While the US SEC continues to reject or delay, at best, all spot Bitcoin ETF applications, such a product has seen the light of day in Europe. Called the Jacobi FT Wilshire Bitcoin ETF, it will be the first similar product compliant with SFDR Article 8 through its decarbonization strategy. The press release dated August...Read More
On Aug. 14, on-chain analytics provider Glassnode published its weekly market update, but there wasn’t much to report. Markets have hardly moved over the past week, and volatility is at record lows. The Bitcoin market has reached a stage of “extreme apathy and exhaustion,” it said before adding that volatility and several key on-chain indicators...Read More
Crypto fund inflows are running positive again after a three-week lull period, with the vast majority of capital rushing into Bitcoin (BTC). The renewed interest follows the release of inflation figures for July, which came in slightly better than expectations. Bitcoin Funds Back In Profit According to CoinShares’ weekly digital asset flows report, inflows to...Read More
Javier Milei – a 52-year-old Argentine politician, businessman, and economist – collected the most votes in the country’s primary presidential elections. The leader of the political coalition La Libertad Avanza (Freedom Advances) is a keen advocate of bitcoin and a fierce opponent of the central bank. He has also gained popularity due to a crypto...Read More
Fidelity recently asked its X followers to choose a new bill denomination. Two hours later, more than half the answers were cryptocurrencies. It’s another sign of crypto’s ascendance in the global economy. The trillion-dollar multinational finance company wanted to know what new bill denomination their social media followers would come up with: You get to...Read More
Famous podcast host and MMA commentator, Joe Rogan, is no stranger to Bitcoin (BTC). Having mentioned it in numerous conversations already, both he and his guests have praised the asset before for its absolute scarcity and freedom-focused properties, while contrasting it against the controlling nature of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs). He’s even accepted BTC...Read More
Singapore Red Cross – a humanitarian aid and community services charity in the Asian city-state – allowed people to contribute to its cause via donations in digital currencies. The option became possible after a partnership between the organization and the crypto payment gateway Triple-A. ‘Coin a new Way to Give Today’ The charity entity revealed that individuals...Read More
With the Bitcoin (BTC) network’s programmability and scalability still relatively limited compared to other blockchains, developers continue mulling over ways to push the protocol’s capabilities to its limits. One hotly debated idea comes from BIP 300 and BIP 301 – aka “Drivechains” – a soft fork proposal to allow Bitcoin to effectively scale through sidechains....Read More
The crypto market recently survived July’s CPI data, leaving Bitcoin to consolidate near the $29.5K mark. The SEC’s recent delay on spot BTC ETF applications has left investors with no choice but to invest in altcoins. Over the last week, meme coins dominated the market with Shiba Inu (SHIB) leading the momentum. However, altcoins like...Read More
Prominent Hong Kong-based e-gaming player – Boyaa Interactive International Limited – announced that its board of directors has approved a budget of $5 million to purchase cryptocurrencies. Informing the company’s shareholders and future potential investors, Boyaa said it will buy mainly Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) on regulated and licensed trading platforms in the coming...Read More
There is an increasing narrative among crypto market analysts that the next bull market and cycle peak could come as soon as Bitcoin halving. This follows months of consolidation where BTC has failed several times to break above $30K, and volumes and volatility have fallen to record lows. On Aug. 10, market analyst “CrediBULL Crypto”...Read More
Ki Young Ju – CEO of crypto data analysis platform CryptoQuant – revealed that a bitcoin miner who produced 150 BTC in 2009 (worth a mere $0.13 back then) sold his stash for an astonishing $6.5 million last year. The total profit of the investment equals a whopping 5,000,000,000%. CryptoQuant’s boss took it to Twitter...Read More
Bitcoin derivatives are all about predicting future prices, and this generally needs prices to actually move in one direction or the other. The recent market lethargy and weeks of stagnation have led to decreased activity on derivatives markers, according to Glassnode. “Bitcoin prices are infamously volatile, however the market is currently experiencing an extreme volatility...Read More
The summer period’s lackluster trading activity is evident as digital asset investment products recorded outflows of $107 million this week. The profit-taking has gathered tremendous pace lately, with weekly trading volumes in investment products 36% below the year-to-date average. The wider on-exchange market has experienced a more significant decline, with volumes down 62% relative to...Read More
Esther Freeman – a 70-year-old Israeli resident who turned a $3,000 BTC investment into over $320,000 in 2021 – has terminated the legal battle with Bank Hapoalim. The latter was unwilling to accept her crypto profits, casting doubts on the source of the funds she used to hop on the Bitcoin bandwagon. Her investment is...Read More
Responding to a Dogecoin influencer warning about scam coins, Elon Musk said Friday that X will never launch a token. And we never will — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 5, 2023 While that may be so, make no mistake about it — crypto and finance feature heavily in Musk’s plans for X.com. He recently teased...Read More
The payment technology firm Block (formerly known as Square) revealed that its bitcoin revenue for the second quarter was approximately 34% more than the figure reported in Q2, 2022. The company, spearheaded by Twitter’s former CEO Jack Dorsey, is a main player on the crypto scene, owning over 8,000 BTC. Q2’s Solid Numbers Block revealed that its...Read More
The first half of 2023 has brought an unexpected twist for the crypto market, which has always been a favourite target for cybercriminals. However, as the number of crypto hacks surged in an alarming fashion, a surprising trend began to emerge from hackers as they now started returning the stolen funds. This event surged exponentially...Read More
The approaching presidential vote in the United States in 2024 promises to be intriguing and contested as more and more well-known candidates announce their participation in the election. Both the Democratic and the Republican parties have amassed serious figures who put the economic welfare of Americans, the improvement of the domestic health sector, the US...Read More
Fitch downgraded the U.S. government’s credit rating Tuesday, citing the national debt and deteriorating politics. Bitcoin is already looking good this year with the NFTs. But this really puts the shine on BTC. One of the “Big Three” credit ratings companies, Fitch, notched the United States’ rating down from AAA to AA+ this week. Only...Read More
The Ordinals protocol team announced the launch of a non-profit organization, dubbed ‘Open Ordinals Institute,’ to fund its open-source development. The Open Ordinals Institute is a registered 501(c)(3) California-based public charity that will collect donations in Bitcoin to back the protocol’s development by funding its core group of developers. The focus will also be on...Read More
Bloomberg ETF analysts have boosted their approval odds for a U.S. Bitcoin (BTC) spot ETF from 50% to 65%, in light of “recent events and new information.” The analysts believe it is most likely that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will simultaneously approve all recent applications for the product after Grayscale defeats the agency...Read More
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong revealed that the crypto exchange is exploring the “best” way to integrate the Lightning Network after being called out for not adding support for the layer-2 scaling solution, which enables faster and cheaper BTC transactions than the Bitcoin base network. The comment comes a month after Binance added LN capability for...Read More
After being trapped between $31,500 and $29,500 for more than a month now, Bitcoin broke below the price range due to a lack of positive stimuli. Higher timeframe on-chain metrics, however, continue to signal a bull market. In fact, the latest edition of Bitfinex Alpha said that we could still be in the early part...Read More
Bitcoin (BTC) whale MicroStrategy announced on Tuesday that it has gobbled up another 420 BTC since its last announcement in June. This brings the company’s total holdings up to 152,800 BTC worth $4.46 billion. According to MicroStrategy’s Q2 earnings report, the firm’s 12,800 BTC acquired since Q1 was acquired for $28,233 per coin – below...Read More
Ken’s job in the Barbie movie might literally be Bitcoin. Influencers across the crypto sphere went wild for Robbie’s remarks last week. During a recent interview, the Australian actress (Wolf of Wall Street, Suicide Squad) said Bitcoin talk is “Big Ken Energy.” Ken, of course, is Barbie’s boyfriend. The Ken doll first debuted in 1961,...Read More
Ron DeSantis – Governor of Florida and one of the Republicans’ presidential nominees – stated that the “war on Bitcoin and cryptocurrency” that Biden’s administration has supposedly waged will cease should he become the next political leader of the United States. He also reiterated his hostile stance toward central bank digital currencies, saying such a...Read More
The Federal Financial Supervisory Authority of Germany (better known by its abbreviation BaFin) launched an investigation against the cryptocurrency platform Bitcoin Bank Breaker. The watchdog believes there are several red flags surrounding the firm, suspecting it of functioning without the necessary authorization. BaFin warned German consumers to be extra careful when dealing with the cryptocurrency trading...Read More
The month-end closing is on the horizon! A fair amount of volatility was expected to kick in. But the current trade setup indicates the price may remain largely stagnant not only until the close but also for the next few weeks of August. Now that the price shows signs of a bullish breakout, the possibility...Read More
Robert Kiyosaki, an American businessman and author of the best-selling book Rich Dad, Poor Dad, believes the United States is broke as the country’s debt keeps increasing, countering claims that the world’s largest economy is strong. In a recent tweet, Kiyosaki called the media agency Wall Street Journal (WSJ) “numb nuts” because it failed to...Read More
