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Bitcoin has had its worst year to date, and Warren Buffett – the billionaire investor and CEO behind real estate giant Berkshire Hathaway – is laughing in all our faces right about now. Warren Buffett Really Hates Bitcoin Buffett has never supported bitcoin. In fact, he’s said some rather negative things about it. Discussing crypto assets in 2018, he said: They will come to a very bad ending. He also made it clear that he had no intention of owning any form of crypto, stating in early...

For Tim Draper, Bitcoin has a lot of fundamentals that are capable of powering its growth over time.Billionaire investor and Bitcoin (BTC) bull Tim Draper has made a $250,000 price call for the premier digital currency, maintaining his stance on how bright the future of the cryptocurrency is. Draper previously predicted that the price of Bitcoin will top the said amount by the end of this year, however, at the current level of $17,300, the coin is almost 1,400% away from that projected price...

Bandesal – a traditional bank in the nation of El Salvador – is refusing to discuss with reporters how the country is spending its bitcoin funds. It will not provide any data regarding how the country is maintaining its bitcoin purchases, nor will it say where the money is going or how it’s being stored, claiming that data is “confidential.” Bandesal in El Salvador Is Staying Quiet The Anti-Corruption Legal Advisory Center (ALAC) is condemning the bank and El Salvador for not being...

Crypto bull Elon Musk now officially owns Twitter. As one of the largest and most powerful social media platforms in the world, the deal cost approximately $44 billion, which is probably a drop in the bucket for the world’s richest man. Twitter and Musk… The Perfect Match? One of the first orders of business was to fire Twitter’s CFO Ned Segal and its chief executive Parag Agrawal, who took over when initial CEO Jack Dorsey announced his resignation last November. Musk is now the official...

Over the past few weeks, many crypto analysts have claimed that the prices of the world’s largest and most mainstream assets have become “boring” in many ways. Bitcoin, for example, has seen a real dip in its volatility over the past month or so, and the asset continues to hover at around $20K. Sometimes it’s slightly up and sometimes it’s slightly down, but the range has remained relatively consistent. Could Volatility Finally Be Standing Still? This has been the sentiment for some time,...

Vitalik Buterin – the man behind Ethereum, the world’s second largest digital currency by market cap and the number one competitor to BTC – has announced that he doesn’t think right now is the best time for a crypto-based ETF (exchange-traded fund). Vitalik Buterin: It’s Not the Time for a Crypto ETF To be fair, such a product already exists. It was introduced by Pro Shares during autumn of last year, and it stirred heavy controversy by being based on futures technology rather than actual...

Upbring – a nonprofit organization based in Austin, Texas – has stated it’s going to be using crypto and blockchain technology to help more than 11,000 kids in the Lone Star State. Upbring Is Looking to Help Texas Kids Upbring provides three main services: education, resettlement, and foster care. The group seeks to provide aid and assistance for underprivileged children in the region and prevent them from being exposed to danger and unhealthy scenarios. In other words, it wants to make...

El Salvador in Central America is joining hands with the Swiss city of Lugano in the name of bitcoin. Both areas have vowed to push bitcoin education and adoption in their regions and see about implementing bitcoin use tools in neighboring countries. El Salvador and Switzerland Are Working Together Both regions have proven to be major bitcoin advocates in recent years. El Salvador initially made bitcoin legal tender in September of last year. The country initially experienced heavy...

American Marketing Group (AMG) has announced it’s now allowing all the travel companies it does business with to accept cryptocurrency payments through its booking platform Trip Xpress. AMG Is Opening Itself Up to Crypto Payments The move is pushing the goals of bitcoin and its digital counterparts closer to being achieved. What many people likely forget is that while bitcoin and many of its crypto cousins have taken on either speculative or even hedge-like statuses in recent years, many of...