Interactive Brokers wants to offer as-of-yet unnamed cryptocurrencies to its traders. United States foreign exchange company Interactive Brokers will offer direct cryptocurrency trading to clients within months, a report says. Speaking at the Piper Sandler Global Exchange & FinTech Conference on Wednesday, founder Thomas Peterffy revealed that the firm had opted to enter the crypto market. …
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Kraken, Bitfinex and KuCoin could become the next major crypto exchanges to attempt to service India’s estimated 15 million crypto investors. Some of the biggest names in the crypto exchange business are reportedly eager to capture India’s cryptocurrency trading market, even as the government is yet to issue clear-cut regulatory policies. According to Reuters, sources …
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Bitcoin’s sharp rebound from its recent swing low suggests traders are aggressively accumulating BTC and altcoins on major dips. Bloomberg Intelligence senior commodity strategist Mike McGlone believes that Bitcoin (BTC) is more likely to rally to $40,000 than slump to $20,000. This bullish outlook seems to be shared by traders as Bitcoin initiated a sharp …
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“I say keep an open mind towards the Doge and Doge-consciousness,” said Kyle Kemper. The big crypto news out of Miami over the weekend may have been Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s decision to proceed with making Bitcoin (BTC) legal tender, but another figure connected to a world leader made his own mark in supporting Dogecoin …
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An ETH, WBTC, and USDT trading pool is live on Ethereum, and more trading pairs and pools are expected to be added to the platform in the coming weeks. A new release from a foundational DeFi protocol seeks to combine two popular asset swap models into a hybrid that may reshape the nature of the …
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Fear mounted as the FBI announced that it helped Colonial Pipeline retrieve a portion of its BTC ransom payment, but can the government actually take over Bitcoin and the network? On June 7, the United States government task force seized more than $2 million in Bitcoin (BTC) to pay a ransom following an attack on …
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The firm aims to let U.S. investors get exposure to crypto through a private fund tracking the Nasdaq Crypto Index. Investment firm Victory Capital Management announced it would be taking steps for its U.S.-based investors to get exposure to the crypto market. In a Wednesday announcement, Victory Capital said it would be the exclusive sponsor …
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Economists expect the annual Consumer Price Index (CPI) to climb to 4.7%. Bitcoin (BTC) price reclaimed $36,000 heading into the New York session Wednesday as investors awaited fresh data on inflation in May and El Salvador approved a bill that made cryptocurrencies a legal tender in the country. Bull-market bottom? The benchmark cryptocurrency surged 9.86% …
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“The fundamental goal of this collaboration is to enable granular control over data and to reduce the reliance on centralized systems that take advantage of data,” said Humayun Sheikh, CEO of Fetch.ai. Artificial intelligence research lab Fetch.ai has partnered with blockchain network Iota to enable a “controlled data sharing environment” for connected devices, setting the …
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El Salvador accepting Bitcoin as legal tender is now forever etched on the blockchain as mining pool Poolin adds a newspaper headline to block 686,938. As is par for the course for Bitcoin (BTC), El Salvador becoming the first nation-state to adopt the cryptocurrency as legal tender is now immortalized on the blockchain. Data from …
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A paradigm shift that will transform the digital economy: It is the internet itself that offers the services, not a few private operators. The time has come to fight against the dominance of the internet giants. In Europe, various regulations have been announced that aim to force these giants to respect more healthy rules of …
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The odds are on for a continuation to $40,000, Mike McGlone argues, but not everyone is so sure. Bitcoin (BTC) is “more likely” to hit $40,000 than $20,000, Bloomberg argues, as the largest cryptocurrency gains 6% in a day. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView McGlone eyes “enduring bull market bottom” Data from Cointelegraph …
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Andreessen Horowitz and Polychain Capital led the raise, with additional contributions from Alameda Research, Blockchange Ventures, CMS Holdings, Coinfund, CoinShares, Collab Currency, Memetic Capital and many others. Cryptocurrency venture capital funds have poured hundreds of millions of dollars into Solana Labs to support further development and execution of decentralized applications and platforms building on Solana. …
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The firm initially sought a $400-million bond offering. Software firm MicroStrategy saw $1.6 billion worth of orders in a recent junk bond offering — four times the initially sought amount. Earlier this week, the company announced it would issue $400 million worth of junk bonds in a private offering, with a view to using the proceeds to …
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Ruffer revealed on Tuesday that it had sold its $600M position for $1.1B, citing concerns over excessive speculation across the cryptocurrency market. United Kingdom-based fund manager Ruffer liquidated its $600M Bitcoin bet after growing nervous about the speculative frenzy in the cryptocurrency market, including huge rallies in meme-based tokens like Dogecoin (DOGE). The fund, which …
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