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A few months after launching Bitcoin custodial services in the US, the nation’s oldest bank, BNY Mellon, has doubled-down on its interest and involvement with the first-ever cryptocurrency. It has published a report attempting to determine bitcoin’s value by comparing BTC with gold and referring to the popular stock-to-flow model.BNY Mellow Evaluates BTCIt wasn’t that long ago that giant banks steered clear from the entire cryptocurrency industry while only making brief and rare comments...

After a calm and stable weekend, Bitcoin starts the new week following exciting news about Visa accepting payments in USDC.Over the past week, BTC recorded its lowest price in 2.5 weeks. This happened on Thursday.However, Bitcoin showed strength, finding support on top of the 50-day moving average line (marked pink as can be seen on the following chart) and maintaining this critical support area (around $51k) on a daily timeframe.Over the following days, the strong momentum continued as...

Visa is to become the first large payments network to use a stablecoin as a settlement currency. By partnering with the popular cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com, the San Francisco-headquartered giant will offer a crypto settlement system for fiat transactions based on the Ethereum blockchain. According to the announcement from earlier today, Visa has joined forces with Crypto.com to bring its first-ever non-fiat settlement program.  The company’s standard settlement process requires parties...

Earlier in March, he called bitcoin “nonsense” and criticized its energy consumption levels. A few weeks later, the Norwegian billionaire, Øystein Stray Spetalen, said he was wrong about the first-ever cryptocurrency and even bought some for himself.Early March: Bitcoin is NonsenseThe 58-year-old Spetalen is the founder of SD Standard Drilling Plc and Standard Drilling ASA. He’s a well-renowned investor and trader who began his trading career in 9th grade.During a DNB Invest conference in...

Two suspects have been accused of stealing almost $500,000 from unsuspecting victims in fraudulent bitcoin transactions in Hong Kong.Fake It Till You Steal ItAccording to a report by the South China Morning Post on Tuesday (Mar. 23, 2021), the victims, aged 33 and 31, were deceived by two con artists in a fake bitcoin transaction. The cons who posed as bitcoin sellers managed to steal HK$3.85 million ($495,650) from the victims.The victims, who work at a money exchange company, went to a shop...

The past seven days were quite the roller coaster in the cryptocurrency market, which, fortunately, ended well.The total market capitalization is currently more or less at the same level as where it was one week ago, despite having lost almost $100 million on Thursday when Bitcoin’s price collapsed to $50K.With this said, we take a look at the top 5 cryptocurrencies to keep a close watch over the next few weeks.Bitcoin (BTC)It goes without saying that, for the most part, wherever Bitcoin...

KiwiSaver Growth Strategy recently invested 5% of its money into Bitcoin, according to his Chief Investment Officer, James Grigor.While several investors from KiwiSaver were not happy with the decision, Grigor believes Bitcoin has become a commodity, similar to gold, and has many features similar to it such as working as a store of value against fiat hyperinflation. “If you are happy to invest in gold, you can’t really discount bitcoin,” he said for Stuff, a New Zealand news agency. The Fund...

Leading crypto fintech startup Circle Internet Financial has announced the launch of a payment solution for the non-fungible tokens (NFTs) market. It will enable investors and content creators to make payments using credit cards and cryptocurrencies.Promoting NFT AdoptionThe company stated in an announcement today that it hopes the initiative would get more investors onboarded into the NFT bandwagon. Jeremy Allaire, Circle co-founder, and CEO said the initiative is important for content...

Following another dip to $54,000, bitcoin has bounced off and has added over $2,000 of value. Some altcoins have registered even more impressive gains in the past 24 hours, led by Binance Coin’s 9% surge to $275.BTC Retakes $56KAfter the mid-week price slump when it dropped from over $57,000 to a three-week low of just above $50,000, bitcoin has been gradually increasing in value.Even the fears that the record $6 billion worth of options contracts that expired on Friday would insert enhanced...

After several years of investigation and court proceedings, the US District Court for the Southern District of New York granted a request by the CFTC to fine the mastermind behind a multi-million-dollar Bitcoin scam.According to an official press release issued by the CFTC. The Court ordered Benjamin Reynolds, owner of Control-Finance LTD, to pay more than $572 million in compensation for his fraudulent activities regarding a Bitcoin scam.Another Multi-Million Dollar Bitcoin Scam From 2017As...