After Tesla’s initial Bitcoin investment and payment support for Tesla purchases on 8 February 2021, many critics followed up on the company’s position by alleging that the car-maker is supporting an asset that is presumably heavily reliant on fossil fuels. Ergo, it wasn’t long before Tesla dropped BTC as a payment method for its vehicles. …
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If Bitcoin were to be heading in a downward direction, how soon could that be? The Death Cross of June 19 has been an important event in Bitcoin’s history. For the first time, the Death Cross did not kick the king coin’s price furthermore than it already was. The Death Cross occurred at $35,000 and …
Bitcoin is set to integrate the privacy-focused upgrade known as Taproot later this year. As noted by Taproot.Watch, which has tracked the weeks-long effort to secure activation support among bitcoin’s mining sector, a sufficient number of supportive blocks — at least 1,815 — was achieved on Friday. The signaling period, known as the “Speedy Trial,” …
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More than two dozens of crypto influencers on Weibo suddenly found their accounts suspended by the Chinese social media company in what appeared to be a targeted censorship effort. Around 10:00 UTC time on Saturday, Chinese users on Weibo started to share that as many as 25 accounts of influencers and media outlets who had …
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Recent security incidents in several coal mines in China appear to have had a ripple effect on bitcoin’s mining hash rate. Over the past two weeks, there have been three security accidents in coal mines in China’s Shanxi, Guizhou and Xinjiang provinces due to gas explosion and flooding, according to Chinese state media Xinhua. The …
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Bitcoin’s latest price rally may be short-lived according to on-chain analysis and increasing selling pressure across exchanges. However, altcoins in the top-50 are well above their average prices over the past week, especially in light of the increasing demand on spot exchanges. Among these rallying alts, NFT tokens have done extremely well too. Ergo, the …
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Earlier today, investment banking company Morgan Stanley filed multiple institutional funds that may gain exposure to Bitcoin especially through shares of Grayscale’s Bitcoin Trust or cash-settled futures. Recently, Goldman Sachs said it was planning to launch investment offerings in the crypto asset class in the second quarter. What these new developments prove is that bitcoin …
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Tesla’s decision to buy $1.5 billion worth of Bitcoin had a ripple effect across the crypto-market. Not only did the same precipitate a huge surge in the cumulative market cap of the sector, but it also catalyzed institutional and financial interest, with many firms around the world taking the lead in embracing Bitcoin. However, it …
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At the time of writing, Bitcoin was trading around the $50,000-level, with the crypto-asset on the road to recovery following the market-wide depreciation on the 23rd of February. Now, the price drop was largely due to miner inflows, stablecoin inflows, and activity on Bitcoin’s network. However, what often gets forgotten is the fact that activity …
After bitcoin’s price fell from its highs above $40,000 this past weekend, investors were left arguing about whether that drop to almost $30,000 was an inevitable market correction or a sign of something more sinister. Indeed, liquidations across futures venues soared to more than $3 billion as crypto exchange Coinbase reported persistent technical issues. But Galaxy …
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