From now on, all of the Coinbase customers in the United States can make withdrawals into their PayPal accounts. According to a new blog post which is featured in today's crypto news section, the exchange made it easier for US customers to withdraw their Bitcoin and altcoin earnings from their Coinbase balances to PayPal - immediately and with no fees. The new arrangement also allows customers to convert their cryptocurrency holdings to cash, according to Allen Osgood who is a chief of product development at the exchange. In the news, Coinbase also announced that it was bringing back a PayPal integration last month, noting that its customers will only be able to make withdrawals using PayPal and won't be able to buy cryptocurrencies via the platform. Previously, the exchange had a PayPal integration which was ceased due to technical issues earlier this year. At the time, a spokesperson that "there is a new functionality that was improved from the prior one" adding:

“There is new technical work to make this possible, and that was done in conjunction with PayPal.”

However, this Friday Osgood wrote that the partnership provides Coinbase customers an alternative to the traditional federal wire or automated clearing house (ACH) network that they were required to use. As he said:

“These traditional finance networks can add up to two business days to a withdrawal. We’re always looking for ways to not only meet the bar set by traditional finance, but raise it. That’s why we rebuilt our integration to ensure that the speed and reliability of PayPal withdrawals does just that.”

The service is for now only available to customers in the United States, but could continue to be added to other nations across 2019, as Osgood wrote.

In the latest cryptocurrency news, we have the price of Bitcoin plunging to a new yearly low and staying at the $3,200 threshold, all while the valuation of the crypto market has dropped from $117 billion to $101 billion, by more than $16 billion in only one week. Currently, the total market cap is at $101 billion and is risking a new bottom which could see it dropping below the $100 billion threshold. Major cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum and Ripple all performed poorly against the US dollar and experienced losses above the 10% mark. The Ethereum price was seen as the biggest suffered, dropping by more than 13% from $98 to the current price of $83.56. The Bitcoin price also performed poorly in comparison to other major crypto assets and small market cap tokens in the past seven days. However, the lack of volume in most of the markets has put the most dominant cryptocurrency at risk of dipping below the support levels which are below the $3,000 mark. The well-known crypto analyst DonAlt summed up the situation by stating the following:

“As BTC is approaching the target of the 2014 fractal the targets of most people change from 3k to 1k and even lower. I still think $2,700 is an excellent place to buy if we should go there. ‘History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes.’”

Currently, there is a big risk in shorting and longing Bitcoin and other major cryptocurrencies in the market, which is why investors are observing the short-term trend of the crypto market by holding out on their trading activity.    

New prediction coming in the latest bitcoin news this time from CEO of Circle Jeremy Allaire saying that he believes that the price of bitcoin will skyrocket in the next three years. He wasn’t in for giving a specific target about the price but he says that the value will be much higher in three years time than it is today. He said:

 “I don’t make significant price predictions. But it’s certainly going to be worth a great deal more than it’s worth today. I am long in the market.”

Allaire says that the people who lost a ton of money in the bear market will only get back into the game because of the fundamentals of cryptocurrencies and that they won’t change despite the downturn in prices. He also believes that bitcoin plays a huge role as a non-sovereign store of value. Allaire continued to explain:

 “The key thing with bitcoin is that it is unique in its security and its scale. As an idea that we need a scarce, non-sovereign store of value that individuals can hold in a protected fashion — that’s attractive all around the world.”

However, he thinks that some of the digital currencies will eventually die off due to overcrowding of the market but this doesn’t mean that if one digital currency succeeds that the rest will cease to exist. When asked about the burning question of regulation, he says that the United States has one of the most transparent regulation since most of the digital currency and banking systems have already been regulated, many of which this year only. Circle is already regulated under the Bank Secrecy Act and money transmission laws and this is a very important element for all the customers and users.

The latest Bitcoin news on our DC Forecasts Bitcoin news site show that the large sell-off from the $3,400 region has pushed the Bitcoin price to a new bottom and a yearly low at $3,200. As the most dominant cryptocurrency declined in value, other major altcoins such as Ethereum, Stellar and Bitcoin Cash experienced large losses against the US dollar. Bitcoin Cash (BCH) has even fallen by more than 11% recently and more than 80% in one month alone. Within a week, the BCH price has fallen from $116 to $89 in a 25% increase despite dropping nearly half of its value last week. Bitcoin's performance has been reviewed by many analysts so far. According to one of the most prominent ones called "The Crypto Dog" this may be a risky period to initiate trades on the short-term trend of the dominant cryptocurrency, mostly due to its volatility in a low price range. As he wrote on Twitter:

“BTC lowest daily close year to date. Is there still a chance of recovery before more lows? Well, maybe. But I am not betting on it.”

Another analyst named DonAlt echoed a similar sentiment and said that until the price of Bitcoin breaks out of the resistance levels at $3,600 and $3,800, drops like this will be expected. “Closed below the swing low – harsh rejection followed. There isn’t much support on the daily time frame still. So far prior support areas have flipped into resistance. Until that changes – stay away from longs,” he wrote. So far, Bitcoin has been able to maintain a range of $3,000 to $4,000 for over three weeks, from November 24th. Until the asset begins to demonstrate signs of a multi-month consolidation period and a high level of stability, any form of a gradual recovery is unlikely to happen. Bitcoin has recently consolidated from the yearly low of $3,200 and is now trading at $3,301.