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Visa, a global financial services company and credit card giant, has partnered with Circle Internet Financial, a leading crypto fintech startup, to integrate the latter’s stablecoin.Visa Taps USDC for Digital PaymentsAccording to Forbes, on Dec. 2, Visa will be adopting Circle’s USD Coin (USDC) into its credit card platforms. The collaboration between both companies would see the use of the stablecoin to send and receive payments.Although Visa will not be a custodian to the USDC, Circle will...

The Australian cryptocurrency exchange, BTC Markets, has inadvertently exposed more than 270,000 emails of its customers. The company apologized for the inconvenience and reassured that all other data, including users’ funds, is safe.BTC Markets Exposes Customers’ EmailsA user going by the Twitter handle Stevosxrp.crypto took it to Jack Dorsey’s social media giant and Reddit to first complain about BTC Markets’ screw up. The Australian-based exchange later confirmed the breach on its official...

The US-based cryptocurrency lending company BlockFi has partnered with the American multinational financial services corporation Visa to bring Bitcoin to the masses.Bloomberg reported that the two US companies will offer a credit card that rewards clients’ purchases with the primary cryptocurrency, instead of traditional options such as cash and airline miles.Dubbed the Bitcoin Rewards Credit Card, it will allow customers to receive 1.5% of their purchases back in BTC. Should the user spend...

While bitcoin remains rangebound between $18,000 and the new all-time high, calls for BTC prices making ‘moonshot’ moves in 2021 have already started coming in.Amongst scores of such predictions, on-chain analysis pioneer Willy Woo opines that a $200,000 bitcoin price is ‘conservative’ and that the top cryptocurrency stands to fly to $300,000 by the end of the next year.$300K Per BTC ‘Not Out Of The Question’Even though BTC logged a new high, the top cryptocurrency’s price hasn’t managed to...

The last quarter of 2020 has been extremely bullish for Bitcoin, with an increase of 70%. In particular, November saw the highest monthly close after BTC broke the all-time highs on several exchanges.While the primary cryptocurrency has enjoyed the last few months, gold’s performance has contrasted significantly. The precious metal has lost over 6% of value since October 1st.The two assets displayed a high correlation earlier this year. However, the latest price developments have breached...

The well-known Bitcoin permabear and gold bug Peter Schiff has once again taken a swing at the primary cryptocurrency.His comments followed a volatile market that saw almost $300 million in liquidations in less than an hour and more than $800 million in less than a day.Peter Schiff Bashes BitcoinThe well-known economist and strong gold proponent, Peter Schiff, has once again taken the opportunity to swing at Bitcoin.He said that there was no new money coming in, but instead, it was old money...

Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, the founders of the large US-based cryptocurrency exchange Gemini, foresee even more significant BTC price developments this decade. While appearing on CNBC, the twins predicted that Bitcoin will become the best-performing asset with a 25x appreciation in the next nine years.Back-to-Back Best Performing Asset Of The Decade?As CryptoPotato reported at the end of 2019, Bitcoin became the 2010s best-performing asset with a significant ROI of 8,900,000%. Although...

The hype around Ethereum 2.0’s launch is pretty hot at the moment. It can be seen from the enormous amount of ETH staked in the upcoming proof-of-stake network’s deposit contract. Data shows a balance that is upwards of 853,000 Ether (worth more than $500 million) in the Ethereum 2.0 deposit contract.ETH Worth $500 Million+ Deposited In The Ethereum 2.0 Deposit ContractEthereum blockchain activity tracking website etherscan.io has been keeping a record of all Ethereum 2.0 developments since...

The long wait is finally over. After three years of grinding through various price levels, Bitcoin finally broke the all-time high value it had set all the way back in 2017.Bitcoin ATH: An Exciting Journey Since 2017Following three long years of waiting, bitcoin has just managed to surpass its previous all-time high set in December 2017 ($19,660 on Bitstamp).Those three years were filled with everything imaginable. Bitcoin went through a prolonged bear market in 2018, which saw many experts...

Guggenheim Partners is among the largest investment and advisory financial services companies. The Wall Street giant filed a document with the US Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) to enable one of its funds, dubbed the Macro Opportunities Fund, to allocate millions of dollars in bitcoin.According to the filing, the Fund plans to spend 10% of its net assets on bitcoin through the leading cryptocurrency manager – Grayscale.“The Guggenheim Macro Opportunities Fund may seek investment exposure...