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After El Salvador announced plans to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender, an official from Paraguay’s government has hinted at a similar development. The country’s Deputy of the Nation, Carlos Antonio Rejala Helman, suggested that the government will start working on a big project involving the largest cryptocurrency and PayPal. Is Paraguay Next in Line? The cryptocurrency community argued for years that struggling countries from less fortunate parts of the world, such as South...

Approximately five months after allocating 2.5% of its portfolio in BTC, Ruffer Investment has sold its entire position at a profit of over $1 billion. The firm cited the declining interest from younger generations as the primary reason for the sale. CryptoPotato reported in late 2020 that the giant asset manager founded in 1994 in the UK had entered the bitcoin field by investing 2.5% of its portfolio. Although some initial reports indicated that the percentage represented...

ShapeShift CEO Erik Voorhees is no shy when it comes to expressing his opinion about politics, finance or Bitcoin maximalism —no matter popular or unpopular they might be. During an intervention at the Bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami, Voorhees criticized an earlier panelist’s comment praising toxic Bitcoin maximalism, saying that such thinking was, erm, wrong – to put it in more civilized terms. Bitcoin Maximalism: A Bug or a Feature? Just minutes before Erik Voorhees took...

Although the weekend started on a positive note for bitcoin, it continued with price slumps, and the asset plunged by about $3,000 in hours. The altcoins are also deep in red, with ETH dumping below $2,700 and BNB beneath $400 – the market cap lost another sizeable chunk of value in a day. Bitcoin Struggles at $36K The workweek was actually going well for the primary cryptocurrency as it was gaining traction and even jumped to a six-day high of $39,500. However, the inability...

El Salvador’s president revealed at the ongoing Bitcoin 2021 Conference in Miami that he plans to make bitcoin a legal tender in his country. Speaking at the Bitcoin 2021 event, Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, said he is planning to introduce a law that will make bitcoin a legal form of money in the country. According to a  video broadcast at the conference today, Bukele said he would send the bill to Congress next week. If the bill pushes through, El Salvador...

Kais Mohammad – a resident of Orange County – will spend the next 24 months in federal prison for operating an illegal BTC ATM service. The US officials said that the man processed up to $25 million with some of it on behalf of criminal suspects. Behind Bars In 2020 Kais Mohammad, also known as ”Superman29”, pleaded guilty to the charges against him of operating unauthorized money transmitting business, money laundering, and failing to maintain an effective anti-money...

The Hungarian capital will immortalize the anonymous creator of Bitcoin by building a bronze statue of him. The designers of the project plan to put a hoodie on his head to represent his anonymity. A Statue of His Honor The secret identity of Bitcoin’s creator – with the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto – remains one of the biggest mysteries in the crypto community. Even though no one knows his (or her) real name, sculptors from the Hungarian capital Budapest decided to erect a...

During the ongoing 2021 Bitcoin conference, Tony Hawk revealed that he purchased bitcoin first in 2012 after watching how it works on the Silk Road. He added that he had kept most of his holdings aside from donating some BTC to charity organizations. While comparing his first passion skateboarding and his current affection for bitcoin, Hawk noted that the cryptocurrency industry has skyrocketed in popularity much faster. He said, “Bitcoin has taken over a whole city,” while...

Jan Tore Sanner – the Minister of Finance in Norway – opined that Bitcoin will see better days if it manages to solve its volatility issues. However, he advised investors to stay away from the current crypto market due to enhanced uncertainty. Breakthrough for BTC Contrary to the mostly negative comments coming from policymakers about Bitcoin’s merits, Norway’s Finance Minister – Jan Tore Sanner – surmised that the asset could overcome its instability and achieve a...

The latest substantial market crash has turned bitcoin into a “discounted and refreshed” asset, argued researchers from Bloomberg. In their most recent paper, they reasoned that BTC might stay in a range between $30,000 and $40,000 for a while, but its ultimate trajectory by the end of the year is towards $100,000. DIscounted and Refreshed Bitcoin Bitcoin’s price went through a roller-coaster since its all-time high in mid-April at $65,000. The freefall began in May, perhaps...