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Richard Bernstein, an institutional investor Hall of Famer, sounded a note of caution to investors to beware of dealing with Bitcoin. He finds it ”wild” how the primary cryptocurrency was still very popular in a bear market, while assets like oil have been disregarded in a bull market. The Rush to Own BTC Has Become Dangerous In a recent interview with CNBC, the CEO and CIO of Richard Bernstein Advisors spoke about the increased popularity of Bitcoin and altcoins. He opined...

The Stellar Development Foundation is more focused on building its protocol than the market conditions, said the organization’s Senior Director of Enterprise Ecosystems, Lisa Nestor. In an exclusive interview with CryptoPotato, Nestor also spoke about Stellar’s latest developments. Stellar USDC Accessible Savings Products The blockchain-based network for currencies and payments recently announced a significant milestone achieved by partnering with the payment processor –...

Michael Saylor’s initiative to continue buying more and more bitcoins makes no sense, argued the full-time BTC basher – Peter Schiff. Following the latest development coming from MicroStrategy, in which the company outlined plans to allocate another $1 billion in the asset, the prominent economist called Saylor “truly insane.” Schiff to Saylor: Truly Insane If you have followed the cryptocurrency markets even vaguely in the past year, two names should be popping out as the...

Coinbase Pro has announced that it will finally allow trading of Polkadot’s DOT token beginning on June 16. According to an announcement from today, Coinbase Pro has listed Polkadot’s DOT token, and users are now able to transfer DOT into their accounts. However, it’s also worth noting that DOT will only begin trading on June 16, Wednesday, if the liquidity conditions are met, which they likely will be. DOT will be available in the jurisdictions which support Coinbase, except...

The Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI), an international multilateral development bank headquartered in Honduras, said that it will work with the El Salvadoran government to implement bitcoin as the country’s second legal tender. According to Reuters, on Monday (June 14, 2021), the executive president of CABEI, Dante Mossi, revealed the bank’s plans at a new conference. Mossi said that the major financial institution would offer technical assistance to El...

South Korea continues to enforce stricter rules on the cryptocurrency space with the latest legislation to classify exchanges as high-risk entities. The move comes as the Asian country aims to enhance the monitoring of financial transactions and user ID verifications. The Korea Times reported that the Financial Services Commission (FSC), South Korea’s financial watchdog, has implemented a new classification on cryptocurrency exchanges. According to the new legislation,...

MicroStrategy, the company, spearheaded by one of Bitcoin’s most vocal proponents, Michael Saylor, has completed yet another senior secured notes offering to buy more BTC. In an announcement revealed today, MicroStrategy said it’d completed a $500 million offering of senior secured notes due 2028 to buy more bitcoins. As it stands, the company now owns approximately 92,079 bitcoins. The notes have been sold in a private offering to qualified institutional buyers in full...

Prominent legacy investor Paul Tudor Jones III has doubled down on his support of bitcoin by indicating that it is reliable, honest, secure, and 100% certain. Furthermore, he said he wants to have 5% of his entire portfolio allocated in BTC. Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic broke out last year, the US billionaire hedge fund manager has been vocally praising the primary cryptocurrency. He argued that buying bitcoin would ultimately protect him from the growing threat of...

After the latest crackdown from China on Bitcoin mining and the declining hash rate, the mining difficulty has gone through another adjustment. As a result, the metric has dropped by 20% in less than a month to a 5-month low. China Goes Against Bitcoin Mining The world’s largest country by population has been reiterating its negative stance against the cryptocurrency industry for almost a decade. It did it once again in May, but this time it went a step further. As previously...

The president of Tanzania – Samia Suluhu Hassan – outlined the nation’s need for cryptocurrency adoption. She stressed out that the East African region still falls behind other, more advanced regions. ‘Do Not be Caught Unprepared’ In a recent announcement, the Tanzanian president – Samia Suluhu Hassan – highlighted the development of cryptocurrency usage and adoption in many countries. She reminded that the East African region, where Tanzania is located, is not as advanced as...