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Bitcoin has seen its harshest days recently. The world’s number one digital currency by market cap lost approximately 35 percent of its overall value and has dropped from the mid-$50,000 range, which is where it was in late April and early May, to about $36,000 per unit at press time. Many analysts and financial institutions are beginning to write the currency off as dead or dying, but according to two separate individuals, things are about to become much steadier....

Elon Musk – the South African entrepreneur behind billion-dollar companies such as Tesla and SpaceX – has taken more jabs at the bitcoin mining process. Elon Musk Isn’t Done Asking Mining Questions People were shocked last week when Tesla announced it would not be accepting bitcoin payments for goods and services despite claiming it would do so back in March. Sadly, this sent bitcoin into a huge downward spiral, and at the time of writing, the world’s biggest and most...

Over the past year, we have heard that bitcoin is a necessary ingredient of a successful portfolio. That so many hedge funds, wealth managers and other individuals and firms in charge of handling customers’ money are working hard to give them access to crypto, and that anywhere between one and three percent should be allocated to bitcoin. However, according to Societe Generale, this is not quite true. Societe Generale Thinks Gold Is Stronger Than BTC Whether these firms...

Bitcoin’s price has fallen once again following news from China. The Asian country says its regulatory authorities will begin cracking down on all mining and trading activities. China Seeks to Limit Trading and Mining The country has always had a rather up and down relationship with the world’s number one digital currency by market cap. At one point, there was more bitcoin activity occurring within China’s borders than any other region. China is also home to both Bitmain...

How could bitcoin have fallen so drastically in this time? Bitcoin Has Dropped Heavily Dr. Marion Laboure – an analyst at Deutsche Bank in London – said of BTC this week: Just as a fashion faux pas can happen suddenly, we just received the proof that digital currencies can also quickly become passe. It took bitcoin a mere three months to go from trendy to tacky. In many ways, it could probably be argued that it took even less time. The world’s largest and most popular...

It looks like millennials are beginning to lose their love for bitcoin. Millennials Are Looking at Altcoins More Than BTC Up until this point, it was widely believed that millennials were big crypto fans, and to an extent, they are. It is just that their tastes are “maturing” so to speak. They are beginning to shift away from the world’s largest and most popular digital currency by market cap and they are turning their attention to Dogecoin and other competing altcoins....

Billionaire investor David Rubenstein says that crypto has crossed a line into mainstream territory, and that the likelihood of digital assets disappearing at some point in the future is slim to none. David Rubenstein: Crypto Is Here to Stay Crypto has taken the world by storm over the past year. Bitcoin, for example, is the world’s largest and most popular digital asset by market cap. Trading for approximately $9,000 per unit last May, bitcoin ultimately incurred...

Mike Novogratz – a bitcoin bull, billionaire investor and former hedge fund manager – took some time to discuss the most recent bitcoin drop, saying that it was a “liquidation event.” Novogratz: Bitcoin Will Undergo a Serious Correction The currency – which was trading at $64,000 per unit just a month ago – had fallen into the mid-$40,000 range earlier in the week following news that Elon Musk was ending all bitcoin payments through Tesla and that he was potentially...

Cathie Wood of Ark Invest believes bitcoin will reach a price of $500,000. Cathie Wood: Bitcoin Still Has a Solid Future Her words come at a rather “inopportune” time considering the world’s largest and most popular cryptocurrency by market cap has fallen by roughly 33 percent at the time of writing. Once trading for a high of around $64,000, bitcoin has fallen into oblivion and is now trading for close to $30,000 less. However, Wood is confident that the currency will...

The price of bitcoin has taken another nasty dive, and this means the currency is trading in the $30,000 range. It has now fallen close to $30,000 per unit from its April high of nearly $64,000 and exchanges like Coinbase are experiencing huge technical problems as a result. Coinbase Is Having Some Problems The price of bitcoin has been on a downward spiral for the past several weeks, and Coinbase is ultimately at the center of this story. BTC rose to its new all-time...