Users of the popular browser Opera will have the option to purchase cryptocurrencies directly from it following a partnership with the crypto-fiat processor Simplex. The integration will also enable users to set up personal cryptocurrency wallets to store the newly-purchased digital assets. Opera Users To Buy Crypto From The Browser Founded in 2014, Simplex describes...Read More
MicroStrategy, the company, spearheaded by one of Bitcoin’s biggest proponents, MicroStrategy, has just confirmed the purchase of another 19,452 BTC. In an announcement published today, February 24th, MicroStrategy, the largest independent publicly-traded business intelligence company, has revealed the purchase of 19,452 bitcoins. The company paid approximately $1,026 billion in cash for the BTC. The average...Read More
Amid the clamor for nuanced crypto regulations in India, one billionaire investor appears not to be sold on the value proposition for cryptocurrencies and has advocated for a Bitcoin (BTC) ban. Bitcoin Hangover will be ‘Much Worse’ Speaking to CNBC on Tuesday (Feb. 23, 2021), Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, dubbed the “Indian Warren Buffett,” slammed Bitcoin, calling...Read More
The European Central Bank (ECB) has asked the parliament for veto powers in matters concerning Facebook’s Diem and other stablecoin projects. According to a Reuters report on Tuesday (Feb. 23, 2021), the ECB has asked European Union (EU) lawmakers for veto powers on stablecoin regulations in the Eurozone. An excerpt from the ECB’s formal opinion...Read More
The Ethereum gas fee insanity has not abated despite a 22% correction in ETH prices. With a new all-time high in gas fees today, the 24-hour ‘revenue’ figure for the network is very close to $50 million. According to Cryptofees.info the number in daily fees generated by Ethereum is a monumental $49.55 million at the...Read More
Tether and Bitfinex will no longer be able to trade with New York citizens and will have to pay $18.5 million in penalties as their two-year-long legal case with the New York Attorney General office came to an end. The case started in April 2019 when the NYAG office alleged the popular exchange Bitfinex of...Read More
Money transfer giant MoneyGram is suspending its partnership deal with Ripple, following the ongoing legal battle between the latter and the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). MoneyGram announced the news of the suspension in its Q4 and full-year 2020 financial results published on Monday (Feb. 22, 2021). As part of its Q1 2021 outlook,...Read More
According to Tradingview citing Coinbase prices, BTC crashed to around $46,800 before bouncing back over $50k again during Tuesday morning’s Asian trading session. The move wiped out over $9,000 in a couple of hours as a cascade of leveraged positions was liquidated on exchanges such as Kraken. Today’s market crash is brought to you by...Read More
Ethernity, the digital platform building an NFT ecosystem, has announced plans to launch on the decentralized fundraising platform Polkastarter. The team will conduct a public sale of its ERN token on the permissionless DEX for cross-chain pools and auctions to enable its community to participate in the ongoing NFT craze. Ethernity To Go For a...Read More
North America’s first Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) has seen impressive results on its first two days of trading, following its recent approval by Canada’s securities regulatory body. Purpose Bitcoin ETF started on a flying note shortly after it began trading on Thursday (Feb. 18, 2021) under the ticker symbol “BTCC” on the Toronto Stock Exchange...Read More
JPMorgan strategists have supported the narrative that Bitcoin is in a liquidity crisis. However, instead of highlighting it as a potential catalyst for further price increases, they warned that the asset could experience a sharp price drop just as quickly. The primary cryptocurrency reached yet another record during the weekend with a new all-time high...Read More
A few hours ago on Monday, Feb. 22, a critical vulnerability was discovered in Primitive Finance smart contracts. The contract could not be upgraded or suspended so the team decided to “whitehack” its own smart contracts to safeguard user funds. It stated that the majority of funds have been secured though users need to take...Read More
Japanese financial conglomerate SBI Holdings revealed that it was planning to establish a joint cryptocurrency venture that would serve as one of the company’s key earners. SBI Expanding Crypto Services According to Reuters on Monday (Feb. 15, 2021), SBI’s founder and CEO, Yoshitaka Kitao, the company was discussing with international financial firms to set up...Read More
Although Bitcoin is performing remarkably well, it is not all praise in the market world. Take Will Hobbs —chief investment officer at Barclays Wealth & Investments— as an example. He is clearly not convinced that Bitcoin is all that its proponents claim. Speaking to Markets Insider, Hobbs said that his company’s investment strategy doesn’t involve...Read More
Bitcoin recently became a trillion-dollar asset as its price also surged past $57,000. A few hours later, ETH made headlines as it crossed the coveted $2K mark. Several other cryptocurrencies have also performed well. Tesla’s CEO, Elon Musk, is of the opinion that the prices of both digital currencies are high. Pro-gold and anti-bitcoin economist...Read More
The growth of the leading cryptocurrency asset manager Grayscale Investments has pushed the company into appointing three new C-suite hires. As a result, the company has filled the roles of Chief Operating Officer, Chief Compliance Officer, and Chief People Officer. New C-Suite Hires In Grayscale Founded in 2013, Grayscale is a crypto asset manager that...Read More
The narrative that bitcoin is rarely used for payment transactions has been debunked by several fields in the span of a week. Apart from Swiss residents being able to pay their canton taxes in BTC or Portuguese citizens paying their electricity bills, a UK-headquartered private jet charter company said that nearly 20% of its yearly...Read More
The popular crypto exchange OKCoin has made a somewhat controversial decision to delist two Bitcoin forks – Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Bitcoin SV (BSV). According to the platform’s CEO, the company is doing what’s in the best interest of Bitcoin’s ecosystem while trying to act against Craig Wright’s recent lawsuit urging various websites to remove...Read More
After months of complete silence from one of the biggest proponents of cryptocurrencies and arguably one of the most influential people in the industry, Arthur Hayes is back. The former CEO of BitMEX shared his thoughts on some pressing and trending matters – the state of the “crypto capital markets” following the fiasco with GameStop...Read More
JPMorgan Chase & Co strategists have warned that BTC’s price could be in bubble territory as it’s significantly higher than their estimated fair value. Furthermore, the analysts believe that bitcoin, and other cryptocurrencies, have failed to serve as a hedge to equities. JPM’s Swinging BTC Opinion After being somewhat positive on BTC for months, claiming...Read More
Mark Cuban, a famous venture capitalist, and owner of the Dallas Mavericks, made comments on Twitter regarding the Gamestop stock situation, along with some of the inherent problems that lie within the New York Stock Exchange. In the thread, the billionaire claims that a blockchain system could solve many of the issues that the stock...Read More
Tesla’s Elon Musk continues with his controversial opinions on bitcoin. After recently saying that he is a supporter and BTC is a “good thing,” he now called the primary cryptocurrency “almost as bs as fiat money.” Musk: BTC Is Slightly Less Dumb Than Cash The latest Musk comments on the cryptocurrency came as a response...Read More
Popular gold advocate Jeffrey Gundlach, CEO of DoubleLine Capital, has thrown his weight behind Bitcoin (BTC), stating that the crypto asset is a better investment than the precious yellow metal. Gundlach tweeted earlier today that despite being a strong gold bull and a long-term U.S. dollar bear, he has chosen to be neutral on both...Read More
Cosmos developers will be welcoming the news that their chains can now connect with Polkadot’s Substrate network of parachains with minimal effort. Until now, projects elected to build on Cosmos would have been forced to remain there, given the costs and time associated with migrating to a different blockchain and rebuilding from scratch. A new...Read More
The private financial and investing advice company The Motley Fool has announced plans to allocate $5 million in Bitcoin. The Motley Fool Joins The BTC Party The Virginia, US-based company announced its intention to buy BTC in its Twitter account earlier. It reads that “we are buying $5 million in Bitcoin on our own balance...Read More
Residents located in the canton of Zug, one of the 26 cantons in the European country, will be able to use Bitcoin and Ethereum to pay their cantonal taxes as of this week. This comes just months after the canton partnered with Bitcoin Suisse to enable the innovative initiative. CryptoPotato reported the partnership between the...Read More
A U.S. court has brought charges against three North Korean hackers, accusing them of massive crypto thefts. The individuals are computer programmers and have allegedly worked alongside government officials on their operations. Stealing More than $1.3B in Cash and Crypto A U.S. court charged three North Korean individuals suspected in an attempt for a massive...Read More
The firm, which specializes in investment, research, and development in the cannabis sector, said that their industry has had very positive experiences with cryptocurrencies as a “simple and digital means of payment.” Corporations Buying Bitcoin Seems To Be Trendy It seems like only yesterday Elon Musk made the SEC filing, laying out how his company...Read More
Cardano, a decentralized open-source project that runs a public blockchain platform for smart contracts, has recently released a date for its long-awaited Hard Fork Combinator (HFC) event dubbed “Mary.” Cardano To Launch Mary On March 1 According to an update on Tuesday by the project’s founder, Charles Hoskinson, the network upgrade will take place on...Read More
The world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock, is looking into Bitcoin. This was confirmed by the managing director of the company, Rick Rieder, today. Rick Rieder, the managing director of BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, confirmed that the company is looking into Bitcoin. “We’ve started to dabble a bit into it,” he said, refusing to...Read More
