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The trustee responsible for handling the Mt. Gox hack and the victims’ claims has updated that the rehabilitation plan was approved by the majority of creditors. Consequently, the creditors could receive roughly $9 billion in BTC by the end of the year. Mt. Gox was once the biggest cryptocurrency exchange responsible for 70% of the transactions in bitcoin’s early days. That all changed after the notorious hack seven years ago when hackers duped 850,000 bitcoins, some of which...

The German-American billionaire entrepreneur – Peter Thiel – praised bitcoin’s recent surge to an all-time high price. According to him, this rise shows that the major financial institutions are struggling to cope with the current economic situation. Underinvested in Bitcoin Peter Thiel – Co-Founder of PayPal and Palantir Technologies – has been a long-standing cryptocurrency advocate, with bitcoin being his most preferable digital asset. In a recent appearance in Miami, he...

There’s been plenty of comaparisons of Bitcoin’s price action now and in April when the cryptocurrency reached its previous all-time high. Research firm IntoTheBlock now points out a staggering difference in Bitcoin’s transactional volume between the two periods. $700 Billion Weekly Transactional Volume According to the research firm, Bitcoin’s on-chain volume reached over $700 billion transacted, which presents an increase upwards of 7x compared to April. In addition, the...

Bitcoin managed to complete a daily close above the previous all-time high at $64.8K at $66K. This is an early bullish signal, but it’s not enough to fully confirm the breakout. For this to happen, we need to see multiple daily closes, as well as weekly ones above $64.8K. This would provide confirmation and further validation. In the near term, we can expect to see multiple retests of $64.8K as a support level. Chart by TradingViewNear-Term Caution for the BTC Price Even...

After yesterday’s new all-time high at $67,000, bitcoin corrected today with a steep decline to below $64,000. On some exchanges, though, the crash was significantly more violent as BTC dropped as low as $54,000 on Kraken and to four digits on Binance.US. October 20th was a historic day for the primary cryptocurrency as it finally skyrocketed above its previous all-time high and peaked at $67,000. It happened on the wings of the recently approved Bitcoin Futures ETF in the...

Global investment manager VanEck is set to launch a bitcoin futures exchange-traded fund (ETF) next week, shortly after ProShares got the SEC’s green light to launch the first BTC ETF. As per a Wednesday post-effective filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), VanEck revealed it had secured approval from the SEC, and it’s now fully authorized to launch its BTC fund next week, after October 23, Saturday. VanEck first applied for the BTC futures ETF in August....

Paul Tudor Jones – billionaire CEO of Tudor Investment Corporation – has reaffirmed his support for Bitcoin. He said that he has cryptocurrency included in his portfolio, and deemed it superior to gold as an inflation hedge. Jones Remains a Bitcoin Believer The hedge fund manager revealed his thoughts on CNBC’s Squawk Box earlier today. The interviewer referred to a previous episode from May of 2020 when Jones showed newfound support for the primary cryptocurrency. He started...

It’s been a wild few months for Bitcoin’s price. It went all the way up from around $65K in April, down to below $30K in July, and back to a new all-time high today – October 20th. Many are drawing comparisons between the market dynamics in April and now, and as BTC sits in price discovery, it’s worth looking at a few reasons for which things might be a lot more bullish currently compared to before. Retail FOMO Is Not Here First things first, one of the main catalysts of...

Digital Currency Group, the organization behind the world’s largest cryptocurrency asset manager, has decided to enhance its Bitcoin position by authorizing the acquisition of $1 billion more worth of shares of Grayscale’s Bitcoin Trust. The press release dated October 20th reads that Digital Currency Group has upped its authorization from $750 million to $1 billion. This means the company will more than triple its current position, which, as of October 19th, 2021, stands at...

Bitcoin has broken its former all-time high and is now officially looking at price discovery. This comes on the back of serious developments in the industry – just today, the first-ever SEC-approved futures-backed Bitcoin ETF started trading. The previous all-time high of Bitcoin’s price was set on April 14th, 2021 and it was at $64,895 trading on Bitstamp exchange – exactly 6 months and 6 days ago. As of writing these lines and shortly after breaking the ATH level, Bitcoin...