Tag Archives: Bitcoin News

As interest in bitcoin has grown over the past few months, so has interest in China’s digital yuan. The Digital Yuan Is Making Headway Bitcoin has been booming over the past six months, with the world’s number one digital currency shooting up from $10,000 in early October to about $59,000 at press time. That is an increase of almost five times the original price. However, the interest in BTC is also stirring interest in other forms of crypto such as the digital yuan....

Financial giant Goldman Sachs says it’s looking into potentially allowing its richest customers to invest in cryptocurrencies and crypto-related products within the next few months. The news comes after the firm says crypto demand from clients has reached an all-time high. Goldman Sachs Opens Its Doors to Crypto Mary Rich – global head of digital assets – says the bank is looking to permit crypto investing beginning in the second quarter of 2021. In an interview with...

Early this week, PayPal began allowing cryptocurrency payments through its platform. The company has been on track to become a major haven for crypto-related activity since October of last year, and the platform’s goals just got much more serious. PayPal Says “Yes” To Digital Currency Payments While the service isn’t available to everyone just yet, many of PayPal’s users – when they purchase items – will be given several payment options when it’s time to check out, some...

Bitcoin mining continues to earn hate from environmentalists around the world, as the most recent calculations suggest the process requires more energy than the entire country of Sweden. Bitcoin Mining Gets More Expensive as the Price Expands A new report suggests that the higher the price goes, the more energy is needed to extract and mine new coins. Right now, bitcoin is traversing high $50,000 territory; it recently hit a new all-time high of approximately $61,000....

Blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis has closed a new funding round that garnered the company an additional $100 million from various investors. The enterprise is now valued at a whopping $2 billion, which is double what the company was valued at just a few months ago. Chainalysis Closes Its $100 Million Funding Round The funding round was headed by Paradigm, a crypto-centered venture capital firm. Money also came from the likes of Salesforce CEO Mark Benioff, who saw...

Everyone has been making a huge deal out of bitcoin these past several months. The world’s number one digital currency by market cap has surged in price, reaching a new all-time high just a few weeks ago of $61,000 per unit. However, according to Daniel Gouldman – CEO and co-founder of blockchain firm Ternio – people have the wrong idea, and by focusing too much on bitcoin, they are focusing on just one aspect of what is arguably a much larger arena. Gouldman: Blockchain...

With so many companies getting involved in the bitcoin-based exchange-traded fund (ETF) game as of late, it makes sense that a large financial firm such as Fidelity Investments would throw its wrench into the pot. Fidelity Is Looking to Establish a Bitcoin ETF Fidelity was one of the first financial brokers to offer digital currency trading and storage services to its clients in 2018. Now, it’s cementing its status even further as the ultimate crypto haven by preparing...

Avanti Financial – a financial services provider based in the United States – has managed to raise an impressive $37 million in new money through a Series A funding round. The company plans to utilize the funds to establish a cryptocurrency bank for family offices and top-tier investors. Avanti Financial Is Raking in the Dough Cryptocurrency is getting closer and closer to mainstream territory. Over the past several months, one of the consistent signs of this is the fact...

One of the big problems with bitcoin as of late is that it hasn’t become very energy conscious. Many companies and individuals alike complain that mining the currency is causing huge problems for our environment, and they want to make sure the planet is still in a healthy place in the future. Now, firms such as DMG Blockchain Solutions and Argo Blockchain are taking these worries to heart and looking to create an entirely new green sector for the mining space. Argo...

Cryptocurrency fraud is and always has been a problem in the financial space, but it’s rare that a scam of this magnitude comes along. A man in the U.K. is being ordered to pay a financial penalty of approximately $571 million by a U.S. court following the implementation of a phony bitcoin operation that saw him earn more than 22,000 BTC from unsuspecting victims. A Major Bitcoin Scam Occurred Four Years Ago The penalty is being enforced by the Commodity Futures Trading...