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The insurance industry has a long history of providing vital support for major leaps in innovation. It’s no coincidence that the modern insurance industry and the industrial revolution arose in parallel. Indeed, it has been convincingly argued that the invention of fire and property insurance — in response to the Great Fire of London — lubricated the gears of capital investment that powered the industrial revolution and is likely the reason why it started in London. Through that first and each subsequent technological revolution, insurance has offered innovators and investors a safety net and served as an outside, objective validator of risk — thereby acting as a source of both the encouragement and the security needed to confidently test and break barriers.

Buying low and selling high is easier said than done, especially when emotion and volatile markets are thrown into the mix. Historically speaking, the best deals are to be found when there is “blood on the streets,” but the danger of catching a falling knife usually keeps most investors planted on the sidelines.

Inflation could start to “mellow out” towards the end of the year, giving the crypto market a chance to form a bottom later in 2022, Chris Burniske, a partner at the crypto-focused venture capital firm Placeholder Ventures, has predicted.

Every Bitcoin investor is searching for signals that the market is approaching a bottom, but the price action of this week suggests that we're just not there yet. 

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) maintained its perfect record for rejecting Bitcoin (BTC) spot exchange-traded fund (ETF) applications Friday when it disapproved a rule change to allow cryptocurrency-focused hedge fund One River Digital to offer the One River Carbon Neutral Bitcoin Trust on the New York Stock Exchange Arca. The decision comes somewhat ahead of schedule, as the agency had extended the original deadline to June 2 to allow more time for consideration.

Bulls rearing to run this morning were dealt a shocking blow as Bitcoin fell below $29,000 and Ether crashed below $2,000 – once again. Other alts were quick to plunge, and so did their total-value-locked rankings.

Dania Gonzalez, Deputy of the Republic of El Salvador, was recently in Brazil to reveal her country's experiences with the decision to adopt Bitcoin (BTC) as legal tender. Gonzalez’s invitation to Brazil came from digital influencer Rodrix Digital, who was recently in El Salvador to produce a documentary about cryptocurrencies.

Equities markets in the United States rallied sharply on May 25 and May 26 but Bitcoin (BTC) and altcoins have not followed a similar trajectory. This suggests that traders are not confident that the crypto markets have bottomed out yet. 

Bitcoin was trading marginally lower on Friday, outperforming other ailing crypto tokens following the Terra debacle. Despite the recovery in the equity markets, altcoins fell sharply. Bitcoin was trading marginally lower after breaching the $28,000 mark. At 14.15 hours ITS on Friday, the largest digital token was trading with small cuts of less than a per cent at $29,010.57. According to the data from Coinmarketcap, the total market capitalization of the largest cryptocurrency dropped to $552.48 billion.

Bitcoin (BTC) clung to $29,000 at the May 27 Wall Street open as crucial support levels lay just hundreds of dollars from spot price.

The collapse of the Terra ecosystem, which subsequently depegged its algorithmic stablecoin TerraUSD (UST) value and crashed it to an all-time low of $0.30, has cast doubt over the future of not just algorithmic stablecoins but all stablecoins in general.

Bitcoin (BTC) is regaining its lost crypto market dominance even as it trades nearly 60% below its record highs.

Ethereum is going the other way again after its latest drop today. The largest altcoin dropped below $1,800 for the second time this month and is looking to further dive into the proceeding support level. The tough love comes at a testing time with the major cryptocurrencies in disarray.

While Meta has not yet launched its metaverse project, Bitcoin SV (BSV) Association President Jimmy Nguyen thinks that it would be better for the firm to store user data on a public blockchain. 

“A red sun rises. Blood has been spilled this night.”

After much talk in recent years about an increasing correlation between stocks and bitcoin (BTC), a ‘decoupling’ between the two has been observed in May, as BTC has fallen significantly more than stocks. But according to an observer, bitcoin could find support as soon as the stock market closes for the week.

Cryptocurrencies are the exact opposite of a prudent investment: They’re volatile, have little practical use beyond speculation and crime, often get lost or stolen, and lack the real-world cash flows that underpin the values of stocks and bonds. It should thus go without saying that they have no place in a retirement savings plan. Unfortunately, it appears to require saying. Increasingly, financial institutions are seeking to get crypto into the employer-sponsored 401(k) plans where workers set aside pre-tax earnings for retirement — and which, as of December, contained about $11 trillion in assets. Last year, the plan provider ForUsAll announced a partnership with Coinbase that would allow employees to put as much as 5% of their accounts into cryptocurrencies via a so-called brokerage window.

The US Federal Reserve (Fed) has “limited firepower” to raise interest rates due to high oil prices and a threat of recession -- and this could lead to higher bitcoin (BTC) prices, the crypto research and investment firm CoinShares has said. Meanwhile, others also remain positive for the long-term, saying bitcoin’s network effects make it likely to succeed.

Bitcoin (BTC) could still see a major price capitulation, but more whales need to start selling first, data suggests.

altcoins such as Ether, Solana and Avalanche take a beating. Traders are partially stumped, but for Ethereum, the signs of a lack of demand have been building for quite some time. The impact of the collapse of Terra, a blockchain ecosystem that supported one of the biggest experiments in decentralized finance, knocked an already bearish market into wild contagion this month. While Terra’s operators had passed a revival plan to start afresh on a totally new blockchain on Wednesday, investors in the rest of DeFi were less than convinced. A glitch in the process to make the Ethereum network less energy intensive added to the concern. “Bearish sentiment remains the theme for cryptos,” said Edward Moya, senior market analyst at Oanda. He noted that Ethereum’s growing list of competitors could make the fallout from unexpected hitches to its update, known as the Merge, particularly intense.

Bitcoin might be registering tepid moves as of late but that doesn’t mean investors have become less anxious about the largest cryptocurrency’s prospect for further declines.