The Great Recession of 2008 spawned two things: Bitcoin and increasingly lower negative interest rates. To spur economic growth and ensure the stability of the macroeconomy, central banks around the world have been increasingly lowering their policy interest rates. In Japan and in much of Europe, interest rates are negative, meaning that banks get paid Read more…
The Bitcoin 2020 conference is officially moving to April 30–May 1 in sunny Los Angeles, California, with Nick Szabo and Tony Hawk headlining! Bitcoin 2020 ticket holders are eligible to either transfer their tickets directly to 2021 or request a full refund. More details are available at the bottom of this article. Our Bitcoin 2020 Read more…
According to a recent report, Lithuania may be the first nation to launch a central bank-backed digital coin in the eurozone. The country’s central bank plans a pre-sale of twenty-four thousand blockchain-based digital tokens called LBCOINs. Lithuania To Sell 24k Blockchain-based Tokens A Reuters report from earlier today informed that the Baltic country has completed Read more…
Bitcoin is on the cusp of breaking out towards levels above $70,000, according to an eerily identical fractal. Spotted first by Artem Shevelev, a market analyst, the pattern shows Bitcoin in a seven-stage development. Each stage reflects price moves and technical indicators similar to the ones that eventually pushed Bitcoin to its all-time high at Read more…
Mainstream media Bloomberg has been doing some spendings in online advertisements to promote Bitcoin and cryptocurrency-related content. Spending Money To Promote Bitcoin Bloomberg is boosting its Bitcoin articles for more visibility on Facebook through paid promotion, according to an ad seen on the social media platform today. Although how long the media giant has been Read more…
Unlike Bitcoin, which has stalled in the low-$9,000s, Ethereum-based decentralized finance (DeFi) has seen exponential growth over the past few weeks. Camila Russo, a former Bloomberg journalist turned Ethereum publicist, noted on June 19th that the amount of value locked in DeFi applications is up 40% in the past seven days alone. Due to a Read more…
Bitcoin price could attempt a close above $10,000 as Morgan Stanley predicts a V-shape global recovery by the fourth quarter. Economists at the investment banking giant expect global GDP to shrink by 8.6 percent year-on-year but rebound to 3.1 percent by Q1/2021. Aspects of a full recovery could increase investors’ risk appetite, thereby benefiting Bitcoin Read more…
Bitcoin has seen quite the volatile past seven days. The cryptocurrency broke out on June 1st past $10,000, rallying as high as $10,450 on major exchanges in a move that liquidated dozens of millions worth of short positions on BitMEX. The move was notable. So notable that a prominent analyst, Raoul Pal of Real Vision Read more…
Bitcoin could attract higher demand from hedge funds as government bonds return poor yields. Portfolios with 60 percent exposure in the stock market and the rest 40 percent in the sovereign notes would diversify into Bitcoin/Gold, according to Dan Tapeiro, the founder of Dtap Capital. More than 90 percent of government bonds trade at yields Read more…
It’s been a tough past day for Bitcoin. Just a little more than 12 hours after the cryptocurrency crossed $10,000 for the first time in weeks, BTC’s price tanked. As reported by Bitcoinist previously, saw a mass liquidation event on derivatives platforms that took Bitcoin as low as $8,600 on BitMEX. For BitMEX in specific, BTC Read more…