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Bitcoin payments for passport services? You read that, right! In a first, a nearly 50-year-old U.S based passport and visa processing firm, Peninsula Visa, will now be accepting BTC for select passport services. Coinbase’s crypto payments arm, Coinbase Commerce, will be assisting the company in the same. Peninsula Visa Is Now Accepting Bitcoin For Passport Services In an official press release, Peninsula Visa announced its plan to integrate bitcoin payments for selected...

Bitcoin marches confidently towards new yearly highs while most alternative coins have failed in pursuit. Consequently, BTC’s dominance over the market has climbed above 65%. Red Dominates The Altcoins On a 24-hour scale, most alternative coins have either decreased in value or remained stagnant. Ethereum initiated a leg up towards $470, but the bears didn’t allow any further increases. In fact, they drove ETH’s price south, and the second-largest cryptocurrency struggles at...

The giant online payment processor announced yesterday that all “eligible PayPal account holders in the US can now buy, hold, and sell cryptocurrency directly with PayPal.” The update of the original statement reads that users can interact with digital assets from their PayPal application or through their desktop accounts. The cryptocurrency community remains split in its opinion-whether this is actually good for Bitcoin in the long run.  From one side, people believe that...

The popular Bitcoin derivatives exchange BitMEX has taken a step towards improving its trade surveillance and AML efficiency endeavors by collaborating with Eventus Systems. Founded in 2013, Eventus is a global provider of multi-asset trade surveillance and market risk solutions.  BitMEX will integrate the cloud-based version of the Eventus Validus platform with its already existing processes in the upcoming weeks. As a result, the exchange will “be able to more efficiently...

The US-based venture capital firm Social Capital will launch a new program enabling investors from all backgrounds to employ the company’s resources to generate “outsized returns on an initial capital base of millions of dollars.” SC’s founder and CEO, Chamath Palihapitiya, announced the new venture called Emerging Managers on Twitter. He highlighted several issues new investors could face when starting. Those include establishing a capital base without a track record,...

Brad Garlinghouse believes that bitcoin holding companies will soon be affected by new policies from the Biden-led administration. Bitcoin Will be Subject to Climate Change Management Policies According to a tweet on Monday (November 9, 2020), Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has envisaged that Bitcoin holding companies might come under scrutiny once the Biden admin begins to carry out its climate change management policies. Ripple’s head said firms that are hodlers of the...

Bitcoin continues its positive price development as it just managed to take yet another coveted milestone – the $16,000 mark. With this most recent increase, bitcoin’s price has increased by as much as 325% from the lows that it encountered back in March 2020 as the COVID19 pandemic was announced. It’s worth noting that this is another yearly high. It’s also interesting to see how high can Bitcoin go during its current bull run. At the time of this writing, we are only 25%...

Over a month after being hacked and drained for nearly $300 million worth of various cryptocurrencies, the popular exchange KuCoin has recovered 84% of all funds. The company’s CEO also indicated that they will resume full service for all tokens by November 22nd. KuCoin Recovers 84% Of All Stolen Funds As CryptoPotato reported in late September, the cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin experienced a “security incident,” which resulted in the loss of millions of dollars worth of...

One of China’s biggest banks is selling $3 billion worth of bonds to investors. The offering allows clients to make purchases with cash and Bitcoin.  Raising $3 billion From A Bonds Sale China Construction Bank Corp. aims to raise up to $3 billion from a planned sale of bonds. As per a recent news report, the offering is a mutual partnership with Hong Kong-based fintech company Fusang. The project will focus on both individuals and institutions, which can trade in and out of...

Kraken released it’s August Bitcoin Volatility Report 2 months ago. Then the cryptocurrency exchange sounded supremely confident about BTC registering higher highs as the year ends. In its October version of the same report, Kraken has maintained its bullish stance. November will see bitcoin log much higher price and volatility rallies. Also, BTC might as well be on the way to reclaiming the previous all-time high of $20,000. Bitcoin Price And Volatility To Climb In November...