low. Ethereum is circling the drain. Despite announcements of a Swiss ETP, more regulated bitcoin futures in Q1, a German stock exchange launching a crypto platform, and institutional investors getting in, the market keeps on hemorrhaging. Is it time to jump ship? Cut your losses and get out while there’s something to get out with? Is this the end of crypto?

The short answer to that would be, no one knows. It’s possible, of course. Apart from miniature countries floating in the Mediterranean with reputations for accepting money from questionable sources, regulators haven’t been welcoming.

Read More: https://nulltx.com/is-this-the-end-of-crypto/

"We continue to think the US will not fall into recession the minute the new year clock strikes one, but the sentiment is growing by leaps and bounds that 2019 is going to be awful for the US–economy unless something comes along to reverse the trend–and recession is well-night certain for 2020"

These are the words of Barbara Rockefeller, the renowned economist, forex trading expert and best-selling financial author. In her op-ed on FX-Street, Rockefeller looked at the many factors that point to a weakening of the global economy to the point of a financial crisis. They include the ensuing U.S-China trade war, the instability facing Britain over Brexit, political instability in France and Italy and more.

Read More: https://nulltx.com/with-recession-looming-will-bitcoin-capitalize/

One wouldn’t normally associate darknet usage with strengthening family ties. For a team of two US-based drug dealers, that situation is a bit different. This father-son team successfully sold drugs over the darknet for an extended period of time. Both family members will now serve five years in federal prison for their misconduct.

A Family-Oriented Drug Operation

As more and more people try to score some quick money, illegal and criminal operations become all the more important. This is part of what makes the darknet so appealing to those who want to make some money through less than normal means. For the father-son darknet drug dealer team active on AlphaBay before it was shut down in June 2017, their reign has come to an abrupt end.

Read More: https://nulltx.com/father-and-son-alphabay-vendor-tandem-sentenced-to-five-years-in-federal-prison/

Given the current bear market many are asking the question whether the Bitcoin price has exhibited such action before? The answer is yes.

The current bearish Bitcoin price pressure has made a lot of traders and enthusiasts uneasy. It is evident there isn’t much to be excited about given the current circumstances, but there are precedents for this negative market pressure as well. An extensive bear market is nothing new, nor is a massive price decline following a new all-time high. Below are some very similar incidents which may put some people’s minds at ease.

5 Past Bitcoin Price Crashes:

• The 2011 Onslaught
• The 2013 Price Debacle
• The 2014 China "Ban"
• September 2017 Caused a Near 50% Drop
• The Quick Decline in December 2017

Read More: https://nulltx.com/has-bitcoin-price-dropped-like-this-before/

Criminals have shown a tendency to deploy major attacks during troublesome times. Hurricane Florence wreaked havoc in the US not that long ago. It now appears one local water utility company is being targeted in a major ransomware attack. It is a very troublesome development, for many different reasons.

Read More: https://nulltx.com/water-utility-company-crippled-by-ransowmare/

When one of the biggest Bitcoin critics had his day to testify before Congress, the crypto world knew it would be brutal. Popularly known as Dr. Doom, Nouriel Roubini held nothing back as he attacked crypto, but it was the aftermath that was even more exciting. Roubini called out the industry’s most renowned personality, Vitalik Buterin and the back-and-forth could end in a debate between the two. In a week that had both the good and the bad, South Korean exchange Bithumb sold a stake to a plastic surgeon, Coinbase listed its first ERC-20 token, China’s richest list contained 13 crypto investors as the market lost over $20 billion mid-week. Here is the week that was….

Read More: https://nulltx.com/weekly-crypto-roundup-roubini-vs-buterin/

We reached out to the exchange and got their response on the accusations: https://nulltx.com/bitebtc-responds-faking-trading-volume/

The overall cryptocurrency market momentum remains rather bearish for the time being. Bitcoin is still on the decline, which usually doesn’t bode well for alternative currencies on the market. The Dogecoin price is also feeling a bit of pressure, which is only normal after several small bull runs over the past two weeks.

The past few weeks have been spectacular for the Dogecoin price. After remaining nearly flat for over two months, the value per DOGE suddenly started shooting up in the past 14 days. Several strong uptrends were noted, and there hasn’t been a major correction ever since. As of right now, there is no real correction to speak of either, despite a small Dogecoin price dip forming on the charts.

Read More: https://nulltx.com/dogecoin-price-reaches-new-high-since-mid-february/

At press time, the father of cryptocurrency has managed to remain at $7,000 after hitting the newfound zone during yesterday’s afternoon hours. Bitcoin huddled at the $6,400 mark for several days and remaining largely unaffected by relative financial news, but later spiked to $6,700 and broke the $7,000 line about 24 hours ago.

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Despite the price rises, not everyone is convinced that things are about to get better. Yesterday, we discussed Jordan Belfort, the Wolf of Wall Street, and his feelings towards bitcoin. Belfort is convinced the behavior behind bitcoin is fishy, and that things will fall apart in the end.

Read More: https://nulltx.com/bitcoin-price-watch-currency-still-at-7000-jordan-belfort-still-thinks-theres-a-scam/