Bitcoin’s price fluctuated after the Federal Reserve announced further monetary tightening on June 15, falling to as low as $20,270 after the Fed’s statement. But an hour after the announcement, the cryptocurrency was traded at $21,444. As a long-awaited step, the Fed announced that it will raise the fed-funds rate, the interest rate at which…
Mike Novogratz, the CEO of the institutional crypto investment firm Galaxy Digital, said that the bottom might be near after the recent market turmoil. He is drawing parallels between crypto and Long Term Capital Management, a highly leveraged hedge fund that blew up in the late 1990s. “We’ve gone to a level that should be…
Bitcoin slumped to below $23,000, while the big crypto lender Celsius halted withdrawal. For the first time since early 2021, the overall crypto market capitalization fell below $1 trillion, amid traditional markets also came under severe pressure. On Monday, Bitcoin suffered its largest price drop in 2022 as signs emerged that the steep correction in…
Twitter founder Jack Dorsey and rapper Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter will fund a Bitcoin education program for residents of Marcy Houses, a public housing complex in Brooklyn where Jay-Z grew up. Dorsey said he thinks Bitcoin can be an important tool in empowering marginalized communities. Starting this summer, residents of Marcy Houses in Brooklyn will be…
The $1.19 trillion crypto economy is now lower in value than the July 2021 lows. Over the last week, digital currencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Cardano, and XRP, have shed significant value against the US dollar, as the top cryptos have lost from 50% to 80% against their all-time highs. During the last seven days, the…
Bitcoin’s price sank following the latest US Consumer Price Index (CPI) release, which showed that the index had unexpectedly hit 8.6%, reaching its highest level in 40 years. Despite economists’ expectation that the CPI figure to remain flat at 8.3%, the same as April, the Labor Department’s announcement on June 10 defied that inflation is…