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BlockFi has raised $30 million from a group of investors, including Morgan Creek Digital, Winklevoss Capital, Arrington XRP Capital and others.New York-based cryptocurrency-lending firm BlockFi has bagged up to $30 million from a host of investors during its Series B funding. The list of them includes Winklevoss Capital, Arrington XRP Capital, and Morgan Creek Digital among others. The company aims to use the funds it received to enhance its staff and expand its offerings, reports revealed on...

While some experts are rather bullish about the performance of Ripple’s XRP in 2020, Mike Novogratz believes that the coin will underperform again this year.XRP’s underperformance in 2020 is likely. It is the world’s third-largest cryptocurrency by capitalization. But by this moment, it has failed to meet expectations. Many in the crypto space are even wondering if the cryptocurrency token deserves mention. The past few years have been harsh for XRP price. Some experts are laying blame on...

Short-sellers are burning their hands on Tesla as the electric car maker released its strong Q4 2019 numbers last week. In less than a week, the Tesla stock has added over $200 to its price making it the first American automobile company to hit $100-billion valuations.On Monday, February 3rd, the Tesla stock surged 20% to $780 levels taking the company’s valuations at $140 billion. Indeed, with this move, Tesla has taken Wall Street and global investors by surprise. Monday’s stock price gain...

Blockchain firm Bakkt stole the show at the sideline of the World Economic Forum (WEF) held in Davos Switzerland by announcing the launch of its new consumer application that would look very much like a fintech app such as PayPal offers. Moreover, it will support all forms of digital assets, in addition to cryptocurrencies.Bakkt, the physically-settled Bitcoin Futures exchange created by the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), is changing the way and manner in which crypto assets are perceived...

After a fairly good ending to 2019, Bitcoin has been on a good start in 2020. Since the start of 2020, the Bitcoin price has surged nearly 20% reaching closer to over $8,500 levels. At press time, Bitcoin is trading for a price of $8,534 with a market cap of $154 billion.However, this has got many analysts and Bitcoin enthusiasts talking about future predictions. This has always been the case for Bitcoin which has been the darling of crypto investors over the last few years. A Twitter handle...

Recently, the crypto community has been observing the rapid growth of Bitcoin prices. Besides, gold is also enjoying a price increase. As Galaxy Digital CEO and founder Mike Novogratz believes, this good performance is a result of the U.S.-Iranian conflict. At the very beginning of 2020, the U.S.-Iranian conflict escalated. As a result, fears of a new war raised. The current political uncertainty has led to Bitcoin surging by more than five percent several hours after the U.S. airstrike...

Novogratz is a fan of making Twitter predictions. This time, he thinks that Donald Trump will lose the Presidential elections. His competitor, according to Novogratz, will have 10 million votes more. One of the subscribers made a bet that this will not happen, placing 1 ETH and Novogratz accepted the deal.However, when it comes to Tom Hanks, Novogratz thinks that no other actors can dive into the Process as precisely as he can. Regarding “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood”, he thinks that...

The Bakkt Bitcoin futures exchange, owned by the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), has just appointed a new chief executive officer (CEO). According to an official press release, the company’s former Chief Product Officer Mike Blandina, has now been promoted to the role of CEO. Blandina already assumed the position on Friday, Dec 20.The appointment of a new CEO was necessary because the company’s founding CEO Kelly Loeffler had to leave the position after her appointment to the United States...

Die Investmentbank von Michael Novogratz bietet seit dem 19. November zwei neue Bitcoin-Fonds an: Galaxy Bitcoin Fund sowie Galaxy Institutional Bitcoin Fund. Galaxy Digital Holdings Ltd. hat bekannt gegeben, dass ihr verbundenes Unternehmen namens Galaxy Digital Capital Management LP („GDCM“) zum 30. November 2019 vorläufige verwaltete Vermögenswerte (assets under management/AUM) in Höhe von 360,7 Millionen USD meldet. Im November 2019...

Premier cryptocurrency lending service BlockFi has introduced a new feature. It is trading at no fees for Bitcoin, Ethereum and the stablecoin GUSD. The startup has been known to allow users access to returns on their cryptocurrency holdings by offering loans to borrowers against users’ cryptocurrency holdings and then passing across the returns in terms of interest on the loans while securing the crypto assets that were used as security for the loans.  While this model is known to have been...