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Clothing provider Pacsun has agreed to accept digital currency payments for goods and services. The company is just the latest in a string of firms to say “yes” to cryptocurrency payments and thus is pushing bitcoin and its digital counterparts closer towards their initial goals. Pacsun Says “Ok” to Crypto Payments While bitcoin and its crypto cousins have long served as speculative assets that traders can potentially get rich from, these currencies were initially...

The tremendous growth of Axie Infinity and its native token – AXS – in the past year has paid off massively for winners of the AXS Binance launchpad lottery tickets who held their token. $200 Turned More Than $250,000 According to current market prices, the 2,000 Axie Infinity tokens allocated to each AXS Binance Launchpad lottery ticket that cost investors $200 at the time are now worth more than $250,000, representing over 124,900% growth in the space of roughly one year....

After touching $56,000 for the first time in five months, bitcoin retraced slightly and currently stands around $55,000. Most altcoins continue with indecisive moves in either direction, except for Shiba Inu, which has gone on the offensive once more with a 35% daily surge. Bitcoin Stalls at $55K The past week or so showed once more how quickly the landscape could change in the cryptocurrency markets. Bitcoin entered October at around $45,000 after recovering $4,000 in days...

$DREAMS IDO launches on Red Kite and GameFi, DuckStarter Singapore, 9th OCT – Dreams Quest, a blockchain-based NFT gaming platform, announces the launch of their anticipated IDO campaign scheduled on Red Kite (Polka Foundry), GameFi, and DuckStarter. The launch gives an opportunity to access the Dreams Quest ecosystem by purchasing $DREAMS tokens. The ecosystem will be gradually unveiled with a variety of mini-games, leading up to the launch set for 2022. The IDO...

Biden wants to regulate everything, and it seems that cryptocurrencies are directly in his crosshairs. Apparently, the president of the United States is seriously considering issuing an executive order on cryptocurrencies to get better clarity of the landscape and exercise better control over the industry and the activities related to it. The news, which was initially reported by Bloomberg citing anonymous but familiar sources, comes as no surprise to many ecosystem experts...

Digital asset marketplace Bakkt has partnered with Google to expand the usability of cryptocurrency. Thus, users will soon be able to add their Bakkt Visa Debit Card directly into Google Pay. Google Pay Meets The Bakkt Card As outlined in a press release from BusinessWire, users can soon spend Bakkt Card crypto funds directly from Google Pay. This comes after Bakkt released its Visa Debit Card earlier this year, and now customers will be able to make transactions via digital...

A gold coin with a denomination of approximately 1,000 bitcoins was purchased in 2011. This is when bitcoin wasn’t trading for anywhere near the price it is at today. At the time, the coin was worth about $4,900. It stayed in a desk drawer for many years, ultimately forgotten about and lost to time. A Gold Coin and Bitcoin Fused Into a Special Asset However, now its owner – who wishes to remain anonymous – has pulled it out of that desk drawer and has had the currency...

Just four months after the application, Volt Equity’s Volt Bitcoin Revolution ETF has received the green light from the US Securities and Exchange Commission. It will provide investors the option to invest in companies with direct exposure to BTC, such as MicroStrategy. Back in early June this year, the California-based firm Volt Equity filed with the Commission documents to launch a different type of exchange-traded fund with indirect exposure to BTC. The filing described...

It’s been a green week all across crypto land as positive sentiment and big gains returned to the market. Leading the scene is Bitcoin, with an impressive surge of around 25%, once again tapping the mid-May highs. Just earlier today, Bitcoin reached a price of $56,000 – something that we haven’t seen since the middle of May this year, shortly after the all-time high and right before the massive 50% crash. Analysts believe that this move marks the completion of a bear trap and...

It looks like the need to cater to institutions’ growing desire for crypto is getting bigger and bigger amongst standard financial institutions. U.S. Bank has just announced that it is unveiling a new crypto custody service that fund managers can use to store both private keys and digital assets. U.S. Bank Potentially Sees Crypto as Important The idea of banks and crypto mixing is an unusual one, primarily because they are both so different. For one thing, banks seek to...