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Bitcoin futures premium hits 30% but analyst says 'This time it’s different’
30.3.2021
Futures traders are using excessive leverage and historical data shows Bitcoin price crashes tend to occur after the futures premium reaches 30%
Coinbase Opens Office in India Despite Crypto Ban Reports
30.3.2021
Cryptocurrency exchange operator Coinbase has announced that it is establishing a business presence in India. The company has also posted several job openings for its Indian operations despite reports that the government may ban cryptocurrencies. Coinbase Sets up Shop in India Coinbase...
Paypal Enables Cryptocurrency Payments at Millions of Stores With ‘Checkout With Crypto’ Launch
30.3.2021
Payments giant Paypal has launched the “Checkout With Crypto” service to allow consumers to make payments at millions of merchants using cryptocurrencies in their Paypal wallets. “This is the first time you can seamlessly use cryptocurrencies in the same way as a credit card or...
Scottish music school accepts cryptocurrency as payment for lessons
30.3.2021
An Edinburgh music school will begin to accept tuition payments in the form of cryptocurrency
Spanish Island Government Decides to Sell Its Bitcoin Investment by Citing ‘Ethical’ Reasons
30.3.2021
Bitcoin is not liked by everyone from the Island Council of Tenerife, Spain. At least that’s what was suggested by its president, Pedro Martín, who ordered the sale of the local government’s investment in cryptocurrency. Bitcoin Is an ‘Opaque’ Currency, Martín Says...
Flamingo (FLM) TVL rises as Ethereum gas solutions remain elusive
29.3.2021
Flamingo’s total value locked continues to rise as DeFi investors are attracted to the platform's zero-fee transactions and high-yield liquidity pools
Pro Baseball Team the Oakland A’s Plans to Hold Bitcoin Obtained from Ticket Sales
29.3.2021
The president of the American pro baseball team the Oakland Athletics (A’s) recently discussed the ballclub accepting bitcoin for full season suites on Bloomberg TV. A’s president Dave Kaval explained that the team will be holding the crypto asset it obtains from sales, rather than...
Payment Giant Visa Integrates USDC Stablecoin Support for Settlement
29.3.2021
On Monday, the American multinational financial services corporation Visa announced that digital currency payments have arrived on Visa’s settlement platform. The payment giant revealed that the company will leverage USD coin (USDC), the regulated token built on top of the Ethereum network....
Stablecoin reserves on crypto exchanges hit new historic high of $10B
29.3.2021
Cryptocurrency exchanges continue accumulating massive amounts of stablecoins like Tether and USDC Coin
Latvian airline airBaltic adds Dogecoin and Ether as payment options
29.3.2021
The national carrier began accepting crypto payments in 2014
Crypto mergers and acquisitions doubled to $1.1B in 2020, PwC reports
29.3.2021
The average deal size in the crypto industry surged from $19 million last year to nearly $53 million in 2020, according to a new PwC report
Norwegian billionaire ditches skepticism, invests in local crypto exchange
29.3.2021
Norwegian billionaire investor Øystein Stray Spetalen made a 180° reversal in his opinions about cryptocurrency this month and now part-owns domestic crypto exchange MiraiEx
Indian Government Now Requires Companies to Disclose Cryptocurrency Holdings
29.3.2021
The Indian government has introduced new cryptocurrency disclosure rules. Companies dealing in cryptocurrencies will have to disclose their crypto holdings, among other disclosures, as part of their financial statements beginning April 1. New Crypto Disclosure Requirements The Indian Ministry...
Boomers Next to Adopt Crypto, a Trillion Dollars Could Flow Into Bitcoin Over the Next Year, Says Novogratz
29.3.2021
Galaxy Digital CEO Mike Novogratz has predicted that as much as a trillion dollars could flow into bitcoin over the next year as wealthy baby boomers get into cryptocurrency. With the example of Morgan Stanley, he says that more banks will start offering bitcoin exposure to their customers....
The Fed Plans to Unveil Digital Dollar Prototypes in July
28.3.2021
The Federal Reserve is actively working on a central bank digital currency and some prototypes are near completion. The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) plan to unveil two prototypes of a digital dollar as early as July. Digital Dollar Prototypes...
PancakeSwap (CAKE) aims to take a slice out of Uniswap’s DeFi dominance
28.3.2021
PancakeSwap has emerged as one of the top DeFi platforms and its Binance Smart Chain integration makes it a liquidity magnet against competitors like Uniswap and SushiSwap
Interest from China, Co-Mining and a Grayscale Trust Gives Filecoin’s Market Cap a Valuation Lift
28.3.2021
Over the last seven days the project filecoin, a cryptocurrency, and blockchain-based cooperative digital storage network climbed 61% in value and 493% during the last three months. Regional reports from China also show that the computer hardware giant based in Shenzhen, Xinyuan Technology Co.,...
Russian Anti-Money Laundering Body Will Monitor Crypto to Fiat Transactions, Says Official
28.3.2021
Herman Neglyad, the deputy of the Russian anti-money laundering body, Rosfinmonitoring, has said his organization will monitor cryptocurrency transactions that involve the conversion from crypto to fiat. Neglyad made this revelation during a recent meeting of the State Duma Committee on financial...
Oaktree Capital Founder Howard Marks Changes His Mind About Bitcoin as Demand Soars and Price Jumps 10x
28.3.2021
Oaktree Capital’s Howard Marks has warmed up to bitcoin. He admitted that he had a knee-jerk reaction to the cryptocurrency and dismissed it too soon. Since then, the price of bitcoin has risen tenfold as demand for the cryptocurrency soars among retail and institutional investors. Howard...
Billionaire Hedge Fund Manager Ray Dalio Says Government Outlawing Bitcoin Is ‘a Good Probability’
27.3.2021
The Bridgewater Associates co-founder and chief investment officer, Ray Dalio, says that there is a good probability that the government will outlaw bitcoin in the same way gold was outlawed in the U.S. in the 1930s. Ray Dalio Thinks Governments Can Outlaw Bitcoin Ray Dalio shared his view...