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Marathon Digital (MARA), one of the largest bitcoin (BTC) miners, bought $100 million worth of BTC in the open market and said it will readopt its strategy to hold all mined bitcoin on its balance sheet.The miner said in a statement on Thursday that it now holds over 20,000 bitcoin, worth nearly $1.3 billion based on current prices,on its balance sheet and plans to buy more in the open market."Bitcoin’s recent price decline, coupled with the strength of our balance sheet, afforded us an opportunity to add to our holdings. We look forward to continuing to leverage our technological expertise to support Bitcoin and distributed digital asset ecosystems,” said Marathon's CFO Salman Khan.The decision to HODL or holding onto bitcoin comes almost year after Marathon started to sell its mined digital assets to pay for the company's operating expenses.Prior to the crypto winter, most miners adopted the strategy to hold on to all the mined bitcoin in their balance sheet, which paid off during the bull market rally.
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According to the latest analysis by on-chain analytic platform Santiment, the trader sentiment closely mirrored recent price movements, with XRP at the forefront of the market’s bullish narratives. An expert’s analysis suggests that XRP could potentially be on the brink of a “historic breakout,” with the potential to set a new precedent in the market. In a tweet, pseudonymous crypto trader Crypto Michael noted that XRP has been forming a bullish pennant pattern for a staggering seven years. This phenomenon is rarely seen, and such an extended consolidation period could lead to a significant breakout. Another crypto analyst observed a crucial moment for XRP, noting that it has broken the Relative Strength Index (RSI) resistance level, a key indicator that previously initiated an explosive rally in 2017. This technical breakout also suggests that the crypto asset could be poised for another significant upward movement.
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According to the author of the bestselling book "Rich Dad, Poor Dad", the vast majority of technical indicators indicate that the prices of real estate, gold, silver, stocks, bonds and bitcoin will fall. According to him, this will inevitably be followed by a long bull market cycle, until the end of 2025, and prices will continue to rise, and the bitcoin rate will rise to $10 million without any difficulty. The investor is also convinced that the price of gold will be $15,000 per ounce, silver - $110 per ounce, and trading them will bring investors significant profits, if, of course, they spend money on them, and not on useless assets. Recall that Robert Kiyosaki regularly writes posts on social networks about how bitcoin, silver and gold will surpass all other assets in popularity and value. This is the central theme of his posts.
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Derivatives such as futures or options ramp up the intensity, as the investments become more speculative and complex—even more so than just looking at numbers on the screen. The earning potential here is incredibly vast, but so is the potential for loss. This is why derivatives are usually left to institutional investors or experienced traders who have a better grasp of how to navigate these sectors and, to say it plainly, are better equipped to lose their investment. Now, imagine throwing crypto into the mix here. Crypto derivatives are not a new concept, and many leading exchanges and platforms have launched services for experienced traders to try their hand at it. However, entering a speculative market dealing with notoriously volatile assets is not so easy. And just because someone has found success in futures and options trading in fiat doesn’t mean the same fortune will befall them in crypto.
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On Thursday, Bitcoin (BTC) briefly exceeded $62,000, but fell below this mark due to the lack of sufficient support. Moreover, the pressure increased so much that the cryptocurrency fell to $61,277 during trading in the Asia-Pacific region on Friday. Over the week, BTC capitalization decreased by 4.56% to $1.209 trillion. The daily trading volume decreased to $22 billion on June 27 due to weak investor activity. Risks of a rollback below $61,000 remain, but support in the $60,000 region should work, according to analysts at the QCP Capital fund. Their report says that the bulls do not want to provoke negative turbulence in the market. They are satisfied with the low trading range, so BTC's positions remain strong, despite the US government's plans to sell 3,940 BTC through the Coinbase exchange. For the first time in seven days, spot crypto Bitcoin ETFs were able to raise $52.4 million, while capital has largely been exiting the market since the end of last week.
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The team behind the Bitcoin BTC -1.56% Virtual Machine (BVM) last week launched BitZK, a zero-knowledge proofs service that enhances Bitcoin's scalability by allowing users to create rollups and migrate applications from Ethereum to Bitcoin. This need for scaling solutions emerged last year with the launch of protocols like Ordinals and Runes, which spurred on-chain activity similar to Ethereum. This surge in activity prompted several development teams to explore new methods of scaling Bitcoin and to incorporate ideas from other blockchain projects. Historically, scaling Bitcoin has been problematic, whether through raising block sizes or developing scalable layer-2 solutions. Previously, the network's limited user base allowed developers the luxury of time to make decisions, but the recent increase in on-chain use has accelerated the need for effective scaling solutions.
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Fed officials said in statements this spring that job market weakness might hasten rate cuts but continued strong conditions would not automatically sound alarms, given that inflation has dropped from a peak of 9% in 2022 to near 3% this year. The Fed is targeting 2% and is focused more on inflation data than jobs at this stage. The Fed "will of course take these figures into account," but the latest job data is "unlikely to shake policymakers off the course already charted," said Sophie Lund-Yates, lead equity analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown. Elsewhere in the industry, payments companies, including PayPal and Mastercard, are leading efforts to generate more demand to expand crypto beyond the most knowledgeable, tech-savvy users and early adopters. One of the major issues with consumer adoption of crypto and digital assets has been the user experience, according to James Wester, research director for digital assets and crypto at Javelin Strategy & Research.
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Gross domestic product increased at an annual rate of 1.3% in the first quarter of 2024 after advancing 3.4% in the final quarter of 2023, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta on June 7 projected second-quarter growth of 3.1%. Investors have shifted their focus from concerns that a strong labor market would delay Fed policymakers' decision to cut interest rates to the benefit of a strong economy for banks, analysts said. They noted that, after raising rates several times in 2022 and early last year to combat inflation, Fed officials have kept rates flat since July and continue to signal that their next move is a rate reduction.
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Banks have recently navigated challenges ranging from lawsuits and settlements to adapting payments technology to include crypto, and even broad skepticism in the wake of bank failures. But a strong federal jobs report in early June boosted confidence within the industry, with the market reflecting the positive news at that time. After two years of high interest rates, investors entered 2024 increasingly concerned about credit deterioration. But loan charge-offs, while up some across the industry, remain low by historical standards. The employment data indicated that this trend could continue, supporting bank earnings as the year progresses.
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Ethereum spot ETFs will see less demand than similar Bitcoin products due to the lack of staking, CoinDesk reports, citing a report from Bernstein. According to analysts, ETH ETFs will attract funds from the same stakeholders during the launch of trading, but on a limited scale. “ETH will not see such high conversion in ETFs due to the lack of staking functionality,” the experts added. However, Bernstein noted that the underlying trades will likely find buyers, which will contribute to healthy liquidity in the ETF market. Such a trading strategy involves simultaneously buying a spot fund and selling a futures contract, and then waiting for the prices in the positions to converge. On May 23, the SEC approved 19b-4 filings from issuers of spot Ethereum ETFs. Trading will begin after the agency signs its S-1 registration statements. BlackRock, VanEck, Franklin Templeton, Grayscale Investments, Invesco Galaxy and 21Shares filed updated documents in June.
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Several artificial scripts in the fictional world of John R. R. Tolkien were also created in the image and likeness of Germanic runes. An Oxford professor and specialist in Old English language and literature, Tolkien not only knew many ancient languages, but also invented new ones, painstakingly developing their grammar and alphabets. One of them, kirt, is based on Germanic runes. For example, kirt was used to make the tombstone inscription “Balin, son of Fundin, lord of Moria”, found by the heroes of “The Lord of the Rings” in the underground city.
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The German word "runes" also refers to the outwardly similar ancient Turkic, or Orkhon-Yeniseian, script that was used in Central Asia in the 8th-10th centuries AD. The most important monuments of the Orkhon-Yeniseian script are stone steles erected in Mongolia, Southern Siberia, and Semirechye (in the area of ​​Lake Balkhash and Lake Issyk-Kul). The inscriptions have brought us unique information on the history of the Turkic Khaganates and, no less importantly, the language of that era. The Turkic runic alphabet was deciphered in 1893 by the great Danish linguist Wilhelm Thomsen.
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Having borrowed most of the letters from the Romans, the ancient Germans modified their outline to make it easier to cut or scratch the signs into wood. Because of this, the runes acquired elongated proportions and a chopped appearance. For the same reason, the classic Germanic runes contained only vertical and diagonal strokes, or "trunks" and "branches": it is impossible to draw rounded and horizontal elements by applying signs across the wood grain.
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Runes were used by most Germanic peoples, but were gradually replaced by the Latin alphabet. Runes had the shortest lifespan in Germany; the ancestors of the English, the Anglo-Saxons, continued to write in runes until the 10th century, and the Scandinavians until the late Middle Ages. In the remote Swedish province of Dalarna, runes survived into the 20th century: hundreds of runic inscriptions have been preserved there on buildings, furniture, tools, and utensils from the last four centuries. Many of these are owner's signatures, but there are also longer texts, such as an inscription on a wooden table made in the famine year of 1730 that reads: "There is room for much food on this table. He who has so much would be happy."
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The runic alphabet, like many other alphabets, is named after its initial letters - futhark (ᚠᚢᚦᚨᚱᚲ). The oldest Elder Runic Futhark contained 24 signs: ᚠᚢᚦᚨᚱᚲᚷᚹ ᚺᚾᛁᛃᛇᛈᛉᛊ ᛏᛒᛖᛗᛚᛜᛞᛟ (fuþarkgw hnijïpzs tbemlŋdo in Latin transcription), and the later Scandinavian Younger Runic Futhark contained 16: ᚠᚢᚦᚯᚱᚴ ᚼᚾᛁᛅᛋ ᛏᛒᛘᛚᛣ (fuþąrk hnias tbmlR). The third rune of the futhark, ᚦ, which has the same sounds as th in English and θ in Greek, is still used in the Icelandic alphabet (the rest of its letters are taken from Latin).
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Runes are the elongated and angular letters of the ancient Germans, the ancestors of the modern English, Dutch, Germans, Danes, Norwegians and Swedes. The oldest known monuments of runic writing date back to the middle of the 2nd century AD. A study of the rune's outline shows that they originate from the Latin alphabet: the signs ᚠ, ᚢ, ᚱ, ᚲ, ᚺ, ᛁ, ᛏ, ᛒ, ᛚ almost completely repeat the outlines of the corresponding Latin letters - F, U, R, C, H, I, T, B, L. The runes ᚨ, ᛊ, ᛗ, ᛞ and ᛟ, in which the letters A, S, M, D and O can be discerned, have moved somewhat further from their prototypes.
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