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Mexican billionaire Ricardo Salinas Pliego took a leaf from Elon Musk’s playbook and added the Bitcoin hashtag to his Twitter bio. His profile now reads “Mexican businessman #Bitcoin.” Pliego revealed last year he holds 10 percent of his liquid assets in the leading cryptocurrency. Around this time, he posted a video showing piles of Venezuelan […]

The market cleaned out overleveraged traders in a sudden move downwards yesterday before recovering in the afternoon hours on Monday. Altcoin traders lost over $1.7 billion in the past day as crypto markets took a hit on the back of high funding rates and overleveraged trading. Bitcoin dipped below $46,000 momentarily, while some altcoins fell […]

The NFT hype has taken over the crypto space in the past few weeks. But not all veterans are convinced. NFT what? You’re not alone if you’re skeptical about non-fungible tokens (NFTs), the shiny new crypto hype that is either overvalued or the next market frontier depending on whom you ask. Litecoin creator Charlie Lee […]

Enterprise business analytics maker MicroStrategy is reportedly building a software product focused on corporate Bitcoin strategies, two recent job postings suggested. The firm had previously picked up over $1.5 billion worth of Bitcoin in 2020—and now spends significant efforts in evangelizing the rising asset class. MicroStrategy is building its first #Bitcoin software product, focused on […]

The price of Ethereum is declining against both Bitcoin and the U.S. dollar. This comes as the dominant cryptocurrency soared to a new all-time high in the last several hours. As Bitcoin began to climb towards $49,900, the price of Ethereum actually dropped in the same period. Although Ethereum has sometimes lagged behind Bitcoin during […]

On Valentine’s Day, the crypto market was infatuated with Bitcoin (BTC) as the coin broke yet another all-time high, reaching roughly $49,530, according to metrics platform CoinGecko. Meanwhile, the week leading to February 14 was also quite eventful all by itself, with a slew of Bitcoin-related announcements and news exploding over the Internet. On Monday, […]

Counterpoint Global, a $150 billion unit of multinational investment bank Morgan Stanley, is considering investing in Bitcoin (BTC), knowledgeable sources told Bloomberg today. Morgan Stanley may bet on Bitcoin in $150 billion investment arm, Bloomberg is reporting. In January, Morgan Stanley boosted stake in MicroStrategy to 10.9%. This is all happening faster than I ever […]

Bitcoin could “easily trade” at $100,000 within a year, says Anthony Scaramucci.

Prelude – zkChannels – a layer 2 scaling solution from Bolt Labs building on Tezos, will enable private transactions for USDtz and the whole StableTez token family. This means USDtz will become the first stablecoin to enable private transactions through the use of zkChannels and on-chain privacy amendments. The Haven Protocol, a Monero-based protocol was […]

Twitter boss Jack Dorsey and rapper Shawn Carter, also known as Jay-Z, are funding a Bitcoin trust. Both will pool together 500 BTC, approximately $24 million, to make this happen. ₿trust will operate as a blind irrevocable trust and will focus on Bitcoin development initially in Africa and India. Dorsey has opened applications for three […]