With its massive $1.5 billion purchase of bitcoin, the electric vehicle giant Tesla has inadvertently helped the cryptocurrency to surpassed it in terms of market capitalization. With BTC’s price skyrocketing to new highs and its market cap following, bitcoin is now ranked as the 7th largest asset.Bitcoin Surpasses Tesla For The 7th SpotElon Musk’s Tesla shocked the world after it filed Form 10-K with the US SEC, in which the founded in 2003 clean energy giant said it had purchased $1.5...
Read More »Apple Should Follow Tesla’s $1.5B Bitcoin Outlay: RBC Capital Markets
BTC is becoming a popular feature on the balance sheets of publicly-listed American companies, with many firms committing a significant portion of their equivalent cash balance to the largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization.Apple Should Buy Bitcoin and Create Exchange PlatformAccording to a client note quoted by Bloomberg, RBC Capital Markets, RBC Capital Markets has urged the iPhone maker to create a Bitcoin exchange platform and also acquire some of the popular cryptocurrency. As...
Read More »Tesla’s $1.5B Bitcoin Buy Amounts to 15% of The Company’s Net Cash Holding
Following the news about Tesla’s billion-dollar investment in bitcoin, analysts reveal that the Elon Musk-led company invested around 15% of its net cash into the flagship cryptocurrency.As reported by CryptoPotato earlier today, Tesla made headlines across the crypto verse after it invested $1.5 billion into bitcoin, as revealed in a 10k form filing with the U.S. SEC.Meanwhile, David Lawant, a Research Analyst at Bitwise Asset Management, tweeting shortly after the bitcoin investment, noted...
Read More »Binance Latest IEO SafePal (SFP) Skyrockets 1800% Upon Listing
It appears that the IEO season is coming back as the newest project that saw its listing on the Binance Launchpad charted massive gains of about 1800% upon being launched.Binance IEO SafePal (SFP) Goes ParabolicInvestors in the latest Initial Exchange Offering (IEO) that took place on the Binance Launchpad platform saw handsome gains of up to 1800%.SafePal (SFP) saw its listing price at $0.10 and skyrocketed up to $1.9 in the first moments after its listing. While it can be argued that it’s...
Read More »DOGE Stays Strong As Leading Altcoins Crash Against Bitcoin Following Tesla’s BTC Purchase
Bitcoin’s price exploded to new highs following Tesla’s allocation of $1.5 billion in the cryptocurrency. BTC’s dominance also increased by about 1.5% as most altcoins crashed against their leader.Bitcoin Paints A New ATH And Expands DominanceNews broke out earlier today that the electric vehicle giant Tesla had purchased a total of $1.5 billion in bitcoin. The price of the asset reacted with a sharp price increase, in which BTC added about $6,000 of value in merely minutes.This resulted in...
Read More »$1.34 Billion Liquidated Following the Tesla-Driven Bitcoin Rally
Today is yet another tumultuous day in the cryptocurrency market. The massive volatility, propelled by the fact that Elon Musk’s Tesla revealed a purchase of $1.5 billion in BTC, caused over $1.34 billion liquidated both long and short positions, though bulls had the upper hand.Things happen quickly in the cryptocurrency market. Bitcoin was trading rather calmly earlier today, making progress towards the $40,000 level after failing to sustain it during the weekend.However, everything changed...
Read More »Binance Experience Severe Technical Issues as BTC Breaks Above $44K
Bitcoin’s price exploded in the past hour following an announcement from the electric vehicle giant Tesla that it had purchased $1.5 billion of the primary cryptocurrency in January. However, the massive volatility and perhaps growing interest have caused technical difficulties for the Malta-based exchange Binance.CryptoPotato reported earlier today that Elon Musk’s Tesla had allocated $1.5 billion in Bitcoin in January 2021, per a Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission...
Read More »Bitcoin Hash Rate and Mining Difficulty Chart New All-Time Highs
The hashrate on Bitcoin’s network surged to yet another all-time high, this time above 155 million TH/s. Simultaneously, the blockchain went through another adjustment that increased the difficulty levels to a record of their own.Bitcoin Hash Rate To Fresh HighsThe hash rate is a measuring unit of the processing power of the BTC network. The more miners put their computational devices to work, the higher the hash rate goes, which makes the system more secure and robust.Since over 60% of...
Read More »What Are the Risks of Governance Tokens? (Opinion)
Many of today’s leading DeFi projects are popular because of their governance tokens – something that hasn’t really been the case back in the ICO boom of 2017.Now, the yield farming hype has created many new governance tokens to control a project’s properties. Yet, these tokens have been abused in various ways, acting as a monetary incentive instead of a true representation of voting power.In theory, a governance token gives the token holder voting power to influence the DeFi project’s...
Read More »Doge Surpassed Bitcoin in U.S. Google Search Volume as Rapper Snoop Dogg Tweeted It
It’s been quite an interesting couple of weeks in the cryptocurrency market. Somewhat surprisingly (or not), the meme coin DOGE has seen more retail interest than Bitcoin in the US, propelled by a series of events ranging from Elon Musk tweeting about it regularly and the craze surrounding Wall Street Bets.Dogecoin Searches Top Bitcoin’s in the USDogecoin, believe it or not, is currently the 12th largest cryptocurrency in the world by means of total market capitalization. Sitting on a...
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