Tag Archives: Bitcoin News

We keep seeing cases of institutions and largescale enterprises purchasing bitcoin and other forms of crypto to ensure their portfolios remain diverse and they can protect themselves against inflation as the U.S. dollar is subjected to weak economic conditions. After firms like MicroStrategy, Square and Tesla have all bought bitcoin, it looks like DMG Blockchain Solutions is the latest company to join the bitcoin-buying ranks. DMG Blockchain Solutions Will Mine and Buy...

Anthony Scaramucci – the founder of Sky Bridge Capital – believes that those who haven’t gotten their hands on bitcoin yet still have a good chance of making returns and profit on the world’s number one digital currency by market cap. He also believes that volatility will become less severe as time goes by and more people and businesses agree to adopt the currency. Anthony Scaramucci Says It’s Not Too Late When It Comes to Buying BTC In a recent interview, Scaramucci...

Hester Pierce – the commissioner at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) – admits that perhaps the agency’s reluctance to approve a bitcoin or crypto-based exchange-traded fund (ETF) was a bit of a mistake now that Canada has come so far in this department. Pierce: A Bitcoin ETF Is Now Being Pushed More Than Ever Over the years, many companies – from Van Eck to Bitwise – have submitted applications to get bitcoin ETFs approved by the Securities and Exchange...

Grayscale – provider of one of the world’s largest bitcoin funds – has announced that it is unveiling five new trusts based on assorted altcoins. Grayscale Is Giving Us More Digital Currency Trading Options Among the currencies these trusts will allow customers to invest in are Chainlink, Filecoin and Livepeer. Another trust will hold Basic Attention tokens, while a fifth will give customers a chance to invest in an asset associated with the virtual reality world...

Coin Floor – a cryptocurrency exchange in the United Kingdom – is taking some flack over a recent ad that allegedly took aim at pensioners. The ad talked about the benefits of crypto investing, though it has since been banned by national regulators. Coin Floor Sees Its Ad Get Knocked Down The ad has been deemed “socially irresponsible” and “misleading,” as according to official complaints, it did not address the many risks associated with cryptocurrency investing. In a...

Bank of America is clearly no fan of bitcoin. In a recent statement, the financial giant claimed that the only reason people were buying it was because the price keeps going up. Bank of America: Bitcoin Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be Over the past year, several new arguments have been introduced suggesting why people are suddenly crazy about owning bitcoin. The idea that it’s a hedge tool of some kind or that it’s a store of wealth has gotten a lot of people interested....

Graham Ivan Clark – the alleged bitcoin hacker who took over several high-profile Twitter accounts last summer to get his hands on bitcoin he had no claim to – has been sentenced to three years in prison. Graham Clark Will Serve Three Years Despite being an 18-year-old teenager, Clark was looking at roughly ten years in prison, and ultimately accepted the three-year sentence – followed by three years of probation – as part of a plea deal. One could argue that the heavy...

As we have seen in the past, bitcoin doesn’t please everyone. No matter how high it rises or how strong it becomes, the world’s number one digital currency by market always seems to polarize people in ways nobody really considered possible. With bitcoin shooting past $55,000 in recent days, one of the latest haters to emerge is Jeffrey Sachs, a well-known economist. Jeffrey Sachs: Bitcoin Has No Intrinsic Value In a recent conference, Sachs said to all his listeners: I...

Oh boy… What is it about Elon Musk and crypto? The two always seem to attract one another whether they mean to or not, and the most recent example doesn’t put either entity in the best light. Elon Musk Is the Face of Another Crypto Scam Scammers posing as the South African entrepreneur behind billion-dollar companies such as Tesla and SpaceX are once again looking to potentially steal people’s bitcoin, and it looks like they are achieving success in some of their...

It’s always nice to see bitcoin turn people into believers, especially those who at one point, seriously doubted the currency and felt nothing but animosity towards it. This isn’t necessarily the case for billionaire investor Howard Marks, but he didn’t always feel extreme positivity towards the world’s number one digital currency by market cap. Howard Marks: BTC Is Better Than an “Emerging Market Currency” Now, looking at the currency and seeing how far it’s come, Marks...