Even today, there is a non-trivial chance that governments try to ban Bitcoin (BTC), according to Marco Santori, the recently appointed Chief Legal Officer (CLO) of major crypto exchange Kraken. “I don’t think it’s a 20% or 30% chance in the next five years, but I think it’s real. And it’s up to us to…
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As the Bitcoin (BTC) network is adjusting after its third mining reward halving, first signs of the falling hashrate are starting to appear as first more than 100 post-halving blocks have been mined. Some of the industry players are surprised by better than estimated results. (Updated at 18:06 UTC: updates throughout the entire text.) While…
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The demand for non-sovereign "safe haven" assets, such as bitcoin (BTC) and gold, to rise considerably as the risk of broad-based currency debasement increases, according to US-based crypto research boutique Delphi Digital. Gold demand in the past 12-18 months has already been on the rise among central banks and private investors alike, with total holding…
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Source: Adobe/Pixel-Shot Education and honesty could help cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin (BTC), achieve mainstream acceptance, per a new report. These were the findings of the 2020 Edelman Trust Barometer, a survey that garnered data from 34,000 people in 26 regions, with 1,150 respondents in each market. Although just under half of those surveyed said that…
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After a strong decline, bitcoin price started a decent recovery wave above USD 8,550 ahead of the mining reward halving. BTC/USD even recovered above the USD 8,850 level, but it failed to surpass USD 9,000. As a result, there was a fresh decline and the price is now (08:30 UTC) consolidating in a range above…
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The Bitcoin (BTC) mining reward is halving today, and the entire industry is focused on it to see what’ll happen afterward. Though we may not know what the future has in store for BTC, we know its past – and we know that in the four years since the second halving, many of the network…
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Michelle Phan. Source: A screenshot, Instagram/michellephan Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news. Investment news Lolli, a bitcoin (BTC) rewards company, has today announced the close of an oversubscribed USD 3 million Seed II funding round led by…
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Bitcoin (BTC) just went through its third halving of the mining reward, which is jokingly referred to as ‘Halvation’ (halving + salvation) that should send the price of the most popular cryptocurrency to the Moon or even further. Today, on block 630,000, mined by AntPool, Bitcoin’s rate of new supply was cut in half from…
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Legendary hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones told CNBC today that "over 1% <…> maybe it’s almost 2%" of his assets are in bitcoin (BTC). "That seems like the right number right now," he said, adding that he believes that Wall Street could be witnessing the historic "birthing of a store of value" through BTC.…
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Source: Adobe/Pixel-Shot Although previous Bitcoin (BTC) halvings have all led to a rise in price both before and after the event occurred, this time may play out differently due to the emergence of a whole new derivatives market for bitcoin, one of the largest derivatives exchanges in the world, CME Group, said. The third BTC…
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