• Bitcoin has started to correct lower in short-term after buying interest above the $8,000 level began to wane
• The four-hour time frame is currently showing a bearish head and shoulders pattern
• Both the four-hour and daily time frame still remain technically bullish

Bitcoin has a bullish short-term trading outlook, with the BTC / USD pair still trading above its 200-period moving average despite the large technical correction lower.

Bitcoin has surged beyond $8,000 in a dramatic shift from last year’s bear market. It is now up over 100 percent YTD. Cynics are calling it manipulation, and Twitter’s technical analysts have been calling the ceiling for the best part of two months. But is there anything fundamental driving the price movement?

Cryptocurrency markets may be mixed, but Stellar (XLM) is one of the day’s biggest winners. Prices for the lumens token rose a whopping 18% at one point, reaching over $0.14 even as bitcoin slipped back below $8,000.

Bitcoin Cash may not be The Real Thing, but that doesn’t mean it’s not going places. The controversial fork coin may now be used to book hotel stays at thousands of locations worldwide, thanks to a new partnership with the booking platform Travala.

• NEM has a bullish short-term trading bias, with the cryptocurrency advancing to a new 2019 trading high
• The XEM / USD pair has an increasingly bullish medium-term trading outlook
• The daily time frame now shows that an even larger inverted head and shoulders pattern has now been created

The XEM / USD pair has a bullish short-term trading bias, with the cryptocurrency advancing to its highest trading level since November 2018.

The main use case for XRP is as a cross-border payment mechanism within Ripple’s xRapid product. The problem is that, as Ripple’s Chief Cryptographer David Schwartz has admitted, that Ripple’s transaction processing software “can work without XRP and without any blockchain tech.”

• Pundi X has a bullish short-term trading bias, with the NPXS / USD pair trading well above its 200-period moving average
• The four-hour time frame shows that bulls are trying to invalidate a bearish head and shoulders pattern
• Buyers are once again attempting a major bullish breakout on the daily time frame

Pundi X has a bullish short-term trading outlook, with the cryptocurrency trading well above its 200-period moving average on the four-hour time frame.

• Bitcoin Cash has a bullish short-term bias, with the BCH / USD pair advancing to a new 2019 trading high
• Bullish inverted head and shoulders patterns have now been triggered on the four-hour and daily time frames
• Bitcoin Cash is increasingly likely to target the November 14th, 2018 swing high

Bitcoin Cash has an increasingly bullish short-term trading bias, with the BCH / USD pair advancing to a new 2019 trading high.

Market making is part of life in the cryptocurrency sphere – but while traditional markets are able to protect investors through a ‘separation-of-powers’ rule, crypto markets have no clear guidelines that define and enforce restrictions on how market makers operate.

Take the case of TokenPay, an ambitious blockchain project that aims to bring crypto into mainstream use among retailers.

What would it take for economies to be transformed? From measuring the worth of assets in fiat currencies — pounds, euros, dollars, and so forth — to a digital currency system that values every good, service, and commodity in Bitcoin?

The task of overseeing and implementing such a monumental shift would be overwhelming… yet it’s not without precedent, at least on a national scale.