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Speaking on CNBC Squawkbox, BlackRock’s chief investment officer Rick Rieder admits the firm dabbles with Bitcoin. BlackRock is the world’s largest asset manager with approximately $8 trillion in assets under management. The firm is publically listed with a market cap of around $110 billion. BlackRock CIO offers guarded response to Bitcoin position Host Joe Kernen […]

Cardano (ADA) and Polkadot (DOT) outpaced Ripple’s XRP today, pushing it out of the top five cryptocurrencies by market capitalization. Market capitalization represents the total amount of coins currently in circulation multiplied by their price. At press time, ADA and DOT are up around 23.5% and 35.2% over the week while their market caps amount […]

Tron has been marred with controversy ever since its launch in 2017. First was its plagiarized whitepaper (which was found to be directly lifted off Ethereum), and then came all the negative press around Justin Sun, the project’s starry-eyed, flamboyant founder. All paid by Tron? Today, Tron found itself in a fix after one YouTuber […]

Who said using Bitcoin for purchasing things was a lost cause? Bitcoin for air travel Move over the Bitcoin-can’t-be-used-to-buy coffee narrative. A new report claims that travelers are using Bitcoin to purchase airline tickets, as per a release on aviation news site Simple Flying. PrivateFly, the UK-based charter carrier, said Tuesday that 19% of its […]

A private subsidiary of the French bank took a liking to the fast-growing NFT space in its latest note. The next frontier? Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) just got covered in a report published by NonFungible.com with support from L’Atelier, an independent subsidiary of legacy French bank BNP Paribas, last week, a report on Forbes said Monday. […]

With 71.9 percent of the total circulating supply of ADA now staked, Cardano is still the most decentralized blockchain network on the market. The significant increase in the amount of its underlying cryptocurrency being staked is followed by an equally significant rise in the number of new users entering the Cardano ecosystem, pushing ADA’s price […]

Despite the controversy surrounding non-fungible tokens (NFTs), world-famous auction house Christie’s, in conjunction with MakersPlace, has announced their first-ever digital artwork auction. The online sale will showcase the Everydays—The First 5000 Days piece by Mike Winkelmann, better known as Beeple. Bidding starts on February 25, with the auction running up until March 11. Art expert […]

Hong Kong’s crypto users could shift to “unregulated” and riskier venues to trade their digital assets should the government move forward with tighter controls on the rising sector, a group of crypto exchange owners said over the weekend. The way out of regulation The statements came months after Hong Kong’s Financial Services and the Treasury […]

Expect Michael Saylor and MicroStrategy to buy all your Bitcoin when you aren’t watching. Today, the enterprise software maker announced yet another $600 million convertible note issuance for investors and institutions to buy Bitcoin. The move comes a month after MicroStrategy raised $650 million in a separate convertible note offering to purchase BTC. MicroStrategy Announces […]

Uniswap (UNI) has become the first decentralized finance (DeFi) trading platform to generate over $100 billion in volume, the protocol’s founder Hayden Adams announced today. ? @Uniswap just became the first decentralized trading platform to process over $100b in volume – an exciting milestone for DeFi ? pic.twitter.com/hUoM36aG6A — Hayden Adams ? (@haydenzadams) February 15, […]