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Well, we’ve all heard some rather crazy bitcoin price predictions throughout the year, but this one is likely to take the cake.Bitcoin Heading for the Stars? Who Knows?According to one source, the price of bitcoin is set to reach $16,000 by the time the month is over. It then asks the question, “Is this still possible?”As much as we’d like to believe that bitcoin has the strength to add roughly $7,000 to its price within a few short days, the likelihood of this happening within that time is...

Sir Richard Branson’s private space tourism company Virgin Galactic Inc. started its trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) via a direct listing at $12.10 on Monday under the ticker “SPCE”.The move comes after the Galactic merged with Chamath Palihapitiya’s venture Social Capital Hedosophia that gave the new company a combined valuation of $1.5 billion. Branson kept a 51% stake in the business.CEO George Whitesides said:“Virgin Galactic is making history again today as it becomes the...

Bakkt is currently looking to help its retail community to trade cryptocurrencies as seamlessly as possible. The platform has decided to do this with the launch of a consumer-focused app that will help these customers easily use this app for proper business interactions with several merchants, using digital assets. Starbucks that has already a history of cooperation with Bakkt will be the first merchant on the platform.According to an official Bakkt blog post, Chief Product Officer Mike...

Stocks in Chinese blockchain A-share companies “maxed out” to their 10% daily limit after a president Xi Jinping focused the attention of the public to the potential of the technology encouraging digital currencies, increasing the rise in related stocks and Bitcoin, which for the short time, though, went over $10,000.Xi said China should hurry up with its research into blockchain, the open ledger system that cryptocurrencies rely on. China’s central bank has been developing its own digital...

It seems that Tron (TRX) and EOS became China’s favorite children, at least if it’s to believe newly published CCID Crypto Ranking. The Chinese Ministry of Industry was always perplexing its selection of criteria, putting EOS up at the top based on its innovation.But let’s start with Tron. The Chinese blockchain platform that was previously under strict scrutiny from Beijing, got its satisfaction last week when Chinese President Xi Jinping gave a speech almost celebrating blockchain. China,...

Forget the rules about how casino bonuses have been for online gaming. Deposit bonuses and unrealistic, arbitrary wagering requirements got you down? How does getting hard cashback instantly on every bet you make sound like?Because that’s exactly what Bitcasino.io’s new Loyalty Program is going to do: reward every player instantly with real money on every play they make. Win or lose.As the world’s first licensed Bitcoin gaming platform, Bitcasino’s new Loyalty Club is set to disrupt the way...

For those old enough to remember the Great Recession that struck the global economy in 2008, we would like to avoid a situation like that again. The economic strife we all felt during those days was enough to put several companies out of business; cause many people to lose their pension plans and their 401Ks and be in debt for most of their lives.We Really Can’t Afford Another RecessionNow, a financial analyst is warning that the Great Recession – which inspired the creation of bitcoin 11...

Calls for the increased and improved use of blockchain technology are gradually making the rounds because while there are still a lot of places where the technology has been adopted quite considerably, there are still many others that have a lot of work to do. The use of blockchain technology is probably seen more in the financial sector and authorities and governments are gaining more interest.Recently, a call came from an official at the central bank of China, directed at commercial banking...

Recently Bakkt announced that they had set a new daily record. They traded 1,183 contracts, respectively. One contract equals one Bitcoin, which means that the total volume was around $11 million. Also, this aligned with the recent Bitcoin price surge of 40%. This set people running back to the exchanges to grab a piece of the pie.Also, China news was a big factor in the recent surge in volume and Bitcoin price. China recently announced that they officially will embrace blockchain technology....

While this may come as a surprise to many but the less known and less trendy Pinduoduo has overtaken the upscale internet retailer JD.com both in share price and valuation. The share price rose on NASDAQ more than 12% to $39.96 giving it a market capitalization of $46 billion ahead of JD’s $45 billion. This makes Pinduoduo the 4th largest internet Chinese company whose shares are listed in another country with Meituan at $65.572 billion, Tencent at $385 billion, Alibaba at $449 billion. This...