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Bitcoin price started a fresh decline from the $30,000 zone against the US Dollar. The price is now trading below $29,500 and the 55 simple moving average (4 hours). There is a major bearish trend line forming with resistance near $29,200 on the 4-hour chart of the BTC/USD pair (data feed from Coinbase). The pair could extend its decline toward the $27,000 and $26,000 levels. Bitcoin price is declining below $29,500 against the US Dollar. BTC might extend losses if it...

The White House is attempting to persuade Congress to pass a 30% climate change tax on cryptocurrency miners as part of its next federal budget. The change, titled the Digital Asset Mining Energy (DAME) excise tax, is designed to encourage mining firms to start taking better account of their so-called ‘societal harms’, including higher energy prices and greenhouse gas emissions.  Taxing Bitcoin Miners As reported by Yahoo News, the president’s Council of Economic Advisors...

On May 1, the company announced an addition to Sotheby’s Metaverse in the form of a “dynamic destination to collect, buy, and sell remarkable digital works.” The blockchain-based NFT marketplace will be primarily for secondary sales of digital art. According to the announcement, the marketplace will feature a rotating, curated selection of leading artists hand-picked by Sotheby’s specialists. They will provide “expert guidance and context for each work, from thematic...

Move over “Shark Tank,” CoinMarketCap has teamed up with a Web3 entertainment company called Hello Labs – founded by multi-award-winning Hollywood director and producer Paul Caslin – to release a competition show designed to entertain and educate audiences across the world on the intricacies and evolving tech of the Web3 space. The new reality show is expected to capture the elements of both Web3 as well as entertainment. Killer Whales According to the official blog post, the...

Jim Cramer, the host of CNBC’s Mad Money, has once again missed the mark with another one of his predictions for the stock and equity markets. Less than two months after calling the embattled First Republic Bank a “very good bank,” the TV personality has turned around to tell the company’s shareholders that there is nothing for them as US authorities have taken it into receivership. A “Very Good Bank” Turned Sour First Republic Bank was taken over by the Federal Deposit...

Another wave of banking fear swept the markets on Tuesday as stocks for PacWest, Western Alliance, and other financial institutions slid over 20% on the day.  This comes shortly after California financial watchdogs took control of First Republic Bank on Monday, of which 84 branches will reopen under JP Morgan Chase. Another Bank Stock Selloff The California-based PacWest Bancorp (PACW) saw its shares tank from $8.90 at 9:30 am ET on Monday down to just $5.50 by 11:10 am. It...

MicroStrategy, an Enterprise Business Intelligence (BI) platform that provides software, cloud computing, and other services to a wide array of clients, also happens to be one of the world’s largest Bitcoin holders, with approximately 140k Bitcoin in reserves. Out-competing by HODLing The decision to purchase Bitcoin in bulk was made by then-CEO Michael Saylor in 2020, citing concerns over inflation. According to him, simply HODLing BTC has given his firm an edge over rivals...

The banking sector of Africa is worth $86 million at the time of writing, and bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are expected to disrupt the industry like no other technologies can. Africa Could Be Completely Changed Thanks to Bitcoin Mike Brock – CEO of TBD at Block, a financial company run by Jack Dorsey – says one of the big ways that bitcoin can help Africa is that it can be used to ultimately move money around regardless of the present state of the economy. He...

OPNX – the project created by the defunct hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC) founders – has been controversial from the very start. The exchange has now been reprimanded for conducting unregulated activity. Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) has issued a written reprimand to five OPNX founders, including Kyle Davies and Su Zhu, for carrying out virtual asset exchange services on an unregulated basis in and from the Emirate of Dubai as well as engaging in...

The leading cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase announced the launch of a Bermuda-based marketplace that will serve non-US institutional users, according to a recent report.  The company has been eyeing other countries to relocate recently due to the regulatory hurdles in America. CEO Brian Armstrong held discussions with the authorities of Britain in April, suggesting that the UK could also become an expansion target for Coinbase. Disappointed in the US  Coinbase – the only...