Recently, Eric Weinstein, the managing director of Thiel Capital, “an investment firm founded by Peter Thiel that provides strategic and operational support for Thiel’s investment initiatives and entrepreneurial endeavors”, advised investors to ignore Bitcoin’s short-term price fluctuations. On April 26, he wrote via a series of tweets: “Don’t let short term losses in Bitcoin sour you […]

Canadian businessman Kevin O’Leary (aka “Mr. Wonderful” on ABC TV series “Shark Tank“) recently compared gold mining and Bitcoin mining, and said that the latter is showing signs of becoming more environmentally sustainable. On April 20, during an interview with with Daniela Cambone, Editor-at-Large and Anchor at Stansberry Research, O’Leary criticized gold mining: “There is no clean gold, you know. There’s just […]

The Thodex Turkish exchange sent $125 million in BTC to Kraken before closing down while blockchain analytics firm Whitestream claimed over 5000 BTC went from the exchange’s controlled wallets via intermediaries so let’s read more in our latest crypto news today. The Thodex Turkish exchange closed abruptly this month and left customers locked out of […]

As the Dogecoin community awaits Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s hosting appearance on TV show Saturday Night Live (SNL) on May 8, there are two questions on the minds of $DOGE holders. The first is will Musk, who seems to be biggest celebrity fan of Dogecoin with his regular references to the super popular meme cryptocurrency in […]

On Thursday (April 29), David Grider, Director of Digital Asset Strategy at independent research boutique Fundstrat Global Advisors, talked about Bitcoin ($BTC), Ethereum ($ETH), and the overall crypto market in the firm’s “Weekly Crypto Briefing”. In this article, we focus mostly on his comments about Ethereum. In the firm’s latest crypto strategy note, Grider said that […]

TL;DR Breakdown England Central Bank to hire CBDC experts Other countries and their CBDC The Bank of England, like many other countries, have joined the burgeoning Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) trend. The Bank of England, this time, rolled out an application to hire a team dedicated to the exploration of CBDC. The job advert […]

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An important education platform has been born in Eastern Europe,  a new online resource that invites Romania to document daily on the digital currency Bitcoin, as well as other cryptocurrencies. crypto.ro was launched in order to provide analysis, current news, legislative information about the new electronic payment system and about decentralized digital currencies that can […]

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Athletes and entertainers announcing new non-fungible token (NFT) releases have recently become a near daily occurrence. Sports agency Wasserman announced this week that several of their top-tier female athletes will be the forefront of a new NFT release, including US Women’s National Team star Megan Rapinoe and eleven-time WNBA All-Star Sue Bird. Wasserman titled the […]

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The Bank of England, the central bank of the United Kingdom, has begun advertising job openings for a team dedicated to the exploration of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs).

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