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Bitcoin Whale Empties $500 Million Wallet As BTC Nears All-Time High

March 13, 2021

A Bitcoin whale has abruptly emptied its BTC wallet with nearly $500 million worth of the cryptocurrency in it, as its price moves closer to a new all-time high. As first reported by Daily Hodl, a large 8,64...

Bitcoin Price Sets New All-Time High, Nearly Breaks $60K

March 13, 2021

According to data by TradingView, on crypto exchange Bitstamp, around 10:33 UTC on Saturday (March 13), the Bitcoin price reached an intraday high of $59,755, in the process recording a new all-time high. Ra...

Ethereum Co-Founder Vitalik Buterin Says Network Will Scale 100X ‘Very Soon’

March 12, 2021

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin says the network is on the verge of 100X scaling with the release of its layer-two solution coming in the near future. Speaking on the Tim Ferriss Podcast, Buterin said Op...

Binance Launches Payment Service with Support for Merchants

March 12, 2021

Crypto exchange giant, Binance announced on Friday the alpha launch of Binance Pay, the payments app that will allow fiat and crypto payments. Along with the traditional payments functions, the app will supp...

Popular Financial Advisor Suze Orman Reveals She Is a Fan of Bitcoin

March 11, 2021

Popular financial advisor Suze Orman says she is a fan of bitcoin as a possible replacement to gold, noting BTC’s worth as a store-of-value asset. Speaking in a recent interview with Yahoo Finance, Orman rev...

Bitcoin Skeptic Peter Schiff Says 100% of His Son’s Portfolio Is Now in $BTC

March 11, 2021

Famous gold bug and cryptocurrency skeptic Peter Schiff says that his son, Spencer, has gone all-in on Bitcoin. Peter Schiff is the CEO of Euro Pacific Capital, a full-service, registered broker/dealer speci...

Ripple and YouTube Settle Lawsuit Filed Over XRP Giveaway Scams

March 11, 2021

Ripple and its CEO Brad Garlinghouse have settled a lawsuit filed against the Google-owned video-sharing platform YouTube over videos on the platform that allowed scammers to impersonate Garlinghouse to promo...

Bitcoin Demand From Goldman Sachs Clients ‘Is Rising,’ Says COO

March 11, 2021

John Waldron said the investment management firm would “continue to evaluate” and “engage on” crypto for customers. U.S. banking giant Goldman Sachs recently decided to restart its cryptocurrency trading des...

25% Of UK Investors Would’ve Made £1 Million By Going All-In On BTC In 2020: Survey

March 11, 2021

A new poll found that a quarter of investors in the U.K. probably should have bet big on Bitcoin in 2020 New research from U.K. think tank Parliament Street revealed that 25% of British investors estimate th...

BlockFi Gets $3 Billion Valuation after $350 Million Funding Round

March 11, 2021

BlockFi, originally a crypto lending startup that is now expanding into other business areas, announced on Thursday the closure of its latest Series D funding round after securing $350 million. The startup is...