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Grupo Elektra – a company headquartered in Mexico – has announced that it will begin accepting bitcoin as a form of payment. Users can now make purchases with the world’s number one digital currency by market cap, bringing the asset closer to its initial goal. Grupo Elektra Is Willing to Take a Chance on BTC The news is big in that bitcoin and many other forms of crypto were initially designed to serve as payment methods. They were built to push things like checks,...

Billionaire investor Ray Dalio says he’s uber impressed with bitcoin given it has been around for so long. The currency was first introduced in 2008 through a whitepaper and was mined for the first time in early 2009. Who would have known that a simple asset would become one of the most powerful financial tools in the world just a dozen years later? Ray Dalio: Bitcoin Has Come a Long Way In some recent interviews, Dalio said the following about bitcoin and its respective...

Michael Saylor – the CEO of software giant MicroStrategy – has commented that bitcoin doesn’t need help from people like Warren Buffett to really be successful. Warren Buffett On Bitcoin… It Ain’t Good In the past, Buffett – the CEO of real estate company Berkshire Hathaway – has been rather dismissive of bitcoin, comparing it to a button on his shirt and even calling it “rat poison squared” at one point. No doubt the man has a serious hate for the world’s number one...

Stellar lumen price is attempting a recovery from the $0.2500 zone against the US Dollar. XLM price is now trading above $0.2650 and the 55 simple moving average (4-hours). There was a break above a key bearish trend line with resistance near $0.2600 on the 4-hours chart (data feed via Kraken). The pair could start a steady upward move if there is a clear break above $0.2800. Stellar lumen price is trading in a bearish zone below $0.2800 against the US Dollar, similar to...

Ripple price started a fresh increase from the $0.78 support zone against the US dollar. The price is now trading above $0.90 and the 55 simple moving average (4-hours). There was a break above a major bearish trend line with resistance near $0.8290 on the 4-hours chart of the XRP/USD pair (data source from Bittrex). The pair could continue to move up if there is a clear break above the $0.920 resistance. Ripple price is gaining pace above $0.900 against the US Dollar,...

American banking and investment firm Lion Tree has stated that it is looking into accepting crypto as a means of payment in the future. Lion Tree Says It’s Looking into BTC Payments The whole idea behind bitcoin and its many crypto counterparts was that they would eventually be used as spending tools. They would ultimately outdo the abilities of credit cards, fiat currencies, and checks to serve as the means of buying goods and services for everyday needs. However, this...

2021 was the year of bitcoin. There’s no doubt about that, but now that 2022 is coming into the mix, many analysts think this is the time for other assets and blockchain systems to step up and take over. Bitcoin Was Big, but It May Have Reached Its Peak Bitcoin was big over these last 12 months. Between the new bitcoin-based exchange-traded fund (ETF) from Pro Shares and the all-time highs it managed to reach, bitcoin exploded beyond what anyone thought was imaginable....

Jefferies has issued a new report claiming that crypto has given birth to a whole new generation of luxury spenders in the United States. Crypto May Be Limiting the Wealth Gap in the U.S. The wealth gap has never been more noticeable in America. The difference between rich and poor has been quite evident over the past ten or 12 years, but now it looks like things are taking on an even larger form. With inflation at an all-time high and problems in the supply chain,...

Bitcoin IRA – a retirement company that allows investors to add crypto like bitcoin and Ethereum to their 401K portfolios – has completed a survey that suggests one in three people believe bitcoin is going to hit the six-figure mark in 2022. Bitcoin IRA and Its Customers Suggest Bit BTC Money in 2022 Bitcoin has come a long way in the 12 years it’s been around. Starting out as a simple whitepaper topic, bitcoin was first mined in January 2009, and the subject of digital...

With the holidays right around the corner, many people are in the mood to receive and give gifts, and several millennials are now looking to crypto and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) to get the job done. Millennials Think NFTs Make the Perfect Gift Many millennials have flocked to crypto in recent years given that they have lost what little trust they had of the standard financial services industry. Many grew up during the time of the Great Recession and have come to believe...