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The global payments giant Visa has approved the issuance of a physical debit card that will allow Australians to spend their bitcoins at local stores and leisure venues. The inovation will enable customers to make direct purchases with crypto instead of converting digital assets to fiat money. First BTC Spending Card in Australia According to the Australian Financial Review report, Aussies will soon be able to spend cryptocurrencies via a new debit card created by the local...

BTC started the week with a 7% pullback, a jump in BTC Bitfinex Shorts, and uncertainty over Grayscale’s GBTC unlock. On-chain analysis detected Net Exchange Inflows and increasing Bitfinex Shorts before BTC started its latest price dump, as can be seen on the following charts: BitFinex shorts accumulating before the recent BTC crash Netflows of BTC. Daily chart by CryptoQuantHowever, the good news for the bulls is that there are signs of large investors stepping in and...

Cryptocurrencies took center stage in 2021 as the market went through a massive bull run where the price for bitcoin skyrocketed to an all-time high of $65,000 in mid-April, and many other cryptocurrencies followed suit. This attracted a lot of attention even from institutional players and large, publicly-listed companies. The elephant in the room is obviously Tesla. Elon Musk’s electric car maker announced that it had bought $1.5 billion worth of BTC back in January and even...

A few weeks after the initial filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Capital Group’s allocation in MicroStrategy has become official. The giant financial firm with over $2 trillion in AUM has bought nearly 1,000,000 shares in the business intelligence company holding more than 100,000 bitcoins on its balance sheet. The financial services company based in Los Angeles, California, filed with the SEC in late June but Walter Burkley, the Senior Vice President at...

The world’s largest digital asset manager, Grayscale Investments, has partnered with America’s oldest bank BNY Mellon. As a result, the banking giant will provide the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust with fund accounting and administration starting later this year. The announcement from Grayscale states that as of October 1st, 2021, BNY Mellon will become an official partner with several services oriented towards the company’s largest fund. Namely, the oldest US bank will “provide the...

The Co-Chief Investment Officer at SkyBridge Capital believes that Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) would be the leading assets in terms of a store of value. Furthermore, he opined that the primary cryptocurrency would become the main financial instrument for transaction use. Bitcoin and Ethereum as Store of Value Assets Despite the ongoing crypto market downturn, SkyBridge Capital’s CIO – Troy Gayeski – praised Bitcoin as an asset class and highlighted its benefits. In a...

BTC is down by a minor 1.5% today as it struggles to maintain support area amid $33K. It is trading within a narrow range between $36,000 and $32,000 during the first half of July, and all signs point to an upcoming huge move. The volume for July has remained painfully low, especially during the last two weekends, which saw the two lowest volume days. This, combined with the drawn-out consolidation period, has many traders waiting for a huge move ahead, which would dictate...

With bitcoin’s price correcting in the past few months, the usage of the network has also declined substantially. The estimated daily USD transaction value on the blockchain, the number of transactions, the on-chain activity, and miners’ revenue have all dropped since their respective peaks earlier this year. Transaction Count and USD Value Drop According to data from Blockchain.com, the daily confirmed transactions on the world’s largest blockchain have seen a massive...

CryptoPotato had the opportunity to host a discussion with Lennix Lai – the Financial Markets Director at OKEx. Established in 2017, OKEx is one of the leading cryptocurrency exchanges in the world by means of trading volume and is also a big player in China. We took the opportunity to discuss, first hand, what’s currently going on in the market from both a retail and institutional perspective, as well as what’s actually happening in China. $60K Bitcoin In...

Hive Blockchain Technologies Ltd, the cryptocurrency mining firm that went public in 2017, has purchased more than 3,000 mining devices. The machines, MicroBT WhatsMiner M30S, should increase the firm’s overall Bitcoin hash rate by nearly 50%. HIVE Buys 3,019 Miners The company announced its latest purchase in a press release on July 12th. The equipment will be put to work shortly with an aggregate hash power of 264 Petahash per second, which should increase the overall BTC...