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Tesla and Elon Musk are earning some criticism after it was made clear recently that the South African entrepreneur may have sold some of the bitcoin that the company purchased back in February. Elon Musk Has Raked in Some Serious BTC-Based Dough Two months ago, the electric car firm made history by serving as one of the primary institutions to back bitcoin publicly. The company purchased more than $1.5 billion worth of the world’s number one digital currency by market...

Christian Angermayer is a 42-year-old German billionaire that seems to have become a big fan of cryptocurrencies. Angermayer Probably Has Money to Throw Around To be fair, he is a big fan of many things, claiming that he invests primarily in things that he has grown “curious” about. Perhaps when you have billions to throw around like that, you do not have to think much about where the money goes. You can potentially place it anywhere and just stand by and see what...

Is it possible to go from being a bitcoin lover to a bitcoin hater? For one German software developer, that is exactly what happened. Moritz Schmidt recently donated more than one million euros to Europe’s Green Party in the hope that they will become powerful enough to ban bitcoin and crypto mining in the future. Schmidt Suddenly Doesn’t Care for BTC Schmidt is a confusing figure in the sense that at one point, he made quite a bit of money earning and trading BTC. He...

Ripple co-creator Chris Larsen believes that unless bitcoin changes itself to be more environmentally friendly, all hope for the world’s largest and most popular digital currency is lost. Chris Larsen: BTC Needs to Change Modules Bitcoin has been taking a lot of guff in recent weeks given that its constant price increases have led to boosts in energy usage for crypto miners. The higher the price of bitcoin goes, the more expensive it becomes to mine and extract. Right...

Australians are beginning to take some serious interest in cryptocurrencies. Not only are they looking to trade the assets as much as they can; they are now looking to add crypto to their retirement accounts. Australians Love Their Crypto Australians are often frustrated by the lack of crypto regulation that exists in their country, and thus they are seeking ways to potentially gain access to these currencies without having to read all points of the fine print, so to...

Bitcoin and cryptocurrency have been all the rage as of late, but they are attracting a lot more than retailers and standard crypto investors. Wall Street is getting heavily intrigued by digital currency as well, and one man – Thomas Farley, the former president of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) – feels that the future of finance may very well have crypto serving at the forefront. Thomas Farley: I’m Excited By Crypto In a recent interview, Farley commented that...

Bitcoin cash price remained supported near $720 and started a fresh increase against the US Dollar. The price is now trading above the $850 support level and the 55 simple moving average (4-hours). There was a break above a key bearish trend line with resistance near $850 on the 4-hours chart of the BCH/USD pair (data feed from Coinbase). The pair is likely to accelerate higher above the $900 and $920 resistance levels in the near term. Bitcoin cash price is showing...

While bitcoin is sinking into oblivion as of late (the world’s number one digital currency by market cap fell from around $64,000 two weeks ago to roughly $49,000 at the time of writing), it looks like Dogecoin continues to spike like there is no tomorrow, and many of its investors are raking in some serious profits. One is Glauber Contessoto, who recently became a Dogecoin millionaire. Contessoto Made a Valid Investment Decision Contessoto first began investing in the...

With the recent bitcoin crash, analysts are wondering what the heck could have happened to make the world’s number one digital currency fall by roughly $15,000 from its all-time high two weeks ago. Bitcoin Has Taken a Deep Dive There was a time when bitcoin seemed invincible. Everyone likely thought that the currency was going to stay above a certain threshold for some time. Sadly, it was not meant to be, and the currency has dropped significantly. Many traders and...

Billionaire investor and former hedge fund manager Mike Novogratz has always been a big fan of bitcoin along with other forms of crypto. In a recent interview, he commented about what has made the world’s primary form of digital currency last so long, and he talked about what was potentially causing the asset to surge the way it has. Mike Novogratz: This Is Just a Small Correction At the time of writing, the price of bitcoin has fallen by more than $15,000 from its...