Citigroup is reportedly seeing a “very rapid” accumulation of interest in bitcoin across a broad spectrum of clients, including large asset managers. Neither the company nor the author is responsible, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with the use of or reliance on […]
Ethereum Classic, a seemingly forgotten cryptocurrency, reached the attention of many this week when its price skyrocketed out of the blue, but there might be some reasons behind it. Ethereum Classic, the sibling fork of Ethereum, enjoyed a price revival this week when its price soared more than 200% to become the cryptocurrency that led […]
He calls bitcoin “a digital, scarce store of value” and stresses the need to put in place some investor protections for this asset class. SEC Chair Gary Gensler talked about cryptocurrency policies and bitcoin in an interview with CNBC Friday. It’s a digital, scarce store of value, but highly volatile, and there’s investors that want […]
AscendEX, formerly BitMax, an industry-leading digital asset trading platform built by Wall Street quant trading veterans, has announced the listing of the NIOX Token under the pair USDT/NIOX on May 5 at 1:00 p.m. The NIOX Foundation and the Autonio trading platform are launching the NIOX suite to address the technical complexity, secrecy, and exclusivity […]
May 7th, 2021, London, UK — MUNCH is a Decentralized Finance project which has raised over $1 million USD, in ETH, in just 14 days since its launch. The Munch project applies a 10% transaction fee to every buy and sell made. As part of the community-led aspect of the project, the community voted to […]
Cryptocurrencies are extremely useful tools for Venezuelans to save their purchasing power and Binance is currently the most popular exchange in the country due to its robust peer-to-peer market. To the surprise of many, Binance became a trending topic in Venezuela this Friday, with more than 200k tweets directed to several topics including the use […]
Over a million Argentineans have been buying cryptocurrencies in the last few months, and a pattern has been spotted among them in terms of preferences. In turn, they are already the first step to move to other currencies, and we notice that more and more bitcoin and ethereum are also positioned as two cryptos to […]
The Cuyahoga County Scam Squad in Cleveland and the FBI are collaborating to alert the public about scams involving bitcoin, News 5 Cleveland reported this week. The man said that the shopkeeper where the ATM resided came up and said “can I help you?” When he explained that he needed to send money to an […]
For years now the well known economist and gold bug Peter Schiff has continuously spoken out against bitcoin, as he claims precious metals are far superior. During the last year, Bitcoin.com News has reported on Peter Schiff on numerous occasions and one time our newsdesk did a report on his father Irwin Schiff. In other […]
It’s been a long time since the Bitcoin network has seen a major upgrade and the last time it happened was in 2017, back when BTC participants activated Segregated Witness . The protocol that will be deployed if it comes to consensus, is a soft fork that improves the blockchain’s scripts for privacy-centric and complex […]
American comedian and television host Bill Maher mocked bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, including dogecoin, on his show Friday. Naming bitcoin, dogecoin, and a few other cryptocurrencies, he said as far as he is concerned, dogecoin is “the same as all the other cryptocurrencies because the whole thing is a joke.” He called dogecoin “Easter bunny […]
Tim Seymour, the founder of Seymour Asset Management, believes that the government will come out with regulations that support bitcoin. The teams are led by asset manager Tim Seymour of Seymour Asset Management, professional poker player Maria Ho, Olympic swimmer Ryan Murphy, Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary , and “The Stock Guy” Jason Frank. The founder […]
In addition, Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO of cryptocurrency exchange FTX which acquired Blockfolio last year, tweeted Thursday: “Congrats on being the #1 pick Trevor Lawrence. Following Russell Okung who converted half of his $13-million salary to BTC, NFL player for Kansas City Chiefs Sean Culkin converted 100% of his salary to bitcoin. Neither the company nor […]
Bitcoin’s mining difficulty has seen a massive drop this week, as the metric slid 12.6% and was the largest difficulty drop in 2021. On April 18, 2021, Bitcoin.com News and a number of crypto publications reported on Bitcoin’s hashrate dropping after reports noted that in China the Xinjiang grid is having electrical blackouts. On April […]
Neither the company nor the author is responsible, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with the use of or reliance on any content, goods or services mentioned in this article. As the South Korean government keeps strengthening the harsh rhetoric against cryptocurrencies, citizens […]
The infamous meme-crypto dogecoin has seen double-digit gains in recent days after Tesla’s Elon Musk tweeted about his upcoming Saturday Night Live appearance on May 8. In recent times, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell was asked about dogecoin at a press conference, and Shark Tank star Mark Cuban talked about DOGE with Ellen Degeneres. Just […]
The American billionaire entrepreneur and television personality, Mark Cuban, has waged a bet with Creative Planning’s founder Peter Mallouk over the performance of cryptocurrencies versus the S&P 500. “So many people are going to lose so much money listening to this. We write the contract to pay you if the increase in the S&P 500 […]
Al Kelly, Visa’s chairman and chief executive officer, began by noting that there are “two market segments” his company sees in the crypto space. The CEO noted: “We’ve got over 35 digital-currency platforms and wallets that have chosen to work with us. Neither the company nor the author is responsible, directly or indirectly, for any […]
Investment bank Goldman Sachs has compiled a list of 19 large-cap stocks with cryptocurrency exposure that have massively outperformed the S&P 500. The analysts at Goldman Sachs used a three-pronged strategy to find these stocks. Secondly, the firm used “Regression beta analysis” to test for regression beta of these company share prices relative to bitcoin, […]
A group of South African investors recently confessed to losing money to a brazen scammer after he convinced them to buy and hold nearly worthless physical coins. Neither the company nor the author is responsible, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with the […]