Banking executive says JPMorgan has been active in blockchain for a while. Contrary to public perception, JPMorgan Chase has always been pro-blockchain, says the multinational investment bank’s head of wholesale payments, Takis Georgakopoulos. In a live discussion with Nasdaq reporter Jill Malandrino at this year’s Blockshow in Singapore, Georgakopoulos said JPMorgan has always viewed the […]
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Institutions still fear Bitcoin’s criminal persona, its volatility, and other factors. Although a number of big players have picked up bags of Bitcoin (BTC) in 2020, multiple aspects still avert institutions from investing on a wide scale, according to Robert Li, an analyst for Draper Dragon, a Draper Venture Network fund. “I think there are […]
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Crypto prices are down across the board but a surge in DeFi sector growth appears to be pushing Compound’s COMP token higher. The price of COMP, the governance token of the decentralized finance (DeFi) giant Compound, has been surging while the wider crypto market has entered a correction. Despite the ongoing cryptocurrency market slump, the […]
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“Cryptocurrency investing today is a bit like living in the early days of the 1850’s gold rush, which involved more speculating than investing.” San Francisco-based bank Wells Fargo has released a report identifying Bitcoin as the best performing asset of 2020, while also highlighting the coin’s volatility for investors. In an investment strategy report released […]
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Bitcoin price is correcting, and most of the crypto market is red, but strong fundamental factors are pushing select DeFi tokens and NFTs higher. Bitcoin (BTC) and other major altcoins are either stuck in a range or are witnessing a correction. However, that is not the case with the entire crypto space because a few […]
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IOHK’s Project Catalyst names Liqwid as a potential candidate to receive up to $250,000 in ADA funding. IOHK, the development company behind Cardano, has named a DeFi lending protocol as one of its so-called Project Catalyst ideas — sending a strong message that decentralized finance applications could be coming to the project’s blockchain. In a […]
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The SEC subpoenas the former owner’s bank accounts to find out what happened to investments into Crypto Traders Management. Dissolved limited liability company Crypto Traders Management is seeing its legal troubles multiply. Per a Dec. 4 legal filing in Utah, CTM and former manager Shawn Cutting are trying to fight off a subpoena from the […]
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Will CBDCs disrupt stablecoins or will they help each other? The public and private sectors should work closely together to bring about the future of money, according to a former leader of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Chris Giancarlo, a former CFTC chairman and initiator of a blockchain-based digital dollar project, joined the Singapore Fintech […]
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Bitcoin may have experienced the perfect storm for success, but action by the United States government may remain a threat. Ryan Selkis, co-founder of data and research company Messari, recently released his 2021 crypto sector thesis, examining the state of the industry as well as forecasting what lies ahead. Selkis explains in this report that […]
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Bitcoin price is hovering around $19,000 again after a sharp intraday drop. There are four reasons BTC is primed for a further pullback. The price of Bitcoin (BTC) is now stagnating below $19,000 after four failed attempts to break out of the $19,600 resistance level. In the near term, four factors suggest that a pullback […]
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