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At the time of writing, bitcoin – the world’s number one digital currency by market cap – isn’t doing so hot. The currency has fallen to about $46,000 per unit at press time, meaning it is now about $10,000 lower than where it stood during the early portion of last week. Things are not looking good for the asset, but how much of this is just part of a healthy correction? Bitcoin Has Taken an Ugly Dip As it turns out, things may be a little more extreme than normal. While...

Bitcoin has taken a turn for the worse, but while the move may not look great on paper, it turns out things are going quite well for some of the institutional traders that have yet to step into the cryptocurrency arena. Many institutions are using the recent bitcoin price dip as an opportunity to buy at a lesser price and get their fingers on an asset that many companies have been going crazy over for the past six months. Bitcoin Has Taken an Ugly Stumble Things really...

Coinbase is known for storing cryptocurrency and allowing its many customers to trade digital assets. However, what we didn’t know was that the company also did its own investing in crypto as well. We’re Learning a Lot About Coinbase As it turns out, the company has become of the first major cryptocurrency exchanges to file for a public listing. In doing so, a lot of information has come out about the firm that many traders were unaware of prior, a big one being that...

A bitcoin scam involving a bunch of house renters has taken place in the city of Vallejo, California. In what is certainly a unique spin on scam-based bitcoin behavior, it appears someone pretended to be a landlord of a vacant home and said that a $2,000 down payment in BTC was all that was needed to give a family a new place to live, but things weren’t as simple as they seemed… How Bitcoin Scams Are Taking on New Form In the crypto space, traders and buyers often go by...

MicroStrategy has established itself as one of bitcoin’s biggest fans in recent months. MicroStrategy Buys a Lot More Bitcoin The company was one of the first institutional players to come out publicly and support the world’s primary digital currency by market cap through a purchase of more than $250 million worth of the asset last August. Things didn’t quite stop there, however, as the company felt this wasn’t enough and engaged in another buy of the cryptocurrency just...

It’s not like we didn’t know that Square – the financial payment firm owned and operated by Jack Dorsey of Twitter fame – was a bitcoin fan. Dorsey himself has been advocating for bitcoin for the past several years, even going so far as to claim in 2018 that it would be the world’s only currency within ten years. In addition, Square was one of the first institutions to pledge support for the world’s number one digital currency back in October of last year when it...

It’s certainly been a crazy week for bitcoin. The currency – which was trading for about $56,000 per unit during the early portion of the week – later fell to about $47,000, thereby losing roughly $9,000 from its price. Since then, it has spiked back to $49,000 at the time of writing, gaining $2,000. However, it still isn’t anywhere near where it was previously, and data suggests that many investors and traders as of late have been selling their coins for a profit and...

Elon Musk has worked so hard to push bitcoin and to purchase the asset that it’s ultimately tied itself to Tesla shares, according to stock and crypto analyst Daniel Ives of Wedbush fame. Daniel Ives: BTC and Tesla Are Practically One and the Same In a recent interview, Ives says that when Tesla goes up, bitcoin will follow suit and vice versa. Tesla can also expect to see action whenever bitcoin makes a move. Not too long ago, the company purchased as much as $1.5...

Bitcoin and Ethereum prices have tanked. BTC, for example – the world’s number one cryptocurrency by market cap – has dropped into the high $47,000 range. This is a $9,000 drop in about two days, as recently, the asset was trading for about $56,000 per unit. Despite this, Michael Saylor – the CEO of MicroStrategy – remains confident that things are going to turn out well for the currency. So well, in fact, that he thinks it will one day have a $100 trillion market cap....

Bitcoin has been doing extremely well for the past nine months. The currency really came to fruition during the initial time of the coronavirus pandemic, and it has been on a serious roll ever since, recently striking a new high of roughly $56,000 per unit. However, despite all the glitz and glam the currency has been attaining, financial giant JPMorgan believes that it’s fintech and not bitcoin or crypto that has garnered true recognition during the time of COVID....