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Clothing provider Pacsun has agreed to accept digital currency payments for goods and services. The company is just the latest in a string of firms to say “yes” to cryptocurrency payments and thus is pushing bitcoin and its digital counterparts closer towards their initial goals. Pacsun Says “Ok” to Crypto Payments While bitcoin and its crypto cousins have long served as speculative assets that traders can potentially get rich from, these currencies were initially...

A gold coin with a denomination of approximately 1,000 bitcoins was purchased in 2011. This is when bitcoin wasn’t trading for anywhere near the price it is at today. At the time, the coin was worth about $4,900. It stayed in a desk drawer for many years, ultimately forgotten about and lost to time. A Gold Coin and Bitcoin Fused Into a Special Asset However, now its owner – who wishes to remain anonymous – has pulled it out of that desk drawer and has had the currency...

It looks like the need to cater to institutions’ growing desire for crypto is getting bigger and bigger amongst standard financial institutions. U.S. Bank has just announced that it is unveiling a new crypto custody service that fund managers can use to store both private keys and digital assets. U.S. Bank Potentially Sees Crypto as Important The idea of banks and crypto mixing is an unusual one, primarily because they are both so different. For one thing, banks seek to...

Bitcoin has hit $50,000 per unit once again. The world’s number one digital currency by market cap has surged in recent days to a figure that it hasn’t seen in quite some time. Bitcoin Is Spiking Like Never Before As we have witnessed in the past, September tends to be rather bearish for bitcoin. This was never more evident than in 2020 when the digital currency – which was trading for about $12,000 per unit during August of that year – fell to about $10K just a month...

China has banned cryptocurrency. As one of the largest territories in Asia, one would think that the nation of China is setting the stones in place for a continent that has no desire or use for the world’s number one digital asset, but apparently, the situation has led to the exact opposite. Asia Is Moving Ahead as a Crypto Haven Despite China’s sudden hate for BTC, it looks like crypto activity in Asia has grown by more than 700 percent over the past few months, almost...

The prices of bitcoin and several leading altcoins have spiked over the past few days following an announcement from Jerome Powell – the chairman of the Federal Reserve – that the United States has no intention of banning crypto use. Bitcoin Is Doing Better Now That America Gives the Greenlight Several traders throughout America are likely breathing a heavy sigh of relief given that China has worked heavily to remove bitcoin from its turf, first by banning all miners and...

El Salvador is now using energy from nearby volcanoes to mine bitcoin. El Salvador Is Putting Local Volcanoes to Good Use President Nayib Bukele announced late last week that his country had minted what he called the first volcano-powered bitcoin unit. He also posted a video of bitcoin rigs being set up at a geothermal crypto mining operation stationed in a forest which happened to be near a volcano. Thus far, El Salvador has only managed to extract roughly $280 in BTC...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is once again delaying its decision-making process regarding new bitcoin-based exchange-traded fund (ETF) applications. The SEC Cannot Seem to Make a Decision for Anything This has been going on for years now. The SEC does not seem capable of making a choice regarding such a product. It just delays, delays, and delays some more, and right when you think a final decision is going to be made, the agency puts things off again....

Bitcoin price started a fresh increase above the $45,000 resistance against the US Dollar. The price is now trading above $50,000 and the 55 simple moving average (4-hours). There was a break above a major bearish trend line with resistance near $43,100 on the 4-hours chart of the BTC/USD pair (data feed from Coinbase). The pair is showing positive signs and it could continue to rise above the $52,000 level. Bitcoin price is gaining pace above $50,000 against the US...

Here’s some good news, folks. Bitcoin has shot up by more than ten percent at press time! The world’s number one digital currency is now trading for just shy of $48,000, the highest it’s been in weeks. Bitcoin Is Really Starting to Move Up The currency has had a rock-and-roll run throughout 2020 and 2021 both. In 2020, the currency fell briefly below the $4,000 per unit line. This was just as the coronavirus pandemic began permeating global economies everywhere. During...