Survey Unveils 72% of US Accredited Investors Are Planning to Invest in Defi in 2021
A new survey revealed the latest trend among accredited investors in the United States, targeting the decentralized finance (defi) sphere....
Bitcoin News
Cryptocurrency Markets Catch Fresh Momentum, BTC Price Taps Psychological $60K Handle
The price of bitcoin cracked a new all-time high on Saturday morning reaching $60,120 per unit at around 6:25 a.m....
Blackrock Executive Says Gold Now Less Effective Hedge Against Inflation
A portfolio manager and member of Blackrock’s Global Allocation Fund says gold is now a less effective hedge against inflation...
Japanese Court Convicts Bitcoin Tax Evader- Trader Gets a Year in Prison Plus Fine for $200K
Japanese authorities aren’t hesitating in hunting down anyone considered a crypto tax evader. A court in Ishikawa has sentenced one...
The Congolese Mountain of Gold: Surprise Discovery in Africa Shows Metal’s Scarcity Is Hard to Prove
A myriad of gold bugs like to compliment the yellow precious metal for its ostensible scarcity, as estimates say only...
Spanish Ministry of Economy Proposes to Create a Financial Customer Ombudsman for Crypto-Related Matters
Crypto regulation in Spain remains on the political talks amid the current bull-run seen in the bitcoin prices. Now, the...
Ethereum’s Buterin Highlights Layer-Two Rollups as Potential Scaling Solution
As questions circle about the network’s capacities following surging transaction costs and accelerating activity in the decentralized finance (defi) arena,...
Old School Bitcoin Whales Are Moving: This Week a Single Entity Transferred 10,000 BTC Acquired in 2013
While bitcoin’s price has neared the all-time price highs captured in February, old coins that have sat idle for many...
Peter Schiff Claims Grayscale Will Sell BTC to Fund DCG’s Acquisition of GBTC Shares Rebuffed
Gold bug and bitcoin opponent, Peter Schiff has alleged that the Digital Currency Group (DCG)’s plan to acquire GBTC shares...
Microstrategy Scoops up 262 Bitcoin, Treasury Holds 91K BTC at an Average of $24K per Coin
On March 12, the publicly-listed firm Microstrategy announced the company purchased an additional 262 bitcoin for $15 million in cash....
Dropping GBTC Premium: Anonymous Group Claims Blockfi Facing Solvency Issues Due to Exposure to the BTC Trust
An anonymous group has claimed that Blockfi, which has an estimated $1.8 billion in customer assets invested in Grayscale Investment’s...
Major Israeli Investment House Invested $100 Million in the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust Fund in December 2020
One of the biggest asset managers in Israel allocated millions of dollars into the shares of Grayscale’s Bitcoin Trust (GBTC)....
Goldman Sachs Reports Rising Customer Demand for BTC: Predicts an ‘Explosion’ in the Use of Digital Currencies
John Waldron, the chief operating officer (COO) of Goldman Sachs, says the financial services giant is seeing rising customer demand...
Validator Entry Thresholds on the Decline as Cloud-Based Staking Challenges Surmounted
Through the novel use of hardware security modules in conjunction with a communication module, a collaboration between Bluzelle and Equinix...
Alex Jones Says He Lost Laptop Containing 10,000 Bitcoins
The controversial host of Infowars and the Alex Jones Show claims that he has lost a laptop containing 10,000 bitcoins....
