Tag Archives: Bitcoin News

It has only been about ten weeks since Tesla – the electric car company developed by South African entrepreneur Elon Musk – first purchased more than $1.5 billion in BTC units, and already the purchase appears to be making a serious dent in the country’s finances. Thus far, the company has managed to rake in more than $1 billion in profit thanks to its newfound love of the world’s number one digital currency by market cap. Tesla Is Raking in the Dough Last February, the...

It looks like Turkey is not as comfortable with bitcoin as other nations. The region has decided to put a stop to all bitcoin payments citing concerns about competition to its national currency, and now the world’s number one digital currency by market cap has taken a bit of a stumble. Turkey Won’t Allow BTC Payments In recent days, bitcoin hit a new all-time high of more than $63,000 per unit following news that Coinbase was debuting on the Nasdaq. The asset ultimately...

Coinbase has gone public, and it looks like Wall Street and some of America’s largest and most prestigious banks are feeling the heat. The popular cryptocurrency exchange began trading its new stock last Wednesday on the Nasdaq, letting the financial world know that it was here to stay, and that cryptocurrency is going to continue to attract the attention of investors. Banks Are Really Feeling Pressure as of Late For the most part, cryptocurrencies and banks have not...

When compared with some of the world’s biggest tech startups, bitcoin is one of the fastest-growing industries the world has ever seen. The currency reached a $1 trillion valuation in half the time it took leading tech companies such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft. Bitcoin Has Reached $1 Trillion in 12 Years According to Crypto Parrott – a trading simulator in Ireland’s capital city of Dublin – Amazon took a whopping 24 years to reach a $1 trillion valuation. Microsoft...

The price of bitcoin just keeps on booming, and according to billionaire investor and former hedge fund manager Mike Novogratz, this is just the tip of the iceberg, as he believes the asset is going to spike much higher in the coming years. Mike Novogratz: Bitcoin Will Probably Keep Surging In a recent interview, Novogratz claimed: Right now, total crypto wealth is roughly $2 trillion, so that’s one half of one percent of all the wealth. If you do not think in the next...

Not too long ago, Canada – the United States’ neighbor to the north – introduced its respective continent to the first ever bitcoin-based exchange-traded fund (ETF). The product has experienced solid popularity in this short period and is now valued at more than $1 billion in total assets. A Bitcoin ETF Is Truly as Popular as They Said It Would Be This past year’s cryptocurrency boom has arguably caused many people to swiftly jump into the cryptocurrency space. It has...

Is it possible that bitcoin and cryptocurrencies get so big with time that governments around the world feel threatened? Is it possible that they become so scared that they ultimately decide to come after our assets and stop all trading activities everywhere? According to Jesse Powell, the CEO of popular cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, they could certainly try. Jesse Powell Is Warning Crypto Investors Several financial regulators over the past few months – including U.S....

As bitcoin and the cryptocurrency industry continue to grow, there is increasing pressure on the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to do something about approving a bitcoin-based exchange-traded fund (ETF). America is lagging, and with the digital currency world expanding to such a degree, many analysts and investors are wondering what could be taking so long. A Bitcoin ETF: Is It Right Around the Corner? As it stands, there are at least eight companies looking to...

Stock market expert and television personality Jim Cramer allegedly would not mind being paid in bitcoin. Heck, he said he might even demand it in the coming future. Jim Cramer: I Want BTC-Based Paychecks His comments stem from a recent news story that MicroStrategy – one of the first official institutions to publicly support bitcoin and buy billions of dollars-worth of the digital currency – would be paying its board of directors’ salaries and fees in BTC rather than...

Gryphon Digital Mining has just completed a new funding round in which the company has raised a whopping $14 million to launch a new bitcoin mining firm that will leave no carbon footprint. Gryphon Digital Mining Has Raised a Lot of Money The hate towards bitcoin mining appears to be growing now that bitcoin has reached its new all-time high of more than $60,000 per unit. The idea is that granted bitcoin’s price grows, so do its mining costs and requirements, which are...