Bitcoin Awaits Decisive Move as Price Range Tightens

The brain trust has blessed cryptocurrencies, with endowments for Harvard and other universities reportedly lapping up digital assets. For bitcoin marketeers, it's a new $600B money pot.Jan 26, 2021 at 2:25 p.m. UTCFirst Mover: The Smart Money (Literally) Buying Crypto as Harvard Said to Be HoldingBitcoin was lower, hovering around $32,000 for a fourth straight…

news Former US Senator, neologism, and noted Catholic, Rick Santorum, has come out in support of Cathio, a for-profit organization that will “provide efficient, secure, and transparent movement of funds within the Catholic world.” From a release: “Cathio’s platform is designed to enable all sectors of the Catholic economy to benefit from lower costs and…

Crypto has financial, technological and human capital. But, for now, it lacks a compelling mainstream narrative, says a European VC. (Markus Spiske/Unsplash)Feb 16, 2021 at 6:51 p.m. UTCUpdated Feb 16, 2021 at 7:38 p.m. UTCTaking Stock of How Far Crypto Has ComeEleven years post-Bitcoin, six years post-launch of Ethereum, eight days after that announcement, the…

Bitcoin's October surge seems to have injected life back into the crypto market, causing an increased inflow of money into leading meme cryptocurrencies shiba inu (SHIB) and dogecoin (DOGE).Open interest, or the dollar value locked in the number of active perpetual futures and standard futures contracts, tied to SHIB has increased by 23% to $61.74

The head of trading at Coinbase, Hunter Merghart, has resigned from the U.S. crypto exchange and wallet provider after just six months on the job, CoinDesk has learned. Merghart made the decision to leave the company last week and is now exploring other opportunities, according to people familiar with the situation. Coinbase declined to comment…

Is Tron founder Justin Sun good or bad for wrapped bitcoin (WBTC), the Ethereum token backed by bitcoin held in custody? It was a one-sided argument before – mostly bad. Now, there's a counterargument that's not entirely crazy. Read down for our exclusive interview with Robert Liu, director at BiT Global, a new Hong Kong-based

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news Huobi is replacing its current stablecoin solution with a new ERC-20 token. Also called HUSD, Stable Universal Limited created the new token, which “will be regulated and audited to be 1:1 to the actual value of U.S. dollar,” according to a press release. “In today’s cryptocurrency markets, traders always need access to a safe,…

Unusually high liquidations on some altcoin futures led by Big Time’s BIGTIME and Ordi Protocol’s ORDI tokens created over $250 million in total altcoin liquidations in the past 24 hours, showcasing the inherent and sudden volatility of the sector.Liquidation refers to when an exchange forcefully closes a trader’s leveraged position due to a partial or