Brave beginnings May 26, 2020 On Tuesday, 8 March 2016, Bitcoin was trading at $412.07 and Ethereum was hot on its heels at $10.86. The KR1 team had just inked a deal to take a dormant publicly listed former Romanian property investment company and turn it into a publicly listed crypto fund. Every single person involved in the process, whether [...]
Bitcoin’s Price Drops Amid Rumors That Satoshi Moved Coins May 26, 2020 The price of bitcoin (BTC) came close to the $10,000 mark earlier this week but started dropping after blockchain data revealed an early BTC miner moved the rewards it received from a block mined back in 2009. The cryptocurrency has since dropped to $8,780. Ether (ETH), the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, started the week [...]
Crypto AM shines its Spotlight on AAX May 26, 2020 AAX, the first digital asset exchange to be powered by LSEG Technology, and the first exchange to be a member of London Stock Exchange Group’s Partner Platform, is on a mission to connect crypto to global finance. From discussions over a forum and silent experimentation, Bitcoin and with it an entire industry has come a [...]
Signals of growth: Crypto’s journey toward the mainstream May 26, 2020 From pop culture icons to industry behemoths, crypto is indeed gaining momentum. Last week, many on crypto Twitter were surprised to see a post from JK Rowling responding to one of crypto’s renowned reporters, Leigh Cuen, with a question: “I don’t understand bitcoin. Please explain it to me.” I describe what followed as pandemonium. Crypto [...]
J.K. Rowling Twitter Storm shows the Crypto Ecosystem Needs to Mature May 19, 2020 As more evidence of impressive institutionally compliant behaviour shows itself in the crypto world, it’s more juvenile side is exposed as J.K.Rowling inadvertently starts a crypto Twitter storm. Price Watch Bitcoin (BTC) trading volume hit a new high for 2020 with an average (on the top ten exchanges only) of US$2-3bn per day through May, [...]
Bitcoin Halving sees Miners echo Satoshi Nakomoto May 19, 2020 Last week Bitcoin (BTC) began trading around the $8,600 mark following the Bitcoin Halving on Monday evening, before seeing a substantial surge upwards throughout the week to once again test the important $10,000 level. BTC is trading at the time of writing at $9,757. Ether (ETH), the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, began the week [...]