Mercado Libre – the leading fintech and e-commerce company in Argentina – has joined other large corporations in holding BTC on its balance sheet. The institution revealed it purchased $7.8M worth of the cryptocurrency. Another Company to Buy BTC Purchasing the primary cryptocurrency and adding it to their balance sheets seems like a growing trend for many of the world’s largest companies lately. As revealed earlier this year, the electric vehicle giant Tesla, the payment...
Read More »Bitcoin Has No Existential Threats, Says Michael Saylor
The CEO of MicroStrategy – Michael Saylor – outlined that the leading digital asset Bitcoin has no existential threats. According to him, the cryptocurrency will dominate the 21st century as a store of value. The Future For BTC Michael Saylor expressed his opinion about the primary cryptocurrency Bitcoin on a YouTube interview for Kitco News today (May 6th). He gave a very optimistic forecast regarding the future of the digital asset, saying that it does not face any...
Read More »Bitcoin Price Ready for Another Leg up According to On-Chain Metrics: Analyst
Bitcoin investors have withdrawn considerable quantities of their holdings from crypto exchanges, suggests on-chain data provided by CryptoQuant. The firm believes there’s a potential price uptick in the making as sell pressure has declined. BTC Investors Withdraw Their Tokens As with every tradeable asset, bitcoin’s price is formulated based on supply and demand. In bitcoin’s world, the amount of available supply on exchanges could impact the asset’s value as investors...
Read More »NYDIG: Bitcoin is Coming to Hundreds of American Banks This Year
Crypto custody firm New York Digital Investment Group said that soon US banks would have the opportunity to buy, hold and sell BTC through their existing accounts. NYDIG also added that it would launch other services such as benefits paid in the cryptocurrency and a new type of bank account, which gives dividends in BTC. Another Step Towards BTC Adoption According to a CNBC report, customers of some banks in the USA will soon have the chance to operate with the first-ever...
Read More »New ATH: Binance Futures Processed Over $2 Trillion Trading Volume in April
April turned out to be a record-breaking month for several cryptocurrencies, but also for the world’s leading digital asset exchange – Binance. The company reported its highest futures trading volume ever of more than $2 trillion. Binance Futures Trading Volume Over $2T The Malta-based crypto exchange giant published its April results yesterday, highlighting the record-breaking numbers in terms of trading volume for its futures platform. The statement said Binance Futures...
Read More »Bitcoin, Stocks Crash After Janet Yellen’s Statements of a Possible Rise in US Interest Rates
A brief panic episode following a statement by Janet Yellen caused the markets to close the day with red candles all over the place. In a videoconference with The Atlantic, Janet Yellen, the U.S. Treasury Secretary, signaled that Joe Biden’s administration may be aiming to raise interest rates as a way to save the economy after the imbalance caused by measures to combat the Coronavirus pandemic. A *Not So* Good Idea When asked about what actions would be on the table to...
Read More »$2 Billion Liquidated in Hours as Bitcoin Price Tumbles to $53,500 and Market Cap Loses $100B
There are no boring days in the cryptocurrency market. In a couple of hourly candles, the entire market turned red and lost over $100 billion of its capitalization. The total liquidations in the past 24 hours are worth almost $2 billion, according to data from Bybt. The largest single liquidation order happened on Huobi. It was an ETH position with a dollar value of a whopping $74.5 million. A little less than 196K traders were liquidated. Leading the way in the past hour is...
Read More »Bitcoin Price Analysis: BTC Struggles at a Critical Support Level
Today, bitcoin dropped by a sharp 4.8% and reached as low as $54,650. However, the cryptocurrency is back trading at around $56,000 as it found solid support at the 20-day MA which allowed it to rebound. A quick recap: Bitcoin’s price decreased to as low as $47,000 (.5 Fib) over the past two weeks but it has since recovered a lot of the losses. As can be seen on the short-term charts, BTC was trading inside an ascending price channel over the week as it reached the February...
Read More »The Reason for Ethereum’s Recent Rally to ATH According to Changpeng Zhao
The head of Binance, Changpeng Zhao, recently gave his comments on the two largest cryptocurrencies – BTC and ETH. According to him, people nowadays need alternative coins for the new type of transactions, which may drive the price of ether up. CZ also predicted that many central bank digital currencies would be very different than public coins. Ethereum’s Rally As Ethereum’s price continues to be the hottest topic in the past couple of days within the entire cryptocurrency...
Read More »S&P DJI Releases Bitcoin and Ethereum Indexes
S&P Dow Jones Indices has launched three new cryptocurrency indices. The S&P Bitcoin Index, S&P Ethereum Index, and S&P Crypto Mega Cap Index (a combination of Bitcoin and Ethereum) will allow retail traders to easily gain exposure to these two behemoth cryptocurrencies. A Long-Awaited Move People have been waiting for a traditional finance product that tracks cryptocurrency prices for a long time. S&P announced last year that a cryptocurrency index would...
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