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Report: Banking Giant Natwest to Refuse Service to Businesses That Accept Cryptocurrencies

23.4.2021
The major retail and commercial financial institution National Westminster Bank (Natwest) has categorized cryptocurrencies as “high risk” and refuses to serve business customers who accept digital assets for payments. A Natwest board member, Morten Friis, explains the bank has...

Tools to Improve UX and Win Over Your Customers

22.4.2021
Try Hotjar for free today! An enjoyable user experience and high conversion rates go hand-in-hand. It makes sense then, that if you want to improve conversion rates, your first task is to improve user experience. To improve UX, deeply understanding … The post Tools to Improve UX and Win Over...

Peak fear? Bitcoin funding rates crash to lowest levels in 7 months

18.4.2021
The funding rate of Bitcoin dropped to a level unseen since September 2020, signaling fear in the market

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13.4.2021
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Bitcoin’s Creator Satoshi Nakamoto Is Now a Member of the Top 20 World’s Richest People

12.4.2021
This week our newsdesk covered the world’s wealthiest cryptocurrency billionaires after the American business magazine Forbes published the 2021 list of billionaires. Now it was mentioned in our report that Satoshi Nakamoto didn’t make the cut, even though Bitcoin’s inventor...

Fidelity Says Bitcoin Adoption Will Keep Accelerating — ‘We’ve Reached a Tipping Point’

9.4.2021
Fidelity’s head of digital assets says that bitcoin adoption will continue “at an accelerated pace,” noting that “we’ve reached a tipping point.” He explained that investors are increasingly drawn to bitcoin “Particularly, in an environment where...

IMF Says Higher Rates Might Reduce Appetite for Risk. And Bitcoin?

6.4.2021
Source: iStock/Bumblee_Dee Interest rate increases in the United States and elsewhere could weaken investors’ appetite for riskier investments, according to the International Monetary Fund’s latest World Economic Outlook report. This warning comes at a time when record-low rates have helped push...

Man Loses Life Savings to Phony Bitcoin iOS App- Over a Million Dollars in BTC Drained

1.4.2021
Just recently, an individual lost all of his life savings in a matter of no time after he downloaded a malicious and phony Trezor application onto his iOS smartphone from Apple’s App Store. Phillipe Christodoulou lost 17.1 bitcoin or over a million dollars worth of the cryptocurrency using...

The Turkish Lira Plunges Following Removal of a Central Bank Governor, BTC Searches up

23.3.2021
The Turkish lira currency plunged by more than 10% on March 22 after the country’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan unexpectedly fired Naci Agbal, the country’s central bank governor. Having initially touched a new low of 8.280 a dollar, the lira recovered to close at 7.75 a dollar...

How Bitcoin Neutrality Is Simply Another Vote for a Crumbling Status Quo

18.3.2021
Nearly ten years into failed fiscal and monetary policy experiments, when trust in institutions is ebbing near an all-time low, the rationale for holding bitcoin has never been stronger. Yet, many people are neutral and non-reactive on the matter, giving credence to the current state of affairs...

Unfortunate Bitcoin Suisse, Fed Rates, Delayed Tax Season + More news

17.3.2021
Fed Chairman Jerome Powell. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube, NBC News Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news. Regulation news The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA)...

1.2 Billion People Live Under Double-Digit Inflation, ‘Many Have Found Escape in Bitcoin’ Says HRF’s Alex Gladstein

9.3.2021
While central banks are focusing on creating more stimulus and economists expect inflation in the U.S. to rise, a number of other countries are suffering from considerable inflation right now. On Monday, the chief strategy officer for the Human Rights Foundation, Alex Gladstein, explained that...

Burned Banksy NFT Sale Captures Close to $400K, Critics Claim Buyers Are ‘Morons’

8.3.2021
On March 3, a group of anonymous art enthusiasts decided to burn an original Banksy screenprint worth roughly £70,000 or around $95,000 USD, and then turned it into a non-fungible token (NFT) asset. The art now exists as an NFT and was auctioned for 228.69 ethereum or $394k using today’s...

Banks Turn Away Customer Deposits due to Negative Interest Rates in Germany

4.3.2021
Banks in Germany are reportedly turning customer deposits away due to the negative interest rate imposed on them by the European Central Bank (ECB). Some banks are even offering online tools to help customers take their deposits elsewhere. Negative Interest Rates Imposed by ECB Force Banks to Turn...

Speechwriter for Former US President George Bush Says BTC Rally Driven by ‘Historically Low Interest Rates’

23.2.2021
A speechwriter for former U.S. President George W. Bush and a bitcoin critic, David Frum has claimed that the low-interest rates are fueling the crypto asset’s rally. Frum suggests that the crypto asset might experience a “fast and deep price crash” if and when interest rates...

Crypto Earning vs. Savings Accounts: How You Can Get Up to 17% Annually Holding Digital Assets

20.2.2021
The mainstream has caught a whiff of the gains cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and ethereum have seen, but many people are not aware of the passive income crypto users are getting as well. While financial incumbents are giving people with savings accounts a measly 0.35% to 0.60%, digital currencies...