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In a Q4 2020 investor update, PayPal revealed that it recorded fourth-quarter and fiscal year financial results that were far beyond its expectations. The company noted that it was its strongest fiscal year, with high payment volume and new accounts further strengthening its scale.PayPal recorded a massive surge in the number of active accounts on its platform, with a whopping 16 million active accounts in Q4 2020 alone. For fiscal 2020, the company added 72.7 million net new active accounts,...

Cynthia Lummis is the first woman to represent the state of Wyoming in the US Senate. She’s a member of the Republican Party and was sworn into the United States Senate on January 3rd, 2021.She’s become a well-known commentator on Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies and has said that she is working towards educating other Senate members and officials on their merits. Now, she’s also on the Senate Banking Committee.Cynthia Lummis. Source: C-SpanSenator Lummis on the Senate Banking...

The number of Goldman Sachs executives who question or refute BTC’s role as a store of value continues to expand. After the senior Chairman and head of commodities research, now the head of the investment strategy group has done the same.Goldman Sachs’ Exec Against BTC’s Store Of Value PositionWith bitcoin possessing similar qualities to gold, including a limited supply, the cryptocurrency is often considered as a store of value investment tool, as the precious metal. The narrative has been...

Miami’s Mayor Francis Xavier Suarez is ready to put his city in the spotlight of technology lovers and entrepreneurs and Bitcoin could be his new venture.Suarez recently told the press that as he sees it, Bitcoin could become the “biggest story of the next few years.” and according to a Forbes review, the use of Bitcoin as a means of payment for public employee salaries could be one of the steps to be taken on Suarez’s path to turning Miami into the next Silicon Valley.The Road to a...

Grayscale Investments continues expanding its Ethereum Trust to accredited investors, adding over $38 million worth of the surging digital currency to its portfolio.Grayscale Investment Adds Ether Worth $38 Million Grayscale Investment has set the ball rolling to its Ethereum Trust (ETHE) after about a month of ceasing its inflows. Shortly after making the headlines for adding over $1 billion in a week to its Bitcoin position, Grayscale seems to have their eyes fixed on the next target.Recent...

The brokerage arm of the South Korean business conglomerate Hanwha Group is reportedly set to acquire a 6.15% stake in Dunamu – the operator of the popular cryptocurrency exchange UPbit. The deal will take place on February 22nd, 2021.According to the KoreaHerald coverage, Hanwha Investment and Securities has agreed to buy 2.06 million shares in Dunamu.The deal will become official later this month for a total price of 58.3 billion won ($52 million).The South Korea-headquartered financial...

The Coinbase outflows to custodial wallets, considered by CryptoQuant as an adequate price prediction tool, have caught the latest price increase that drove BTC from $32,000 to $37,000 in a few days.The CEO of the analytics company attributed this to institutional demand and said that such purchases are among the most notable bullish signals.Coinbase Outflows: Game Changer?Ki Young Ju, the CEO of CryptoQuant, has repeatedly highlighted the importance of Coinbase BTC outflows. He explained...

Months after suffering one of the worst hacks in crypto history, the popular exchange KuCoin has announced it had successfully recovered all stolen funds. The company’s CEO reassured that no customer has sustained any financial loss following the event.KuCoin Recovers Stolen FundsAs reported back in September 2020, a group of unknown attackers exploited the hot wallets belonging to the KuCoin exchange. While the initial estimations suggested that the stolen amount was at around $150 million,...

The world’s leading cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, Binance, has launched a beta version of a contactless and borderless crypto payments product by the name of Binance Pay. The exchange will enable its users to send and receive crypto payments worldwide, similarly to PayPal.The Crypto PayPal?Presented earlier today by the company’s CEO, Changpeng Zhao, Binance will launch its latest product – the Binance Pay. Currently, in a beta stage.“Binance Pay is a basket product that we plan...

Guggenheim Partners’ CIO Scott Minerd sees the cryptocurrency industry as a growing and valuable part of the global economy. He doubled-down on his long-term bullish BTC prediction but said that investors need to be wary of the speculative price increase from October 2020 to early January 2021.Minerd On BTC’s Price DevelopmentsThe executive at the Wall Street behemoth has been openly discussing BTC’s price movements and making projections ever since Guggenheim filed documents with the SEC to...