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2021 has started off well for most of the crypto ecosystem, except for Ripple. The company is on the verge of one of the riskiest lawsuits in the history of the industry, and the pessimism surrounding its XRP token has led it into a downward spiral that is causing significant losses to those who still are enrolled in the XRP Army.Ripple has tried to tackle this situation in many possible ways, from investing in lobbies and external audits, to even contemplating a relocation. And even during...

Mike McGlone, Bloomberg’s Senior Commodity Strategist, believes that bitcoin appears as a better investment opportunity than gold as of January 2021. The intelligence analyst said that it’s more likely BTC to reach $50,000 per coin than retrace to the old highs of about $20,000.Bitcoin Better Than Gold?Bloomberg’s strategist is among the few mainstream analysts that had remained bullish on BTC even when cryptocurrency was struggling during the year-long bear market in 2018. When the asset has...

The largest cryptocurrency asset management company, Grayscale, will see a shift in its executive leadership as founder Barry Silbert is prepared to step down to focus on other initiatives of Digital Currency Group.Announced Thursday, Grayscale will see a change in its Chief Executive Officer position.The founder of the company, Barry Silbert, who was acting as its CEO until now, will step down. In his place, the high-ranked executive position will be assumed by Michael...

One of the major cryptocurrency derivatives exchanges, BitMEX, has completed the month-long process of verifying its entire user base. The development comes shortly after the platform said it would provide its clients with faster transactions via a new integration system update.100% of Volume on the BitMEX Platform Fully Verified In a recent post, BitMEX has announced it has finished its User Verification Program. The project’s implementation is an attempt to make the platform one of the most...

A recent report fueled the rumors that the South Korean digital asset exchange Bithumb is indeed for sale by naming a potential buyer. It indicated that the Tokyo, Japan-headquartered gaming conglomerate Nexon is preparing to purchase a controlling stake in the trading platform. Numerous reports from the past several months suggested that the Asian exchange is in trouble as authorities had raided the company’s offices on several occasions.The situation worsened as the exchange closed some...

A few years after questioning bitcoin’s role in the financial markets, the former Federal Reserve governor Kevin Warsh has changed his mind, saying that owning BTC “makes sense” now.Furthermore, he breached the decade-old comparison between bitcoin and gold and said that the cryptocurrency is taking portions of the yellow metal’s market share.Former Fed Governor Changes His Mind On BTCThe primary cryptocurrency has a history of changing people’s minds. Previous examples include...

US investor, fund manager, and philanthropist Bill Miller believes that the global economic situation could drive large corporations to allocate more funds into bitcoin. The former Chairman and CIO of Legg Mason Capital Management said that the BTC adoption curve is very yearly, although the asset’s market cap has surpassed some prominent names.Rat Poison But For Cash; Miller SaysThe 71-year-old investor is among the most well-recognized and respected hedge fund managers, known for managing a...

According to the BTC MVRV-Z score, a metric that has a strong relation with the asset’s price, the cryptocurrency has increased to its highest level in about three years. However, the last time the MVRV-Z reached a similar position, bitcoin exploded by 10x in the next six months.BTC MVRV-Z score Suggests Further Increases?The analytics firm Glassnode describes the MVRV-Z score as a metric that compares market value and realized value to assess when an asset is overvalued or...

The DeFi space continues to grow. With it, though, there’s no shortage of mimicking projects, plenty of forks, and concepts that are beyond questionable.Apart from the above, we can also see various tokens exploding in price, charting tremendous gains in hours, only to come back crashing hours later. Some of them claim that it’s the way they are designed, though a 100x increase in hours and a 100x decrease in a few more hours can hardly be explained by protocol design.From $2 to $200 to $2...

The San-Francisco-based blockchain company Ripple may still have more issues to deal with, as one of its lead investors involved in the company’s Series C funding has filed a lawsuit following the U.S. SEC’s allegations.Ripple Gets Hit From the InsideAccording to Bloomberg, on Tuesday (Jan. 5, 2021), Tetragon Financial Group, an investment company based in the UK fled a complaint against Ripple on Monday in Delaware Chancery Court. Part of the lawsuit is looking to “enforce its contractual...