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Victory Capital Holdings has outlined plans to enter the cryptocurrency market through its wholly-owned investment adviser, Victory Capital Management. To do so, the branch has partnered with Nasdaq and crypto-focused asset manager Hashdex. Founded in 2013, Victory Capital Holdings is a US-based asset manager with nearly $160 billion in AUM as of April 30th, 2021. According to a press release shared on June 9th, the firm’s investment adviser, Victory Capital Management, has...

One of the world’s leading brokerage companies, Interactive Brokers, will be offering cryptocurrency trading services to its clients by the end of summer 2021. According to a recent report by CNBC, Interactive Brokers will start allowing its customers to trade cryptocurrencies by the end of summer 2021. Speaking on the matter was the Chairman and the CEO of the company, Thomas Peterffy, who said: Customers certainly are asking for cryptocurrency trading and we expect to be...

Bitcoin’s price is nearing a critical level as the 50-day moving average is close to the 200-day moving average. The so-called death cross typically results in significant price volatility, with history suggesting two possible outcomes. Scenario 1: Bitcoin Goes Down Hard Ever since BTC peaked in mid-April at $65,000, the cryptocurrency has failed to continue or even maintain its run. Just the opposite, the asset has lost roughly 50% of its value in less than two months. By...

An anonymous buyer paid the record-breaking $22.5 million in digital assets to acquire a deluxe penthouse in Miami Beach. The deal became the most expensive known residential transaction paid with crypto. The Pearl of Arte Surfside Sold for Crypto In a recent press release, Forbes announced that an individual purchased an exclusive oceanfront condo located in the Surfside neighborhood in Miami for the colossal sum of $22.5 million. The buyer used cryptocurrencies to obtain...

American billionaire hedge fund manager Marc Lasry said he should have bought “a lot more” Bitcoin (BTC) a few years ago. During a CNBC’s Squawk Box interview, Lasry commented on BTC’s performance and 2020’s bull run. He regrets not buying more as the price surge happened a lot quicker than he thought —mainly due to institutional investors embracing cryptocurrencies and widespread adoption by governments and other corporations. “I think the probability, as more and more...

Last week, Polkadot’s canary network, Kusama (KSM), conducted an on-chain upgrade on its parachain after a vote was passed, making it the first live and fully functional parachain of the Kusama network processing permissionless transactions. The upgrade also made the project the first fully decentralized, heterogeneously-sharded blockchain.   Kusama is a permissionless network that allows developers to experiment and test dApps and blockchains before deploying them on...

With the latest price fluctuations with BTC’s price, it’s worth reviewing how different investors are interacting with their holdings. From one side, centralized exchanges saw the largest daily withdrawal in the year, but, on the other, Bitcoin-related products saw the most significant outflows worth $141 million. Largest BTC Withdrawals This Year By outlining data from Glassnode, Lex Moskovski, the Chief Investment Officer at Moskovski Capital, showed the recent spike in...

The United States Department of Justice said that it recovered over $2 million worth of bitcoin, which was the majority of the ransom paid by the U.S. oil pipeline giant Colonial Pipeline to cybercriminal group DarkSide. DoJ Recovers 63.7 BTC The DoJ made the announcement in a press release on Monday (June 7, 2021). According to it, the department retrieved 63.7 bitcoins, worth $2.1 million, at the time. The operation was undertaken by the Ransomware and Digital Extortion...

After a few days of sideways trading, bitcoin fell hard by losing almost $5,000 of value in less than a day. The rest of the market followed suit as Ethereum slumped by $400 to an eight-day low. Bitcoin Dumped to Lowest Level Since May 24th The past few weeks have been somewhat unusual for the primary cryptocurrency. During the previous weekend, BTC dumped beneath $33,500, but it used the workweek to regain all losses. It failed at breaching $40,000, dropped by a few thousand...

In a fresh attack on crypto-related activities in the country, the Chinese government banned social media accounts belonging to popular cryptocurrency proponents over the weekend. Reuters reported today that the attack was mainly aimed at crypto enthusiasts who have massive followers on the popular Chinese social media platform, Weibo.  Judgement Day Per the report, users who tried to check for fresh updates from these Weibo crypto influencers were greeted with a message...