Author: Granit.M

The largest futures market in Argentina aims to be the first Latin American country to offer Bitcoin features. Last week, local exchange Matba Rofex said that it has submitted a request to Argentina’s securities commission to start trading Bitcoin futures in pesos. The regulator has yet to make a decision, although the talks are going well. While regulated marketplaces, such as CME Group Inc., the world’s biggest exchange operator, provide few possibilities, BTC futures have been accessible in exchanges that are not well regulated.  From 2017 to 2019, CBOE Global Markets Inc., the biggest U.S. options exchange, provided Bitcoin futures…

One of the most expensive NFTS, CryptoPunk, was sold in error for less than its original price. It was a fortunate day for one trader as he obtained a famous NFT for a way cheaper price than the NFT was intended to sell.  CryptoPunk 7557, an NFT worth at least $850,00, was sold for 4.444 ETH (about $19,400) yesterday.  A “tiara” CryptoPunk 7557 is a rare NFT, there are only 55 of the like. In the most recent auction of NFTs with a tiara, one of them sold for roughly 197 ETH ($843,000).   The most inexpensive “Tiara Punk” will have…

When compared to May 2021, the number of ADA wallets has increased by double. Today’s date, November 2, marks a massive success for the Cardano Community as the total number of Cardano wallets has surpassed two million. They took to Twitter to express their excitement:  https://twitter.com/Cardano/status/1455310221396611072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1455310221396611072%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fu.today%2Fcardanos-ada-hits-major-milestone-of-over-two-million-wallets The last record of 1 million wallets was witnessed recently, in May of this year, according to U.Today.  The ADA community started the year small, with only 203,519 ADA at the beginning of January. The growth had nearly grown five times by May 23 and since that time it has increased by an extra…

Over 1,000 posts for crypto talents have been filled by the main American banks and financial organizations in the course of three years.  Companies are willing to provide high incentives to lure crypto talent, as reported by Bloomberg. Johnson Associates, the human resource consulting in New York City, declared that crypto positions pay 20% to 30% more than equivalent positions that are not tied to digital currency. Many senior crypto roles benefit from a pay increase of up to 50% in comparison to other positions, according to the firm. Alan Johnson, the managing director, explains that banks need to catch…

Burger King customers may get a side of BTC, ETH, or DOGE with their Whopper for the next three weeks courtesy of a partnership with Robinhood. More and more people are hungry for digital assets, therefore, Burger King has jumped on board. The fast-food chain has partnered with Robinhood to provide free crypto for its customers. According to the company’s announcement on Monday, customers who spend $5 or more at Burger King in the United States will receive free crypto, mostly Dogecoin, from November 1 to November 21. The most fortunate customers might even get a Bitcoin or Ether. All…

The Central Bank of Russia is skeptical towards crypto and will not be lanching any services on it anytime soon. However, Tinkoff, Russia’s top digital bank is interested in crypto investment services.  Dmitry Panchenko, a presentative of Tinkoff Investments, was part of an interview with TASS, the local news agency, where he addressed this topic. He announced that the platform is involved in research and development initiatives that focus on cryptocurrency services. There is not a particular framework for such products, everything is in its beginning stage and we are only researching now, clarifies Panchenko. The head of Tinkoff Investments…

Former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci, the founder and managing partner of SkyBridge Capital, a global alternative investment firm, recently offered his newest ideas on Bitcoin in an interview. SkyBridge serves a diverse variety of market participants, from accredited individual investors to major institutions. In other words, it is a global alternative investments organization focusing on the multi-strategy commingled fund of hedge fund products, unique separate account portfolios, and hedge fund advising solutions.  The introduction of SkyBridge Bitcoin Fund LP which offers institutional-grade exposure to Bitcoin to mass-affluent investors was informed by Skybridge on January 4.  SkyBridge also initiated…

Elon Musk, the crypto advocate, is again tweeting DOGE support.  The Tesla CEO got to Twitter last week to share some news that he has plans to start a university called Texas Institute of Technology & Science. Last night he added to this thread saying that payment for semesters would have to be in Dogecoin and people who have a dog will pay less. Musk is known to use his Twitter account now and then to tweet about DOGE and this way increase the coin’s prices. Surprisingly this time the prices did not significantly move after the aforementioned tweets.  Dogecoin…

On March 23, two months after the mysterious mining whale from 2010 transmitted a string of 20 block rewards for 1,000 Bitcoin, it appeared that the entity was finished, having spent a total of 10,000 Bitcoin.  The whale’s next move, however, took 78 days, because on Wednesday were transferred 20 more blocks from 2010, after the Bitcoin had been inactive for over 10 years. On Wednesday morning (EST), 1000 Bitcoin worth $35 million from 2010 at block height 686,865 were spent by the mystery whale. Bitcoin.com News has been examining a mystery whale that spends strings of 2010 block rewards…

In order to maintain control over the rapidly evolving asset, US regulators are working to establish a clearer path for banks and their clients interested in holding cryptocurrencies reports an important US bank regulator. The chair of Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Jelena McWilliams, was part of a Reuters interview on Monday. Here she announced that bank regulators are trying to come up with a detailed plan that will help banks in their activities with cryptocurrency.  Clearer guidelines for holding cryptocurrencies in custody to enable client trading, utilizing them as collateral for loans, or even keeping them on their balance sheets…