Corporations and institutional investors seeking an alternate store of value amid the pandemic crisis drove crypto to new heights in 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic dominated the news in 2020, affecting myriad sectors — health, economics, social justice, politics and trade, as well as the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry. As country after country locked down to […]
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Digital assets under custody reached a new milestone this month, BitGo says. BitGo, whose investors include Galaxy Digital Ventures, Goldman Sachs and Valor Equity Partners, reported Wednesday that digital assets under custody have surpassed $16 billion for the first time, offering further validation that institutional demand has arrived. In an official press release, BitGo said […]
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The ex-White House communications director sees a big move for BTC in the next 5 to 10 years. Just two days after filing a Form D exemption with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Anthony Scaramucci’s hedge fund, Skybridge Capital, has launched its proposed Bitcoin (BTC) fund. In a Dec. 23 interview on the Yahoo […]
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Compliance and regulations become more important than ever before for banks and traditional institutions that offer support for digital assets. More and more traditional banks have started announcing support for digital assets as the price of Bitcoin (BTC) continues to make headlines for record-breaking all-time highs. Even major banks like JPMorgan Chase, which previously frowned […]
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An application for SkyBridge Bitcoin Fund L.P. has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Anthony Scaramucci’s multi-billion-dollar hedge fund, SkyBridge Capital, has submitted a formal application with the United States securities regulator to launch a new Bitcoin (BTC) fund. The Form D for an exempt offering appeared on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s […]
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Why have Bitcoin critics been so silent in 2020? Bitcoin (BTC) has had an interesting year, recovering from major sell-offs to eventually skyrocket to new all-time highs. However, Bitcoin’s performance and cryptocurrencies increased adoption worldwide have still failed to bring some observers into the crypto camp. Yet compared to other bull run years like 2017, […]
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A handful of altcoins look ready to move higher as Bitcoin price enters a short consolidation phase. Christopher Wood, the global head of equity strategy at Jefferies, has dumped five percent of their physical gold position in order to buy Bitcoin (BTC). This move shows that a growing number of institutional investors consider Bitcoin to […]
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Institutions make mincemeat of the whales who just recently held huge sway over market sentiment below $20,000. Bitcoin (BTC) is seeing a new kind of “flippening” above $20,000 as its original whales keep selling their coins to bigger institutional buyers. Data from on-chain analytics service CryptoQuant shows that despite long-term investors rushing to offload BTC […]
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Another mainstream giant unveils its bullish position on Bitcoin. 2020 has been a big year for mainstream Bitcoin (BTC) adoption. One of the most recent entrants to the space is One River Digital Asset Management, a hedge fund headed up by CEO Eric Peters. The firm expects to own approximately $1 billion in Ethereum (ETH) and […]
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Bitcoin may never be a widely used medium of exchange, but it has become a useful store of value, former critics concede in 2020. Humans, being only human, tend to hang on to their cherished beliefs — even in the face of overwhelming contradiction. That’s why recantations — that is, public acts of refuting a […]
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