Tagged: btc

January 7, 2021 @ 8:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Fintech companies such as Revolut and Luno are experiencing a dramatic surge in demand from customers who are rushing to invest in Bitcoin (BTC) and other digital currencies amid record-breaking and unprecedented cryptocurrency price increases. Fintech app providers that offer crypto trading, like Revolut, eToro,… Read More

January 6, 2021 @ 8:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin (BTC), the leading digital currency, continues to set all-time highs while the US dollar keeps falling (but still remains the world’s most dominant global currency). Notably, Bitcoin is now being supported by even more Wall Street giants. The OKCoin team has noted: “We’ve said… Read More

January 4, 2021 @ 9:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin could potentially quadruple this year as the digital asset is currently experiencing a massive rally that’s somewhat comparable to the historic crypto bull market of late 2017, according to Fundstrat Global Advisors’ Thomas Lee. Bitcoin’s (BTC) near 300% price increase in 2020 might be… Read More

January 3, 2021 @ 4:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

LocalBitcoins, one of the oldest and most widely-used Bitcoin (BTC) services, reveals that most of its customers are based in developing countries. These are places (such as Argentina and Venezuela) where Bitcoin is needed badly as a store of value because local fiat currencies have… Read More

January 2, 2021 @ 5:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

As the Bitcoin (BTC) price continues to set new all-time highs (now approaching nearly $30,000), Riot Blockchain’s (NASDAQ:RIOT) stock surged almost 1,500% in 2020. There were very few assets in 2020 that outperformed Bitcoin, however, the shares of Riot have been rising along with Ethereum… Read More

January 1, 2021 @ 10:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at HASHR8 Inc., a cryptocurrency mining and media firm that aims to support the “decentralized growth” of hashrate (or computing power used to secure digital currency networks) while enhancing the security of blockchains, have released their second installment of the Bitcoin Mining Index…. Read More

December 31, 2020 @ 10:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

As Bitcoin (BTC) continues to set new highs, it became clear to many people that the digital asset could serve as a hedge against the traditional financial system. This year, many well-known investors, including Stanley Druckenmiller (a hedge fund manager with a net worth of… Read More

December 31, 2020 @ 8:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

78% of the circulating Bitcoin (BTC) supply is now “illiquid and therefore hardly accessible for buying,” according to crypto data provider glassnode. 78% of the circulating #Bitcoin supply is illiquid and therefore hardly accessible for buying. This points to a bullish investor sentiment as large… Read More

December 30, 2020 @ 8:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin (BTC) has become more intertwined with traditional financial markets because of changing macro conditions and a significant increase in institutional interest, according to a report from Coin Metrics.  Coin Metrics has noted that many researchers have looked into the fundamental differences between Bitcoin and… Read More

December 30, 2020 @ 1:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin (BTC), the flagship digital currency, has hit yet another all-time high of over $28,500 as  Blackrock, the largest asset manager, seeks a Bitcoin and Blockchain lead. But a report from OKCoin asks whether BTC is due for a correction, which was a question many… Read More

December 29, 2020 @ 6:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nic Neuman from Casa says that the biggest security problem that Bitcoin (BTC) has is its user experience (UX). This past October 2020 marked the 12th anniversary of Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin whitepaper. During this relatively short period of time, Bitcoin has fundamentally transformed “the way… Read More

December 28, 2020 @ 9:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

It’s been a very challenging year due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, however, Bitcoin (BTC) is on a record-breaking streak since March 2020, which was when it initially crashed (below $4,000) along with the broader financial markets. But after that, the leading cryptocurrency recovered and… Read More

December 27, 2020 @ 3:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Paxful, a peer to peer (P2P) Bitcoin exchange, notes that there are times when we just want to sit back and let someone else “do the heavy lifting for us.” The Paxful team aims to make looking for offers a lot easier… Read More

December 26, 2020 @ 9:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Anthony Scaramucci’s hedge fund SkyBridge Capital has submitted documents to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for what seems to be the firm’s very first Bitcoin (BTC) focused fund. SkyBridge Capital, which manages around $9 billion in client assets, submitted a Form D for… Read More

December 23, 2020 @ 8:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital asset exchange OKCoin recently took a look back at its initiative to support independent Bitcoin Core developers. The crypto trading platform’s developers confirmed that it has now been about a year since they introduced their Open-Source Developer Grant program, an initiative launched to support… Read More

December 23, 2020 @ 6:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

As 2020 comes to an end, Binance has shared some key crypto and blockchain industry trends and highlights for this year. The exchange notes that the total market cap for all digital currencies surged by over 3.3x in 2020 alone, expanding the crypto-assets market significantly…. Read More

December 22, 2020 @ 8:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

MicroStrategy Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), which claims to be the largest independent publicly-traded business intelligence firm, revealed on December 21, 2020 that it has acquired an additional (approximately) 29,646 Bitcoins valued at around $650 million in cash – a move that’s in accordance or consistent with… Read More

December 20, 2020 @ 8:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Meltem Demirors, the Chief Strategy Officer at CoinShares, a digital asset management firm, has argued that “as evidenced by the recent corruption of all US systems, from the government to corporate, securing networks is very difficult to do persistently.” 1/ as evidenced by the recent… Read More

December 20, 2020 @ 6:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cynthia Marie Lummis Wiederspahn, an American politician and attorney who is the U.S. Senator-elect from Wyoming (having been elected to succeed Mike Enzi in 2020), reveals that she’s been doing work on the “rumored” transaction reporting rule (potentially) impacting crypto-assets (currently being contemplated by the… Read More

December 20, 2020 @ 5:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

As the price of Bitcoin (BTC), the flagship cryptocurrency, surpasses its previous all-time high (and recently breaking past the $24,000 mark), a new report reveals that “attitudes” toward the digital asset are “improving” with nearly one in five or 20% of Australians now “owning some”… Read More