New York-based fund manager VanEck has recently filed for registration for their upcoming VanEck Bitcoin Trust with the United States Securities Exchange Commission (SEC). According to the document filed with the federal agency, the preliminary prospectus was filed on 30 December 2020. Twitter user Kevin Rooke drew attention to the filing from the $49 billion...Read More
Not many can deny that bitcoin is in the final leg of the 2020 bull run before it hits the $30,000 mark. In fact, bullish 2021 predictions expect bitcoin’s price to range from $36,000 to beyond $300,000. With regard to the digital asset’s price surges, Jeremy Allaire, of Circle spelled out key drivers for this...Read More
Ricardo Salinas Pliego, a Mexican billionaire businessman believes that bitcoin is his best investment ever. In a recent interview, Salinas said that he first heard about Bitcoin from a Grayscale representative who gave a talk about how Bitcoin was “going to take over.” After the conference, the businessman said that he invested a small amount...Read More
Grayscale Investments’ assets under management (AUM) are now worth $19 billion in crypto according to founder Barry Silbert. CEO of Digital Currency Group took to Twitter to announce that as of 29 December, Grayscale’s AUM has tripled from 1 November, when it had $7.6 billion in assets under management. The firm has also seen significant...Read More
Click Here For AMBCrypto’s Survey – A chance to win Trezor One Replying to a Twitter user who called Bitcoin a Ponzi scheme, Stephen Palley, a digital currency lawyer at Anderson Kill, made a strong case for the popular crypto today. The lawyer said that Bitcoin at large could not be dubbed “a Ponzi.” and...Read More
Click Here For AMBCrypto’s Survey – A chance to win Trezor One Marathon Patent Group, a major enterprise Bitcoin mining company will purchase 70,000 Antminer S-19 ASIC miners from Bitmain for $170 million. The firm anticipates receiving an initial batch of miners in July next year and the final batch by the end of 2021. ...Read More
Click Here For AMBCrypto’s Survey – A chance to win Trezor One Bitcoin’s accelerated surge over the past few days has placed BTC closer to the $30,000-mark, than its previous ATH of $20,000. After 2+ years of the bear market, Bitcoin seems to be making a move and unlike during the 2017 bull run, this...Read More
On the price front, the crypto-market, backed by an exponential hike in Bitcoin’s price, is outperforming its projections this week. On the regulatory front, however, the industry has found a lot to contend with. With the industry gaining more maturity as the months roll by and institutions finally recognizing, accepting, and adopting the market, regulators,...Read More
It would seem that Bitcoin is intent on spreading the Christmas cheer for as many days as possible. Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency, is on a roll. Days after it breached the much-anticipated $25,000-mark and hours after BTC surged past $26,000 on the price charts, the cryptocurrency has now shot past $27,000 on the back...Read More
Bitcoin’s latest price rally has pushed the cryptocurrency’s value higher on the price charts, with BTC briefly climbing to $25,000 as well. However, while for a time the said rally was driven primarily by institutions, with Christmas over and the rest of the festive season coming up, one might expect institutions to leave the reins...Read More
After days of consolidating its position above the $20,000-mark, Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency, finally breached the price level of $25,000 for the first time in its history today on exchanges like Coinbase and Bitstamp. While BTC did fall below the level soon after, many expect BTC to climb back up again soon. Source: Coinstats...Read More
After recovering from the aftermath of the $1 billion shorts liquidation in Bitcoin, traders have now been hit with increased activity on the Bitcoin network. The supply shortage narrative may still be at play; however, there is more stability than one would expect above $23,000. It may come as a shock to many, but network...Read More
An actual Bitcoin ETF does not exist in the current financial industry (YET). Over the years, many organizations such as Bitwise have thrown in their hats to launch a BTC ETF but time and time again, SEC has shot it down. Yet, Grayscale Bitcoin Trust is as close to an ETF as it gets. With...Read More
Since crossing its previous ATH on 16th December, Bitcoin has done considerably well to maintain a position above $21,900 since the 17th. The king coin has not spent this much time at all-time high levels in the previous phases of bull run, and it continues to baffle the market. Over the past few days, other...Read More
With a value of $23,324 at press time, Bitcoin seemed to be spending a record period of time above $19,000 (previously it was less than 24 hours). The crypto-asset’s price growth should have turned the wheels on major derivatives exchanges, but surprisingly, that hasn’t been the case. CME’s cash-settled Futures contracts have been under the...Read More
In a recent interview, MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor said that bitcoin is an institutional-grade “safe-haven” asset and that the premium crypto was a solution to the “store of value problem” that “everyone” faced. He stated: First of all, Bitcoin itself is an institutional-grade safe-haven asset and it’s engineered to be superior to gold in all...Read More
Khurram Shroff, Chairman of IBC, or International Blockchain Consulting Group, believed that cryptocurrencies could replace bullion in the future. Speaking about Wall Street’s “renewed interest” in crypto markets, the Dubai-based executive also believed that Bitcoin’s scarcity “helped maintain buoyancy” in such markets. Shroff said in a report: Decentralized cryptocurrencies are sparking renewed interest on Wall...Read More
Digital asset trust company BitGo announced on 24 December that it has $16 billion in assets under custody (AUC). Industry experts believe this could be because big investors are seeking institutional-grade security for custody. Moreover, BitGo CEO Mike Belshe claimed that the firm was seeing “unprecedented interest” from institutional investors as a result of the...Read More
Bitcoin’s price took a minor hit in the last 24-hours, with the cryptocurrency’s price dipping below $23k briefly, before recovering to trade at $23,162. The aforementioned time period was also evidence of Bitcoin’s influence on the crypto-market, with many altcoins going into a downward spiral following the king coin’s price correction. Source: Santiment Despite the...Read More
Bitcoin has been trading above its 2017 ATH for almost a week now and yet, it seems to be showing no signs of heading lower, despite the many attempts by the market’s bears. Interestingly, Bitcoin bears might have to face more bad news since, at the time of writing, it looked like the cryptocurrency’s price...Read More
Institutional interest in Bitcoin may have led to new highs but miners have always emerged as the main proponents of Bitcoin price rallies. Such was the case in 2017 and in 2020, there have been a few signs from miners’ involvement in the price rally. Bitcoin miner’s outflow has dropped over 68% since November 2020...Read More
Bitcoin trading above the $23000 level quickly caught up with retail traders and became the new norm on spot exchanges. When the price dropped below the ATH, the narrative of buy the dip meant buying above $22000, and this price range was the new dip. However, the cryptocurrency market is fast, and traders may have...Read More
As Bitcoin’s price rallied above $24000 and hit a new ATH, it garnered most of the institutional and retail attention this week and over the past weekend as well. With all focus on Bitcoin, investment flow into altcoins dried up. With dropping demand, altcoin trader profits bled based on data on top 10 altcoins based...Read More
With Bitcoin trading above $22600, at the time of writing, the conversation regarding a Bitcoin ETF has started all over again. After all, there are well-developed Bitcoin ETF, ETP markets in Switzerland, ETNs in Sweden, and Germany’s new ETP now stands at $190 Million. Matt Hougan, CIO at Bitwise was quoted talking about Bitcoin ETFs...Read More
When Bitcoin traders make mortgage payments using a debit card so they can earn cashback in Bitcoin, and call it a cheat code in life, it may be time to check the charts for a price peak. Bitcoin’s price recently crossed $24000 and after hitting a peak, the asset is now trading above $22800 at...Read More
US Securities and Exchange Commission filing stated that Anthony Scaramucci intends to launch a new bitcoin fund – named SkyBridge Bitcoin Fund L.P- which has been incorporated in the state of Delaware. The filing detailed that Scaramucci, as well as Brett Messing, a partner at SkyBridge Capital, would hold executive roles at the fund. Additionally,...Read More
Tether’s market capitalization has mushroomed from $2 billion in February 2019 to $20 billion, at the time of writing. What went behind this 10x growth varies across a host of factors, namely, the increase in OI and trade volume in Bitcoin and the rise of DeFi. It is a story within which several other stories...Read More
Grayscale Investments has temporarily disabled purchase of new shares for Bitcoin, a Twitter user pointed out today. The firm has also stopped the purchase of shares of other cryptocurrencies such as Ethereum, Litecoin, Ethereum Classic, and Bitcoin Cash. However, the company is still offering crypto shares for Zcash, XRP, and Horizen. Image Source: Twitter Grayscale...Read More
With Tether’s dropping reserves having an impact on Bitcoin’s price, Coinbase-backed stablecoin USDC’s steadily climbing reserves may do the same. According to USDC’s hourly mean inflow charts, the inflows have increased in steps on the exchange, based on data from CryptoQuant. This is directly linked to further price movement in Bitcoin as whales and institutions...Read More
MicroStrategy’s CEO Michael Saylor took to Twitter to announce that the firm has purchased an additional ~29,646 Bitcoins for about $650 million “in cash in accordance with its Treasury Reserve Policy.” The CEO disclosed that the firm made the purchase at an average price of approximately $21,925 per Bitcoin. To date, the firm holds an...Read More
