Cryptocurrency
Unknown whale transfers $256 million worth of Bitcoin
Someone moved 4,501 BTC (256,327,624 USD) transferred from Coinbase to an unknown wallet.

Published
2 weeks agoon

Bitcoin whales have been moving large stacks of Bitcoins at record levels, amid high institutional demand for the world’s most popular crypto asset.
Data from Whale Alert, an advanced crypto analytic tracker revealed someone moved 4,501 BTC (256,327,624 USD) transferred from Coinbase to an unknown wallet.
🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 4,501 #BTC (256,327,624 USD) transferred from #Coinbase to unknown wallet
— Whale Alert (@whale_alert) February 21, 2021
This is triggered by the strong bullish momentum prevailing in the BTC market amid significant gains seen in major altcoins like Stellar, Ethereum, Cardano, and Polkadot.
It’s critical to however understand that tracking Bitcoin wallet activity is not really anonymous because all BTC transactions are kept permanently and publicly on the blockchain or ledger system.
This makes it very easy for anyone to see the transactions and balances of any BTC address.
Normally in the crypto-verse, investors or traders who own a large number of Bitcoins are typically tagged as Bitcoin whales. This means a Bitcoin whale would be an individual or business entity (with a single Bitcoin address) owning around 1000 Bitcoins or more.
The low cost of transferring financial assets when compared to conventional transfer systems such as transfers through commercial banks that may attract up to 1% or more of the amount being used to facilitate the transaction has given Bitcoin a strong edge among large entities.
As BTC whales accumulate BTCs, Bitcoins circulating supply reduces, and this can weaken any bearish trend BTC finds itself in. Meaning that over time, it’s possible that as Bitcoin approaches its fixed supply of 21 million, the price of BTC will go up, with BTC’s present demand factored in.
Bottom line: Although it is difficult to predict market movements, Bitcoin whales have shown historically that they often determine Bitcoin’s trend.
Olumide Adesina is a France-born Nigerian. He is a Certified Investment Trader, with more than 15 years of working expertise in Investment trading. Follow Olumide on Twitter @tokunboadesina. He is a Member of the Chartered Financial Analyst Society.


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Cryptocurrency
List of unpopular Cryptos likely to outperform
Tyler Swope has tipped some pretty unknown crypto assets of likely doing very well, amid the recent price correction.

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20 hours agoon
March 7, 2021
Despite the recent consolidation in crypto assets, a top crypto strategist trader, Tyler Swope has tipped some pretty unknown crypto assets of likely doing very well, amid the recent price correction that seems to be pausing the bullish momentum.
The crypto trader told his 201, 000 followers on Youtube that he was recommending decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Bao Finance (BAO).
He went on by giving his bias it on the fact that the unknown crypto asset was making progress while settling down from its initial hype stage;
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“The xDai pools are deployed, a few minor bugs, but as we can see from the Baoman’s mouth: ‘Block rewards were pushed back one more day but the farms are working and stable. User deposits can start now.’ Yes, the crops are ready to be farmed on xDai. They are moving exactly as planned,” Swope said.
The top influencer further hinted that the crypto-asset could be used as collateral for spot trading on the FTX crypto exchange.
The other crypto asset on the experts’ list includes Deus Finance (DEUS), which is created in allowing users to trade conventional investments asset like equities and commodities directly on Ethereum.
“Deus is officially launching its decentralized trading platform in the next 48 hours. You will be able to trade hundreds of stocks, forex, and selected cryptos on xDai without time restriction,” he stated.
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The crypto asset on Swope’s radar is DeFi platform Non-Fungible Yearn (NFY). He recommended the crypto asset taking to account it is expanding the opportunities in the non-fungible tokens (NFTs) subsector by “taking NFTs and applying it to DeFi.”
“They are the first DeFi protocol to utilize NFTs to make yield farming more secure and flexible by protecting the wallet and allowing the first transferable stake. What this does is create an ecosystem where instead of wallet addresses that represent the right to stake, an NFT will represent the right to the staked funds and the yield they generate. You will be able to trade your staked tokens and future yield via an NFT,” he added.
Cryptocurrency
Football-based Crypto, is world best performing Crypto in 7 days
Chiliz traded at $0.105397 with a daily trading volume of about $589 million.

Published
2 days agoon
March 6, 2021
A pretty unknown crypto asset, based on arguably the most popular sport has outperformed all major Crypto assets tracked by Nairametrics Week to Week.
At press time, the sport-based Crypto traded at $0.105397 with a daily trading volume of about $589 million. Chiliz is up 97% for the week.
Chiliz is currently ranked the 91st most valuable crypto asset, a market value of $573,581,586 It has a circulating supply of 5,442,094,892 CHZ coins and a maximum supply of 8,888,888,888 CHZ coins
The fast-rising crypto can be traded on the following crypto exchange trading that includes OKEx, HBTC, Binance, Huobi Global, and Xtheta Global.
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Chiliz, powering Socios.com, aims to give sports and esports fans the ability to crowd-manage their favorite teams, games, leagues, and events.
Football clubs are now using blockchain, to facilitate better experiences for their fans.
Football is by far the most popular game worldwide. The last football World Cup tournament held in Russia 2018, had over 3.5 billion individuals watching the matches. This shows that about half of the world’s population is keen on football.
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Socios.com Fan Token partners include Juventus, AS Roma, Galatasaray, FC Barcelona, Atlético de Madrid, Paris Saint-Germain, CA Independiente, Apollon Limassol and esports organizations Team Heretics and OG.
Dozens of more clubs are set to launch Fan Tokens before the end of the year, with many leading IPs from sports and entertainment also primed to join the Socios.com roster in the near future.
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leelumeah
February 22, 2021 at 5:06 am
Have you just discovered whale alert Olumide? this is hardly news worthy as it is not an uncommon occurrence, at a glance I see $350 million was moved earlier this morning before your report of the 256M,, what makes this transfer so news worthy?