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Anna Paglia – a top executive at Invesco – explained that her company withdrew its Bitcoin Futures ETF application because of the SEC’s rules. Separately, Bitwise Asset Management also pulled off its filing for a futures-based ETF, citing it is not an appropriate decision for the long-term. Invesco Gave Its Explanation Invesco – an American investment firm with over $1.5 trillion in assets under management – filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to launch two...

The Australian Finance Services Minister – Jane Hume – publically backed up digital assets by saying they are not just a temporary trend. Additionally, she opined that decentralized finance (DeFi) presents “incredible opportunities” for Australia. ‘We Need to Acknowledge This Is Not a Fad’ Jane Hume – an Australian minister and senator – fired back at Tony Richards (Head of Payment at the Reserve Bank of Australia), who recently described cryptocurrencies as “faddish.” On top...

Cynthia Lummis – Republican Senator for Wyoming – recently fired back at Hillary Clinton for deriding cryptocurrencies. She suggested that Bitcoin offers a hard money solution to the US dollar’s inflation problems. Lummis Tells Clinton to Embrace The Future Lummis’s comments follow the cautionary words of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton earlier this week. In a panel discussion at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum in Singapore, the latter suggested that...

Roughly around two days ago, bitcoin’s price dipped to an intraday low of $55,640 (on Bitstamp), causing moderate turmoil within the community and raising the question of how far the correction will go. As we reported back then, one of the key levels to consider is the zone between $58.3K and $53K as it contains very strong support in terms of both technical and on-chain indicators. Now, prominent Bitcoin analyst Daniel Joe noted on Twitter that the cryptocurrency dipped into...

Bitcoin continues its recovery attempts by touching $59,000, while most of the altcoins have remained stagnant since yesterday. Avalanche is once again the most significant gainer. AVAX charted a new all-time high (again) and is close to surpassing Dogecoin in terms of market cap. AVAX on a Roll Most altcoins plummeted in value in the past week or so and tried to bounce off yesterday. Ethereum, for example, went below $4,000 for the first time in over a month shortly after...

Just months after adopting BTC as legal tender, the small Central American country plans to create a Bitcoin City with the help of Blockstream and Bitfinex. Separately, the country said it will buy $500 million more of BTC. Bitcoin City in El Salvador The country made the news earlier this year by indicating that it will vote to accept the primary cryptocurrency as legal tender. Despite enhanced backlash from global organizations like the IMF, El Salvador’s authorities...

The Israeli pensioner Esther Freeman has reportedly turned an ILS 10,000 Bitcoin investment, worth roughly $3K at that time, into ILS 1,000,000 (~$324K) in eight years. However, Hapoalim Bank – one of the largest in the country – denied accepting the profits as the initial investment source might have had a connection to illegal financial operations. Cash Is The Problem In 2013 a 69-year old retired citizen of Israel, Esther Freeman, decided to enter the cryptocurrency market...

Following a few days of price nosedives, bitcoin finally bounced off and added more than $2,000 of value. Most altcoins are also well in the green, with Shiba Inu adding double-digit percentages and Avalanche registering a new ATH. Bitcoin Reclaims $58K The past several days didn’t go well for the primary cryptocurrency. Shortly after tapping $69,000 for its latest price peak, the asset headed straight down and lost $9,000 in days. This culminated in a drop to $60,000 on...

Despite the recent correction in which bitcoin lost roughly 20% of its value in a week, on-chain data suggests that the liquidity crisis could be increasing. In just three days, exchanges have seen more than 23,000 coins taken off, worth more than $1.3 billion. $1.3B In BTC Withdrawn From Exchanges in Three Days Citing data from the blockchain analytics company Glassnode, crypto analyst Ali Martinez outlined the recently enhanced bitcoin withdrawals from digital asset trading...

Following the recent decline in the cryptocurrency market, in which bitcoin has lost nearly 20% of its value since its all-time high, the general sentiment among investors has changed drastically. The Fear & Greed Index has gone into a state of “Fear” for the first time in nearly two months. Fear Is Back Again The popular Bitcoin Fear & Greed Index is a metric that follows several factors within the digital asset community to reveal the momentary sentiment towards the...