Tag Archives: Bitcoin Adoption

Popular venture capitalist and Bitcoin bull Timothy “Tim” Draper predicted that major online streaming platform Netflix could be the next company to join the bitcoin buying bandwagon.Next Bitcoin Investor Could Be NetflixSpeaking in a recent episode of the Unstoppable Podcast, Tim Draper stated that Netflix could be the next in line to add bitcoin to its balance sheet. According to him, the company’s co-founder and co-CEO, Reed Hastings, makes Netflix a likely bitcoin investor. Draper...

The Nigerian cryptocurrency community was shaken to its core when the country’s apex bank released a circular warning financial institutions to desist from enabling cryptocurrency transactions. The Central Bank made arguments to justify the decision, with several notable figures weighing in on the subject.Nigeria’s Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo is the latest to share his view on the ban. In his keynote address at the CBN Bankers’ Committee Economic Summit, Osinbajo tipped digital assets...

Investors want to get their hands on Bitcoin, and the big banks are already considering supporting the cryptocurrency so as not to be left behind.After a remarkable price recovery, Bitcoin seems to have stood the test of time, proving to naysayers that it is a reliable asset and an excellent store of value in the long term.Investors are taking note, and it seems that the constant pressures exerted by these groups on the banking sector are indeed yielding good results.JP Morgan:”We Will Have...

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...

Michael Saylor’s crusade to bring the Bitcoin gospel to as many entrepreneurs around the world as possible seems to be paying off, with thousands of people willing to listen to his message at various virtual conferences.And it seems his latest call was particularly successful. In a tweet dated February 6, the famous businessman revealed that more than 22,000 people registered for his “MicroStrategy World 2021” event. During this event, he discussed several topics related to Bitcoin, from...

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...

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...

Visa, the world’s leading payment processor with millions of merchants in its network and hundreds of millions of users, might add cryptocurrencies to its payments network.Visa Jumps on the Crypto BandwagonVisa, the multinational financial services corporation, might be joining the cryptocurrency bandwagon.In the company’s fiscal first-quarter 2021 earning call, the CEO of the company, Al Kelly, said that they are in a position to make cryptocurrencies more “safe, useful, and applicable.”In...

A Fortune magazine story about bitcoin began making the rounds Friday. In it, senior Fortune and Data Sheet writer Aaron Pressman cops to tripling his money in bitcoin– then losing half of it.It’s a cautionary tale alike for prudent long-term investors in cryptocurrency and day traders who are very smart at getting very stupid with money. The endlessly interesting and complicated question: “Where is bitcoin’s price going next?” is no idle curiosity. It’s a question with a lot of zeroes on...

Despite being an underdeveloped region, Latin America sets an example for the whole world in terms of adoption, trading, and interest in cryptocurrencies.A recent survey revealed that more than 30% of Latinos are interested in investing in crypto, either to increase their wealth or at least to maintain its value in times of economic instability.The study, commissioned by Sherlock Communications, includes a survey of more than 2,200 people in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico to...