Microstrategy Buys $489M Worth of Bitcoin — Company Now Holds More Than 100,000 BTC
The independent, publicly-traded business intelligence company Microstrategy announced the acquisition of 13,005 bitcoin on Monday, at a purchase price of...
Year: 2021
The US Government Is Auctioning $377K Worth of Bitcoin and Litecoin
The U.S. government is selling bitcoin and litecoin worth $377K via the General Services Administration (GSA). The auction closes at...
PBOC Instructs China’s Banks to Forbid All Cryptocurrency Related Activities Immediately
China’s central bank has sent notice to the country’s financial institutions instructing them to stop dealing with cryptocurrency transactions. The...
New World Bank Report: Nigeria’s Exchange Rate Policies Fueling Inflation, Affecting Food Prices
Nigeria’s use of multiple exchange rates regimes may have contributed to a rise in the country’s inflation rate, the latest...
PlanB Outlines ‘Worst Case Scenario’ for 2021 As Bitcoin and Crypto Markets Tumble
Bitcoin is once again moving to the downside – and it’s taking the altcoin market along for the ride. The...
Coinbase-backed Securitize secures $48M in Series B funding
Morgan Stanley has made its first capital investment foray into the blockchain space, co-leading a $48 million funding for Securitize....
Nvidia GPU prices in China fall amid crypto mining crackdown
Amid the ongoing crackdown on cryptocurrency mining in China, prices of graphic cards from major GPU providers like Nvidia and...
El Salvador adopting Bitcoin could make it lose market dominance
El Salvador recently added Bitcoin as legal tender. In barely over a decade, an open-source, cypherpunk, radically new money system,...
MicroStrategy expands company’s Bitcoin holdings with $489M purchase
MicroStrategy has bought even more Bitcoin (BTC) despite the current price struggles for the largest crypto by market capitalization. According...
Bank TSB set to bar 5.4M customers from buying crypto
United Kingdom-based financial institution TSB Banking Group Plc. will soon ban its over 5.4 million customers from buying Bitcoin (BTC)...
Crypto is the most dangerous investment, Bank of Russia governor says
The Bank of Russia continues its tough stance on cryptocurrency trading despite growing concerns over the country missing out on...
Banks fall in line as China’s central bank cracks down on crypto accounts
The Agriculture Bank of China (AgBank) — the world's third-largest bank by assets — is set to implement Beijing’s firm...
Banque de France tests digital currency-based securities settlement
The central bank of France — Banque de France — is continuing its work on the development of a European...
Central Bank of Portugal awards first licenses to local crypto exchanges
Banco de Portugal, the country’s central bank, issued operational licenses to two local crypto exchanges for the first time ever,...
Dogecoin (DOGE) car crashes during NASCAR race
23% of Gen Z is investing in memes like Dogecoin (only 9% in NFTs) Nearly a quarter of young, new...
