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Another wild weekend in the crypto markets as Bitcoin plummeted by about $9,000 in hours amid rumors suggesting the US Treasury Department would charge several financial organizations for laundering money with cryptocurrencies. The altcoin market is also deep in red with double-digit percentages that evaporated more than $350 billion from the crypto market cap. US Treasury FUD Plummeted BTC? As reported yesterday, the primary cryptocurrency had regained over $2,000 of value...

Is it possible that bitcoin and cryptocurrencies get so big with time that governments around the world feel threatened? Is it possible that they become so scared that they ultimately decide to come after our assets and stop all trading activities everywhere? According to Jesse Powell, the CEO of popular cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, they could certainly try. Jesse Powell Is Warning Crypto Investors Several financial regulators over the past few months – including U.S....

It looks like Coinbase’s good vibes for this week are not just rubbing off on BTC and mainstream forms of digital currency. Dogecoin – a joke token that uses the face of a cute little Shiba Inu dog as its mascot – has surged to a new all-time high and was trading for as much as 14 cents early Wednesday morning. Dogecoin Keeps Making Financial Waves This week was met with strong news surrounding the cryptocurrency space. The digital token industry just keeps growing like...

Notable tech investor Ron Conway called the crypto industry ”the next multimillion-dollar opportunity in innovation.” On the day when Coinbase’s (COIN) shares officially started trading, Conway opined that the crypto sector is quickly growing, but it is just getting started. Coinbase – ”The Google For The Crypto Economy” Ron Conway, an early investor in the largest U.S. cryptocurrency exchange along with popular corporations like Airbnb, Facebook, and Google, spoke about the...

The DeFi industry is booming, and there are no two ways around it. Ever since the summer of 2020, dubbed by many the ‘DeFi summer,’ the total value locked in various protocols is increasing, while the volume on decentralized exchanges and automated market makers is skyrocketing as well. However, this has also substantially increased the number of exploits in the DeFi space ever since. In 2021 alone, we saw an array of various scams, ranging from hacks, exploits, and rug...

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Just a day after its official public listing, Coinbase is already creating multi-billion-dollar success stories. The popular angel investor and founder of Initialized Capital, Garry Tan, told his story in which he turned a $300,000 invested in Coinbase upon the company’s launch into $2.4 billion. Tan’s Initial Story with Armstrong and Coinbase Long before Coinbase became the US’s largest crypto exchange and be valued at about $100 billion, Brian Armstrong’s brainchild had a...

Following yesterday’s freefall in which bitcoin risked dipping below $60,000, the asset has bounced off and recovered about $2,000 of value. Most altcoins have also regained some ground, with some more than others. Apart from the top performer DOGE, Bitcoin Cash has spiked by 25% and has re-entered the top ten. Bitcoin Reclaims $62K After the latest all-time high registered earlier in the week of $65,000, the primary cryptocurrency reversed its price trajectory. Bitcoin...

Citigroup, Morgan Stanley and BlackRock are all huge companies in the financial space, but they cannot hold a candle to Coinbase, which is arguably on track to becoming one of the largest – if not the largest – crypto exchanges across the globe. Coinbase Is the Biggest One on the Block Coinbase has now been trading publicly on the Nasdaq for a couple of days, and the exchange – which was already quite large – is growing thanks to its new IPO (initial public offering)....

Stock market expert and television personality Jim Cramer allegedly would not mind being paid in bitcoin. Heck, he said he might even demand it in the coming future. Jim Cramer: I Want BTC-Based Paychecks His comments stem from a recent news story that MicroStrategy – one of the first official institutions to publicly support bitcoin and buy billions of dollars-worth of the digital currency – would be paying its board of directors’ salaries and fees in BTC rather than...