Binance Includes XRP as Base Pair; XRP Application is a Sign of a Maturing Crypto Market

Ripple price is struggling to gain momentum above the $0.3300 and $0.3320 resistances against the US dollar. There is a key bullish trend line formed with support at $0.3240 on the hourly chart of the XRP/USD pair (data source from Kraken). The pair could break to the downside if sellers push the price below $0.3200 and $0.3150. Ripple price is slowly moving into a bearish zone against the US Dollar and Bitcoin. XRP/USD could accelerate losses if buyers continue to struggle above $0.3300 in the near term. Ripple Price Analysis Recently, there was a dip below the $0.3250 and $0.3200 supports in ripple price against the US Dollar. The XRP/USD pair traded as low as $0.3192 and later corrected higher. It moved above the $0.3220 and $0.3250 resistance levels. There was a break above the 50% Fib retracement level of the last slide from the $0.3383 high to $0.3192 low. Moreover, there was a break above the $0.3300 level and the 100 hourly simple moving average. Buyers also pushed the price above a connecting bearish trend line with resistance at $0.3260 on the hourly chart of the XRP/USD pair. However, the upside move was capped by the $0.3320 and $0.3330 resistance levels. The price also failed to settle above the 61.8% Fib retracement level of the last slide from the $0.3383 high to $0.3192 low. As a result, there was a fresh decline below the $0.3300 level and the 100 hourly simple moving average. At the outset, the price is trading near a key bullish trend line with support at $0.3240 on the same chart. If there is a downside break below the trend line and $0.3220, the price could accelerate losses. Looking at the chart, ripple price seems to be slowly moving into a bearish zone below $0.3250. If buyers continue to struggle, there could be more declines below $0.3200. The next key supports are $0.3150 and $0.3105. Technical Indicators Hourly MACD – The MACD for XRP/USD is showing a few negative signs in the bearish zone. Hourly RSI (Relative Strength Index) – The RSI for XRP/USD is currently well below the 50 level. Major Support Level – $0.3200 Major Resistance Level – $0.3300 Ripple Price Analysis: XRP Could Target Fresh Weekly Lows was last modified: January 17th, 2019 by Aayush JindalThe post Ripple Price Analysis: XRP Could Target Fresh Weekly Lows appeared first on NewsBTC.

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Brave Browser Announces BAT “Rewards” Feature On Tuesday, Brave Browser, a crypto-friendly internet application headed by the founder of Mozilla Firefox, Brendan Eich, made a surprising announcement, seemingly aiming to start of 2019 with a proverbial bang. Via a company release, conveyed through its in-house blog, the Brave and Basic Attention Token (BAT) team, which consists of Eich, coupled with an array of fintech, Silicon Valley, and crypto veterans, revealed that it would be previewing “opt-in ads in [the] desktop browser developer channel.” While this feature sounds nebulous, there’s more to this integration than meets the eye. In fact, as broken down in a PC Magazine feature article, this new advertising model will allow common Joes and Jills to earn crypto, in the form of BAT, and potentially other rewards in the feature. This new offering, dubbed Brave Rewards, will siphon 70% of earned ad revenue to users who agree to view advertisements. The remaining 30% will be paid to Brave’s war chest — a likely controversial play, but one necessary for the blockchain project’s long-term survival. Rewards will be available via Brave’s developer/test browser edition. It wasn’t exactly divulged when the innovative feature would hit the publics’ desktops, but the following GIF is how the feature will work: Looking outwards, the Brave team revealed that they expect opted-in users to earn upwards of $60 to $70 a year in the near future, with their preliminary projections predicting that $224 a year could be earned by 2020 through Brave’s in-house ecosystem. While this sounds great — an effective free $224/year for viewing ads — like all things too good to be true, there’s a catch. At the time of writing, Brave has announced support for BAT token withdrawal, as the company wants Rewards’ users to reward their favorite content creators, whether it be large new portals or Youtubers. After this feature goes live successfully, Brave intends to activate “publisher-integrated ads,” which will allow content creators to feature “private ads” on content creators’ pages through the startup’s systems. The company subsequently explained its Brave Ads offering and its applications/benefits from a top-down perspective, writing: With Brave Ads, we are reforming an online advertising system which has become invasive and unusable. Users have turned to ad blockers to reclaim their privacy from ads that track them and sometimes even infect them, and publishers are finding it increasingly difficult to earn ad revenue to sustain quality content with intermediaries that collect huge fees. It is important to reiterate that at this time, this newfangled feature is technically in its beta phase. Due to this positive news, the popular altcoin, which recently gained the support of industry powerhouse Coinbase, has posted a respectable price gain. At the time of writing, BAT is currently valued at $0.125 apiece, posting a 3% in the past 24 hours. The crypto, currently the 36th in this market’s standings, is currently outperforming Bitcoin (BTC) by 2.7%, and Ethereum (ETH) by 2.4%. Crypto Lulls: Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP Post Barely Any Movement In the same vein of cryptocurrency prices, the broader market has posted close-to-zero movement in the past 24 hours. Per data from Coin Price Watch, BTC has found itself at $3,645 — a mere 0.58% gain over the past day. Other leading crypto assets have also posted slight gains, but have still underperformed BAT. XRP, the go-to asset for fintech upstart Ripple, is up 1.27%, as it sits just shy of the $0.33 price level at $0.3296. ETH, which recently tumbled due to the delayed Constantinople fork, has found itself up by 2%, regaining a portion of the losses incurred yesterday. While the market is trending slightly positive, some analysts expect that BTC is ready to dive. Speaking to MarketWatch, Jani Ziedens of Cracked Market claimed that BTC, if truly oversold, should be posting monumental gains right now, rather than finding itself in an extended lull. So, Ziedens added that this “lethargic base” indicates that demand is limited, “incredibly weak” even, and as such, lower crypto bottoms may be inbound. BAT Title Image Courtesy of Descryptive.com via Flickr The post BAT Outperforms Bitcoin, XRP On New Brave Browser “Rewards” Feature appeared first on Ethereum World News.