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It looks like millennials are beginning to lose their love for bitcoin. Millennials Are Looking at Altcoins More Than BTC Up until this point, it was widely believed that millennials were big crypto fans, and to an extent, they are. It is just that their tastes are “maturing” so to speak. They are beginning to shift away from the world’s largest and most popular digital currency by market cap and they are turning their attention to Dogecoin and other competing altcoins....

Billionaire investor David Rubenstein says that crypto has crossed a line into mainstream territory, and that the likelihood of digital assets disappearing at some point in the future is slim to none. David Rubenstein: Crypto Is Here to Stay Crypto has taken the world by storm over the past year. Bitcoin, for example, is the world’s largest and most popular digital asset by market cap. Trading for approximately $9,000 per unit last May, bitcoin ultimately incurred...

Volatility could be scary for some BTC investors, but it’s the price to pay for overperforming the S&P index 10x over a decade, said MicroStrategy’s CEO, Michael Saylor. He also described Elon Musk as “enthusiastic” about the bitcoin space following the latest criticism from Tesla’s CEO. Speaking on the enhanced volatility that bitcoin faced in the past week or so, Saylor joined others indicating that such dramatic fluctuations could be expected to some extent in the...

In yet another comment on the overall cryptocurrency industry, Elon Musk reaffirmed that he supports it over the existing fiat system. Elon Musk, one of the richest men on the planet and the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, once again caused a Tweetstorm after saying that he supports crypto over fiat. The true battle is between fiat & crypto. On balance, I support the latter. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 22, 2021 Despite his Tweet being short and without any arguments, it...

The Iranian government enlisted intelligence officers with the task of cracking down on illegal cryptocurrency miners. This unprecedented move aims to solve the nation’s concerns with rising electricity consumption. The Government vs. Illegal Crypto Miners The Iranian authorities seem determined to solve their issues with illicit crypto mining. Bloomberg reported that the Ministry of Intelligence helped set up committees across the Asian country to detect and seize computer...

Today is the international Bitcoin Pizza Day! This is a day that many in the crypto community celebrate the 11th anniversary of the first Bitcoin commercial transaction for two pizzas, which cost 10,000 BTC. On May 22, 2010, Laszlo Hanyecz traded 10,000 BTC for two Papa John’s pizzas in Florida. Years later, they would become the world’s most expensive pizza slices with a price of $365,000,000.00 at press time. Interestingly enough, they were worth over $600 million when...

Mike Novogratz – a bitcoin bull, billionaire investor and former hedge fund manager – took some time to discuss the most recent bitcoin drop, saying that it was a “liquidation event.” Novogratz: Bitcoin Will Undergo a Serious Correction The currency – which was trading at $64,000 per unit just a month ago – had fallen into the mid-$40,000 range earlier in the week following news that Elon Musk was ending all bitcoin payments through Tesla and that he was potentially...

Cathie Wood of Ark Invest believes bitcoin will reach a price of $500,000. Cathie Wood: Bitcoin Still Has a Solid Future Her words come at a rather “inopportune” time considering the world’s largest and most popular cryptocurrency by market cap has fallen by roughly 33 percent at the time of writing. Once trading for a high of around $64,000, bitcoin has fallen into oblivion and is now trading for close to $30,000 less. However, Wood is confident that the currency will...

The price of bitcoin has taken another nasty dive, and this means the currency is trading in the $30,000 range. It has now fallen close to $30,000 per unit from its April high of nearly $64,000 and exchanges like Coinbase are experiencing huge technical problems as a result. Coinbase Is Having Some Problems The price of bitcoin has been on a downward spiral for the past several weeks, and Coinbase is ultimately at the center of this story. BTC rose to its new all-time...

Tom Tugendhat, a member of Parliament of the United Kingdom, urged the nation towards implementing more innovations in its financial sphere. Interestingly, he also outlined the growth of the cryptocurrency sector and hinted he was more bullish on ether rather than bitcoin. UK Member of Parliament Bullish on ETH Tugendhat is a British Conservative Party politician serving as the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee since 2017. He has also been a member of the UK...