Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Larry Fink, the CEO of Blackrock, the world’s largest asset manager, says he has become “a big believer” in bitcoin, emphasizing that it is “bigger than any government.” Calling the cryptocurrency “digital gold,” the executive stressed: “Unlike gold,...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
U.S. Representative Tom Emmer expects former U.S. President Donald Trump to become “a lot more” friendly toward cryptocurrency if he returns to the White House. Trump has launched three non-fungible token (NFT) collections since...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Blackrock’s spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) has acquired 11,439 bitcoin, with a market value of nearly $500 million, within two days of trading on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Blackrock’s Ishares Bitcoin Trust was among the 11 spo...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon has requested that the judge in his fraud case delay the trial date, currently set for Jan. 29, 2024, because Kwon is still tied up in extradition proceedings in Montenegro. Terra’s Do Kwon Requests Trial Postp...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Statistical data reveals that Binance and Coinbase, two titans in the cryptocurrency exchange arena, cumulatively possess 11.85% of the $1.68 trillion digital currency economy. In addition, these prominent trading platforms control 7.83% of the total...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
In the last week, the non-fungible token (NFT) market experienced unremarkable sales, totaling $311.31 million. This figure represents a slight uptick of just 0.05% from the previous week. Despite this, Bitcoin NFT sales have consistently outperforme...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Although spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds saw substantial trading activity on Thursday and Friday, publicly-listed crypto companies faced a different fate, with several equities experiencing significant losses when the market closed on Friday. For...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Last week, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) greenlit the debut of 11 diverse spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs), which, in their initial two days on the market, experienced a substantial $7.65 billion in trading volume. Concur...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
The NEAR Foundation recently said it has let go of 35 workers as part of a realignment exercise that sees it “focus on a narrower and higher-impact set of activities.” The foundation’s CEO insisted that the job cuts did not in any w...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
The leading crypto exchange Coinbase has said it will expand access to its products to 20 African countries. Coinbase also claimed that its partnership arrangement with the Africa-focused crypto exchange Yellow Card can help increase financial freedo...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Starkware faces a leadership transition as CEO Uri Kolodny resigns over pressing family health issues. While stepping down, Kolodny leaves the company in the hands of co-founder and friend Eli Ben-Sasson. Starkware Sees CEO Change as Uri Kolodny Resi...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
According to local sources, one of the first state-backed cryptocurrency assets, the Venezuelan Petro, would be facing an imminent liquidation. Asonacrip, a national cryptocurrency association, reported having information about the upcoming liquidati...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
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Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Commissioner Hester Peirce has slammed her agency for the delay in approving spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs). “Our arbitrary and capricious treatment of applications in this area will cont...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Several investment firms, including Vanguard, reportedly block customers from trading spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs). “Our perspective is that these products do not align with our offer focused on asset classes such as equities, bond...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Recent blockchain analytics reveal that 4,000 bitcoins, valued at approximately $175 million, have been transferred from addresses believed to be controlled by Grayscale’s Bitcoin Trust, commonly referred to as GBTC. Records indicate that thes...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood has doubled down on her bullish bitcoin forecasts, now seeing a higher probability of the price of bitcoin soaring to $1.5 million per coin. She emphasized that the approval of spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) by t...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren has slammed the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for approving spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs). She stressed that the securities regulator is “wrong on the law and wrong on the policy with re...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Amidst escalating transaction fees, Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin has suggested a substantial gas limit increase, potentially boosting network capacity and reducing user expenses. Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin Advocates for Higher Gas Li...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Isabel Schnabel, member of the European Central Bank (ECB) executive board, has blasted bitcoin’s characteristics, stressing that it is a speculative asset unlike central bank digital currencies (CBDC) like the proposed digital euro. Schnabel s...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
On Friday, Coinshares International Limited, announced that the firm has acquired Valkyrie Funds LLC, the U.S.-based digital asset manager. The Saint Helier company said the decision comes after a direct result of Valkyrie’s spot bitcoin exchange-tra...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
In three days, the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting will convene on Jan. 15-19, and much of the world’s elite will be in Davos for the event. Before the meeting, the WEF published the 19th annual edition of the Global Risks Report, which hig...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
According to the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS), Genesis Global Trading has agreed to a settlement fine of $8 million and will forfeit its New York state Bitlicense as part of the agreement over compliance failures. Adrienne Ha...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
In November 2023, six unique AI-driven chatbots were queried to forecast the value of bitcoin by year-end, with their projections spanning from $15,000 to $45,000 per bitcoin. As of the initial week of January 2024, bitcoin’s trading value rea...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
The legal battle between the SEC and Ripple Labs continues, with the SEC seeking court intervention to obtain Ripple’s financial statements and data on institutional XRP sales. SEC’s Legal Pursuit of Ripple Continues With Request t...
