U.S. chain of convenience stores Sheetz, has become the latest company to adopt cryptocurrency, as the firm is planning to include bitcoin and other crypto-assets among its payment options. Sheetz Adopts Bitcoin According to a press release on Thursday (May 27, 2021), Sheetz will become the first convenience store retailer to accept bitcoin as a payment method. The family-owned business founded in 1952 operates over 600 stores in different locations in the U.S. The latest...
Read More »Bitcoin Concludes Another Choppy Week Below $40K: The Crypto Weekly Recap
Bitcoin, and the entire cryptocurrency market, saw yet another choppy week where prices failed to recover substantially and continued to struggle. The past seven days didn’t exactly go according to the intentions of bulls as the price of BTC is down about 9%, currently trading around $37,000. It all started last Friday when the price dropped from above $40,000 down to about $35k. In a sequence of choppy actions, the price attempted to take back the important psychological and...
Read More »Polygon (MATIC) Integrates its Blockchain Datasets in Google BigQuery
Polygon, the Ethereum layer-2 solution formerly known as Matic Network, announced today its blockchain datasets will be integrated on Google Cloud. Polygon Coming to Google Cloud The initiative aims to provide developers, data analysts, and crypto-enthusiasts with a better understanding of the Polygon blockchain. Google’s BigQuery would ensure that query and in-depth analysis of Polygon’s on-chain data are conducted in a simple and organized manner using the Google Cloud...
Read More »JPMorgan’s CEO Jamie Dimon: Stay Away From Bitcoin
Although the organization he runs is significantly more opened to the cryptocurrency world these days, JPMorgan’s CEO, Jamie Dimon, advised people to stay away from digital assets. Nevertheless, he admitted that institutional clients of the bank have shown a high demand for such products in recent months. Stay Away From Crypto, Says Dimon The Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of JPMorgan Chase and Co has a somewhat controversial history with bitcoin and the rest of the...
Read More »GNY.io Announces Enterprise Partnership With N1 Supermarkets In Switzerland
[PRESS RELEASE – Please Read Disclaimer] London (May 27, 2021): GNY announced it’s first enterprise partnership today, sharing that it would provide N1 Supermarkets in Switzerland with machine learning powered solutions for customer engagement and rewards. N1 is the official, and exclusive partner of Intermarche in Switzerland. Intermarché, the European grocery giant, had 46.3 billion euro sales last year and this is their exclusive backed project entry into the Swiss...
Read More »Crypto Price Analysis & Overview May 28th: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, Cardano, & Polygon (MATIC)
It was another tough week in the cryptocurrency market where almost everything is trading in the red. Here’s how some of the major coins performed over the past seven days: Bitcoin Bitcoin is down by a total of 10.3% over the past seven days of trading as it currently sits around $36,000. The cryptocurrency had spiked as low as $31,185 (downside 1.618 Fib Extension) on Sunday, but the buyers managed to close the daily candle at $34,760 (downside 1.414 Fib Extension). From...
Read More »Precious Metals Executive: Crypto Will Cause a New Financial Crisis
Brett Heath – precious metal company Metalla Royalty & Streaming CEO – opined that crypto ”will lead the charge in the next financial crisis.” Furthermore, he compared the industry to the tech crash of the early 2000s alongside the mortgage collapse in 2008. Crypto Will Cause The Next Crash The head of Metalla Royalty & Streaming warned in an interview for the financial newspaper Kitco News that global cryptocurrency adoption will have a damaging impact on the...
Read More »After VanEck: WisdomTree Files for an Ethereum ETF in the US
Less than a month after VanEck filed documents with the SEC to launch an Ethereum ETF, WisdomTree has done the same. The asset manager, based in New York, has previously applied for Bitcoin ETFs but to no avail so far. Founded in 2006, WisdomTree is an American exchange-traded fund and exchange-traded product sponsor and asset manager with over $42 billion in AUM (as of 2018). According to a recent filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the organization plans...
Read More »PARSIQ Announces New Advisor and Investor Evan Cheng
[PRESS RELEASE – Tallinn, Estonia, 27th May 2021] Evan Cheng who joins PARSIQ as an investor and advisor, is no stranger to the world of high profile tech and blockchain companies, not only is he the Head of Novi Research at Facebook, focusing on advancing the state of art in blockchain and crypto, but he is also an advisor to Chainlink, the decentralized oracle network that provides live data to blockchains. Evan Cheng joined as an advisor to projects such as Chainlink and...
Read More »Bitcoin Cash Analysis: Bulls Aim Fresh Increase above $850
Bitcoin cash price declined heavily and it even tested the $470 level against the US Dollar. The price is now trading just above $700 and the 55 simple moving average (4-hours). There was a break above a major bearish trend line with resistance near $750 on the 4-hours chart of the BCH/USD pair (data feed from Coinbase). The pair is consolidating and it might attempt an upside break above $800 and $850. Bitcoin cash price is recovering losses from $500 against the US...
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