Bitcoin price shot 4% on Thursday to surpass $9800 levels along with a sudden spike in the Open Interest. The community is enthusiastic about the upcoming Bitcoin halving event, however, the coronavirus outbreak in China is severely hurting the region’s mining business.
Lael Brainard’s remarks suggest the Fed’s more openness to digital currencies. The U.S. Federal Reserve is studying the feasibility of issuing a digital currency and the risks associated with that.
While a digital asset may look like a security at first, it could potentially become decentralized enough in the following years to no longer resemble a security. Bearing this principle in mind, SEC commissioner Hester Peirce has proposed a safe harbor period for token sales.
The Tron cryptocurrency head Justin Sun and Berkshire Hathaway’s Warren Buffett got dinner together, this time without major announcements.
Yesterday, BTC price was back to growing. Today, on Thursday, February 6th, the asset continues its growth mostly around $9,700.
Verizon Media, that is dedicated to transforming the way people stay informed and entertained, has announced the launch of a new site for generation Z. The site is called Cashay.
CEO Lightning Labs Elizabeth Stark announced that the company has raised $10 million to further develop their project and scale the developer ecosystem. The tech company also launched its flagship product Beta Loop after a series of testing.
The last time Bitcoin was this high was in October 2019. Now, marking a new high of $9,700 for 2020, Bitcoin has provoked hot discussions about possible $10,000 in the nearest future.
Acquiring the Philadelphia-based Heritage Financial Systems, ConsenSys gets access to advisory and broker-dealer capabilities in the U.S.
Ripple CEO Brad Gralinghouse has lashed out at Novogratz’s comment on XRP. Galinghouse said that so far in 2020, XRP has successfully managed to outperform Bitcoin. He also pointed out some of Novogratz’s failed predictions from the past.
A senior analyst at RoboForex shares his insights into the future scenarios for Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin price movement.
Venture divisions of Salesforce and Samsung joined a second Series C funding round for a startup called Digital Asset that had already gathered $35 million from investors.
It has been announced that SettleBit financial solutions entered in a partnership with BitGo to provide a new Bitcoin custody service to its longtime supporters.
While some experts are rather bullish about the performance of Ripple’s XRP in 2020, Mike Novogratz believes that the coin will underperform again this year.
Just recently BitMEX has launched XRPUSD swaps. At the very beginning Ripple’s XRP price hasn’t reacted, staying stable. However, now XRP seems to be climbing up.