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Beyond Bitcoin: Tracking the Flow of Funds Across Ether, Litecoin, Bitcoin Cash, Tether, and Other Top Cryptocurrencies

Bitcoin is not the only game in town Demand for cryptocurrencies beyond Bitcoin is growing rapidly. Ether, Litecoin, Tether, and…

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Bitcoin Addresses in This Week’s OFAC Announcement

What happened: On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced action against two…

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Chainalysis Partners with Binance to Tackle Global Cryptocurrency Money Laundering

World’s largest cryptocurrency exchange better equipped to expand in new markets and user segments

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The Not-So-Killer Whales of Bitcoin

New data shows that bitcoin’s largest holders are a diverse group that may be stabilizing, rather than destabilizing, the market.

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Bitcoin Investors and Speculators Hold Their Positions over the Summer

The cryptocurrency monetary aggregates have been updated for the summer months and show that the market continues to stabilize, in spite of price declines.

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Tether: The First Experiment in Cryptocurrency Banking

As one of the first major stable cryptocurrencies to emerge, Tether saw explosive growth in trading volume over the past…

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Time Travelling with Satoshi

When block times get out of order with block heights

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Bitcoin’s $30 billion sell-off

As reported by the Financial Times, we apply concepts of money supply to bitcoin to better understand the crypto-economy.

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The Great Bitcoin Price Dip: Its Causes and a Way Forward

TL;DR: Chainalysis has used its unique data and insights to analyse the bitcoin price decline from December to February; which…

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Interested in Buying Crypto? Here is How to Save on Transaction Fees!

Transaction fees can also vary significantly across exchanges. So which exchange should you use to buy your crypto?

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Day Traders’ Paradise and Miners’ Holy Grail

Of all Bitcoin holders who inherited Bitcoin Cash after the fork, only 26% have actually been moved or spent - that’s almost $6 billion in free money being lost or still waiting to be spent.

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Cryptocurrencies Cannot Die

Chainalysis analyzed the supply activity on the Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash blockchain and found that profit motivated miners shifted up to 80% of their mining power from Bitcoin to Bitcoin Cash.