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United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) – a leading mortgage provider in the USA – has decided to stop allowing its customers to settle payments in cryptocurrencies, citing “regulatory uncertainty” in the industry as a reason. Change of Heart In August, the Michigan-based wholesale lender – United Wholesale Mortgage – announced that clients could pay for home loans in Bitcoin and thus became the first major US mortgage lender to adopt digital assets as a payment method. Later on, it...

Several months after initially outlining plans to become a publicly-traded firm, Bakkt has announced that the event will take place on Monday – October 18th. Thus, Bakkt will join the likes of Coinbase as a cryptocurrency-related company having its shares traded on giant stock exchanges. CryptoPotato reported at the start of this year Bakkt’s intentions to go public through a merger with VPC Impact Acquisitions Holdings. The two parties indeed merged shortly after clearing...

North Vancouver, part of the Canadian district of British Columbia, is on a path to become the first city that employs bitcoin mining for heating residential and commercial buildings. The initiative should be available from 2022 after a partnership between the cryptocurrency miner – MintGreen – and the Lonsdale Energy Corporation (LEC). BTC Mining as an Alternative Heating Option Bitcoin mining’s impact on the environment has been causing significant controversy recently,...

Jurrien Timmer – Fidelity’s Director of Global Macro – believes bitcoin will trade at $100,000 by 2023. Regarding its correlation with gold, he said both assets are “different players in the same team.” The Road to $100K Bitcoin’s price has been, and most probably will remain, one of the hottest topics in the cryptocurrency space. Future predictions are also frequently discussed, and the end of 2021 is the next time target, which many proponents and analysts see bitcoin...

The latest developments in the US claiming that a Bitcoin ETF might be just around the corner pushed the cryptocurrency to $63,000 hours ago. Most altcoins have failed to follow their leader north, and the BTC dominance reached a near three-month high. Bitcoin Came $2K Away from ATH On October 13th – just three days ago – the primary digital asset had dipped below $55,000 after getting rejected at the $58,000 level. The situation quickly changed in the following days, and BTC...

The professional NBA team – the Sacramento Kings – and the blockchain company that offers cloud computing services – Ankr – shook hands on a multi-year collaboration. Throughout the engagement, the two entities will produce educational content about the cryptocurrency space and blockchain technology. The Kings’ New Crypto Endeavor The National Basketball Association announced the news on its website. Apart from educating sports fans about the merits of the digital asset...

Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter and Square, has more plans in the works for building out the Bitcoin network. Dorsey just announced that Square – the financial services company – is considering creating a Bitcoin mining system to decentralize mining worldwide. Decentralizing Mining for People and Business The Twitter CEO confirmed his plans in a thread on Twitter earlier today, explaining how his system will work and why it’s necessary. His ideal system would use “custom...

It appears that years after the first Bitcoin ETF proposal was filed, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has decided to greenlight a futures-backed exchange-traded fund for the first time. ProShares, the company which filed for its Bitcoin Strategy ETF, might be the very first one to see it launch next week. It filed an amended prospectus which indicates that it could go live as soon as Monday. It’s worth noting that this is not a standard ETF but a...

As the global interest in cryptocurrencies continues to gain momentum, Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC), Australia’s fifth-largest pension funds manager with A$92.4 billion ($69bn) of assets under management (AUM), has disclosed that it may delve into such investments in the future. Stuart Simmons, QIC’s head of currencies, told the Financial Times in an interview today. Regulatory Uncertainty Scares Australian “Super” Based on the massive growth of the crypto market...

The United States Commodity and Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has ordered Tether and Bitfinex to pay fines worth $42.5 million. In a release from today, October 15th, Tether Holdings Limited, Tether Limited, Tether Operations Limited, and Tether International Limited – all companies associated with the issuer of the largest stablecoin USDT, Tether, were ordered to pay a fine worth $41 million. This was issued by the CFTC on the grounds of “misleading statements and...