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Switzerland based financial entity, Bordier & Cie,, has entered into collaboration with cryptocurrency friendly bank Sygnum to facilitate its clients to buy and sell cryptocurrencies. The linking with Sygnum’s B2B (business-to-business) banking platform permits the customers of one seventy year old Bordier to buy Bitcoin (BTC), Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Ether (ETH) and Tezos (XTZ). The Read more...

Robinhood Records 6mln First-Time Crypto Investors in 2021
Robinhood, which mainly serves retails traders through its app, has disclosed that the count of new customers who bought cryptos through its platform is 15x the previous year’s average. As per the latest report named “Crypto Goes Mainstream,” over three million new customers used Robinhood Crypto to buy digital currency in January. Similarly, over 2.90 Read more...

Charlie Munger Once Again Undermines Bitcoin
Similar to Warren Buffett, chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, his partner Munger is a scathing critic of Bitcoin (BTC). While speaking to the shareholders at the 2021 Daily Journal yearly meeting hosted by Yahoo Finance, the 97-year old once again issued a negative statement on the king of crypto. While answering to queries from shareholders with Read more...

VersaBank Intends to Launch Canadian Dollar-Pegged Digital Currency
VersaBank, through a media release Wednesday, stated that it intends to roll out a cryptocurrency named VCAD, which will supposedly be pegged to Canadian dollars held in the bank. The Canadian bank asserted that VCAD would practically turn out to be “the first digital currency to represent a fiat currency” unveiled and supported by a Read more...

CME Bitcoin Futures Trading Volume Recorded 57% Increase in January
Bitcoin’s price rallied considerably in January. Notably, in the same month, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) also attained record Bitcoin (BTC) futures trading volume. A CME representative said “In January, BTC average daily volume (ADV) reached a monthly record of 17,549 contracts (87.7K equivalent bitcoin).” Furthermore, every Bitcoin futures contract from CME is equivalent to Read more...

Glassnode – Whales Sold Off 140,000 Bitcoins in February
As per a report published by cryptocurrency market data collector Glassnode, large investors (also referred to as ‘whales’) in Bitcoin sold off huge quantities of Bitcoin this month. Glassnode categorizes any address holding 1,000 to 10,000 Bitcoins as a “whale.” It also calls addresses holding over 10,000 Bitcoins as “humpback whales”. The report identified that Read more...

Square Makes Another Investment in Bitcoin, Taking Aggregate investment to $220mln
Square, which offers payment processing services and also supports crypto purchases, has revealed another round of investment in Bitcoin (BTC). Through a media release, the company stated that it “has purchased approximately 3,318 bitcoins at an aggregate purchase price of $170 million.” “Combined with Square’s previous purchase of $50 million in bitcoin, this represents approximately Read more...

Bitcoin Rebounds to $50K, But Altcoins Record Double-Digit Losses
Bitcoin (BTC) got smashed by another round of sell off in the crypto market on February 23. After declining to below $45,000 Bitcoin has regained only a portion of the lost ground. At the time of writing this article, Bitcoin was trading at $50,768, reflecting a gain of about 0.75% in the last 24 hours. Read more...

Bitcoin Drops to $45K as Analysts Sense Typical Deep Decline
Bitcoin (BTC) continued to decline on unabated selling pressure. The numero uno crypto in terms of market cap declined below $47,000 for the first time in over seven trading days. Data provided by CoinGecko indicated that Bitcoin hit $45,000 on Bitstamp. At the time of writing this article, Bitcoin was trading at $46,555, reflecting a Read more...