American economist and trader Nassim Taleb wrote that Bitcoin is a good idea, but most cryptocurrency users do not understand the nuances of its work.

Nassim Taleb participated in a discussion on Twitter with the "Bitcoin maximalist" Giacomo Zucco. Zucco questioned Taleb's views on the imposition of central planning by bureaucrats and politicians, since they have no "personal interest in the success" of this strategy. 

Outrageous businessman John McAfee announced the launch of the decentralized exchange Ghost, which is associated with the eponymous anonymous cryptocurrency and will replace the McAfeeDEX platform.

The main network of the anonymous cryptocurrency Ghost should be launched today - until that moment, Ghost tokens were placed on the Ethereum blockchain. The coin will be based on the Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus method, and the decentralized exchange Ghost of the same name will become the main platform for trading this cryptocurrency. The site also supports BTC, ETH, DAI, USDT and ESH.

The share of inactive Bitcoins exceeded 60%. The largest increase in the number of inactive BTC since the beginning of the year is observed among coins purchased 10 years and 2-3 years ago.

According to Glassnode, 60.63% of all BTCs did not move for more than a year. These data indicate the consolidation of BTC ownership and that investors who bought cryptocurrency at the lowest prices in 2018 have not yet begun to profit from their investments. More than four years have passed since such a large percentage of outstanding BTC did not move for more than a year.

The Bitcoin exchange rate pushed off support at the level of $ 9,000 and, according to the popular cryptocurrency analyst Michael van de Poppe, is preparing for growth to $ 12,000.

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao shared his secrets of success and identified four factors for the effective expansion of cryptocurrency exchanges around the world.

Peter Brandt, an analyst and experienced trader, said that Ripple's XRP cryptocurrency is a fraudulent scam, with the price of coins being constantly manipulated.

Bloomberg analyst Mike McGlone believes that Bitcoin has every chance of reaching $ 20,000 this year and updating its all-time high.

In his article, McGlone writes that technical and fundamental factors increasingly indicate a positive development for Bitcoin. So, Bitcoin is becoming an increasingly popular investment tool, the number of open positions in futures continues to grow. The attitude towards cryptocurrencies among institutional investors is changing.

CoinMetrics notes a high correlation between the price of gold and Bitcoin in recent months. At the same time, according to VanEck, the correlation between assets has increased since March. Correlation is a statistical relationship between two or more random variables. In its latest report, the analytical company CoinMetrics claims that the correlation between the price movement of gold and bitcoin is quite high, and this trend has been maintained over the past few months.

Right after Ethereum co-founder Vitaliy Buterin stated that stablecoins can transfer value between blockchains, we see the RenVM project announcing its core product on 27/05/2020. Now it is the only DeFi project brought up to bring cross-chain assets to the Ethereum ecosystem. First coins to be served that way are the following: BTC, BCH, and ZEC.

The Facebook Libra wallet was renamed to Novi and placed under the management of Facebook's subsidiary, Novi Financial. In a statement, Novi Financial reported that the name Novi was coined as a merger of the Latin words "Novus" ("new") and "VIA" ("path"), and the visual design of the logo should show the natural movement of digital currencies. Like the previous developer of the Calibra wallet, Novi Financial declares its independence from the parent company.