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Bitcoin Sets New All Time High Spiking Over $35,000
6.1.2021
Bitcoin’s record-breaking start to the new year continued on January 5 after the top crypto set another new all-time high (ATH) of $35,879. Based on this new milestone, the top cryptocurrency has now surged by more than 20% in just the first of five days of the new year. Record-Breaking Start...
Top 10 crypto and blockchain stories of 2020
31.12.2020
Corporations and institutional investors seeking an alternate store of value amid the pandemic crisis drove crypto to new heights in 2020
LISTEN: Charles Cascarilla – PayPal Whisperer – Most Influential 2020
28.12.2020
In this special episode of Markets Daily, CoinDesk Podcasts editor Adam B. Levine reads Zack Seward's profile of Charles Cascarilla, one of CoinDesk's Most Influential People in 2020
12 of the biggest enterprise blockchain players of 2020
28.12.2020
The enterprise blockchain space in 2020 looks a lot different from previous years, demonstrating the continuation and a drive to mature and advance
‘Unprecedented’ Institutional Demand for Bitcoin: Bitgo’s Custodied Assets Top $16 Billion, No Paypal Deal
26.12.2020
Bitgo’s assets under custody have surpassed $16 billion. The company says it is seeing “unprecedented interest from institutional investors,” resulting from the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic and the recent bitcoin bull run. Paypal was also rumored to be...
PayPal Talks to Buy Crypto Firm BitGo Have Ended: Report
24.12.2020
Talks regarding a possible acquisition by PayPal of bitcoin custodian BitGo have fallen through, Fortune reported, citing multiple sources. Read more: PayPal Said to Be in Talks to Buy Crypto Firms Including BitGo: Bloomberg
Spanish Banking Giant Prepared For Bitcoin, PayPal's BTC Game + More News
18.12.2020
Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
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Spanish banking giant BBVA said that starting in January 2021, its unit in Switzerland will progressively launch a new service for...
PayPal crypto partner Paxos closes $142M funding round
17.12.2020
The stablecoin issuer is pursuing ambitious plans in the expanding crypto space
Paypal Takes Another Step Into Crypto, Invests in Paxos
17.12.2020
Online payments giant PayPal joined a USD 142m Series C investment round, helping major regulated blockchain infrastructure platform Paxos increase its total funding to USD 240m.
The round was led by Declaration Partners, the investment firm backed by the family office of David M. Rubenstein, Paxos...
Bitcoin’s 2020 explosion is not the 2017 bubble again
16.12.2020
Early adopters who saw the potential in Bitcoin in the last decade have been waiting for this year their entire crypto investing lives
Paypal’s Stock Soars to All Time High as Demand for BTC on the Platform Now More Than Supply of New Coins
15.12.2020
E-commerce giant Paypal’s stock price surged to a new all-time high of $223.16 on Monday, December 14. Since November 12, when the payments giant opened the way for its US customers to start trading cryptocurrency, the stock has soared 17%. Paypal’s Turnaround The stock’s...
PayPal stock has surged 17% since enabling Bitcoin purchases
14.12.2020
The online payment platform launched crypto trading for U.S. customers on Nov. 12
Pornhub’s Premium Services Now Default to Crypto Payments, 13 Digital Assets Supported
14.12.2020
During the first week of September, the world’s largest adult web portal Pornhub expanded its payment options by adding bitcoin and support for three other cryptocurrencies. However, after Mastercard and Visa severed ties with Pornhub last week, the company’s premium services payment...
Evercore Says PayPal’s Crypto Offering Could Bring Big Business Boost
14.12.2020
An Evercore analyst named PayPal as the top payments stock and said its recently launched cryptocurrency offering could boost margins
Publicly recanted! Luminaries who came to terms with crypto in 2020
13.12.2020
Bitcoin may never be a widely used medium of exchange, but it has become a useful store of value, former critics concede in 2020
Paxos seeks approval to become fully-regulated crypto bank
10.12.2020
The stablecoin issuer and PayPal partner wants to increase its range and scope of services by becoming the first crypto services provider to be regulated at both state and federal levels
Charles Cascarilla: PayPal Whisperer
8.12.2020
PayPal pumped excitement into the bitcoin market this year. And on the back-end of every purchase is Charles Cascarilla's Paxos
Every asset manager must understand Bitcoin — Erik Voorhees
4.12.2020
Shapeshift CEO Erik Voorhees believes any asset manager who is ignorant of Bitcoin “needs to seriously check their premises.”
Is Spotify Going to Start Accepting Crypto?
3.12.2020
Crypto payments would be music to the ears of some Spotify subscribers.
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65% of Traders on Paypal Ready to Use Bitcoin to Pay for Goods and Services: Survey
3.12.2020
At least 65% of people who use the Paypal app to trade bitcoin are prepared to start using the top cryptocurrency to pay for goods and services at the 28 million stores supported by the payments company throughout the world. According to a proprietary survey of 380 Paypal users by Mizuho...