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Bitcoin (BTC) price has again punched through the $13,000 mark after yesterday’s PayPal’s announcement sparked a powerful rally which drove the price to a new 2020 high. Currently sitting near $13,100, Bitcoin price has rallied nearly 10% since the announcement and BTC is now close to overtaking PayPal as the 21st
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Satoshi Nakamoto proved a pseudonymous founder doesn’t have to be a deal breaker. Blue Kirby, however, has reminded cryptocurrency investors that fake names can still be a red flag. For those who didn’t spend last weekend on Crypto Twitter, Blue Kirby is the handle of a now-infamous figure in the decentralized
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One is a Grammy Award-winning musician with lots of spare time. Another is a software engineer with nowhere to go during the pandemic. There’s also an editor for a data site and a fund manager who invests in digital assets. What these people have in common is an obscure side gig
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It has been a rough day for Bitcoin. The benchmark digital asset has shed a significant amount of its value, with its price plunging from the lower-$11,000 region to lows of $10,400 earlier today. In the time since, it has shown some signs of stabilizing as buyers attempt to regain control
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During a virtual conference hosted by the Brookings Institute, Andrew Bailey, Bank of England’s (BoE) governor, stressed that crypto assets are just “unsuited to the world of payments.” In prepared remarks on the future of cryptocurrencies and stablecoins, Bailey qualified Bitcoin (BTC) as an asset that has “no connection at all
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Alexander Lipton is the CTO of Sila, a visiting professor and Dean’s Fellow at the Jerusalem Business School of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a Connection Science Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. On Aug. 27, the Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell gave a widely watched speech entitled “New
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Retail traders on Robinhood have been increasingly seeing “fear of missing out” or FOMO rallies around certain stocks. The latest beneficiary has been the stock price of the renowned camera manufacturer Kodak (KODK) whose stock surged from $2 to $60 in one day. Therefore, given the current climate of economic uncertainty
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The BTC options market has heated up in the past year – with expiration dates becoming one of the most anticipated events throughout the year. Today, on June 26, Bitcoin options worth $1 billion will expire, with analysts divided on the consequent market impact. Billion-dollar Expiry One billion dollars worth of BTC
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Bitcoin “whales,” or users holding significant amounts of BTC, are surging in recent weeks to reach levels last seen in January 2018. BTC Whales Growing A report by on-chain analytics firm Glassnode noted on June 15 that BTC whales are steadily growing, presumably as worldwide financial markets see increased volatility and turmoil
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Many in the crypto space hope that the recession following the COVID-19 pandemic will provide the necessary push towards mass adoption. Does this mean that soon we’ll all be paying in Bitcoin? The analysts at Cryptoprocessing.com are not so sure.For crypto evangelists, the coronavirus emergency is the perfect storm: it’s
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