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The professional Baseball League club – Perth Heat – will reportedly pay all its players and staff in bitcoin. In addition, the Australian team might accept BTC as a payment method for merchandise, sponsorships, and ballpark concessions on game days. ‘The Heat’ to Fully Embrace Bitcoin A report by The Guardian reads that the cryptocurrency option will be available from Friday (November 19th) after a partnership with a digital asset payment company. The BTC settlements will...

Changpeng Zhao (CZ), the CEO of the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, has revealed that he has a personal stash of bitcoin in his investment portfolio. CZ Bought Bitcoin in 2014 Speaking in a recent interview with the Associated Press, CZ noted that although a significant percentage of his net worth is made up of his Binance Coin (BNB) holdings, he still has some BTC that he purchased a few years after Bitcoin’s launch. The Binance boss admitted that he had...

After a good run over the past several weeks, bitcoin’s rally came to a screeching halt, at least for now. Here’s where the whales come in. In fact, one particular whale is actually keen on raking in more and more coins as price takes another breather. Following the cryptocurrency’s fall below the psychological support level of $60,000, the third-largest Bitcoin whale fetched another 1,647 BTC on November 17th. The amount rounds up to approximately $98.8 million. In the last...

Mohamed El-Erian – Chief Economic Advisor at Allianz – classified bitcoin investors into three different categories – “fundamentalists, professional investors, and speculators.” He said he would become a BTC holder once again only if the third type disappears from the space. Will El-Erian Buy BTC Again? The President of Queens College and CEA at Allianz – Mohamed El-Erian – revealed in a recent interview when he would potentially buy bitcoin again. It’s worth noting that he...

The futures market experienced a moderate reset in the funding rate. The recent price volatility in the range between $58 and $69K has caused it to decline. However, similar to the price rally from the COVID crash in 2020, a rising macro trend in the funding rate becomes obvious. At the same time, the momentum of the open interest has also dropped through the last two weeks of volatile price movements. Chart by CryptoQuantThe market has the same structure that we saw in...

One of the largest Bitcoin mining companies in the States – Marathon Digital – plans to raise $500 million through the issuance of senior convertible notes. The firm wants to use the proceeds to buy bitcoin and BTC mining machines. Founded over a decade ago, Marathon Digital Holdings is among the largest publicly-traded BTC mining companies. The firm’s announcement from earlier on November 15th outlined its plans to “offer, subject to market and other conditions, $500,000,000...

Bloomberg recently found that investors are protecting themselves from fears of rising inflation by using Bitcoin. In a tweet, the company even called it “the best inflation hedge around” depending on how one looks at it. Bitcoin Beats Inflation After crunching the numbers, Bloomberg Opinion’s John Authers found that Bitcoin has achieved 99.996% deflation over the past 10 years. What cost one Bitcoin in 2011 now costs just 0.004% of a Bitcoin today. Meanwhile, the CPI has...

Since the major drop on Wednesday, the bitcoin price mostly traded around the same range of $64K. Today is the last day of the week; this means that on midnight UTC will see a weekly candle close. This candle close is critical for the next short-term. The bulls need to see BTC makes a weekly close above $64.8k for the first step in breakout confirmation. As shown on the following chart, the bullish Cup and Handle pattern breakout was completed, with a back-test of previous...

The Bitcoin network made history today as its most ambitious upgrade, Taproot, went live at block 709,632, 5:15 UTC on Sunday – November 14, 2021. Taproot Upgrade is Live The implementation is a milestone for Bitcoin, considering that Taproot is the first significant upgrade in the network since August 2017 after the Lightning Network and Segregated Witness (SegWit) upgrades. While SegWit and the Lightning Network focus on making transactions faster and cheaper, Taproot...

Following the past few days of enhanced volatility, bitcoin has calmed around $64,000. Most alternative coins have also remained untypically stagnant on a 24-hour scale, with the apparent exception of Avalanche, which went on a roll and registered a new ATH. Bitcoin’s Consolidation Rolls On Last week was going quite well for the primary cryptocurrency as it had recovered from its dip to $60,000 and went on to chart new records. It broke the October peak of $67,000 on Tuesday...