Bitcoin (BTC)

The largest US-based crypto exchange Coinbase has classified bitcoin and several altcoins as institutional assets following the developments in 2020. In its yearly report, the company has confirmed the growing institutional interest, the maturing market, and, somewhat surprisingly, the expanding appetite from corporations towards ETH.2020 Established Bitcoin As An Institutional AssetThe challenging last year saw the emergence of Bitcoin as an asset fit to serve the needs of institutional...

Binance Research has unveiled a new survey suggesting that many of the world’s top crypto owners still prefer the storage methods of digital exchanges.Binance Research: Most People Are Still Using Exchanges to Store CryptoBinance Research is a division of the world’s largest and most popular digital currency trading platform. According to the recent survey, as many as 60 percent of the world’s digital currency traders and buyers store their assets in exchanges. The survey is being called the...

The debate as to whether or not we are still very early on in the cryptocurrency space is one that’s been going on for quite some time. For some reason, a lot of people tend to tie it up to the current pricing of different cryptocurrencies – something, that in my opinion, has nothing to do with the bedrock of the conversation.We’re in a bubble. Well, at least most of us are in a bubble. And I’m not talking about prices.The Bitcoin BubbleWhether you realize it or not, we’re in a bubble. Me,...

Popular blockchain company, Blockstream has purchased $25 million worth of MicroBT’s WhatsMiner M30s Bitcoin mining hardware. Blockstream stated in an announcement that it plans to deploy the hardware across its various mining facilities located in the United States and Canada. A Top Secret Mining FacilityFurthermore, Blockstream disclosed that it would allocate some of the mining equipment to a new “top-secret” mining facility it plans to launch soon. The purchase will be an essential...

The largest US-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase plans to go for a Direct Public Listing (DPO) of its Class A common stock. The firm expects the Form S-1 filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission to become effective after the Commission completes its review.Coinbase Aims For Direct Public ListingCryptoPotato reported in December that the San Francisco, California-based had submitted a draft registration with the SEC to go public with an initial public offering (IPO). Early...

Avec : Fodé Diop, entrepreneur, développeur et cypherpunk. Il est l’organisateur des Bitcoin Developers Meetups de Dakar au Sénégal. Réalisation : Univers Bitcoin, « podcast crypto francophone où l’on parle des fondamentaux du bitcoin mais pas que… » A retrouver sur :– Itunes : podcasts.apple.com– Spotify : open.spotify.com– Deezer : deezer.com– Google Podcast : podcasts.google.com– Twitter : twitter.com/Univers_Bitcoin– Youtube : youtube.com...

S’exprimant lors d’une conférence téléphonique trimestrielle sur les résultats de sa société, Al Kelly, CEO de Visa, a annoncé sa volonté de permettre aux utilisateurs de son réseau de paiement d’acheter et de dépenser des cryptomonnaies. « […] je voudrais prendre une minute pour parler de la façon dont Visa pense la crypto en général et de notre approche. Nous avons les moyens d’apporter de...

Following the highly volatile few days in which BTC displayed $6,000 price moves in both directions, the cryptocurrency has calmed around $34,000. At the same time, XRP and a few more altcoins have exploded in value and reduced BTC’s dominance to 62.5%. Uniswap’s UNI token even hit $20.XRP’s Massive Surge Reclaims #4th SpotThe past few days have been anything but boring in the cryptocurrency space – from the retail-driven hype for Dogecoin and up to four-digit gains, through the Elon...

Ray Dalio is calling bitcoin “one hell of an invention.”Ray Dalio Wants to Offer Crypto to New FundsTraders from all over the world have fallen for the world’s number one digital currency by market cap. While the asset has recently lost about $10,000 off its price, the currency ultimately hit the $40,000 mark in early January, striking a new all-time high for itself, and as a result, Wall Street traders, institutions and some of the biggest financial players around are looking at bitcoin...

Anthony Denier – the CEO of a company called Webull – is predicting that bitcoin, the world’s number one cryptocurrency by market cap, is likely to hit a price of $55,000 by the end of this year.Denier: BTC Will Grow To an Even Higher PointThe bitcoin price has been in a bit of a rough position over the past several days. While the currency was trading for around $42,000 during early January – a new all-time high for the coin – it has since sunk by about $10,000. While the currency is still...