http://themerkle.com/news/management-shake-up-at-bitreserve/

In April of this year, Bitreserve brought in former Nike, Inc. CIO, Anthony Watson, to oversee the company’s expansion into the digital currency space. Watson’s arrival at Bitreserve started with a Board of Directors seat and a Chief operating Officer position. Halsey Minor, Founder of Bitreserve, announced Watson’s promotion to Chief Executive Officer today, in an investor communication on the Bitreserve blog.

http://themerkle.com/news/safello-presents-new-prototype-at-barclays-techstars-demo-day/

Safello, a Swedish digital currency exchange, was accepted into the Barclays and Techstars Fintech Accelerator Program in March of this year. Today, Frank Schuil, CEO and Co-founder of Safello, presented the company’s new prototype bitcoin payment platform at the Barclays Techstars demo day.

http://themerkle.com/news/case-wallet-raises-1-5-million-in-seed-funding/

Case Wallet, a digital currency hardware wallet manufacturer, has received $1.5 million in seed funding from several prominent VC funds. The seed funding round was organized by FuturePerfect Ventures.

Additionally, RRE Ventures, High Line Venture Partners and the Rochester Institute of Technology Fund also participated in this funding round. The Case wallet has been available for pre-order since May, for $200 each. The first units should begin shipping sometime during the summer.

http://themerkle.com/news/coinbase-launches-instant-exchange/

Coinbase has launched a new feature that gives users the option to instantly send/receive bitcoin payments without the need to hold a bitcoin balance. The new feature is dubbed Instant Exchange. Coinbase has been offering this service to merchants for a while now, but this is a first for regular clients.

http://themerkle.com/news/canadian-senate-banking-committee-releases-report-on-bitcoin-regulations/

The Canadian government has not taken any definitive legislative actions regarding digital currencies yet, but a recently released report by the Standing Senate Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce provides some insights on the matter. The report (Digital Currency: You Can’t Flip This Coin), which is the result of several Senate committee hearings and revisions, calls for a fine balance on Bitcoin and digital currency regulations. The committee’s report acknowledges the beneficial uses of digital currencies such as bitcoin and views blockchain technology as groundbreaking.

In my last technical analysis article on Ripple, I speculated that the Head & Shoulders formation that was showing on the charts at the time was suggestive of a further rise in price – after 2 weeks of grinding – price did eventually break upward. In my last article I also outlined the 0.000034 support area, and this support zone has held quite nicely over the past two weeks. The 0.000034 area is still of great technical importance, and is likely to be respected by the market in the future, so keep a close eye on it.
http://themerkle.com/speculation/ripple-technical-analysis-for-6162015/

http://themerkle.com/news/hyper-sponsors-the-picisi-project-and-takes-over-another-coin/

In the last couple of years, the gaming industry has been witness to a couple of massive changes, as games evolved, got more expensive and gaming networks such as Steam appeared, hence creating a monopole on the market.

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http://themerkle.com/news/movietickets-com-partners-with-gocoin-to-offer-bitcoin-processing/

GoCoin, a digital currency payment platform, has partnered with MovieTickets.com and Open Road Films to provide Bitcoin transaction processing for movie ticket purchases. The partnership will allow movie-goers to purchase tickets with Bitcoin to Open Road’s new comedy film Dope. Tickets are currently available for purchase at MovieTickets.com and across the US.

http://themerkle.com/news/xapo-appoints-former-banking-ceo-and-treasury-official-to-board-of-advisors/

Many digital currency firms have started a hiring marathon, scooping-up many former government officials and top Wall Street talent. Xapo announced today that Dee Hock, John Reed and Lawrence Summers will be joining the firm’s board of advisors. Dee Hock, founder of Visa, recognizes the great potential digital currency technology holds for the future of finance and governance.

http://themerkle.com/news/first-canadian-university-to-install-bitcoin-atms/

Simon Fraser University(SFU), first made headlines last year by becoming the first Canadian university to accept bitcoin denominated donations. SFU is now making headlines again, after announcing bitcoin acceptance in all on-campus bookstores.

http://themerkle.com/educational/answer-questions-to-earn-bitcoins-with-bitfortip/

In the era where the Internet has taken over the world, most of us find answers to our questions on search engines. However, there are certain inquiries that Google may not be able to find the answer to, so this is why sites like Bitfortip can turn out to be extremely useful.

http://themerkle.com/news/josh-garza-ceo-of-crippled-gaw-sets-out-on-another-business-venture/

Josh Garza the head of many criminal organizations, also known to be one of the biggest criminals in the Bitcoin Sphere has been accused of perpetrating another scam/fraudulent business. The latest “business model”comes in the form of cryptochange.org. This website claiming to be backed by the Crypto Private Investor Group, has popped up after much excitement from none other than Josh Garza. Whilst Josh Garza has been unusually open about the project, discussing it openly on the Hash Talk forum, the launch of the website has not gone down well with many linking it to the past ventures of Josh Garza.

New Economy Movement (XEM) Technical Analysis For 4/28/2015

The New Economy Movement(XEM) cryptocurrency has been trading in a very defined sideways market since the 13th of April. The 0.00000064 price zone stands out as a very significant area. This area has been used by the market as support on the 19th of April, and was subsequently utilized as a resistance zone on the 21st and 25th of April. The market is currently trading in the vicinity of this area again, and the 0.00000064 is now acting as support for the second time. At this point, unless the market breaks to the downside, the market will most likely make another attempt to break through the quadruple resistance level at 0.00000077.


http://themerkle.com/speculation/new-economy-movement-xem-technical-analysis-for-4282015


http://themerkle.com/speculation/litecoin-technical-analysis-for-4302015/

Litecoin Technical Analysis For 4/30/2015


Since hitting the lows at 1.295 on the 16th of April, the Litecoin cryptocurrency has staged a very nice rally over the past week. However, on the 30th of April, when the market made a large upmove from 1.36 to 1.44, buyers encountered a very significant price pivot. The 1.44 level has been used as support on the 11th, resistance on the 16th, and as support again on the 23rd. The market has reacted very strongly every single time it has approached this price zone in the past Month, and it reacted again on the 30th – where it prevented the large up-move to continue higher.


http://themerkle.com/speculation/dash-technical-analysis-5032015/

DASH Technical Analysis 5/03/2015
In my previous technical analysis piece on DASH from last week – I speculated, that the Head & Shoulder pattern that had formed at the time was indicating a possible bear market continuation, and that price may be heading towards the lows at 0.012. As it turns out, over the past week the market moved gradually down to the 0.012 support level.



http://themerkle.com/speculation/clams-technical-analysis-for-4042015/

CLAMS Technical Analysis For 5/4/2015
When I wrote my previous CLAMS technical analysis on the 27th of April, the market was trading in the vicinity of 0.0056. At the time, I speculated that the market was likely to descend further down to the prior double support area at 0.0049. The market not only fell down to 0.0049, but has now tried to break through that support area on several occasions in the past week and failed every single time. Someone really doesn’t want price to close under 0.0049.


http://themerkle.com/speculation/then-weekly-bitcoin-break-down-for-54/

Then Weekly Bitcoin Break Down For 5/4
Well, it is the start of May, GBTC just started trading, and bitcoin is looking good. The goal of these articles is going to be to offer up various scenarios and key levels that a trader may face during this week. So let’s get into it…


New Economy Movement (XEM) Technical Analysis For 5/25/2015


The NEM market has been trading mostly in a range bound fashion since the middle of April. When examining at the 4 hour chart, the 0.00000078 price zone stands out. The market attempted to break above this level several times in the past two months and failed. I have marked the most prominent failed attempts on the chart below. The 0.00000078 area is a significant resistance level that has to be overcome if the market is to continue higher.
http://themerkle.com/speculation/new-economy-movement-xem-technical-analysis-for-5252015/

Dogecoin Technical Analysis For 5/26/2015


http://themerkle.com/speculation/dogecoin-technical-analysis-for-5262015/

Dogecoin has been in a very steep uptrend since the 12th of May, but price is currently pressing against a major price pivot zone. If we take a quick look at the 4-hour chart from December of last year through early February of this year, it becomes very obvious why the 0.00000065 price level is of great significance. The 0.00000065 level acted as resistance on December 20th of 2014, and again on the 6th of February 2015. The market has not traded in the vicinity of 0.00000065 since early February, and this level is bound to offer some resistance now. Market reversals occur very frequently at such clearly defined price pivot zones!

mod note: merged posts

http://themerkle.com/fraud/cryptsy-becomes-part-of-the-gaw-paycoin-scam/

On April 25th a suprprising announcement was made by the Paycon (I mean Paycoin) foundation that a Prime Controller is being held by the altcoin exchange Craptsy (I mean Cryptsy) According to talk.paycoin.com:

http://themerkle.com/speculation/maidsafecoin-technical-analysis/

The MaidSAFE network aims to decentralize data storage and revolutionize the digital data economy. Tech giants such as Google and Facebook, have taken over the data storage economy at great cost to consumers.

http://themerkle.com/news/london-bitcoin-city-of-the-future/

London has long been the capital for many features including arts technology and also plays host to food and music from around the world. Whilst Amsterdam and other cities in Europe are striding towards Bitcoin adoption, it seems London too is hoping to join the trend as it continues to expand its infrastructure to cater for a ever developing Bitcoin economy.

This Friday is going to be extra sweet because it’s the weekend, and we didn’t get scammed by OKCoin. If anyone missed out on the bitcoin action last night: OKCoin weekly futures horribly malfunctioned at settling time causing price to rocket to 284 leaving many traders with short positions with negative balances in their accounts. OKCoin promptly shut down the site and rolled everything back, essentially calling a re do like a kid on the kickball court.

http://themerkle.com/speculation/bitcoin-trading-price-analysis-for-417/

http://themerkle.com/speculation/technical-analysis-monero/

Monero(XMR) is one one of the most highly liquid and traded digital currencies on the Poloniex Exchange, and is very well suited to technical analysis interpretations. The first thing one notices when looking at the 4-hour chart for XMR, is the unrelenting uptrend that started in the beginning of March. The red trendline has been respected on five different occasions. The uptrend was finally broken on the 4th of April on significant volume. Price failed to bounce from the red

http://themerkle.com/news/next-generation-blockchain-platform-nem-xem-has-officially-launched-at-last/

NEM – New Economy Movement uses XEM, a cryptocurrency. They have officially launched on March 31, after having been developed for over a year. NEM features unprecedented Proof-of-Importance (POI), a 100% original codebase and uses very little energy. Additionally, it currently has a good number of active people, with a potential of increasing rapidly in the future.

http://themerkle.com/speculation/bitcoin-trading-price-analysis-for-415/

Back again on a Wednesday, and bitcoin is still looking weak. Eight out of the last ten days, price has seen heavy selling, and one must ask how much longer can it last until we see a retracement?