Category: Bitcoin

Crypto investors are seeing gains in Ether (ETH) and Bitcoin (BTC) today after the successful launch of Ethereum’s London hard fork and a series of new Bitcoin ETF filings resulted in a rally that propelled BTC price 9% higher and Ether gained 11.75% which brings the altcoin closer to the elusive $3,000 level. Data from Cointelegraph Markets

Atlanta-based investment company Invesco is planning to launch a new Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund, or ETF, that will not invest in BTC directly. On Wednesday, Invesco filed an application with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, to list a new investment product called Bitcoin Strategy ETF. The Invesco Bitcoin Strategy ETF seeks

Google is lifting a three-year ban on certain advertisements that promote cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin (BTC), and crypto-related products and services. In June of 2018, the tech giant restricted advertisements for initial coin offerings (ICOs), digital asset exchanges, crypto exchange wallets and other crypto-related content.   Google now says it allows advertisers to promote crypto-related

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong is the latest crypto figure to come out against the wording of the proposed changes to cryptocurrency taxation in the United States. Tweeting on Wednesday, Armstrong stated that the provisions included in the crypto taxation proposal could have a “profound negative impact” on the U.S. crypto space and could force digital

As Bitcoin’s (BTC) price hovers near $40,000, blockchain analytics firm Glassnode is weighing in on whether BTC’s recent bullish movement is just a temporary fad or here to stay. Glassnode says that Bitcoin realized over $2 billion in profits on-chain last week after multiple months of high losses.   “This suggests there is some portion

Paris-based derivatives fund manager Melanion Capital has launched a new, European Union-regulated fund that aims to track the price of Bitcoin (BTC) at a correlation of up to 90%. The fund is the first of its kind to be issued under the EU’s investment fund umbrella UCITS — an acronym for “undertakings for the collective investment

Amid the United States Securities and Exchange Commission’s expanding the scope of oversight of the cryptocurrency industry, a commissioner with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission argued that crypto regulation doesn’t fall under the SEC’s jurisdiction. CFTC commissioner Brian Quintenz took to Twitter on Wednesday to declare that cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC) should be regulated by

Bitcoin (BTC) headed lower on Aug. 5 after an attempt to reclaim $40,000 failed to garner buyer support. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView Accumulation recalls October 2020 Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD dropping to local lows of $38,700 on Bitstamp, down around 1.5% in several hours. The largest cryptocurrency had

Multinational financial services firm, Fidelity Investments, has announced the purchase of a 7.4% stake of major North American mining company, Marathon Digital Holdings. Marathon currently operates 19,000 miners, with a further 100,000 machines slated for deployment over the next 12 months. With $4.9 trillion in assets under management Fidelity is one of the world’s largest

Hedge fund manager Ray Dalio says he’s still bullish on Bitcoin but has a greater penchant for gold. Speaking to CNBC on August 4, the billionaire investor admitted to owning a “very small amount” of Bitcoin but said that he would choose gold if he had to make the choice between the two. “If you