The American multinational retail corporation – Walmart – will reportedly allow its customers to purchase bitcoin using ATMs installed in some of its US shops. The initiative became possible following a collaboration between the retail giant Coinstar and Coinme. The First Step Last month Walmart’s name got involved in a story, according to which the...Read More
The ProShares Bitcoin Strategy ETF (ticker BITO) is proving more popular than it can handle. The fund is already nearing its limit on the number of futures contracts that the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) permits it to hold. Over Popularity of ProShares ETF According to data collected by Bloomberg, the ETF is already holding 1,900...Read More
The Houston Firefighters Relief and Retirement Fund (HFRRF) has hopped on the cryptocurrency bandwagon by making a $25 million investment in BTC and ETH. The allocation became possible through a partnership with New York Digital Investment Group (NYDIG). The October 21st press release outlined the partnership between the two organizations, reading that NYDIG facilitated the...Read More
The trustee responsible for handling the Mt. Gox hack and the victims’ claims has updated that the rehabilitation plan was approved by the majority of creditors. Consequently, the creditors could receive roughly $9 billion in BTC by the end of the year. Mt. Gox was once the biggest cryptocurrency exchange responsible for 70% of the...Read More
The Valkyrie Bitcoin Strategy ETF is slated to commence trading on the Nasdaq stock market on Friday, Oct 22, just four days after the first-ever BTC futures fund was launched. Bloomberg senior ETF analyst Eric Balchunas has confirmed that the Valkyrie fund will be launching on Friday after initially stating it would be trading today....Read More
Global investment manager VanEck is set to launch a bitcoin futures exchange-traded fund (ETF) next week, shortly after ProShares got the SEC’s green light to launch the first BTC ETF. As per a Wednesday post-effective filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), VanEck revealed it had secured approval from the SEC, and it’s now...Read More
Digital Currency Group, the organization behind the world’s largest cryptocurrency asset manager, has decided to enhance its Bitcoin position by authorizing the acquisition of $1 billion more worth of shares of Grayscale’s Bitcoin Trust. The press release dated October 20th reads that Digital Currency Group has upped its authorization from $750 million to $1 billion....Read More
Gary Gensler – chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission – recently explained his approval of a Bitcoin Futures ETF. He believes the ProShares ETF falls under current investor protections more easily than a spot-traded fund. However, many bitcoiners and other crypto supporters remain opposed to it. Protections for Futures ETF Users Gensler aired his...Read More
The moment plenty of people in the cryptocurrency community have been waiting for quite some time is finally here. The ProShares Bitcoin Strategy ETF is live, trading on the New York Stock Exchange. The moment many have been waiting for is here and the ProShares Bitcoin Strategy futures-backed ETF, ticked BITO, is now live and...Read More
Hours before the first Bitcoin Futures ETF is anticipated to start trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), Invesco has reportedly dropped its plans to launch a similar product. According to Bloomberg, major investment management firm Invesco seems no longer interested in the race to release a Bitcoin Futures exchange-traded fund (ETF). While Invesco...Read More
Capriole Investments founder Charles Edwards has been observing Bitcoin’s on-chain activity and metrics which can often provide signals for major market moves. On Oct. 18, he tweeted a chart that depicts the MVRV z-score which uses blockchain analysis to identify periods where Bitcoin is extremely over or undervalued relative to its “fair value.” MVRV Predicts...Read More
The number of cryptocurrency-related crimes in the United Kingdom has significantly surged in the first nine months of 2021 comparing to last year, reads a recent report. The local police warned that bad actors often use a fake celebrity endorsement to lure people in. Youngsters Are The Most in Danger According to a recent Bloomberg...Read More
The long-anticipated launch of a Bitcoin Futures ETF in the United States might be over as a more recent report claimed such a product will go live for trading on October 19th. The topic of whether or not the United States Securities and Exchange Commission will ever greenlight an exchange-traded fund tracking the performance of...Read More
The world’s largest cryptocurrency investment vehicle – Grayscale – plans to file to turn its BTC Trust into a Bitcoin spot ETF next week. This comes amid numerous reports claiming that the SEC has finally decided to greenlight an exchange-traded fund tracking the performance of bitcoin, even if it’s a futures one. Citing people familiar...Read More
A month after the Bitcoin law went into effect in the central American nation of El Salvador, interest in the cryptocurrency has continued to soar as a greater percentage of residents are converting their dollars into BTC. In a tweet made by the country’s president, Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s in-house crypto wallet app – Chivo...Read More
North Vancouver, part of the Canadian district of British Columbia, is on a path to become the first city that employs bitcoin mining for heating residential and commercial buildings. The initiative should be available from 2022 after a partnership between the cryptocurrency miner – MintGreen – and the Lonsdale Energy Corporation (LEC). BTC Mining as...Read More
It appears that years after the first Bitcoin ETF proposal was filed, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has decided to greenlight a futures-backed exchange-traded fund for the first time. ProShares, the company which filed for its Bitcoin Strategy ETF, might be the very first one to see it launch next week. It...Read More
For the first time since April, Bitcoin’s price is back at $60,000. It’s a major psychological level, even though, from a technical standpoint, it doesn’t contain that much resistance. In any case, this followed a considerable weekly increase and rumors of the approval of a futures-backed Bitcoin ETF in the US. Let’s take a dive....Read More
Ark Invest, the asset management firm founded by cryptocurrency enthusiast Cathie Wood,wants to accelerate is crypto strategy and has now officially lent its name to an ETF tracking bitcoin futures. A bitcoin future is not actually the same as a bitcoin token. Whoever holds futures contracts does not actually hold the cryptocurrency but rather rights...Read More
In an attempt to comply with local regulations, Binance has announced it will stop servicing OTC deals involving the yuan for Chinese users as of December 31st, 2021. Shortly after the statement, the price of BTC and most of the market dipped. In an October 13th post, Binance said it will cease servicing OTC trading...Read More
Bitmain – one of the world’s largest manufacturers of bitcoin mining machines – revealed it would no longer deliver crypto mining rigs to mainland China addresses. However, the firm would continue shipping its products to overseas destinations. The Crypto Ban Reached Bitmain The Chinese crackdown on cryptocurrency mining and trading has affected Bitmain as well....Read More
Car For Coin – an auction website where users can purchase luxurious cars – also provided bitcoin payments as an option. Other examples of the latest cryptocurrency adoption are the fashion brand – PacSun – and the charity organization – Nicklaus Children’s Hospital Foundation. Paying for Tesla in BTC Becomes Possible Again Even though Tesla...Read More
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin spoke out against President Nayib Bukele’s compulsory bitcoin usage for merchants and businesses, saying it was against cryptocurrency’s “ideals of freedom.” Buterin commented in response to a Reddit article titled “Unpopular opinion: El Salvador President Mr. Nayab (Nayib) Bukele should not be praised by Crypto community.” The Ethereum co-founder did not...Read More
Over 20 Chinese digital asset-related businesses revealed they will halt their operations and withdraw from the local market as the country continues its hostile stance on anything crypto. The Effect of The Chinese Crypto Ban China’s negative stance on the cryptocurrency industry has been known for years, and the local authorities tend to remind investors...Read More
Just four months after the application, Volt Equity’s Volt Bitcoin Revolution ETF has received the green light from the US Securities and Exchange Commission. It will provide investors the option to invest in companies with direct exposure to BTC, such as MicroStrategy. Back in early June this year, the California-based firm Volt Equity filed with...Read More
It’s been a green week all across crypto land as positive sentiment and big gains returned to the market. Leading the scene is Bitcoin, with an impressive surge of around 25%, once again tapping the mid-May highs. Just earlier today, Bitcoin reached a price of $56,000 – something that we haven’t seen since the middle...Read More
Institutions have resumed their appetite for bitcoin instead of gold, claimed strategists from the giant Wall Street bank JPMorgan Chase & Co. Consequently, they attributed the recent price surge to new multi-month highs to substantial purchases coming from large investors. Guess Who’s Back? The demand for bitcoin from institutions is a relatively new concept in...Read More
Over the past seven days, bitcoin’s price is up by roughly 23% according to data from CoinGecko. It’s a considerable advance in a relatively short amount of time, and the third-largest BTC whale has decided it’s time to take some profits. The third-largest Bitcoin address currently holds around 108,265 BTC according to Bitinfocharts. It appears, though,...Read More
With the last quarter of the year underway, bitcoin has reclaimed its dominance in the amount of interest shown by institutional investors as it leads the pack in weekly inflows. According to the latest Digital Asset Fund Flows Weekly report by CoinShares, institutional investors have continued to increase their exposure to digital currencies. The asset...Read More
Dawn Fitzpatrick – CFO of Soros Fund Management – recently weighed in on what makes cryptocurrency interesting to her. Contrary to comments from months ago, she now said bitcoin is more than an inflation hedge, citing other use cases. Fitzpatrick: What Makes Cryptocurrency Interesting Fitzpatrick aired her thoughts in an interview with Bloomberg this Tuesday....Read More
