Litecoin is often called the silver to Bitcoin as digital gold, and strangely, the two cryptocurrencies and two precious metals are exhibiting the same behavior where one is lagging behind the other. The lack of momentum in the digital and physical forms of silver have kept the price of both assets at bay for the…
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Conceived as a bridge between Bitcoin and decentralized finance on Ethereum, Badger DAO protocol has expanded its investment strategies. As of today, users will be able to profit from yielding NFTs by participating in its new “game”. Using one of Badger DAO’s products called Honeypot part I, participants can farm NFTs for staking bBadger or…
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After the release of Uniswap v2 in May 2020, several competitors for the DEX emerged, forking its codebase, launching new incentives, and their own governance model to attract users. Sushiswap is perhaps the most important. To prevent something similar, the third iteration of the automated market maker will be released with a Business Source License…
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Federal prosecutors caught up with social media influencer Jay Mazini yesterday, charging him over a $2.5mn Bitcoin fraud. Mazini, whose legal name is Jebara Igbara, is alleged to have exploited his Instagram followers in a BTC for cash scheme. Jonathan D. Larsen, the Special Agent-in-Charge at the Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation, said: “This defendant allegedly…
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Tether is in some bother with the SEC. It has the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets, an organization composed of the SEC, the CFTC, The Fed and The US Treasury announcing late last year that stablecoins, which include Tether should be considered as securities. If Tether is indeed classified by the SEC as a…
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Bitcoin edged lower Thursday after the jobless claims in the United States reached their lowest level of the pandemic, confirming that the country’s economy is recovering at a faster rate. The benchmark cryptocurrency fell to as low as $50,305 ahead of the New York opening bell, continuing its decline from the previous five sessions as…
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In February, electric car maker Tesla announced it had purchased $1.5bn in Bitcoin. Along with the announcement was a commitment, they would also accept BTC as payment, making it the first car manufacturer to do so. The firm followed through with that pledge. As of yesterday, using Bitcoin to buy directly from Tesla became a…
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Cryptos are rarely out of the news these days, but no more so than Ethereum, which is burning up the news headlines, as quickly as it can burn up the gas (mostly for NFTs, which are having a moment, and for its exorbitant transaction fees), and then, of course, there’s the king of crypto, Bitcoin…
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A migration of billions of dollars is set to happen from stocks to bonds by the end of March as US-based asset management firms rebalance their portfolios. And it could have a direct or an indirect impact on the Bitcoin market. Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou, a cross-asset research analyst at JPMorgan & Chase, noted that pension funds,…
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Once popular, Dogecoin (DOGE) has witnessed a revival in the past few months after influential personalities like Elon Musk, Snoop Dogg, and others openly supported the cryptocurrency on social media. A sudden interest in the almost forgotten cryptocurrency created a huge demand among the crypto community as traders and investors started looking for reliable platforms…
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