Bitcoin (BTC)

Gary Cohn, a former chief economic advisor to President Donal Trump, who was also the ex-president and COO of investment bank Goldman Sachs, said that bitcoin could fail because it had integrity flaws.Cohn Spells Potential Doom for BitcoinAccording to Bloomberg on Dec.1, Cohn stated that Bitcoin’s “integrity flaw” could lead to the failure of the largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization. The former Goldman Sachs chief made the statement during an interview on Bloomberg Television.When...

Bitcoin is enjoying a historic run. The currency recently beat out its previously set all-time high, which occurred in December of 2017. Now, the currency has settled down a bit, but remains above $19,000 at the time of writing.Bitcoin Is Exploding As of LateMany are wondering if a setback is likely to occur this time around. That’s a big fear considering how similar this bitcoin run has been to the one from three years ago. As we all remember, the currency rose to nearly $20,000 per unit...

MicroStrategy has done quite a lot with bitcoin this year. It’s earned a solid reputation from its customers as a result, and now, shares in the firm have almost doubled in the past few months.MicroStrategy Has Reached the TopMicroStrategy has been the subject of many a headline in the past several weeks given that it’s one of the first major institutional firms to come out and mention that it will be purchasing bitcoin. When the news finally emerged, it turned out that the company hadn’t...

Le Meetup Bitcoin Liège du mercredi 16 décembre 2020 (de 19h00 à 21h00) sera consacré au marché du bitcoin et des cryptomonnaies. Au programme :– Analyse et fondement du marché haussier– Les pièges et les opportunités– Comparaison historique– Nature des acteurs en présence.– … « Mathieu Jamar est ingénieur civil et expert du bitcoin. Il a plus de 7 ans d’expérience quasi quotidienne et a...

The Australian cryptocurrency exchange, BTC Markets, has inadvertently exposed more than 270,000 emails of its customers. The company apologized for the inconvenience and reassured that all other data, including users’ funds, is safe.BTC Markets Exposes Customers’ EmailsA user going by the Twitter handle Stevosxrp.crypto took it to Jack Dorsey’s social media giant and Reddit to first complain about BTC Markets’ screw up. The Australian-based exchange later confirmed the breach on its official...

The US-based cryptocurrency lending company BlockFi has partnered with the American multinational financial services corporation Visa to bring Bitcoin to the masses.Bloomberg reported that the two US companies will offer a credit card that rewards clients’ purchases with the primary cryptocurrency, instead of traditional options such as cash and airline miles.Dubbed the Bitcoin Rewards Credit Card, it will allow customers to receive 1.5% of their purchases back in BTC. Should the user spend...

As the holiday season approaches, charities are getting ready to receive donations of various cryptocurrencies. One such worldwide crypto-focused charity event started on December 1.Started from December 1, the crypto-based charity event, dubbed Bitcoin Tuesday, looks to raise donations amounting to at least $1 million beginning today and through the month of December. The Giving Block, a crypto donations platform, spearhead the donation drive again this year, only that the fundraising target...

NYDIG, the cryptocurrency asset management company, has raised $100 million from a single investor. The firm collected the amount during its newly-announced fund Digital Assets Fund II, after the previous fundraising project, named Digital Assets Fund I.$150M In Just Two Crypto Investment FundsAccording to officially published documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the New York-based digital asset firm revealed that it raised $100 million from only one investor on...

The BlackRock CEO in the interview revealed that the global possession of Bitcoin affects the US dollar in real-time.The CEO of BlackRock Larry Fink in an interview with Mark Carney, the former governor of the Bank of England declared that Bitcoin may evolve to become a global market asset. Fink made it clear in a statement that the Bitcoin market is relatively smaller compared to the others, and the fact that it moves almost everyday places it in a key position to be globally recognized as...

While bitcoin remains rangebound between $18,000 and the new all-time high, calls for BTC prices making ‘moonshot’ moves in 2021 have already started coming in.Amongst scores of such predictions, on-chain analysis pioneer Willy Woo opines that a $200,000 bitcoin price is ‘conservative’ and that the top cryptocurrency stands to fly to $300,000 by the end of the next year.$300K Per BTC ‘Not Out Of The Question’Even though BTC logged a new high, the top cryptocurrency’s price hasn’t managed to...