Bitcoin hits $40,000, flips Tesla January 8, 2021 Crypto at a Glance The price of bitcoin continues to hit new highs, bouncing over $40,000 like Tigger on amphetamines before a sharp correction saw it crash $3,000 in less than an hour. You can’t keep a good cryptocurrency down, though, and the world’s oldest was soon back in action, springing back to around the [...]
Total crypto market cap hits $1 trillion January 7, 2021 Crypto at a Glance It should get boring writing the same thing every day, but surprisingly typing out NEW ALL-TIME HIGH never really loses its thrill. Today though, it’s not just a new bitcoin all-time high ($37,000, see you later) – the total cryptocurrency market cap has surged past $1 trillion for the first time [...]
We need more crypto companies to IPO to increase digital asset scrutiny and adoption January 6, 2021 As a publicly listed digital asset trading business, the recent announcement of Coinbase’s IPO has naturally put a spotlight on us at Voyager Digital and we welcome their move as it will improve trust, transparency and above all, adoption of digital assets. It is imperative that the crypto asset space ups its game as there’s [...]
Bitcoin soars to over $35,000 for first time January 6, 2021 Crypto at a Glance If you thought the dip at the beginning of this week spelled the end of the bull market, you, my friends, were very much mistaken. This morning saw Bitcoin storm back to another new all-time high of over $35,000, charging through resistance like tanks through milk. This puts Bitcoin among the [...]
Crypto AM shines its Spotlight on EdenBase & its ‘Cognitive Revolution’ January 5, 2021 I haven’t until now stepped in to write an introduction but in this moment find myself compelled to. When two of our brightest come together to forge a brand new venture it deserves our attention. Eric Van der Kleij, original creator of London’s much lauded Level 39 in Canary Wharf, has joined Daniel Doll-Steinberg, co-Founder [...]
As Bitcoin pulls back, Ethereum hits three-year high January 5, 2021 Crypto at a Glance It was a turbulent day in the markets yesterday, with Bitcoin seeing a sharp retrace from $33,000 to $28,000 after Sunday’s new all-time high. The leading cryptocurrency by market cap managed to bounce back relatively quickly to over $31,000, where it has somewhat stabilised, but it could be a volatile few [...]
Ledger customers exposed as personal data is leaked January 4, 2021 The names, email addresses, home addresses and telephone numbers of 272,000 Ledger customers have been released online by hackers. In July 2020, cyber attackers gained access to the France-based crypto wallet company’s e-commerce database. It has recently been revealed that customers’ details were then dumped on Raidforum, a website for sharing information from hacked databases. [...]
Confusion risk: the next frontier January 4, 2021 When people talk about the frontiers of FinTech, they usually mean new technologies or processes; something that changes the way we do things and causes wonderment. Usually, the last thing they think about is legal and regulatory issues. As 2021 dawns, this is going to change. Except perhaps the lack of wonderment about regulation. New [...]
Bitcoin’s New All-Time High and SEC’s Lawsuit Against Ripple Dominate Crypto Headlines January 4, 2021 CryptoCompare data shows the price of Bitcoin (BTC) moved up from around $26,800 at the start of the week to hit a new all-time high above $34,600 hit on the day the flagship cryptocurrency celebrated its 12th birthday. Ether (ETH), the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, moved from $730 to over $1.100 in a significant [...]
2021 the year for central bank issued digital currencies? January 4, 2021 The Bank of Japan is one of the latest institutions to make public its plans to experiment on how to operate its own digital currency, joining an expanding club of central banks, concerned with the rapid pace of private-sector innovation in the field of payments. Among its members, the club counts the central banks of [...]