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Business analytics and mobility software MicroStrategy, which is a big Bitcoin investor bought 205 Bitcoins for $10 M, paying around $48,888 per coin. The CEO of the enterprise Michael Saylor posted about the trade on Twitter. MicroStrategy has purchased an additional ~205 bitcoins for ~$10.0...

US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York submitted a lawsuit against the architect of the McAfee antivirus software firm John McAfee and the executive advisor of his cryptocurrency staff Jimmy Gale Watson with funds scam and money laundering. The police detained Jimmy Watson on...

Former Prudential Financial chairman George Ball was initially opposed to Bitcoin and the cryptosphere in general. The Wall Street veteran has often criticized digital currency, but in the past year, this businessman's attitude towards BTC began to change. Ball was recently interviewed by Yahoo...

Brian Armstrong, CEO of cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, turned out to be the richest entrepreneur in the blockchain industry in 2020. His fortune is estimated at $ 11.5 billion, Hurun said in a report. This team has compiled a rating of the most successful businessmen. It also included 17...

California-headquartered crypto-assets investment services operator BitGo announced getting a license from NY regulatory and now operates as an independent Qualified Custodian. BitGo is proud to announce a new license under New York State Banking Law to operate as an independent Qualified...

At the end of February, Dogecoin turned out to be the most talked-about cryptocurrency on Twitter, bypassing Bitcoin and Ethereum, according to data from the ICO Analytics service. According to the tracker, the meme cryptocurrency accounted for 10.4% of mentions related to digital assets. The share...

CFTC ex-chairman Christopher Giancarlo and American billionaire and investor Mark Lasry have invested an unnamed amount in BlockTower Capital, a cryptocurrency hedge fund. Giancarlo served as head of the CFTC from 2017 to 2019. Under his leadership, the regulator approved Bitcoin futures trading....

The Asian cryptocurrency market has been growing. Seychelles-based cryptocurrency exchange Huobi announced its plans to form cryptocurrency funds like Grayscale. No many details are known at the moment. However, as Huobi has a considerable impact on the Asian market, the upcoming funds are supposed...

Dogecoin (DOGE) cryptocurrency was the discovery of this year. The coin began to rise in value last fall, but it achieved the greatest success in February 2021. In the middle of last month, the DOGE rate reached $ 0.81. Then a long correction began, and today the altcoin is holding the defense in...

Major money transfer system MoneyGram encounters a lawsuit that claims it didn't inform users about XRP's class as unlisted security. The initiator of the legal proceedings was Rosen Law Firm which introduced a representative action on March 1. The suit was in the name of depositors that traded...

Amazon-provided cloud computing protocol Amazon Web Services (AWS) integrated Ethereum on its Amazon Managed Blockchain system. This means applying AWS people can establish nodes and reach Ethereum's primary interface over the Amazon Blockchain. It was mentioned in the post published by the...

New York State Attorney General Laetitia James is best known for recently getting Tether and Bitfinex to agree to pay $ 18.5 million to settle a lawsuit. James has publicly admitted this week that she considers it unwise to invest in cryptocurrencies. She released a statement. in which she pointed...

Back in the spring of 2020, the founder of Telegram, Pavel Durov, announced the closure of the TON blockchain project, which was supposed to become one of the largest in the cryptocurrency industry. At the same time, the team of the messenger creators announced their readiness to return the funds...

The world's richest man Elon Musk tweeted about the cryptocurrency Dogecoin again. This is despite talks that the SEC is to investigate Tesla CEO for his tweets referring to the meme coin. Musk's recent tweet is in the form of a meme. Doge meme shield (legendary item)...

Financial services corporation Visa found out via survey that 25% of credit card holders in Latin America are willing to use cryptocurrencies during payment activities. Visa announced the third Visa COVID-19 Consumer Sentiment research results. The study aimed to discover customer trends at the...

At the end of February 2021, the total trading volume in stablecoins reached a new high. The number of transactions in digital assets backed by fiat money exceeded $ 360 billion last month. Tether (USDT) continues to hold first place. This asset accounts for up to 63.5% of the total volume of...

Over the past 30 days, Grayscale has acquired 178,691 Litecoin (LTC). The financial giant invested $ 28.9 million in the purchase of such a volume of cryptocurrency, given the LTC rate of $ 162. Analysts found that Grayscale was accumulating Litecoin in parallel with increasing capital investment...

Well-known trader Peter Brandt shared his opinion on Twitter about the factors that will make Bitcoin price up. According to him, the leading cryptocurrency will see a price increase in the case of all the FOMO buyers who had laser eyes on Twitter take their losses. $BTC will go higher once all...