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Bitcoin has had its worst year to date, and Warren Buffett – the billionaire investor and CEO behind real estate giant Berkshire Hathaway – is laughing in all our faces right about now. Warren Buffett Really Hates Bitcoin Buffett has never supported bitcoin. In fact, he’s said some rather negative things about it. Discussing crypto assets in 2018, he said: They will come to a very bad ending. He also made it clear that he had no intention of owning any form of crypto, stating in early...

The partnership between SEBA Bank and Hashkey Group is forged to restore trust and allay fears from investors across the board.Swiss digital currency bank SEBA Bank has inked a strategic partnership with Hashkey Group to float new products and services that will drive institutional adoption of cryptocurrencies. As announced, both firms have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to solidify the partnership with a drafted approach to maintain regulatory requirements in the jurisdictions...

For Tim Draper, Bitcoin has a lot of fundamentals that are capable of powering its growth over time.Billionaire investor and Bitcoin (BTC) bull Tim Draper has made a $250,000 price call for the premier digital currency, maintaining his stance on how bright the future of the cryptocurrency is. Draper previously predicted that the price of Bitcoin will top the said amount by the end of this year, however, at the current level of $17,300, the coin is almost 1,400% away from that projected price...

Pakistan is intensifying efforts to launch its CBDC and has issued a timeframe within which it’ll achieve its aim.Pakistan might be the latest in a long list of countries looking to harness the potential of using central bank-issued digital currencies (CBDC). This follows after it announced new regulations in hopes that they will ensure a successful CBDC launch by 2025.Pakistan Approves New EMI Laws, Eyes CBDC LaunchAs part of its efforts in this regard, the first aspect that Pakistan is...

Bandesal – a traditional bank in the nation of El Salvador – is refusing to discuss with reporters how the country is spending its bitcoin funds. It will not provide any data regarding how the country is maintaining its bitcoin purchases, nor will it say where the money is going or how it’s being stored, claiming that data is “confidential.” Bandesal in El Salvador Is Staying Quiet The Anti-Corruption Legal Advisory Center (ALAC) is condemning the bank and El Salvador for not being...

Last Saturday alone, 255,000 Reddit Collectible Avatars were minted making it the highest single-day mints on the platform since launch.Over the last weekend, the social media platform Reddit hit a new milestone with the minting of collectible avatars on the platform. Last Saturday, December 3, Reddit witnessed a new all-time high in the number of Collectible Avatars minted in a single day.Since Reddit launched the collection earlier this year, more than 4.4 million collectible avatars have...

Alameda consulted troubled entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried before investing in Genesis Digital.A new report has surfaced about a capital injection of over $1.15 billion that was carried out by Sam Bankman-Fried‘s Alameda Research. This was prior to the time that crypto prices began heading for the rocks. According to the report, the capital, which is Alameda Research’s biggest venture investment to date, was put into Bitcoin mining firm Genesis Digital Assets. Although, according to another...

Amongst other things, GK8 will help solidify GalaxyOne, the bigger company’s trading platform.Cryptocurrency financial services firm, Galaxy Digital Holdings Ltd (TSE: GLXY) has been selected as the winning bidder for Celsius Network’s owned custody outfit, GK8. As announced by the company, the acquisition is a part of the divestment agenda of the bankrupt crypto lender and it is subject to regulatory approval.GK8 provides a secure institutional digital asset self-custody platform that...

While China is seemingly encouraging the ownership of NFTs, NFT prices have been down in the wake of a wider market rout.A Chinese court in Hangzhou city has applied its property law to nonfungible token (NFT) collections. The court ruled that NFTs are like online virtual property and should be protected under Chinese law.While noting Chinese laws are not clear on the features of NFTs, the court moved to establish its legal attributes. According to the case report, “NFTs have the object...

In his latest “Apology Tour” in which he appeared at the New York Times Dealbook Summit, SBF portrayed himself as a victim rather than a mastermind of all that happened at the trading platform.Since FTX Derivatives Exchange went bankrupt, there have been a lot of permutations as to whether the funds misappropriated by Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) were used as donations to politicians. In a recent Twitter conversation, Will Manidis, CEO of ScienceIO, a healthcare data platform, said that SBF made...