Disclaimer: The findings of the following article are the sole opinion of the writer and should not be taken as investment advice 16.78% and 48.22% – That’s how much Bitcoin has surged since 1 November and 1 October, respectively. Suffice to say, Bitcoin has been on a roll in the last quarter [since September – 34%]....Read More
Let’s be honest, you were more surprised than anything seeing Bitcoin trade at over $16,000. You probably thought to yourself, “How long will this last?” With the cryptocurrency trading at its highest point since January 2018, and up by over 120 percent since the beginning of the year, the sentiment is firmly bullish, but that...Read More
As Bitcoin’s price crossed $16,000 on spot exchanges, one expected that institutions would unload their bags and book profits. However, based on the Map of unspent Bitcoins from Whalemaps, inflows to whale wallets above $12,000 remain unspent. In fact, institutions seem to be buying and HODLing at the same time. The chart attached herein highlights...Read More
Americans have just elected Cynthia Lummis (R) as their first female pro bitcoin senator, and she seems ready to make history. Lummis (R) became senator-elect from the state of Wyoming after beating the democrat candidate Mike Enzi. She has a long and well-known career in politics, but few know about her proud past as a...Read More
It has been roughly seven months since the US government sent the first stimulus checks worth $1,200 to many citizens. Interestingly, that amount would now be worth nearly $3,000 if invested in Bitcoin as the asset price has significantly appreciated since then, unlike the dollar. Stimulus Checks: The History World governments were caught by surprise...Read More
When Bitcoin was launched back in 2009, experts believed that it was launched to tackle the global financial crisis. The banking crisis was at the heart of it, and Satoshi’s vision may have been to decentralize what we know as money. Despite regulatory clampdown in the first 7 to 8 years of its existence, Bitcoin,...Read More
Bitcoin’s price rallied from $15,500 to $16,000 in less than seven days. Based on data from CoinMarketCap, the last time the price crossed $16,000 was way back in January 2018. However, notwithstanding Bitcoin’s recent price performances, the hype around the hike in 2018 was much higher than the one we are seeing today, in 2020....Read More
The largest bank in Belarus – the ASB Belarusbank – has reportedly launched a legal service enabling customers from the country and Russia to purchase cryptocurrencies. Users will be able to exchange digital assets for Belarusian and Russian rubles, US dollars, and euros directly with their Visa payment cards. Belarusbank To Allow Crypto Purchases According...Read More
xBTC is in the news today after it announced its integration with Chainlink to launch a new product type that will use Chainlink oracles to dictate a token’s economics. This integration will create a spot price for a data point that has never before had a spot price – Bitcoin Market Cap Dominance (BMCD). That’s...Read More
When the Crypto Twitter community reacts, it does so in a big way. And when the guys from the Bitcoin neighborhood unite, there’s nothing to stop them, especially when it comes to criticizing traditional financial institutions —whether they’re crypto-friendly or not. If this seems hard to believe, ask PayPal, who had to deal with significant...Read More
Electrum-based malware scam was once again highlighted by Whale Alert tracking service by drawing attention to a payment made to an address used by Electrum malware. According to the tweet, the payment involved 2.042 BTC worth about $32,876 at that time. 🚔 A payment of 2.042 #BTC (32,876 USD) was just made to a confirmed...Read More
Bitcoin is up by a total of around 5% this week. However, the most interesting part is that it finally broke above the coveted $16,000 mark for the first time since January 2018. This time, however, things are looking a lot more stable. BTC had a few attempts at $16,000 and managed to convincingly break...Read More
There are quite a few unfortunate stories of people that lost their Bitcoin forever as a result of using questionable means of storing their crypto. A notable example being James Howell, who lost $127 million worth of Bitcoin in 2017 and was unable to reclaim it. According to a report, Howell mistakenly placed the drive...Read More
Founder and CEO of Galaxy Digital, Michael Novogratz announced today that the firm’s OTC Trading business has had its best quarter yet. The CEO said: We’ve taken several key steps forward in the second half of 2020, including making critical senior hires, expanding our capital base, and completing strategic actions to position Galaxy Digital for...Read More
Bitcoin’s correlation with gold has inspired many narratives over the past eight weeks. However, the correlation may be deeper than popular opinion. The halving mechanism that is coded in the asset itself, drives its shortage of supply and reduces mining rewards in half every four years. Why is the chosen number of years, specifically four?...Read More
Michael Sonnenshein, Managing Director at Grayscale Investments said in a tweet today that the Grayscale team has raked in over $115 million in bitcoin alone. The exec also pointed out that this amount came to Grayscale all in a day, yesterday, on 12 November. According to the tweet: the @Grayscale team raked in over $115...Read More
For many, Bitcoin is more than just a cryptocurrency. For most, Bitcoin is THE cryptocurrency. Why is this so? Well, there are many reasons, but the primary reason usually given by proponents is that it is the world’s biggest and its oldest. Fair enough, but is that all there is to that? Well, not quite,...Read More
A group of researchers has located a new type of ransomware attack called Pay2Key executed against several Israeli and European companies. The perpetrators have requested the ransom to be paid with bitcoins, which the researchers have followed the funds to an Iranian cryptocurrency exchange. A New Ransomware Attack On Israeli And European Firms The updated...Read More
Bitcoin payments for passport services? You read that, right! In a first, a nearly 50-year-old U.S based passport and visa processing firm, Peninsula Visa, will now be accepting BTC for select passport services. Coinbase’s crypto payments arm, Coinbase Commerce, will be assisting the company in the same. Peninsula Visa Is Now Accepting Bitcoin For Passport...Read More
The giant online payment processor announced yesterday that all “eligible PayPal account holders in the US can now buy, hold, and sell cryptocurrency directly with PayPal.” The update of the original statement reads that users can interact with digital assets from their PayPal application or through their desktop accounts. The cryptocurrency community remains split in...Read More
In the latest turn of events, the Russian Ministry of Finance has taken a harsh stance wrt cryptocurrency regulations. Crypto holders on not disclosing their digital assets (worth 45 million rubles or more) at least twice in a period of three years stand to face a jail term of up to three years. This, however,...Read More
Major crypto exchange BitMEX today announced its partnership with Eventus Systems, a software and compliance firm, which would allow the platform to “bolster” its Anti Money Laundering (AML) and trade surveillance monitoring. According to the announcement the firm said: Through integrating the Eventus Validus technology into our existing trade surveillance and AML processes, we will...Read More
The state electric company of Carabobo, one of Venezuela’s 23 states, has reportedly disconnected bitcoin and cryptocurrency mining equipment across the region. According to an anonymous crypto miner, the state electric company, Corpoelec did this in compliance with “superior orders.” The miner told a local news company that over the weekend Corpoelec had indeed shut...Read More
Bitcoin’s [BTC] price recorded its 2020 high of $16,177 today, on the 12th of November. Even though the cryptocurrency’s price had dropped under $16k at press time, the derivatives market has been underlining the active nature of the traders who are aiming for a higher price as 2020’s Q4 culminates. As the value of Bitcoin...Read More
American-Israeli cybersecurity firm Check Point published a follow-up article that revealed the origin of Bitcoin ransomware that attacked several companies in Israel in the last couple of weeks. Check Point researchers partnered with Whitestream – a blockchain intelligence firm to scrutinize wallet addresses left in ransomware notes that helped them trace the ransoms to Excoino,...Read More
Bitcoin’s price has touched new heights in Q4 of 2020. However, it is easy to forget that Q3 was quite different. The Bitcoin market, along with the altcoin market, was quite a mix of volatility and consolidation this year. The spurts of volatility caused the BTC market and traders to pay close attention to the...Read More
Over the past few years, Bitcoin’s popularity has taken flight, with the cryptocurrency a well-known asset in the financial industry today. While it has become fairly common to talk about Bitcoin, fundamentally, it remains dissimilar to any other asset class. One factor that completely distinguishes Bitcoin from other asset classes is its supply distribution that...Read More
What are your top 3 answers to the question, “Why would institutions even want to invest in Bitcoin?” Bitcoin has a good track record and it outperforms equitiesYeah, Bitcoin has outperformed almost every asset out there that has a history. It has done this within a span of a decade, give or take 2-3 years....Read More
While most of 2020 meant uncertainty and consolidation for Bitcoin, the past few weeks saw the cryptocurrency in good stead from a trading price point of view. Not only did Bitcoin’s price manage to stay above the crucial $15k-price level, but it also briefly breached the $16k-mark, before falling again. Source: Coinstats While there has...Read More
The US-based venture capital firm Social Capital will launch a new program enabling investors from all backgrounds to employ the company’s resources to generate “outsized returns on an initial capital base of millions of dollars.” SC’s founder and CEO, Chamath Palihapitiya, announced the new venture called Emerging Managers on Twitter. He highlighted several issues new...Read More
