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In a 100-page deep-dive report dubbed “Bitcoin, at the Tipping Point,” Citibank’s global perspectives and solutions team noted that the cryptocurrency could potentially “become the currency of choice for international trade.”The analysts acknowledged that the massive interest shown by several large institutional investors like Tesla, Microstrategy, and PayPal is one of the major propellants for the digital asset gaining mainstream adoption.The team further noted that several other factors,...

The bitcoin space was supposed to be decentralized. One that was controlled by the people that owned it. It was supposed to give people more financial independence and say in their futures. However, light is being shed on an arena that is now largely controlled by a small group of crypto-centered businessmen. Is Bitcoin Remaining Decentralized? As it turns out, more than 95 percent of the world’s total bitcoins are stored within two percent of the world’s crypto...

Imagine a world where bitcoin and cryptocurrency just completely took over. There are no more standard financial investment tools, and things like stocks and bonds cease to exist. The entire world is based on cryptocurrency, and everything is paid for in bitcoin. While it may be many years until we reach a society like this, Cathie Wood of ARK Invest thinks we’re heading in that direction. Cathie Wood: BTC Will Replace Bonds In a recent interview, the monetary executive...

Bitcoin has been a major focal point of discussion as of late. The world’s number one digital currency by market cap experienced a record bull run during the month of February, but during the final days of the month, the currency came crashing down and experienced a $10,000 dip. The asset fell from roughly $56,000 per unit to about $46,000, which is what it remains at still. The Latest Bitcoin Slip Hasn’t Caused Many People to Turn Despite this mega drop, the currency...

Bitcoin saw a strong rebound today as it recovered from yesterday’s low at $43,000 to over $48K, where it is trading as of writing these lines.The cryptocurrency had been in a downtrend for the previous week as it dropped by over 25% to reach its weekly low yesterday, at the mentioned-above level of $43K (according to Bitstamp).During the correction, Bitcoin had broken beneath an ascending price channel that it was trading within throughout February. However, over the past days, BTC was...

The giant social media platform Twitter has announced plans to raise $1.25 billion through a convertible senior notes offering. Although the company breached “corporate purposes” as the main reason, cryptocurrency proponents speculated if the firm could pull a MicroStrategy and allocate the funds in BTC.Twitter to Raise $1.25BAccording to a press release from earlier today, Twitter will offer a $1.25 billion aggregate principal amount of convertible senior notes due in 2026. The endeavor will...

A few months following a Cardano integration, the DLT project Wolfram Blockchain Labs (WBL) has done the same with Tezos. As a result, developers working on blockchain analytics and computational contracts will be able to employ the Tezos network.WBL Integrates TezosWBL is a provider of distributed ledger technology (DLT) solutions that support the development of a wide variety of smart contracts and decentralized applications. It’s the blockchain subsidiary of Wolfram Research – the creator...

XRP/USD – Bulls Find Support At .618 FibKey Support Levels: $0.4, $0.35, $0.327.Key Resistance Levels: $0.45, $0.5, $0.556.At the start of last week, XRP was looking promising, reaching as high as $0.685 (1.272 Fib Extension). However, things changed quickly as soon enough the coin had dropped to around $0.56.From there, XRP started to head lower throughout the week as the overall market saw a downturn. It quickly collapsed beneath $0.5 and continued until the market found support at $0.4,...

FD7 Ventures, the cryptocurrency-oriented fund that recently vowed to dispose of its BTC holdings for ADA and DOT, has set up a $250 million micro-fund focusing on investments in teams working on the ecosystems of Polkadot and Cardano.FD7 Goes to India for DOT and ADABased in Dubai, UAE, FD7 is a crypto-oriented investment fund with over $1 billion in assets under management (AUM). The firm recently announced somewhat bold plans to dispose of $750 million of its BTC holdings and allocate the...

Tether, the company issuing the most widely-used stablecoin, USDT, has revealed that it got a ransom demand for 500 BTC. The sender has threatened the company to leak documents to the public that would “harm the bitcoin ecosystem.”Tether Gets a 500 BTC Ransom DemandTether, the issuer of the popular USDT stablecoin, took it to Twitter to reveal that someone had threatened to leak documents to the public in an attempt to “harm the bitcoin ecosystem.”The company explained that “forged documents...