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Bitcoin surges over $46.500

Bitcoin Surged Above $46.500 First Time Since May 16

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Increasing by around 18% over the previous 7 days, Bitcoin's price surpassed $46.500 for the first time since the May market crash. At the moment, the price stands at over $45.400 with a market cap of about $853.7 billion. Ethereum price has surged too. On August 7, it surpassed $3000. Today it...

Brazil

First green Bitcoin ETF may appear in Brazil

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The exchange-traded fund BITH11, which is managed by Hashdex, has announced its intention to invest part of its assets in green technologies and so-called carbon credits. Thus, the company's management wants to create the country's first purely green ETF. For example, Hashdex wants to start the...

Ukraine

Ukraine wants to allow the use of BTC as a payment method

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Ukraine is not only moving towards creating its digital currency, also the country wants to allow the use of bitcoin when paying for goods and services. The government's position was expressed by Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation Alexander Bornyakov. Holders of digital assets will be able...

BTC

Bloomberg expects BTC rally to resume in 2nd half of the year

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The bitcoin (BTC) rate on Friday, August 6, is holding around $ 40,800. During the day, the cryptocurrency tried to gain a foothold above $ 41,000, but it did not have enough support to hold positions. Bloomberg strategist Mike McGlone recently stated that BTC has a realistic chance of repeating...

Bank of America

Bank of America thinks El Salvador will profit from BTC legalization

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Many financial structures reacted extremely negatively to the decision of the El Salvadorian authorities to legalize bitcoin. The negative opinion was presented by the IMF and the World Bank. By contrast, the giant Bank of America believes the country could benefit from such a move. The bank's...

MicroStrategy CEO

MicroStrategy CEO compares buying BTC to investing in FB

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MicroStrategy software company is currently on the list of the largest cryptocurrency holders. Moreover, this giant is investing in bitcoin, despite the periodic collapses of the coin. MicroStrategy CEO Michael Sailor said that buying bitcoin is reminiscent of investing in Facebook stock in the...

Moody's

Moody's downgrades El Salvador over Bitcoin legalization

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In the early summer of this year, the El Salvadorian authorities adopted a law recognizing bitcoin as a legal tender in the country. Such a step by the Latin American state drew criticism from both international organizations and the public of El Salvador. During the last week, Moody's expectedly...

Square Cash App BTC revenue

Square’s Cash App BTC Revenue Increased by 200%

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Cash App, developed by Jack Dorsey’s financial services company Square, published the results of the second quarter of 2021. The report shows that the company's BTC revenue has risen 200% reaching $2.72 B from $875 M. The gross income of BTC went up to $55 million from $17 million. This means a...

wealthfront bitcoin and ethereum exposure

Investment Company Wealthfront Allows BTC and Eth Exposure

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SEC-registered automated investment services and advisory provider Wealthfront informed about expanding its investment options, including two crypto trusts: Grayscale Bitcoin Trust and Grayscale Ethereum Trust. As the firm stated via a blog post published on July 29, its aim was to provide...

Bitcoin price goes up

Bitcoin Reached Record 2-Month High of Over $42.000

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Gaining around a 4% price increase over the previous 24 hours, Bitcoin's price reached its 2-month high surpassing $42.000. Over the previous 7 days, the price has gone up by over 23%. The price of Bitcoin started to rise after the massive sell-off in May. Since then BTC was hesitating between...

Whales

Record number of bitcoins passed under the control of whales

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Amid the strengthening of the bitcoin (BTC) exchange rate, network activity has increased sharply this week. Researchers from Arcane Research have previously reported an increase in daily cryptocurrency trading volume. After it exceeded $ 40,700 for the first time since May 2021, the number of...

MicroStrategy Q2 report

MicroStrategy Will Continue to Invest in Digital Assets

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Virginia-based publicly traded enterprise intelligence software firm MicroStrategy reported the results of Q2, 2021 on July 29. As stated in the report, on June 30, 2021, the value of MicroStrategy's digital assets was over $2 B. The company now owns around 105,085 bitcoins. This indicates a $689.6...

Bitcoin

Bitcoin daily trading volume rises to high since June 22

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In the middle of this week, Bitcoin (BTC) for the first time since the end of May 2021 jumped in a price above $ 40,700. Then the coin retreated slightly on the night of Thursday, July 29. There is a strong correlation between the price of cryptocurrency and network activity. As soon as bitcoin...

Bitcoin hashrate goes up

BTC Hashrate Starts to Recover

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The hashrate of Bitcoin which fell significantly after the China mining crackdown, started to recover, going up by around 15%. Hashrate indicates the amount of computing power used in a second for BTC mining. The seven-day moving average of BTC hash rate reached 100 exahashes per second (EH/s)...

coinbase

Coinbase expects Bitcoin ETF approval by end of 2021

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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has not yet approved a single application for the launch of exchange-traded crypto funds Bitcoin ETF. The American regulator periodically postpones the publication of its decision on such applications and states that it needs additional time to assess...

Bobby Lee

Bobby Lee: Beijing is not interested in developing cryptos

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The Chinese government continues to increase pressure on cryptocurrency companies. Thus, the authorities want to protect their citizens from the risk associated with investing in digital assets. Renowned crypto advocate Bobby Lee has spoken out about the tightening of new money regulations. The man...

Tesla Q2 results Bitcoin

Tesla's Q2 Report Discloses $23 M Impairment Loss on BTC

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American electric car producer Tesla presented a report on the results of the second quarter of 2021. The paper indicates new highs with a net income of $1.14 B. The firm also stated a Bitcoin-caused impairment loss of $23 million as at the time of purchase the price of the coin was higher than...

Amazon about bitcoin payments

Amazon Says It Has No Plans to Allow BTC Payments Yet

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Popular online shopping company Amazon commented on the rumors about the possibility of its accepting crypto payments. According to the press release published by Reuters on July 27, the representative of the company said the team is interested in crypto, but there are no certain plans on their ...