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Coinbase announced today its intentions to hold a private offering of $1.5 billion of senior notes. The company plans to allocate the funds to product development, acquisitions, and new personnel. According to a press release dated September 13th, the largest US-based exchange will offer $1.5 billion aggregate principal amount of its senior notes due 2028 and 2031 in a private offering. The firm said it will “fully and unconditionally” guarantee the notes. The parties aiming...

Business intelligence company MicroStrategy, spearheaded by Michael Saylor, has purchased over 5,000 bitcoin worth $242.9 million. Thus, the firm’s total BTC holdings have increased to over 114,042. MicroStrategy founder and CEO Michael Saylor announced the latest bitcoin purchase via Twitter on Monday, September 13th. According to the executive, the business intelligence firm purchased 5,050 BTC, at an average price of approximately $48,099 per bitcoin. MicroStrategy has...

Stellar lumen price started a strong decline from the $0.4300 resistance against the US Dollar. XLM price is now trading below $0.3500 and the 55 simple moving average (4-hours). There was a break below a key bullish trend line with support near $0.3200 on the 4-hours chart (data feed via Kraken). The pair could continue to decline if there is a break below the $0.3200 and $0.3100 support levels. Stellar lumen price is gaining bearish momentum below $0.3200 against the...

Ripple price started a strong decline from the $1.40 resistance against the US dollar. The price is now trading below $1.20 and the 55 simple moving average (4-hours). There is a key bullish trend line forming with support near $1.05 on the 4-hours chart of the XRP/USD pair (data source from Bittrex). The pair could resume its decline as long as there is no close above the $1.20 resistance zone. Ripple price is showing bearish signs below $1.20 against the US Dollar,...

This week the U.S. Federal Reserve’s balance sheet charted another all-time high. At an astounding $8.357 trillion, are the rapidly growing assets of the Fed speeding crypto adoption? The Federal Reserve publishes updates to its balance sheet numbers every seven days. This week’s report was a doozy, revealing another $8 billion in assets purchased over the period. The U.S. central bank has been busily hoovering up mortgage-backed securities and Treasury bonds, buying them...

The wait is finally over. After years of researching and producing a multitude of peer-reviewed papers on the network’s structure, potential, ideas, goals, and whatnot, Cardano now has smart contracts capabilities to further bolster its ecosystem. Alonzo Mainnet Now Live As of now, Cardano saw an important hard fork go through, and Alonzo is now live on the mainnet. What this means is that the network supports smart contracts, enabling various teams and projects to start...

Ukraine is now the latest country in the world to legalize and regulate bitcoin and cryptocurrency. Up until this point, the world’s number one digital asset has existed in something of a gray space within the country’s borders, but now it looks like the nation is moving forward with BTC use, suggesting that the asset is becoming far more mainstream and legitimate. Ukraine Says “Yes” to Crypto The Parliament of Ukraine voted unanimously to not only permit bitcoin...

One of the big reasons why Nayib Bukele – president of El Salvador – is pushing bitcoin so much is because he thinks it will lessen remittance fees. According to a new study, the implementation of bitcoin in the Central American country could wind up costing Western Union about $400 million each year. El Salvador Could See Its Remittance System Change for the Better Jaimie Garcia, a Salvadorian who fled to Canada at the age of 11, has been living abroad for some time...

A recent poll from Sherlock Communications has found that nearly half of Brazilians agree that Bitcoin should be adopted as the currency of the country, following in the footsteps of El Salvador. Brazilians Bullish for Bitcoin As reported by Valor Investe, the study shows 48% of Brazilians in support of Bitcoin as national currency (17% strong support, 31% moderate support). In contrast, only 21% rejected the idea (9% strong rejection, 12% moderate rejection). The other 30%...

Just a few days ago, bitcoin – the world’s number one digital currency by market cap – experienced a nasty price drop that saw it fall from about $52,000 per unit to roughly $45,000 per unit. The currency is experiencing a slow period of recovery at this time given that it has only jumped back above $46K, and according to Mike Novogratz – a hedge fund manager and crypto investor – the bitcoin plunge was the result of traders simply getting too excited about what was...