Bitcoin surged from $190 billion to around $280 billion in recent months, surpassing some big-name companies, including banks, by market capitalization. In early September of this year, the market capitalization of Bitcoin (BTC) was hovering at around $190 billion when the BTC price was hovering around $10,000. In the past two months, however, the price […]
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2020 has been a rough year for markets but Bitcoin has outperformed JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, and the majority of top U.S. financial sector stocks. Historically, traditional market analysts and old school investors tend to look at Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies with a wary eye, and when crypto pundits attempt to make comparisons between the two […]
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The Mate40 series will reportedly enable dual offline transactions and allow users to control anonymity. Huawei has announced that its forthcoming Mate40 smartphone series will include an integrated hardware wallet for China’s central bank digital currency, the digital yuan. This will be the first smartphone to feature such a wallet, according to an official Huawei post […]
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The innovative cryptocurrency futures exchange FTX has launched fractionalized trading in stock derivatives. Major cryptocurrency derivatives exchange FTX has launched trading in “fractional stocks offerings” — tokenized products representing the shares of global firms. The products were launched on Oct. 29 in partnership with German-licensed investment Firm CM-Equity and tokenization firm Digital Assets AG. More […]
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Investing big money into Bitcoin 10 years ago came with immense uncertainty. Now, buying the asset carries less risk, according to the ex-hedge fund manager. Bitcoin (BTC) has gained significant notoriety in the decade since its 2009 launch. Big mainstream players such as MicroStrategy have recently begun to invest large sums of money into the […]
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The new prediction marketplace solves longstanding liquidity issue, but does it create new problems? On August 31, 2020, Morpher Labs announced the launch of its flagship Ethereum-based contract trading and prediction market platform, Morpher, with the stated goal of providing users unlimited access to long-and-short trades of real-world stocks, commodities, and FOREX markets. The technical […]
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It scores highly among the possible options to counteract inflation. Famed Wall Street investor and billionaire Paul Tudor Jones said that he likes Bitcoin “even more than I did then,” referring to his initial investment announced in May 2020. Jones praised Bitcoin on CNBC’s Squawk Box morning show, revealing that he holds a “small single-digit […]
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Bigger than Disney. Bigger than Netflix. And soon, Bitcoin could be bigger than the company that’s driving its bullish momentum. Bitcoin (BTC) has risen risen dramatically in market cap over the years, recently taking its place among the top 25 largest companies and assets by market cap. At press time, Bitcoin holds a market cap […]
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Bitcoin volatility has fallen to a 16-month low, signalling that a sharp move in BTC looms. Bitcoin (BTC) options aggregate open interest has increased to $2 billion, which is 13% below the all-time high. Although the open interest is still heavily concentrated on Deribit exchange, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) has also reached $300 million. […]
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It’s not a scarce resource like nuclear power, whose proliferation is more easily suppressed. Corey Petty, a chief security officer at Status messenger, told Cointelegraph that he believes there is no way to marry end-to-end encryption with the type of backdoor access law enforcement agencies continue to lobby for. He also believes that any prohibitive […]
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