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More than a third of crypto investors not doing enough research before entering the market says survey

Current -12% Grayscale GBTC Discount Means Confidence In Bitcoin Is Fading: Peter Schiff

Glassnode has tweeted that Grayscale Bitcoin Trust shares, GBTC, are trading at an almost 12 percent discount. Prominent Bitcoin hater Peter Schiff immediately commented on that, saying that investors are losing confidence...

Goldman Sachs Crypto Survey Shows 22% Of Respondents Expect $100,000-Plus Bitcoin

Investment banking giant Goldman Sachs has posted the results of a survey on Bitcoin and digital assets that suggests investors are bullish. The New York-based firm, which operates a digital asset business within its...

Ripple General Counsel: Ripple Files Answer To SEC's Amended Complaint

Stuart Alderoty, the general counsel at Ripple, tweeted to state, Today Ripple filed our answer to the SECs amended complaint. Notably w/ full transparency to the SEC: XRP was listed on 200+ exchanges, billions of $ in XRP...

Proposed crypto investors requirements just meant to test public sentiment, says Thai regulator

Thailands Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has clarified its stance on the draft proposing a minimum income for crypto investors. The regulator explained that the draft was just meant to test public sentiment after...

PayPal eyeing to buy crypto storage firm Curv

PayPal entered into crypto last year when it introduced its cryptocurrency trading feature that allowed users to buy, sell and hold digital assets such as Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Bitcoin Cash (BCH), and Litecoin...

Crypto bank Unicas bets that the Indian government will approve the legitimate use of cryptocurrency

Indias crypto industry is facing uncertain times as various reports pointed out that the government might be banning cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin (BTC) in the country. However, it appears that a local crypto bank is...

More than two-thirds of crypto crimes in 2020 come from scams and frauds

With the sky-high prices of Bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptos due to the rally, digital currencies have become more attractive to criminals. A recent report revealed that more than two-thirds of the total amount lost due to...

Business

Three-quarters of institutional crypto investors believe Bitcoin could reach $100K in 2021, says Goldman Sachs Mon, 08 Mar 2021, 06:08 am UTC

Goldman Sachs said that demand for crypto from institutional investors will continue unabated this year. In fact, its recent survey revealed that more than three-quarters of its clients are optimistic that Bitcoin could...

Asset-Backed Digital Currencies: The Advantages and Concerns Stablecoins are one of the more unique and intriguing digital assets in the cryptocurrency world. Some are pegged to fiat currencies like the U.S. Dollar. Others are underpinned by hard assets like diamonds and oil....

yearn.finance Launches Yearn Partners Program

Goldman Sachs reopens crypto trading desk that will deal with Bitcoin (BTC) futures for clients

Technology

Ethernity Chain To Postpones NFT Sale Of Boss Logic Mon, 08 Mar 2021, 02:04 am UTC

NFT verification platform tweeted to announce that, due to high demand, the OpenSea website has crashed. The platform is going to reschedule NFT sale of Boss Logic to later in the week and reach out to the 2,500 people who...

Polkadot Ecosystem Parachain, Subgame Received Strategic Investment From Major Capital Companies In Europe & America According to official news, SubGame, a game and payment module engine parachain based on Polkadots ecosystem construction, has recently received strategic investment from several major European and American capital...

MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative raises $4M for the Bitcoin Software and Security Effort program

Bitcoin’s (BTC) massive energy consumption could make the crypto unattractive to institutional investors

Investing

The Number Of BTC Held On Exchanges Crashed 20% In 12 Months Mon, 08 Mar 2021, 06:22 am UTC

Data from on-chain crypto information aggregator Glassnode indicates the number of Bitcoin held on centralized exchanges has fallen by roughly 20% in 12 months. The data suggests investors are accumulating BTC and withdrawing them from exchanges into cold storage, creating a supply...

If Ripple Goes Away, XRP Will Keep Trading: CEO Brad Garlinghouse In the latest episode of documentary-news program “Axios on HBO,” Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse said that XRP would continue trading even if Ripple went away to make a case against classifying the token as a security....

Chainlink announced that decentralized finance protocol Set Protocl has integrated with DPL/USD price feed. Coinness

PolkaFoundry To Postpone IDO Plan PolkaFoundry tweeted to announce that they will be postponing the launch date on both PAID network and DuckSTARTER then forming a new launch strategy. However, users can continue to do whitelisting on DuckSTARTER as...

Insights

Bitcoin (BTC) could become the currency of choice for international trade, says Citi Tue, 02 Mar 2021, 07:10 am UTC

Bitcoin has been getting a lot of attention from investors recently after leading the crypto markets rally which saw BTC setting a new all-time high last month. The rising cryptocurrency prices made them very attractive to...