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Bitcoin rewards company Lolli is getting some attention and money from a lot of big people. The firm recently completed a $5 million pre-Series A funding round that garnered cash from the likes of Serena Williams and her husband. Lolli Just Keeps Getting Bigger Alex Adelman is the co-founder and CEO of Lolli. In a recent interview, he stated that his reasoning behind the firm’s creation was that he wanted to reinvent how people earn rewards for their daily shopping. His...

Mark Yusko – the founder and chief executive officer of Morgan Creek Capital Management – feels that bitcoin has become large enough and strong enough in recent days that it can no longer be ignored by investors or companies. Mark Yusko: We Can’t Ignore Bitcoin In a recent interview, he comments: We really believe that we’ll look back five years from now and it will be deemed fiduciarily imprudent to have zero exposure to digital assets. As it stands, many companies –...

It sounds like everyone is learning from Coinbase. The popular cryptocurrency exchange in San Francisco, California, announced last year that it was getting ready to go public. The trading platform will begin trading on the Nasdaq next week on April 14, and now it looks like Kraken is going to follow suit. Kraken Is Heading Down the Coinbase Road Kraken is another large cryptocurrency exchange. Also stationed in northern California, it is a direct competitor to Coinbase, though it claims it...

Coinbase is all set to be traded on the Nasdaq beginning on April 14, and while the time for average Joes and Janes to invest in one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges has finally come, it appears many high-ranking financial players had an opportunity to invest in the digital platform during its early days. Sadly, some – such as Chamath Palihapitiya – did not take advantage of the circumstances when they were available. Coinbase Is the Envy of the Crypto...

Not too long ago, billionaire investor and owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team Mark Cuban commented that he owned quite a bit of bitcoin, but that his crypto portfolio also contained a healthy portion of Ethereum. While his initial sentiment was that Ethereum was considerably closer to a currency that bitcoin was, new ideas have been expressed, and Cuban allegedly seems to think that the future of the crypto space will rely heavily on ETH-based developments....

Coinme – a bitcoin kiosk company operating in the United States – has just installed approximately 300 separate bitcoin cash machines throughout the region of Florida, thereby allowing people to trade bitcoin for cash and vice versa and potentially boost further purchases with cryptocurrency. Coinme Is Building a Crypto Kiosk Community The company is hoping to start out small. Most of the kiosks have been stationed in grocery outlets and similar establishments. This,...

EOS started a fresh surge above the $5.500 and $6.000 resistance levels against the US Dollar. The price is currently trading well above the $5.500 support and the 55 simple moving average (4-hours). There was a break below a major bullish trend line with support near $6.380 on the 4-hours chart of the EOS/USD pair (data feed from Coinbase). The pair could start a fresh increase, but the bulls might struggle above the $6.400 resistance zone. EOS price is still trading in...

Litecoin price topped near the $245 level and corrected lower against the US Dollar. LTC price is now trading well above the $200 level and the 55 simple moving average (4-hours). There is a major bullish trend line forming with support near $212 on the 4-hours chart of the LTC/USD pair (data feed from Coinbase). The pair is likely to continue higher as long as there is no daily close below the $205 zone. Litecoin price is showing positive signs above $212 against the US...

A new report suggests that bitcoin mining operations are likely to exceed the energy requirements of more than 180 countries by the year 2024. Bitcoin Mining Is Needing Too Much Electricity As of late, bitcoin mining has been taking a lot of guff from environmentalists and people who just are not that crazy about the cryptocurrency world. They claim the process of mining bitcoin leaves a harmful mark on the environment – one that is not likely to disappear anytime soon,...

Todd Rosenbluth – head of ETF and mutual fund research at CFRA Research – mentioned in a recent interview that he thinks a bitcoin or crypto-based exchange-traded fund will appear in the United States within the next year or two. Rosenbluth Still Thinks It’ll Be a While Before We See a BTC ETF in the U.S. Rosenbluth comments: We’ve got a number of firms that have either gone through the filing process or have previously filed but are waiting for more clarity. The SEC is...