From the minds that brought you cheese with holes in it comes this year’s weirdest ad campaign. Crypto broker Bitcoin Suisse recently installed a blockchain-related Christmas advertisement in the Zurich Main train station in Zürich, Switzerland. The ad, which is largely indecipherable to non-native speakers, involves a piece of broccoli, a shoe, and one lone […]
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Ian Rogers, newly appointed as a chief experience officer at Ledger, says digital assets are moving from “science fiction” to the mainstream. The revolving door between traditional finance and the crypto space is well established. Now, executives from the luxury goods sector appear to be following in their steps. Ian Rogers, formerly the chief digital […]
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A recent purchase of 10,000 Antminer S-19s has placed Marathon Patent Group on-track to become North America’s largest Bitcoin mining firm by Q3 2021. Nevada-based cryptocurrency mining firm Marathon Patent Group has announced the purchase of 10,000 Antminer S-19 Pro ASICs as part of its plan to become the largest mining firm in North America. […]
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Chainlink delivers easily the best year-to-date returns in 2020, but Bitcoin is still down the least against its all-time highs. Bitcoin (BTC) may be down less from its all-time highs than any other cryptocurrency, but 2020 has so far been the year of Chainlink (LINK). In the latest edition of its Weekly Insights report on […]
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2020 is no exception to the rule that putting $1 into Bitcoin nets investors more than traditional assets. Bitcoin (BTC) still beats gold as an investment in 2020 despite the precious metal generating its biggest returns in a decade. In a knock to gold bugs, data shows that despite gold’s run this year, Bitcoin still […]
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Data shows Bitcoin should seal both its best Q3 on record and its second-highest lifetime quarterly close on Sep. 30. Bitcoin (BTC) is on track for its best third quarter ever, data shows as Q3 2020 has just one day left to go. According to price records from on-chain analytics resource Skew, this year should […]
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Maybe one day, drawing distinctions between crypto and traditional finance will seem quaint. Every Friday, Law Decoded delivers analysis on the week’s critical stories in the realms of policy, regulation and law. Editor’s note The final scene of Animal Farm, Orwell’s classic fable of revolution gone wrong and a staple of secondary-school reading lists throughout […]
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Bitcoin may never escape its ongoing comparisons to gold. According to Tyler Winklevoss, co-founder of the Gemini crypto exchange, Bitcoin beats gold at its own game. “Bitcoin is better at being gold than gold — and not just incrementally, but by an order of magnitude or 10X better,” Winklevoss said in a Sept. 21 tweet. […]
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Data says hodlers are gaining and speculators are vanishing from Bitcoin, with one commentator arguing that the bull run is “just beginning.” Bitcoin (BTC) hodlers are beating out speculators in a sign that the cryptocurrency’s bull run is “just beginning,” data suggests. Part of asset manager Grayscale’s Valuing Bitcoin report issued this month, the Hodler […]
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Ukraine beats Russia, China, and more in adoption metrics according to new research from Chainalysis. Recent data published by Chainalysis revealed a surprising first place for Ukraine in the Global Crypto Adoption Index 2020, followed by Russia and Venezuela. The Index looks at three on-chain metrics: the total value of on-chain crypto transactions weighted by […]
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