Historically, the Chinese Lunar New Year or Spring Festival has influenced the Bitcoin market. Most often, the asset’s prices dip in the days leading to the event, over the years. Analyst at Singapore-based Stack Funds shed more light on Bitcoin’s performance with regard to the upcoming holidays. Head of research Lennard Neo expected market selling...Read More
Coinbase has officially announced its plan to go public by way of a direct listing, according to a blog post on Thursday. The post stated: Coinbase Global, Inc. today announced its intent to become a publicly-traded company pursuant to a proposed direct listing of its Class A common stock. Such proposed listing is expected to...Read More
Bitcoin’s price endured quite a few price corrections after it touched its most-recent ATH around the $42,000-mark. Corrections would be an understatement, perhaps, since Bitcoin’s price has fallen by over 15 percent in the last three days alone, with the cryptocurrency trading at $31,181 at press time. Understandably, BTC’s performance has fueled speculations that the...Read More
Bitcoin‘s recent all-time highs definitely grabbed the attention of global market watchdogs. Although the crypto-market may be going through a period of corrections, its potential has alerted Central Banks across the world. In fact, while the attention it received brought a lot of support, regulators have also increasingly been taking note of the legal functioning...Read More
GameStop took over the Internet and stock market alike, as shares of the video game retailer surged over 400% this week and nearly 1,750% this year. Meanwhile, shares of AMC Entertainment ballooned 300% over the week. However, reports state that brokers have paused trading activity for GameStop, AMC Entertainment, BlackBerry, and Koss on 28 January....Read More
Guggenheim Partners CIO Scott Minerd has shared another warning of possible Bitcoin declines. The Wall Street executive predicted a massive correction, dragging the primary cryptocurrency down to $20K. He pointing out that institutional interest is not enough to stabilize BTC above $30K. Institutional Demand is Not Enough Institutional interest towards Bitcoin will not be enough...Read More
A new survey in UK found that about a third of British people are keen on investing in cryptocurrency but a majority of them do not understand the digital asset’s market conditions well enough to actually make investments. According to the national wide survey, 31% of British people are curious about crypto, however, 62% said...Read More
It seems that MicroStrategy CEO, Michael Saylor knows a thing or two about Bitcoin that most traditional investors overlook. In a recent interview with Unchained’s Laura Shin, the CEO claimed that people were missing out on a “fundamental issue” about the asset, and instead, they focused on Bitcoin’s technicalities. The chief exec believed that if...Read More
An interesting observation was put forward by Quantum Economics’ Mati Greenspan yesterday. The popular analyst observed that after Bitcoin touched its latest ATH at $42,000, Ethereum registered three new ones in the same timeframe. Albeit the press time corrections, Ethereum has been performing really well in 2021. With its valuation continuing to consolidate near its...Read More
Bitcoin breaching the $40,000-mark re-ignited levels of interest last seen in 2017, especially since more and more institutions and investors are now flooding in with keen interest. Both retail and institutional demands are rising today and as a result, crypto exchange-traded products or ETPs are thriving in the process. In fact, recent reports also suggested...Read More
Stablecoins were adding $100M in market capitalization nearly every day back in June 2020. When expressed in big picture terms, the cumulative market capitalization rose from $9.4B in June 2020 to $35.4B in January 2021. On the contrary, DeFi projects’ TVL hiked by over 2500% from June 2020 to January 2021. Now, though DeFi projects’...Read More
eToro faced some technical issues today on 27 January. Several users took to Twitter to complain that they were unable to use the app. This was later confirmed by the eToto team which acknowledged the matter and said on Twitter: We’re aware that some users are unable to close positions on eToro. We’re aware that...Read More
Over the past decade, many organizations have attached themselves to the functionality and value of Bitcoin, but perhaps none can eclipse the presence and impact of Grayscale investments. While Grayscale went on a Bitcoin accumulation spree towards the 2nd half of 2020, its involvement in the development of other crypto-financial products went slightly under the...Read More
The “Bitcoin is dead” narrative has received the support of many naysayers and doubters over the years, especially in times when the cryptocurrency’s price has fallen sharply. So far, the hundreds of such assumptions have turned out to be wrong, and recent statistics showed that the number of doubters dropped significantly in 2020, as the...Read More
On Monday, Marathon Patent Group announced that it bought 4,812.66 BTC, worth $150 million, through the New York Digital Investment Group (NYDIG). Merrick Okamoto, Marathon’s chairman & CEO, noted that the investment would help them accelerate the process of turning the company into a “facto investment choice for individuals and institutions who are seeking exposure...Read More
United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged a cryptocurrency trader for allegedly being involved in a ponzi scheme defrauding more than $5 million from over 170 investors. The accused, Jeremy Spence, who goes by the name “Coin Signals,” was charged in Manhattan Federal Court for “soliciting funds” for various crypto funds that he operated. ...Read More
Anthony Scaramucci, former White House Communications Director, and founder of SkyBridge hedge fund made bullish statements about Bitcoin and called it “a good long-term investment.” While predicting upcoming volatility and correction, Scaramucci believed the digital asset would only increase in price. Alongside SkyBridge Partner and the Chief Operating Officer, Brett Messing, Scaramucci claimed that the...Read More
Grayscale’s dropping BTC premium is sounding alarm bells for investors and traders alike. Alarm bells isn’t an understatement, especially since the premium plummeted to 2% from about 30% back in December 2020. What does this mean? Well, the premium may have been the only motivation for institutions to invest in GBTC, and not Bitcoin. This...Read More
Global regulators have always branded cryptocurrencies, especially bitcoin, as a tool for illicit activities such as money laundering and crime financing. Even the newly-confirmed US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen recently raised concerns over the same issue. Experts like ECB President Christine Lagarde and Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary have also called for a unified global regulatory...Read More
Bitcoin, at the time of writing, was eyeing a 3-week losing streak for the first time since June 2020. While the 7-day period hasn’t concluded yet, a market close below the $32,300-mark will register a third red-weekly candle in a row. Now, while market sentiments didn’t seem to be particularly bearish at press time, certain...Read More
Bitcoin‘s price might due for another correction after CryptoQuant’s Exchange Whale Ratio hit 0.87, a level last seen when BTC dipped to its yearly open at $28,956. While Bitcoin did see a surge yesterday as the price pumped to $34,800, the surge was met by holders waiting to sell their BTC. This sell-off is getting...Read More
Bitmain co-founder Jihan Wu officially announced his resignation in a signed statement published on Tuesday. An excerpt from Wu’s cryptographic message reads: “The disagreement between Micree and myself, the two co-founders of Bitmain, has been finally settled in an amicable and, more importantly, a constructive manner.” As part of the settlement, fellow co-founder and rival...Read More
Bitcoin‘s price is range-bound in the short to medium term for sure, but in the long-term, the price has been showing no bullish signs. Hence, an obvious place to turn to is the past. Although the past tells a brief and unclear story, it is a story that cannot be ignored. The history of Bitcoin...Read More
Donald Trump is no longer President of the United States. Democrat Joe Biden is the 46th President of the United States and Janet Yellen is the Treasury Secretary in his administration. Despite a change in government, the underlying problems in the economy remain the same. The question thus is – Does this change the trajectory...Read More
The Chicago-based company has increased its position to GBTC by about 24% from October to late December, according to a recent filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The financial institution now owns 30,454 GBTC shares. Founded in 1908 in Chicago, Rothschild Investment Corporation is a registered financial brokerage, dealer, and a member of...Read More
Numerous large U.S. endowments from universities including Harvard, Yale, Brown University, and the University of Michigan have been buying crypto currency on exchanges according to reports. University endowments are traditionally comprised of money or other financial assets such as crypto that are donated to academic institutions. The report, featured on Bloomberg, stated that Coinbase mentioned...Read More
A recent study revealed that Bitcoin and the rest of the cryptocurrencies no longer have the bad reputation that haunted them in the past. In fact, it seems that as the years go by, the preference towards digital tokens is beginning to overtake historically favored assets such as gold and silver. SimpleMoneyLife —a site focused...Read More
The speculations about whether Bitcoin is heading toward mainstream adoption does not seem to die down. After corporations such as Grayscale and MicroStrategy raked up more of the asset, recently, every analyst seems to have an opinion about the debate. Bitcoin even seems to be popular among Wall Street legends, such as Paul Tudor Jones,...Read More
Coinbase ‘Year in Review’ 2020 report stated that there was a growing institutional demand for Ether, amid increasing corporate investments in Bitcoin. According to researchers at Coinbase Institutional, while the exchange’s clients predominantly bought Bitcoin last year, a growing number also took positions in Ethereum. Source: Coinbase Most institutional clients at Coinbase think of Ethereum...Read More
MicroStrategy’s Michael Saylor recently made bullish statements about Bitcoin in a recent interview. While reiterating the personal custody features of the asset, the CEO asserted that even if somebody “holds a gun to your head” nobody, including tax authorities, can “take Bitcoin away from you.” Saylor, who once revealed his personal Bitcoin holdings added: You...Read More
