Bitcoinist Weekly News Re-Hash: Bitcoin Pushes $400, Silk Road Mentor Arrested
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Bitcoinist Weekly News Re-Hash: Bitcoin Pushes $400, Silk Road Mentor Arrested

THELOGICALINDIAN - We had yet addition agitative anniversary in the Bitcoin markets with the amount blame evercloser to the 400 mark This anniversary the amount confused into the 390s and bankrupt the anniversary out in the mid380s authoritative for an all-embracing accretion of 307

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Daily Bitcoin Price Action

Total Change: 3.07%

Greece bitcoinThe anniversary started on November 30, 2015 with the Bitcoin amount sitting at $375.18, advancement the assets accomplished backward aftermost week. This amount ambit captivated for best of the day, aerial in the mid $370s, abreast from two fluctuations. At 3 AM, the amount acicular to $383, and biconcave to $367.11 at 9 AM.

In Monday’s news, two absorbing belief came beyond our desk. We appear that hackers attacked three banks in Athens, Greece, demanding a bribe of 15,000 Euros to be paid in bitcoin by November 30. The hackers are reportedly allotment of a accumulation accepted as “The Armada Collective,” who accept allegedly attacked and extorted businesses in countries like Greece, Switzerland, and Thailand. The Bank of Greece told columnist that this advance constituted a “serious threat,” and that adverse initiatives would be deployed. In our additional story, added ball hit the Bitcoin community, as Theymos and BitStamp butted active over BIP 101. The accepted bitcoin barter publically declared its abutment for Gavin Andresen’s BIP 101 proposal, a change to the Bitcoin agreement that is acerb against by Theymos. Theymos, actuality the censorship-prone buyer of the bitcoin subreddit, BitcoinTalk, and the Bitcoin wiki, threatened to abolish BitStamp from all Bitcoin references beneath his control.

The aboriginal day of December opened at $378.89 — not abundant of a change over the alpha of the antecedent day. The bears were out during the 1st, though, sending the amount into the $360s during the morning hours. At midday, bitcoin sat at $360.48; the amount hit a low of $348.64 in the backward evening.

Wednesday, December 2 began at $351.96, with the markets assertive to cull bitcoin out of Tuesday’s slump. Activity started apathetic in the aboriginal morning, but the amount began gradually ascent at 9 AM. by noon, bitcoin had alternate to $359.46. The amount backward amid the aerial $350s and low $360s until a late-day advance into the aerial $360s. The amount briefly hit $370.53 at 11 PM, and again concluded the day at $368.05.

The markets cooled off on December third, and the Bitcoin amount fell aback into the low $360s. Activity remained adequately collapsed for the absoluteness of the day, amphibian amid the low $360s and high-to-mid $350s ranges.

Sharjah Bank hackMeanwhile, in the news, we appear on a massive abstracts aperture at United Arab Emirates-based Sharjah Bank. The hacker, beneath the moniker “Hacker Buba,” acquired admission to acute chump data, ambitious a bribe paid in bitcoin. Since the breach, Buba has put $.25 of the advice on amusing media, aggressive to abide aperture chump abstracts until he accustomed his ransom. Twitter abeyant the hacker’s account, but he fabricated a new one the afterward day and uploaded the annual statements of 500 Sharjah Bank customers. According to an XPRESS journalist, Hacker Buba wants $3 actor USD in bitcoins.

Friday the 4th was addition quiet day, but amount action was far from stagnant. For the absolute day, the amount crawled upwards, agilely entering $370s area during the backward night hours. This addled yet advantageous day set the date for an atomic weekend, during which bitcoin would advance $400.

Saturday started with the Bitcoin amount at $371.64, and connected the antecedent day’s arrangement of apathetic and abiding advance until the aboriginal evening. Bitcoin hit $380 at 6 AM, and stood in the aerial $370s by noon. Then, at 5 PM, the amount jumped into the aerial $380s, and spent the blow of the day ascent appear $400, until it bankrupt in the $390s.

Fairly big account accompanied the amount acceleration on Saturday. We appear on a US Justice Department columnist absolution advertence that Variety Jones, the abominable declared coach to Ross Ulbricht — the baton of the belled Silk Road — had been arrested in Thailand.

From the columnist release:

Sunday, December 6 opened at $392.31, gearing up for a continued day of affliction Bitcoiners with the anticipation of hitting $400. The markets spent the absolute day in limbo amid the aerial $380s and mid $390s, consistently flirting with $400 but never absolutely accepting there. Overall bazaar action cone-shaped off appreciably during the night, blockage collapsed and closing out Sunday at $386.69.

Where will Bitcoin go from Here?

Last week, I speculated that the amount assets acceptable came from action over Bitcoin Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals. While that still may be a possibility, as accepted bitcoin-accepting aggregation Newegg continued its Cyber Monday deals for several days, I now anticipate that my speculations were mostly incorrect. Looking back, it seems as if some able drive congenital up abaft aftermost week’s rally, acceptance the amount to backfire appear $400 in the final few canicule of this accomplished week.

I anticipate this movement could be an adumbration of the markets testing a 18-carat move to $400, back the bit-by-bit acceleration that characterized best of the anniversary didn’t assume atomic abundant to be absolved as absolutely speculative. However, the accelerated action that occurred during the weekend may be mostly fueled by speculators accepting aflame over the anticipation of a acknowledgment to $400 territory, and the amount could achieve at a lower point already that abstract action slows down. However, I was amiss aftermost week, and I can alone achievement to be amiss this anniversary as well, back we would all adulation to see bitcoin acknowledgment to $400 with stability.

What do you anticipate will appear to Bitcoin in the advancing week? Let us apperceive in the comments below!

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