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While predicting that the future of payments lies with digital currencies, Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates highlighted a “neutral view” on bitcoin. Nevertheless, he suggested that the digital form of money would need to enable transaction reversals and complete visibility.I Don’t Own Any Bitcoin, Says GatesThe 65-year old US business magnate, author, and philanthropist seems slightly more optimistic on bitcoin now compared to a few years ago. During the year-long bear...

The private financial and investing advice company The Motley Fool has announced plans to allocate $5 million in Bitcoin.The Motley Fool Joins The BTC PartyThe Virginia, US-based company announced its intention to buy BTC in its Twitter account earlier. It reads that “we are buying $5 million in Bitcoin on our own balance sheet.”The Motley Fool also provided several reasons behind its decision. The firm believes that the cryptocurrency will “store value more effectively than gold over the...

Residents located in the canton of Zug, one of the 26 cantons in the European country, will be able to use Bitcoin and Ethereum to pay their cantonal taxes as of this week. This comes just months after the canton partnered with Bitcoin Suisse to enable the innovative initiative. CryptoPotato reported the partnership between the two parties in September 2020. At the time, Bitcoin Suisse, the crypto broker headquartered in the same canton, agreed to convert the BTC and ETH holdings to Swiss...

Despite warning investors of BTC’s notorious volatility, Anthony Scaramucci from SkyBridge Capital predicted a 100% price boost for the asset by the end of the year and entering a six-digit price territory. He argued that the demand for the asset has skyrocketed lately and admitted that his investment firm holds over $500 million in BTC.$100K By 2021’s End, Scaramucci SaysEver since the billion-dollar hedge fund SkyBridge Capital announced plans to launch a Bitcoin Fund in late 2020, the...

The world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock, is looking into Bitcoin. This was confirmed by the managing director of the company, Rick Rieder, today.Rick Rieder, the managing director of BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, confirmed that the company is looking into Bitcoin. “We’ve started to dabble a bit into it,” he said, refusing to put a target allocation the company has.In the interview with CNBC’s SquawkBox, Rieder did say that diversifying one’s portfolio in the current...

MicroStrategy has announced the pricing of its offering of $900 million aggregate principal amount of 0% convertible senior notes due 2027. As it happened the last time the company made such a move, it plans to allocate all funds into bitcoin after the offering closes on February 19th, 2021.CryptoPotato reported yesterday that the NASDAQ-listed business intelligence giant MicroStrategy said it would offer a $600 million convertible senior notes offering to qualified institutional investors....

Bitcoin price surged by a total of 5% over the past 24 hours, as the coin finally exceeds the $50,000 milestone.Just nine days ago, the primary cryptocurrency had broken above the January-2021 previous ATH at $42,000, on the day Tesla disclosed its $1.5 billion Bitcoin purchase.BTC then saw its largest-ever daily price candle, and encountered resistance at $48,570 (1.414 Fib Extension – green), struggling with it over the past few days till finally managing to close a daily candle above that...

Bitcoin and most alternative coins are not the only crypto-related gainers during the ongoing bull cycle. The price developments have pushed numerous industry companies to see stock increases, including Chinese mining firm SOS Limited, which also received an endorsement from Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary.SOS Limited Recent DevelopmentsWith a membership base of about 20 million in China, SOS is an “emerging blockchain-based and big data-driven marketing and solution provider,” which recently...

Bitcoin’s price continues to increase as the cryptocurrency expands above the $50,000 mark. At the same time, the precious metal that it’s most commonly compared to, gold, sits at an all-time low when valued against BTC.Gold Suffers Against BitcoinBitcoin is compared to many things, but most commonly, it’s pinned against gold as both assets make a strong case as a store of value.However, over the past year, there’s a clear winner among the two, as the Gold/Bitcoin ratio currently sits at an...

Bitcoin has done it again and painted yet another all-time high, this time above the $51,000 price tag. Most altcoins have fallen against their leader, and BTC has managed to increase its market dominance to above 62%.Bitcoin’s Latest ATH At Above $51KThe past several days have been quite turbulent for the primary cryptocurrency but ultimately positive. Just on Monday, bitcoin was nearing the coveted $50,000, but a sharp retracement drove it down to a low of $46,000.However, the bulls took...