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President Donald Trump is in the news after spending a few months out of the limelight. In a recent interview, Trump took aim at bitcoin, the world’s number one digital currency by market cap, calling it a “scam” and saying that it was a threat to the U.S. dollar. Donald Trump Believes BTC Is a Scam In the interview, Trump says the following: Bitcoin, it just seems like a scam. I do not like it because it is another currency competing against the U.S. dollar. He went on...

Crypto analyst Mike McGlone is predicting that Ethereum, at some point, will likely eclipse bitcoin and become the number one digital currency by market cap. Mike McGlone Thinks Highly of Ethereum As a senior commodity strategist for Bloomberg, McGlone has been following cryptocurrencies for a long time just like the rest of us. In a new report, he details why Ethereum – still only the second largest digital currency in the world at the time of writing – could...

Kraken is reevaluating its plans on how to go public next year after Coinbase’s unimpressive performance, said the exchange’s CEO – Jesse Powell. Instead of taking its competitor’s method of a direct listing, Kraken could go down the initial public offering road. Kraken Rethinks Going Public Plans The largest US cryptocurrency exchange – Coinbase – made the news in mid-April when it became a publicly-traded company after a direct listing on Nasdaq. The move, perceived by many...

China is moving forward with its anti-crypto attitude. It has now shut down the social media accounts of several bitcoin and cryptocurrency influencers as a means of stopping people from learning about and investing in digital currencies. China Makes Another Anti-Bitcoin Maneuver China has long had an up-and-down relationship with bitcoin. While the country has always been a hotspot for bitcoin and digital currency activity, government officials and regulators have never...

The past seven days, despite being intensive in terms of important news, were less than exciting when it comes to pricing. Most of the cryptocurrencies experienced substantial losses. Bitcoin, unlike the majority of altcoins, performed relatively well in comparison. It’s still down about 5% on the week, but its market dominance has increased to about 44%, which is a considerable improvement. The downward pressure started last Saturday when the price tanked from about $38K...

Elon Musk manipulates the financial markets, including the cryptocurrency one, for his own personal gain, alleged the South African billionaire Magda Wierzycka. The founder of Sygnia further blamed the recent BTC volatility on Tesla’s CEO. Musk Manipulates the Markets For Personal Gains During an interview on The Money Show, the 52-year old businesswoman accused her fellow countryman Elon Musk of publishing controversial tweets and engaging in other social media channels to...

Anticipated to be one of the biggest tech IPOs of 2021, Didi IPO could fetch the company a $100 billion valuation while raising $10 billion.Didi Chuxing, founded in 2012 by Cheng Wei, filed for an Initial Public Offering (IPO) under its formal name Xiaoju Kuaizhi Inc. It has become a market leader in the mobility technology industry in a short time, having acquired its biggest competitor, Uber’s China unit, in 2016. In return, Uber now has a 12.8% stake in Didi. Other high-profile investors...

Pieter Hasekamp, head of the central planning bureau CPB, opined that the Dutch government must ban digital assets. He further stated that a crypto collapse is inevitable. Cryptocurrencies Are ”Neither Money Nor a Financial Product” The director of the CPB Pieter Hasekamp urged the ruling cabinet of the Netherlands to officially forbid trading, possession, and mining of bitcoin and digital assets. The move could protect local investors as, in his opinion, the crypto market...

It was a rather unfortunate week for the entire cryptocurrency market as most of the coins are trading in the red. Bitcoin is no exclusion, though it’s the one the best performer, relatively speaking, compared to major altcoins. Bitcoin Bitcoin is down by a small 4% over the past week as it currently sits above the 20-day MA at $37,000. The cryptocurrency saw an interesting week after testing $39,200 last week. There, it found resistance at a falling trend line and failed to...

Bitcoin continued with recovering the most recent losses and ever went further to a six-day high at $38,500 before calming down. Most altcoins, though, have failed to produce any gains, and BTC’s market dominance has jumped to 44%. Bitcoin Tapped 6-Day High After bottoming at $31,000 on Tuesday, the primary cryptocurrency started to reclaim its lost ground gradually. It spiked by around $3,000 on Wednesday, added another sizeable chunk on Thursday, and kept climbing higher in...