Tim Wu – a leading antitrust expert at the White House – owns between $1 and $5 million in bitcoin. His crypto investment represents the largest chunk of his portfolio. The Critic Turned out to Be a HODLer According to Politico, Tim Wu – who is also an attorney and a legal scholar – holds...Read More
The United States Department of Justice said that it recovered over $2 million worth of bitcoin, which was the majority of the ransom paid by the U.S. oil pipeline giant Colonial Pipeline to cybercriminal group DarkSide. DoJ Recovers 63.7 BTC The DoJ made the announcement in a press release on Monday (June 7, 2021). According...Read More
Jack Dorsey continues to display his support for the Bitcoin network, this time through the financial services company he runs – Square Inc. The firm has partnered with Blockstream to build an open-source, solar-powered BTC mining facility. Solar-Powered Bitcoin Mining Coming in the US Bitcoin mining became a hot topic within and outside the cryptocurrency...Read More
Although MicroStrategy has already allocated more than $2 billion in the primary cryptocurrency, the business intelligence giant has no plans to stop buying. The firm announced plans to offer $400 million worth of senior secured notes due 2028 and to allocate the raised funds in BTC again. Ever since its initial purchase worth hundreds of...Read More
After El Salvador announced plans to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender, an official from Paraguay’s government has hinted at a similar development. The country’s Deputy of the Nation, Carlos Antonio Rejala Helman, suggested that the government will start working on a big project involving the largest cryptocurrency and PayPal. Is Paraguay Next in Line? The...Read More
Approximately five months after allocating 2.5% of its portfolio in BTC, Ruffer Investment has sold its entire position at a profit of over $1 billion. The firm cited the declining interest from younger generations as the primary reason for the sale. CryptoPotato reported in late 2020 that the giant asset manager founded in 1994 in...Read More
SkyBridge Capital, the hedge fund founded by Anthony Scaramucci with over $7 billion in AUM, has doubled down on its support of Bitcoin. The organization’s Co-Chief Investment Officer, Troy Gayeski, said they believe in gold’s future but are more keen to invest in what many consider its digital alternative. Gold is Good, Bitcoin is Better...Read More
Institutional investors based in the UK and France will be able to receive BTC exposure through a Bitcoin ETP launched by 21Shares. The Swiss organization announced that its exchange-traded product tracking the performance of the largest cryptocurrency will be available on Aquis Exchange. Bitcoin ETP Coming in the UK and France Based in Zug, Switzerland,...Read More
ShapeShift CEO Erik Voorhees is no shy when it comes to expressing his opinion about politics, finance or Bitcoin maximalism —no matter popular or unpopular they might be. During an intervention at the Bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami, Voorhees criticized an earlier panelist’s comment praising toxic Bitcoin maximalism, saying that such thinking was, erm, wrong...Read More
El Salvador’s president revealed at the ongoing Bitcoin 2021 Conference in Miami that he plans to make bitcoin a legal tender in his country. Speaking at the Bitcoin 2021 event, Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, said he is planning to introduce a law that will make bitcoin a legal form of money in...Read More
Kais Mohammad – a resident of Orange County – will spend the next 24 months in federal prison for operating an illegal BTC ATM service. The US officials said that the man processed up to $25 million with some of it on behalf of criminal suspects. Behind Bars In 2020 Kais Mohammad, also known as...Read More
The Hungarian capital will immortalize the anonymous creator of Bitcoin by building a bronze statue of him. The designers of the project plan to put a hoodie on his head to represent his anonymity. A Statue of His Honor The secret identity of Bitcoin’s creator – with the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto – remains one of...Read More
During the ongoing 2021 Bitcoin conference, Tony Hawk revealed that he purchased bitcoin first in 2012 after watching how it works on the Silk Road. He added that he had kept most of his holdings aside from donating some BTC to charity organizations. While comparing his first passion skateboarding and his current affection for bitcoin,...Read More
Speaking to Anthony Pompliano during the 2021 Bitcoin conference, the Gemini founders, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss noted that they are still BTC hodlers and pledged to hold at least until the price reaches $500,000. Additionally, they called the US dollar the “ultimately shitcoin.” The Winklevoss twins are among the most famous early BTC adopters, having...Read More
Bitcoin is trading more or less where it was a week ago, following another seven days of choppy price actions. This time, however, it seems that it was an event that propelled its most recent decline and the catalyst was no other but Elon Musk. Last weekend kicked off with a crash towards $33K on...Read More
During the ongoing Bitcoin 2021 conference, Michael Saylor spoke with long-time BTC proponent Max Keiser on why and how he started buying, the asset’s merits, and what cannot happen with it. Saylor, who has purchased tens of thousands of bitcoins for himself and the company he runs – MicroStrategy – in the past year, outlined...Read More
In the early hours of Friday morning the Bitcoin provocateur was back stirring the digital pot with another tweet, this time depicting a broken heart. The cryptic tweet hinted at a potential split with Bitcoin which is currently down 42% from its all-time high of $65K in mid-May. #Bitcoin 💔 pic.twitter.com/lNnEfMdtJf — Elon Musk (@elonmusk)...Read More
Elon Musk’s debacle with the cryptocurrency community over BTC’s energy consumption levels has turned people against him, revealed a recent report. A company tracking social sentiment has outlined a significant reversal in social media engagements, with the majority taking a negative approach towards Tesla’s CEO. Elon Musk Sentiment Goes Into Negative Territory It’s safe to...Read More
Philips will be auctioning a world-famous artwork called “Laugh Now Panel A” created by the anonymous street artist Banksy. Jonathan Crockett – Asia Chairman at the company – announced that BTC or ETH would also be accepted as a means of payment on the auction. Philips Enters the Crypto Community In a recent Bloomberg interview,...Read More
Residents of the Chinese capital will receive 40 million renminbi ($6.2 million) of the digital currency. They can use two banking apps to apply to win one of the 200,000 so-called ”red packets”, each containing 200 yuan, as part of a lottery. Simultaneously, the governor of Russia’s central bank called digital currencies the future of...Read More
Guggenheim Partners may invest in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency assets through its latest fund called Guggenheim Active Allocation Fund. A recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission revealed the giant’s plans to receive the exposure through cash-settled derivatives instruments. CryptoPotato reported last year Guggenheim’s filing in which the behemoth sought SEC approval to allocate...Read More
An ominous technical indicator called the ‘death cross’ is looming suggesting that the Bitcoin bull market could well be over. Cryptocurrency trader ‘Rekt Capital’ has observed the bearish signal stating “whenever a Death Cross occurs, BTC experiences deeper downside,” A death cross is a technical chart pattern indicating the potential for a major sell-off or...Read More
Jeff Currie – the Global Head of Commodities Research at Goldman Sachs – shared his thoughts on Bitcoin being a gold replacement. According to him, digital assets are substitutes for copper. From Gold to Copper In a recent CNBC interview, Jeff Currie warned that cryptocurrencies are risky and people should not consider them as a...Read More
BitMEX announced a $100,000 grant for the Korean-based Bitcoin scaling researcher – Calvin Kim. Furthermore, the crypto derivatives exchange informed about an additional $50,000 donation from its partner – the Human Rights Foundation. BitMEX’s $150K Renewal In a recent statement, the popular Bitcoin derivatives trading venue BitMEX announced it had renewed Calvin Kim’s developer grant...Read More
This week’s on-chain insights from analytics provider Glassnode has highlighted a slowdown in the rate at older BTC being spent. This is indicative of a level at which a large number of holders are willing to stop or pause as markets consolidate for a while. “A period of consolidation is to be expected as the...Read More
The Reserve Bank of Inda issued a new circular today, clarifying that although banks and other entities need to carry customer due diligence, cryptocurrencies are not outlawed in the country. Citing media reports that banks and regulated entities have “cautioned their customers against dealing in virtual currencies by making a reference” to a circular that...Read More
This allows users to create trustless atomic swaps between the two cryptocurrencies without having to route through a centralized exchange service. Monero’s Privacy Mechanisms Monero’s ring signature system draws anonymity from a minimum ring size. Receivers are protected via stealth addresses, and funds within the ring are indistinguishable from each other. The minimum ring size...Read More
Rhonda – an Australian nurse – lost all her savings after being lured into a fake bitcoin investment. The fraudulent scheme stole hundreds of thousands from the devastated Sydney woman just months before her retirement. Dreams of Retirement Were Dashed An Australian nurse revealed in a recent interview for 2GB radio how a cryptocurrency scam...Read More
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed a lawsuit against five individuals in connection with BitConnect for promoting and selling unregistered securities. BitConnect is a notorious cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme that stole billions of dollars from investors, making it one of the biggest scams in the crypto industry. The SEC alleges that the...Read More
U.S. chain of convenience stores Sheetz, has become the latest company to adopt cryptocurrency, as the firm is planning to include bitcoin and other crypto-assets among its payment options. Sheetz Adopts Bitcoin According to a press release on Thursday (May 27, 2021), Sheetz will become the first convenience store retailer to accept bitcoin as a...Read More
