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Bitcoin has initiated another leg up, resulting in charting a new two-month high of just over $42,000. Apart from Chainlink, most alternative coins trail behind, and BTC’s market dominance has increased to well above 48%. Bitcoin Taps a 2-Month High As reported earlier this week, bitcoin went on a tear after dabbling with the $33,000 price line for a while and charted a $7,000 green candle. As a result, the cryptocurrency briefly exceeded $40,000 for the first time in over a...

As cryptocurrency adoption enters a mainstream stage, traditional financial services platforms are trying to adapt to the changing financial ecosystem. To maintain their importance in this industry, payment processors like Mastercard and Visa intend to use their large client base and international reach to attract both government and private entities when they are testing their CBDC or stablecoin projects. During an earnings call yesterday, Mastercard’s CEO, Michael Miebach,...

Digital currency provider Fire Blocks – a startup based in New York – has managed to raise more than $300 million in new funds, thereby bringing its overall valuation beyond the $2 billion mark in just under half a year. Fire Blocks Gets Its Hands On a Lot of Money Fire Blocks came about three years ago in 2018. Just last February, the company managed to secure approximately $133 million for itself through a Series C funding round. During that period, the company’s...

Going through the recent week and touching the $40K mark, there are some promising signs in on-chain data that could lead to a further price recovery in the market. However, some metrics still make an immediate rally back to the all-time high a questionable probability. Let’s explore the bull and the bear case for Bitcoin’s price in the current market condition, stemming from predominantly on-chain information. Supply Shock – The Bull Case To summarize the overall bullish...

Botswana – a country in Africa – is becoming a regular bitcoin hotspot. Over the past several months, residents of the nation have regularly turned to the world’s number one digital asset for their daily financial needs, and many businesses are making it easier for them to do so by saying “yes” to crypto payments, though there are still several barriers to overcome. Botswana Is Becoming a Regular BTC Hub Botswana is located within the southern central region of the...

Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) have enhanced the most premier attraction to come out of the crypto market this bull season. It has risen from being used as a Fan Token for popular sports leagues to become the most sought-after commodity that every industry wants to launch today. It all started with digital artist Beeple selling his artwork for $69 million and since then every recognized brand, celebrity, and sports star has either already launched some form of NFT or is...

Leading cryptocurrency exchange Binance has completed the integration of Polygon mainnet to support deposits and withdrawals of the mainnet token of the Ethereum-scaling network.  Binance Now Supports MATC Mainnet Token According to a press release shared with CryptoPotato on Friday, Binance users will now be able to make deposits and withdrawals with the MATIC mainnet token.  They will also be able to utilize several DeFi dApps such as SushiSwap, Aave, Curve, and Balancer,...

In a public filing last Tuesday, electric car company Tesla and its CEO – South African entrepreneur Elon Musk – revealed that they have lost more than $1 billion in bitcoin. Musk and Tesla’s BTC Stash Has Gone Down the Tubes The company’s balance sheet grew by approximately $1.5 billion in BTC last February, and within two months, bitcoin had reached a new all-time high, jumping from the low $50,000 range to about $64,000 per unit. However, things took an ugly turn from...

After weeks of prolonged consolidation and choppy sideways action in a very squeezed and narrow range, Bitcoin finally broke out. Fortunately, it was to the upside. Over the past week, BTC is up by a considerable 20%. At the time of this writing, it’s trading at around $39K, having pulled back slightly from the psychological and technical resistance at the coveted $40K level. It’s also worth noting that we saw an increased trading volume over the past week, and even though...

The NASDAQ-listed software giant MicroStrategy has seen a total impairment loss of nearly $700 million in Q2 2021 from its massive bitcoin investments. As this is only on paper, though, the company pledged to double down on its BTC strategy and continue to accumulate more. MicroStrategy’s Q2 BTC Impairment Loss Michael Saylor’s brainchild has become one of the largest holders of bitcoins, with over 105,000 coins accumulated in the span of a year. However, the substantial...