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Cardano, a decentralized open-source project that runs a public blockchain platform for smart contracts, has recently released a date for its long-awaited Hard Fork Combinator (HFC) event dubbed “Mary.”Cardano To Launch Mary On March 1According to an update on Tuesday by the project’s founder, Charles Hoskinson, the network upgrade will take place on March 1, after the HFC has completed all the quality assurance and developer checks on February 24.Hoskinson stated that the event would take...

The world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock, is looking into Bitcoin. This was confirmed by the managing director of the company, Rick Rieder, today.Rick Rieder, the managing director of BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, confirmed that the company is looking into Bitcoin. “We’ve started to dabble a bit into it,” he said, refusing to put a target allocation the company has.In the interview with CNBC’s SquawkBox, Rieder did say that diversifying one’s portfolio in the current...

MicroStrategy has announced the pricing of its offering of $900 million aggregate principal amount of 0% convertible senior notes due 2027. As it happened the last time the company made such a move, it plans to allocate all funds into bitcoin after the offering closes on February 19th, 2021.CryptoPotato reported yesterday that the NASDAQ-listed business intelligence giant MicroStrategy said it would offer a $600 million convertible senior notes offering to qualified institutional investors....

Bitcoin and most alternative coins are not the only crypto-related gainers during the ongoing bull cycle. The price developments have pushed numerous industry companies to see stock increases, including Chinese mining firm SOS Limited, which also received an endorsement from Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary.SOS Limited Recent DevelopmentsWith a membership base of about 20 million in China, SOS is an “emerging blockchain-based and big data-driven marketing and solution provider,” which recently...

Bitcoin’s price continues to increase as the cryptocurrency expands above the $50,000 mark. At the same time, the precious metal that it’s most commonly compared to, gold, sits at an all-time low when valued against BTC.Gold Suffers Against BitcoinBitcoin is compared to many things, but most commonly, it’s pinned against gold as both assets make a strong case as a store of value.However, over the past year, there’s a clear winner among the two, as the Gold/Bitcoin ratio currently sits at an...

While many CFOs dabble with the idea of putting Bitcoin on their balance sheets following the Tesla purchase, Microsoft has no such plans. The giant’s President, Brad Smith, recently refuted any assumptions that the firm could join the growing trend anytime soon.No New Conversations About BTC In MicrosoftAll eyes are on bitcoin after the electric vehicle giant Tesla filed documents with the Securities and Exchange Commission showing it had allocated $1.5 billion in the primary cryptocurrency...

Jim Bullard, President of the St. Louis Federal Reserve, has dismissed the value proposition of Bitcoin (BTC) based on some of the oft-quoted advantages claimed by BTC proponents.Speaking to CNBC on Tuesday, Bullard remarked that the Federal Reserve viewed Bitcoin as more of a rival to gold than an actual currency.According to Bullard, “For Fed policy, it is going to be a dollar economy and a dollar global economy as far as the eye can see.”For Bullard, the primacy of the U.S. dollar is not...

Peter Schiff, a well-known economist, gold proponent, and one of the most vocal opponents of Bitcoin, admitted that he was wrong about Bitcoin not hitting $50,000.Bitcoin’s Price Hits $50K For the First Time in HistoryFor the absolute first time since its inception, Bitcoin has hit the coveted $50,000 mark. The price has since retraced a bit but is still charting an increase shy of 3% on the daily. This has also brought the 7-day gains of BTC to about 7%.As CryptoPotato reported earlier...

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Ripple, the fintech company behind the third-largest cryptocurrency, XRP, have clearly stated that there will not be any settlement on the current lawsuit against Ripple prior to the official trial date.No Prospect For SettlementBoth parties made this statement in a discovery letter dated February 15, 2021, which was addressed to Judge Analisa Torres. In the document, both the SEC and Ripple said that they “do not believe there is...

MicroStrategy, the publicly-listed company that was amongst the first to put Bitcoin on its balance sheet, has now announced plans to raise another $600 million to buy more of the digital currency.In a press release dated February 16th, MicroStrategy announced that it intends to offer a $600 million aggregate principal amount of convertible senior notes that are due 2027 in a private offering to qualified institutional investors.Furthermore, the release adds that:The notes will be convertible...