Open interest in Bitcoin futures has surged to new record highs ahead of Coinbase’s April 14 direct listing on the Nasdaq. Crypto market data aggregator Glassode states that Bitcoin open interest has exceeded $27 billion for the first time as Bitcoin pushed into new record highs above $63,000. The milestone […]
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce compares banning bitcoin to shutting down the internet, stating that governments would be foolish to try. She also offers some insights into whether the SEC will approve a bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) this year. Governments Would Be Foolish to Try to Ban Bitcoin U.S. Securities and […]
There’s less than 24 hours standing in between now and the time San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is listed publicly for the first time. The shot heard ’round Wall Street has caused exchange tokens in particular to surge. One of the biggest benefactors has been competitor platform utility token, Binance […]
With the biggest gains in the crypto top 10 by market cap, XRP trades at $1.88 recording a 35.9% rally over the past day. In the weekly and monthly chart, XRP is up 107% and 307% respectively. Operator Altstreet Bets has shared the chart below to indicate XRP’s price could […]
Former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Acting Director Michael Morell wrote a report titled “An Analysis of Bitcoin’s Use in Illicit Finance”. The ex-government employee had over 33 years working at the Agency. Published by the Crypto Council for Innovation, Morell’s investigation attempts to disprove a thesis defended by many authorities […]
Africa remains the home to a large proportion of the world’s population that is unbanked according to a 2017 World Bank Global Index survey. Many of those who are unbanked cite their lack of official identification particulars as one of the main reasons for their predicament. Cryptos Narrowing Financial Exclusion […]
Financial giant JPMorgan recently stated in a new report that the world’s number one digital currency by market cap – bitcoin – could potentially reach a price of around $130,000 by the time the year is out. JPMorgan Is Predicting Big Things for BTC In the document, JPMorgan writes the following: Considering […]
Shares of MicroStrategy (MSTR) surged to one-month highs on Tuesday, as Bitcoin’s (BTC) gravitational pull on crypto proxy stocks continued to strengthen following another record-breaking rally for the digital asset. Shares of the business intelligence firm touched an intraday high of $770 on the New York Stock Exchange, representing a […]
Plasm Network and Secret Network, two projects based on Polkadot and Cosmos, respectively, have launched the first iteration of a bridge to connect the two ecosystems, each representing a different “layer-0” protocol. The bridge, deployed on Tuesday on Plasm’s testnet, allows users to transfer assets between Plasm Network and Secret, […]
ConsenSys, the blockchain company developing enterprise software on Ethereum, has raised $65 million in funding from mainstream financial giants like JPMorgan, Mastercard, and UBS. Other blockchain-focused venture capitals, including Alameda Research, Protocol Labs, the Maker Foundation, and a few others, also took part in the massive investment round. Tuesday’s announcement […]
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