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David Lindberg – Chief Executive of retail banking at NatWest – warned investors to beware of dealing with digital assets in Britain. In his opinion, the market there is full of fraudsters who create fake cryptocurrency exchanges to lure users into thinking they are investing. ‘Fraud And Scams Are an Industry’ One of the top executives at the leading British bank NatWest – David Lindberg – alerted that the UK is not the best place for crypto investing. To him, the Kingdom is...

Continuing a long streak of crypto companies that have gone public, popular trading app Robinhood is the latest digital currency enterprise to announce an IPO (initial public offering). The company is alleging that it will garner as much as $2 billion in new funds from the event it is planning to hold in the next few months, according to a statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Robinhood Is Set for Its Public Debut Shares will start out at...

Most blockchain-based startups have seen funding from venture backers, despite the current cryptocurrency market downturn, recording over $4 billion in Q2 alone. This massive venture capital backing is in keeping with the established trend of VC funding for blockchain firms as investors look to be part of the new wave of disruption associated with decentralized finance. VC Backers Continue to Dole Out Funding for Blockchain Startups According to CNBC on Thursday (July 22,...

Bumper Finance’s eagerly awaited liquidity provision program has now launched. Day 1 investors are already steaming in to take advantage of the superb APR on offer for those participating. The innovative protocol aims to calm the nerves of crypto investors by offering a unique set of protections against asset volatility. It hopes to empower holders of crypto by offering a safety net under their portfolios, and by doing so bring a sense of certainty to the occasionally...

Bitcoin saw a great few days following the B Word event where Elon Musk, Jack Dorsey, and Cathie Wood spoke quite fondly of it. It’s up 15% in five days, and it appears to be preparing for a test of $34K. Bitcoin Price Gaining 15% In a Few Days This was a very turbulent week for bitcoin’s price, which didn’t seem like it was off to a good start a few days ago. In fact, on Tuesday, the price plummeted down to around $29,200, causing nothing but fear and panic in the market....

Bitcoin is in a very dark place at the time of writing. After trading for a new all-time high of $64,000 per unit in mid-April of this year, the currency has once again (for the second time in the past few months) dropped below the $30,000 range and is now trading for just over $29,000. This means that in just three months alone, the world’s number one digital currency by market cap has lost more than $35,000 off its price and more than 50 percent from its value. Bitcoin...

Der Kauf und Verkauf mit Kryptowährungen wie dem Bitcoin ist risikoreich und kann zugleich sehr lohnend sein. Wie bei jeder anderen Tradingform gibt es auch beim Krypto-Handel keine Gewinngarantie. Es gibt jedoch verschiedene Strategien, die die Gewinnchance erhöhen und eine profitable Möglichkeit darstellen, Geld zu verdienen. Mit der richtigen Strategie ist es sehr wohl möglich, den Lebensunterhalt mit dem Handel von Kryptowährungen zu verdienen, es ist jedoch genauso...

Despite its recently rocky relationship with global regulators, leading cryptocurrency exchange Binance has revealed that its U.S.-based division, Binance US, is considering going public. Binance US Considers IPO Changpeng Zhao (CZ), founder and CEO of Binance, made this known at the ReDeFiNE Tomorrow 2021 blockchain virtual conference. Speaking on the future plans and the regulatory issues that his exchange has been facing, CZ hinted that Binance US is looking to go public...

A panel of crypto experts alleges that bitcoin – the world’s number one digital currency by market cap – will potentially remove fiat currency from circulation by the year 2050. This basically gives bitcoin approximately 29 years to become the primary financial product of the world. Bitcoin Is Rising to the Top On the one hand, this certainly seems possible. 29 years is a long time, and a lot can be accomplished within that period. On the other hand, is it really all...

It’s safe to say that this was a rather intense week in the cryptocurrency market, despite Bitcoin being only about 2% up throughout the period. Things started off rather calmly, and the market was pretty flat until Monday. Bears took control and brought the price down to slightly above $30K before landing the final blow on Tuesday and pushing BTC below $30,000. It was on Wednesday, though, when the highly-anticipated B Word event took place, which saw Elon Musk, Jack Dorsey,...