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After hitting $24,000 about a week ago, now Bitcoin makes another record, surging $25000. Community members celebrated the event. Many Bitcoiners were waiting for the new heights as recent months have been pretty bullish for the cryptocurrency. Bitcoin proved itself to be resilient to...

On December 24, authorities announced that the US Securities and Exchange Commission has a new chairman. Elad Roisman will replace Jay Clayton. Meanwhile, XRP saw price growth. Are these two events connected? Well, Roisman considered being a possible ally for the crypto industry. The new chairman...

The run of the crypto market in November-December 2020 led to a sharp increase in the bitcoin dominance index. This figure rose to the highest level since the end of last year and is close to 70%. The rise in BTC dominance has occurred not only as a result of a rally in the crypto market over the...

The ePayments payment system announced the departure of Mike Rymanov from the post of the company's CEO. We are fast approaching the end of 2020. Please visit our blog https://t.co/SKl8MGX1Km to read the latest news.— ePayments (@myepayments) December 24, 2020 The position of the interim CEO...

Binance crypto exchange announced the closure of the Binance Korea division for users from South Korea. Binance Korea's December 24 post said the closure was due to low transaction volumes. The platform is shutting down just eight months after launching in April 2020. Binance's Korean subsidiary...

PayPal has refused to acquire crypto custody company BitGo. In October, there were reports that PayPal was in talks with BitGo for purchase, but the payment company was considering other options. BitGo, according to CEO Mike Belsh, has "been in talks with everyone for years." The...

The rollback of Bitcoin that followed its jump last week will not be able to break the overall positive trend, says Pierce Crosby, manager of the popular TradingView service. Today BTC is trading at $ 23,500 the capitalization of the largest digital currency has decreased over the past day to $...

Today, December 23, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) officially took legal actions against Ripple Labs and its corporate executive Christian Larsen and the present CEO Brad Garlinghouse. The market authority claims that the Silicon Valley-based fintech has earned $1.3 B through...

Investment firm SkyBridge Capital has confirmed a $ 25 million investment in BTC through its new fund. In an interview with CNBC, SkyBridge Capital founder Anthony Scaramucci revealed that assets have already been moved and the company has launched a full node on the Bitcoin network. Fidelity...

The largest American cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase announced the expansion of its staff in connection with the opening of a branch in Canada. That is stated in the company's blog. At the first stage, the exchange posted 19 vacancies for technical and HR positions. In the future, the list will be...

On December 21, business analytics firm MicroStrategy informed about a new Bitcoin deal. The platform acquired 29,646 BTC for $ 650 M. Presently, the company holds 70,470 BTC overall. The average cost of one asset would be $ 15,964. Due to this, MicroStrategy became the fifth-largest individual...

The ether (ETH) rate today dropped to $605, the largest altcoin is facing a bigger drop. The decline in the value of ETH is observed against the background of the correction of bitcoin, which dipped below $ 23,000 earlier this week. Over the past 24 hours, the capitalization of ether has decreased...

India's most popular cryptocurrency market CoinDCX soared $ 13.9 M in a Series B funding stage headed by Block.one, the creator of the EOS project. Among the participants were Temasek, Jump Capital, Coinbase Ventures, and Bain Capital. In March 2020, CoinDCX reached $3 M in a Series A from ...

At the end of last week, the giant Grayscale, which controls digital assets, again reported an increase in capital investments in such instruments. In the third quarter, investor interest in Ether (ETH) skyrocketed. The company's Ethereum trust in the reporting period increased by another $ 220...

Tesla and SpaceX CEO expressed sympathy for Dogecoin on Twitter and entered into a discussion about Bitcoin with MicroStrategy CEO Michael Sailor. On December 20, the successful businessman wrote on Twitter: "One word: Doge." Following this, Dogecoin quickly soared 25% reaching 0.0047,...

According to Miller Tabak strategist Matt Maley, in the new year, we will see a significant drop in the value of bitcoin. From the current values, the largest cryptocurrency may fall in price by 25-30%, the expert said on the air of the CNBC channel. However, in the long term, BTC will retain its...

Over the past several months, large investors have been aggressively buying bitcoins. According to Chainalysis, since September, the so-called "whales" have acquired about 500,000 BTC for a total of more than $ 11.5B. According to the representative of this team, Philip Gradwell, in...

Bitcoin this week reached the highest values in its history. The coin has exceeded $ 23,000. Today, it is trading at $23,015. BTC capitalization on Friday, December 18, is just over $ 420.424 billion. Many observers believe that Bitcoin will not stop there and will soon take on new heights. One of...