Tag: Bitcoin

On Monday, the total crypto market capitalization climbed above $1 trillion for the first time in five weeks. The milestone comes amid three key crypto bankruptcy proceedings getting underway and investor expectations for Ethereum’s long-awaited The Merge upgrade. Crypto’s move to regain the $1 trillion dollar market cap follows a catastrophic Q2 2022 for the…

Lessons from the crypto crash: Just like in the aftermath of the dot-com bust, the crypto market now has to trim the fat, writes Axel Nussbaumer on Cointelegraph. The economist Benjamin Graham, known to some as the father of value investing, once compared the market to a voting machine in the short run and a…

Fidelity Digital, the crypto subsidiary of the global asset management giant Fidelity Investments Inc., will reportedly hire 100 more people to service the growing needs of institutional investors. As Bloomberg reported, Fidelity Digital is planning to increase its staff size by about 70% to handle the growing patronage from big-money crypto investors. Numbering at least…

The cost of mining one Bitcoin (BTC) has fallen to 10-month lows as mining hardware becomes more efficient, and difficulty has dropped 6.7% since its May peak. It could help to reverse the falling profitability trend while lowering power demands on the network. JPMorgan strategists led by Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou, in a note to clients seen…

Bitcoin is more likely to plummet to $10,000 than soar again above $30,000 following the recent downturn in the market, said the results of a survey published on July 11. According to the latest MLIV Pulse survey, Bitcoin is more likely to tumble to $10,000 than it is to rally back to $30,000, said 60%…

What is going to be most interesting here is seeing what happens to bitcoin and other cryptos during these Hard Times — writes George Kaloudis on CoinDesk. The last time I wrote about a stablecoin, it failed spectacularly. So when a colleague of mine suggested I write about MakerDAO’s proposal to invest in US Treasurys…