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The $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill in the U.S. Congress is currently on pause until Sept 27th or later. Meanwhile, House Democrats want to spend $3.5 trillion. After $6 trillion in Covid appropriations in 2020. Here’s why that’s a favorable macro environment for crypto. The fate of the relationship between the U.S. and cryptocurrency is wrapped up in the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure appropriations bill. The resolution of a contentious tax rule inserted as...

Palantir says it’s preparing for a black swan event with its massive gold purchase this month. Bloomberg reports the company also accepts bitcoin and gold as payment, but no one has paid in either. The Peter Thiel cloud computing company is also interested in accumulating bitcoin, Per a recently report: “The company spent $50.7 million this month on gold, part of an unusual investment strategy that also includes startups, blank-check companies, and possibly Bitcoin. Palantir...

Though the Justice Department declined to comment for the article, Bloomberg was able to report last week that the DOJ is investigating U.S. banks and the backers of popular stablecoin USDT. There is some ongoing speculation about how this might affect bitcoin’s price. What’s Supposedly Going on With Tether and the DOJ? The Justice Department is reportedly seeking to determine the extent of U.S. banks’ knowledge of Tether Limited’s business and the prolific use of its...

The past week was quite the rollercoaster in the cryptocurrency market – both in terms of price and sentiment. And by sentiment, I mean the community’s affection to one of the most influential, popular, and rich people on the planet. Of course, I’m talking about Tesla’s CEO – Elon Musk. Before I go in details with my opinion as to why I believe Bitcoin doesn’t need him (or anyone else of his kin, for that matter) and if it does – it means it failed, I’m going to give a short...

Bitcoin plunged. It lost somewhere around $13k, or 25% in the past couple of days. It’s not alone. The entire crypto market is bleeding.Data from CoinMarketCap shows that the capitalization lost around $365 billion since Sunday. For reference, last year, on this date, the total market cap of all cryptocurrencies was $283 billion. There’s no sugarcoating it – the crash is substantial, and it might not be over yet.Cryptocurrency Market Cap. Source: CoinMarketCapBut what led to it? Well, there’s...

For the first time in a decade, central banks around the world are selling off their bullion stocks. Economists have opined that this is a direct result of the coronavirus pandemic led fiscal stress. If the trend continues, gold prices are in for some serious freefall rides. The question is, will central banks start stockpiling on bitcoin now? Central Banks Dumping Gold For First Time in 10 Years In a surprising report published by Bloomberg, central banks for the first time...

Craig Wright, the man who claims to be Bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto, says Bitcoin is not and was never intended to be, censorship-resistant.According to Wright, who wrote in a blog post from July 10 titled What is Censorship Resistance, the common assumption that Bitcoin holders are protected from economic censorship is nothing but a myth.And the scary thing is, Wright might be right.Craig Wright: No Censorship Resistance on BitcoinWright’s latest blog post drew analogies between Bitcoin...

Minneapolis Federal Reserve President Neel Kashkari wrote Thursday that banks should cancel dividends and sell shares to raise cash. Kashkari said these measures would be necessary to create a cash buffer going into a potentially drawn-out recession. Because should the banks fail to have enough cash on hand, a wave of defaults could trigger a financial crisis. Kashkari wrote: “The most patriotic thing they could do today would be to stop paying dividends and raise equity capital, to ensure...

While the US stock market saw its steepest one-day sell-off since Black Monday in 1987, Bitcoin saw its steepest one-day sell-off in its ten-year history, just a few days before.But don’t worry, that was institutional money running from everything Thursday. Of course, it ran from the risky cryptocurrency industry. Don’t forget that institutional investors getting into Bitcoin was a massive driver of its price growth over 2019. So Bitcoin just lost a bunch of people who don’t believe in it–...

On the same day that Wall Street took its hardest plunge since the 1987 Black Monday crash, Bitcoin’s price cratered from a touch under $8,000 per 1 bitcoin to the $3,700 handle within 24 hours. This is calling into question the entire thesis of Bitcoin as an uncorrelated asset.Here’s why it shouldn’t.Bitcoin Market Cap Is Too Small to CorrelateWhile Bitcoin has an impressive market cap for “fake Internet nerd money,” it is too small to possibly be correlated with markets.People don’t seem to...