Crypto news

It appears that years after the first Bitcoin ETF proposal was filed, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has decided to greenlight a futures-backed exchange-traded fund for the first time. ProShares, the company which filed for its Bitcoin Strategy ETF, might be the very first one to see it launch next week. It filed an amended prospectus which indicates that it could go live as soon as Monday. It’s worth noting that this is not a standard ETF but a...

Jamie Dimon – the chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase – has stated in a recent interview that he doesn’t care much for bitcoin, going so far as to call it “worthless.” Jamie Dimon Has a Negative BTC Attitude In the interview, he comments that he doesn’t think much of BTC, though his company is willing to offer bitcoin options given that there is an audience for them. He doesn’t want to serve as a regulator of any kind. Thus, he is not willing to simply push bitcoin to the...

As the global interest in cryptocurrencies continues to gain momentum, Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC), Australia’s fifth-largest pension funds manager with A$92.4 billion ($69bn) of assets under management (AUM), has disclosed that it may delve into such investments in the future. Stuart Simmons, QIC’s head of currencies, told the Financial Times in an interview today. Regulatory Uncertainty Scares Australian “Super” Based on the massive growth of the crypto market...

United Masters – a music distribution company – is allowing many of its clients and recording artists to get paid in digital currency. United Masters Is Pushing the Main Goal of Crypto Forward Those who participate will be able to choose which currencies they get paid in through Coinbase, one of the world’s leading digital currency trading platforms. They can also select which portion of their royalties are doled out in digital assets, granted they wish to still receive...

Bitcoin “bull” Elon Musk – the South African entrepreneur behind billion-dollar companies such as SpaceX and Tesla – is now the richest man in the world, with a net worth of approximately $222 billion according to the New York Post. Elon Musk Has the Most Money Second is Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon, who at the time of writing, only has a net worth of around $191 billion. Musk couldn’t help but rub the news in Bezos’ face after the Amazon head posted the following...

The United States Commodity and Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has ordered Tether and Bitfinex to pay fines worth $42.5 million. In a release from today, October 15th, Tether Holdings Limited, Tether Limited, Tether Operations Limited, and Tether International Limited – all companies associated with the issuer of the largest stablecoin USDT, Tether, were ordered to pay a fine worth $41 million. This was issued by the CFTC on the grounds of “misleading statements and...

For the first time since April, Bitcoin’s price is back at $60,000. It’s a major psychological level, even though, from a technical standpoint, it doesn’t contain that much resistance. In any case, this followed a considerable weekly increase and rumors of the approval of a futures-backed Bitcoin ETF in the US. Let’s take a dive. This time last week, Bitcoin was trading at around $54K, but it was mostly up from there. It had almost reached $58K by Tuesday when BTC went...

Ethereum Ethereum managed to increase by 6.4% this week as it continues to climb higher inside an ascending price channel. The price channel formed at the start of October after ETH found support and reversed at $2800. Last week, ETH found resistance at $3600, causing it to fall into the support at $3400. It bounced from $3400 on Wednesday as it hit the lower boundary of the price channel. Yesterday, ETH managed to break $3600 and push higher into resistance at $3790 (bearish...

[PRESS RELEASE – Tallinn, Estonia, 14th October 2021] Leading digital asset wealth management platform grows assets to $339 million and sponsors West Ham United just eight months from public launch. YIELD App, a FinTech company and digital asset wealth management platform, has published its Q3 report, showing the firm continuing on a strong growth trajectory over the third quarter of 2021, which saw it double its managed assets and strike a high profile partnership with...

Binance, the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange, has continued to express its support for the ecosystem development of the sharded heterogeneous multichain blockchain network, Polkadot. In an official announcement on Friday, the company revealed that it will start the Polkadot Parachain Slot Auction which is scheduled to commence in November. “A separate announcement will be posted with more details. Please stay tuned for the upcoming initiatives!,” the exchange said....