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More and more customers of traditional banks and financial institutions are seeking ways to retain their monetary freedom and find new methods of investing. Crypto’s popularity is growing steadily every day, and there are now several banks seeking to provide their clients with ways of garnering crypto and adding digital assets to their portfolios. The latest bank to join this list is Valliance, which has chosen Bakkt as the official institutional platform that will grant...

Brent Whitehead and Matt Lohstroh are two young men from Texas that have already made millions mining bitcoin and other forms of crypto. The two have worked hard to establish a new company called Giga Energy Solutions, which mints bitcoin from natural gas. Brent and Matt Chose to Follow Bitcoin Both Brent and Matt come from oil families, and they were met with skepticism when they first announced three years ago that they wanted to go into the mining sector. However,...

It’s been months, and the fight surrounding crypto in India doesn’t appear to have an end in sight. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and its deputy governor T Rabi Sankar have recently issued statements saying that the only way to deal with crypto within the nation’s borders is by banning it. India and Crypto… The Fight Is Still Waging The words came at the recent Indian Banks Association 17th Annual Banking Technology Conference and Awards. Not long ago, it was announced...

Texas is quickly becoming one of the biggest crypto mining hubs in the world to the point that current governor Greg Abbott is making bringing more crypto jobs and companies to the Lone Star State part of his reelection campaign. Texas and Crypto Mining… A Great Match? The migration of crypto miners to Texas began in the summer of last year. China – which at one point housed more than 65 percent of the world’s digital mining projects – decided the practice should be...

Banking giant Wells Fargo has taken notice of how far the crypto world has come. It’s now predicting that adoption could grow tenfold in the coming years, and it believes that crypto is still very much in its early days. Wells Fargo Thinks Crypto Is Going to Get Bigger In a statement, Wells Fargo explained: For today’s investor trying to figure out if we are early or late to cryptocurrency investing, looking at technology investing in the mid-to-late 1990s seems...

Bitcoin is officially 13 years old. The cryptocurrency that everyone has grown to love, cherish, and respect turned 13 on February 11 of this year after getting mined for the first time on that date in the year 2009. Bitcoin Turns 13 It was also during that year that the world was introduced to Satoshi Nakamoto, the legendary man behind the number one digital currency by market cap. The e-cash system that now everyone is familiar with was new to traders and investors...

Bitcoin price started a fresh increase above the $42,000 zone against the US Dollar. The price is now trading above $42,000 and the 55 simple moving average (4-hours). There was a break above a key contracting triangle with resistance near $42,500 on the 4-hours chart of the BTC/USD pair (data feed from Coinbase). The pair is now facing a major resistance near $45,000 and might correct lower. Bitcoin price gained pace above $42,000 against the US Dollar. BTC even spiked...

A tax law that was implemented in 2017 as a means of helping poor communities is allegedly being taken advantage of by crypto miners and investors. Crypto Investors Are Using a Tax Law to Their Advantage The law in question allowed certain individuals and companies to either delay or reduce their capital gains taxes when they sell a stock or crypto unit if they take the money they earned and invest it in what are known as opportunity zones, which are neighborhoods that...

Bill Miller is arguably one of the biggest bitcoin bulls out there. Not long ago, he described the world’s number one digital currency by market cap as something of an insurance policy against financial and economic problems, and he mentioned that despite the falling price as of late, he still holds a fair amount of BTC in his portfolio today. Bill Miller Believes in BTC For the most part, Miller still believes that bitcoin is young enough to make a serious difference in...

It appears that the crypto space is becoming far more attractive to minority groups. Caroline Altagracia, for example, is a college student at the University of Albany. While in high school, she learned about digital currencies and became fascinated with the technology behind them. Minorities Are Entering the Crypto Space In an interview, she stated: It’s definitely been an empowering journey. I feel like when I initially was intimidated, I had to kind of get past that...