El Salvador buys 500 more Bitcoins amid the crypto crash

    El Salvador President Nayib Bukele declared the country’s largest Bitcoin purchase to date in the middle of a terrifying crypto market fall. He tweeted on May 9 that El Salvador has just purchased an additional 500 tokens for roughly $15.3 million, while the Salvadoran crypto holdings reached 2,300 BTC. Amid the crypto bloodbath, El Salvador…

    Bitcoin’s Fate in 2022

    Bitcoin is on a downward trajectory, despite the fact that the cryptocurrency industry overall is growing quite vigorously. But BTC holders are clearly in a foul mood right now, although they still hold on to the “million-dollar bitcoin” outlook. If I am to give a dissenting opinion – the BTC depreciation against the dollar signifies…

    Bitcoin falls below $30,000, leading markets to over $1 billion in liquidations

    Bitcoin tumbles to its lowest price since July 2021 as tighter monetary policy continues to impact risk-on assets. Bitcoin and ether lost pivotal support level leading to massive losses for long futures traders. Bitcoin fell to $29,731 on Tuesday, its lowest level since July 2021, after dropping nearly 12% last week, its worst weekly loss…

    SEC approves Valkyrie’s Bitcoin futures ETF, the second this year

    The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has approved Valkyrie’s futures exchange-traded fund (ETF) application. This is the second futures ETF approved by the SEC this year after Teucrium. However, spot ETFs seem unlikely to happen soon without more regulation, recent developments suggest. According to the SEC document published on May 5, the application was…

    Crypto as a luxury good

    Unwrapping Sam Bankman-Fried’s analogy about money-printing boxes, Daniel Kuhn of CoinDesk describes why he sees crypto as a luxury good. About 20 minutes into his latest interview with Bloomberg, crypto’s favorite entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried said something revealing about the industry: Crypto is mostly a shell game. “You know, where do you start? You start with…

    Bitcoin falls to 10-week lows amid global geopolitical uncertainty

    BTC crashed below $35.500, leaving over $400 million worth of liquidated positions in the process and taking the entire crypto market with it. Last week, Bitcoin had also witnessed the major outflows from the market, totaling $120 million, as the uncertainty of institutional investors continued to grow. However, MicroStrategy promised to support Bitcoin in the…