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The number of cryptocurrency-related crimes in the United Kingdom has significantly surged in the first nine months of 2021 comparing to last year, reads a recent report. The local police warned that bad actors often use a fake celebrity endorsement to lure people in. Youngsters Are The Most in Danger According to a recent Bloomberg coverage, there have been 7,118 reports of schemes related to digital assets in the UK between January and October this year. Victims parted out...

Bitcoin’s price is up a considerable 100% since the lows below $30K a few months back, but one analyst believes that the true “bubble” hasn’t even started yet. According to CryptoQuant analyst who goes by the Twitter handle venturefoundEr, we have yet to see the real BTC bubble. He argues that “bubbles form when the momentum of short-term returns attracts enough money that the makeup of investors shifts from mostly long-term to mostly shor-term.” At the time of this writing,...

For the first time in history, we saw Bitcoin closing a weekly candle above $60K. This happened on the back of reports that the first futures-backed BTC ETF would be officially listed, pending no further interference by the SEC. It’s also important to note that the open interest, the funding rates, as well as the estimated leverage ratio all went up in the interim. This signals that it’s necessary to be cautious, especially given the possibility for the Bitcoin ETF...

United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) – a leading mortgage provider in the USA – has decided to stop allowing its customers to settle payments in cryptocurrencies, citing “regulatory uncertainty” in the industry as a reason. Change of Heart In August, the Michigan-based wholesale lender – United Wholesale Mortgage – announced that clients could pay for home loans in Bitcoin and thus became the first major US mortgage lender to adopt digital assets as a payment method. Later on, it...

BTC has been showing strength lately, driven by anticipation of the futures-backed ETF and potential launch early next week. It closed at $61.6k with more than double the daily average volume on Coinbase, showing strong spot buying. Possible Correction for BTC? Although near-term price action has been very bullish with a strong breakout above $52.9k in the last 2 weeks, we need to approach the BTC ETF launch with caution. The risk of a near-term pullback is increasing because...

North Vancouver, part of the Canadian district of British Columbia, is on a path to become the first city that employs bitcoin mining for heating residential and commercial buildings. The initiative should be available from 2022 after a partnership between the cryptocurrency miner – MintGreen – and the Lonsdale Energy Corporation (LEC). BTC Mining as an Alternative Heating Option Bitcoin mining’s impact on the environment has been causing significant controversy recently,...

Jurrien Timmer – Fidelity’s Director of Global Macro – believes bitcoin will trade at $100,000 by 2023. Regarding its correlation with gold, he said both assets are “different players in the same team.” The Road to $100K Bitcoin’s price has been, and most probably will remain, one of the hottest topics in the cryptocurrency space. Future predictions are also frequently discussed, and the end of 2021 is the next time target, which many proponents and analysts see bitcoin...

The latest developments in the US claiming that a Bitcoin ETF might be just around the corner pushed the cryptocurrency to $63,000 hours ago. Most altcoins have failed to follow their leader north, and the BTC dominance reached a near three-month high. Bitcoin Came $2K Away from ATH On October 13th – just three days ago – the primary digital asset had dipped below $55,000 after getting rejected at the $58,000 level. The situation quickly changed in the following days, and BTC...

Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter and Square, has more plans in the works for building out the Bitcoin network. Dorsey just announced that Square – the financial services company – is considering creating a Bitcoin mining system to decentralize mining worldwide. Decentralizing Mining for People and Business The Twitter CEO confirmed his plans in a thread on Twitter earlier today, explaining how his system will work and why it’s necessary. His ideal system would use “custom...

It appears that years after the first Bitcoin ETF proposal was filed, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has decided to greenlight a futures-backed exchange-traded fund for the first time. ProShares, the company which filed for its Bitcoin Strategy ETF, might be the very first one to see it launch next week. It filed an amended prospectus which indicates that it could go live as soon as Monday. It’s worth noting that this is not a standard ETF but a...